overweight
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Affin Hwang maintains an overweight rating on Malaysia’s renewable energy sector, sees Solarvest and Samaiden as key beneficiaries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
According to the NHS, data from 2024 showed that 15% of children in the UK were obese, and 26% were overweight.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
“Many of these patients are not overweight, some are normal weight or even underweight, so you don’t want them to lose weight or muscle mass.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
By sector, Wells Fargo is lowering its tech recommendation to equal-weight from overweight while raising healthcare to overweight from equal-weight.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
I had a lot of stamina and I was pretty fast, which surprised people since I was kind of overweight.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“We maintain our overweights in health care and materials but no longer recommend stocks exposed to the middle-income consumer or the non-residential construction cycle,” they say.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
Oftentimes information overweights a man and snuffs out what personal force there might otherwise have been.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
The market pullback offers an opportunity to rebalance portfolios, potentially trimming overweighted tech stocks and rotating into small- or mid-cap and value stocks.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
“The dealers’ survey is overweighted to the larger galleries,” said Servais in an interview.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
Lately, that’s meant overweighting sectors, such as energy and industrials, and underweighting tech, a move that’s hurt performance in recent years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
