overweight
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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
MS has a last-published overweight recommendation on the stock and a target price of 5.00 Australian dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
In 2024-25, 27.3% of children aged four to five were overweight or living with obesity.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Future studies will need to determine whether the same effects appear in broader clinical populations, including people with overweight.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
At the time Barack took office, nearly a third of American children were overweight or obese.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
The ETF wins by selecting the best stocks in the index’s sectors and countries instead of making tactical sector and country overweights, as other active funds often do.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
Only March 2009 and December 2008 showed larger overweights in bonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 15, 2023
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
But for us the past overweights the present; we cannot, if we would, get rid of the burden of it.
From The Meaning of Good—A Dialogue by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson
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
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
Le Roux and team highlight the potential for a swing back toward large caps because institutional investors tend to be “value-driven and slow-moving,” so overweighting the cheaper small cap index was unavoidable.
From MarketWatch ● May 5, 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
