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overweight

[oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt, oh-ver-weyt] / ˈoʊ vərˈweɪt, ˈoʊ vərˌweɪt, ˌoʊ vərˈweɪt /


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MS has an overweight call and A$12.80/share price target on Qantas, which is up 0.8% at A$9.42 early Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Another officer, Ayron McKay, told internal affairs investigators about an instance in which the unit’s officers were discussing a candidate who they believed was overweight.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

The proportion of overweight and obese 10 and 11-year-olds rose from 35% to 41%, with poorer children disproportionately affected.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

On the first day of the year Cembalest encouraged investors to reduce the overweight on U.S. equities versus the rest of the world, motivated primarily by the latter’s heavily discounted valuations.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

And Javier’s overweight frog is in a pond eating as much as he wants.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Broader sector overweights include the tech-heavy communications services, which includes Alphabet and Meta Platforms, financials and materials, while market weighted sectors include consumer staples, information technology, and healthcare.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

Their overweights are financials, real estate, materials, healthcare and energy and communications services and utilities are underweights, while tech and industrials are market weights.

From MarketWatch Dec. 3, 2025

If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.

From The Guardian Apr. 28, 2020

“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”

From New York Times Oct. 13, 2017

But, as should be in a novel, the historical never overweights the human or fictitious interest, but is always properly subordinated to it.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt

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

Consider rebalancing portfolios by trimming overweighted positions and rotating into small and mid-cap stocks or bonds.

From Barron's Nov. 18, 2025

To understand why, consider what happened in 2002, when board members of the school decided that the trust’s portfolio was dangerously overweighted in Hershey stock.

From New York Times Jul. 30, 2016

Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.

From BBC Dec. 22, 2013

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

Overall, Miller is overweighting technology stocks in his portfolio, anticipating at least high-teens-percentage earnings growth in the next five to 10 years, but he is cognizant of risks in the sector.

From MarketWatch Jul. 28, 2026

Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?

From Barron's Apr. 15, 2026

"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




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