overvalue
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Behavioral-finance experts say this stems from the “endowment effect”: a psychological bias where we overvalue what we already own and confuse familiarity with financial security.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
She also said they overvalue less-quantifiable perks like exclusive reservations at restaurants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2025
"We sometimes overvalue the role of proprietary software in our organisations," Mr Maisto says, pointing out that for key services like word processing and email, open-source solutions work just fine.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2025
People tend to overvalue the tax break now versus the long-term consequences of a smaller benefit later, she says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Zach is up and down, and true to his nature, he has a tendency to overvalue his achievements.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
I treat many adults who have severe eating disorders partly as a result of growing up in a society that overvalues thinness, promotes dieting for weight loss, and shames people who are overweight or obese.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Data shows the draft value chart developed by Johnson in the early 1990s — which assigns each pick numerical value and is still used leaguewide — overvalues the top 50 picks and undervalues the rest.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020
Pierce County Executive Bruce Dammeier, who supports tax relief, guessed that public frustration about overvalues, by itself, caused a 5% to 10% boost for Eyman’s measure.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 21, 2019
One person overvalues himself while, at the same time, devaluing the contributions of others.
From Inc ● Apr. 10, 2013
"I dare say he overvalues himself as a husband," remarked Carraway, joining in the laugh, "but he has at least the merit of being loyal to your family."
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
This would be good advice even if the U.S. market weren’t so much more overvalued than non-U.S. markets.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 6, 2026
Yet it’s not clear that bonds are overvalued, despite the widespread belief that inflation is going to get worse in coming years.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
The bad news: It’s just as historically overvalued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
The global race to build data centres hosting AI infrastructure has seen a meteoric rise in the firm's fortunes, despite concern the sector may be overvalued in a market bubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
Discovery is overvaluing the global networks business, which is not included in the deal with Netflix, and believes the business may be worth nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Panorama also investigated the online estate agency Purplebricks, after we heard concerns it had been trying to attract sellers by overvaluing properties.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
It's not just about overvaluing exercise; it's about not always being realistic about food.
From Salon ● Jan. 15, 2024
He and his firm lied to their 120 investors about where their money was going while dramatically overvaluing holdings to justify extortionist management fees.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023
It shall seem valour in despising and undervaluing danger; and it is but fear in an overvaluing of opinion and estimation, and a fear of losing that.
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by John Donne
