overweight
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The bank has an overweight rating and a A$73.00 target on Mineral Resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
After taking all these factors into account, Longview says they remain overweight Japanese equities in their strategic portfolio.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Some have tweaked their portfolios, shifting from overweight positions in large-cap tech stocks to a more neutral stance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"Having weak leg muscles and being overweight or obese increases a person's risk for knee osteoarthritis," Cheng said.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Correct: Dumpy and overweight, our dog needs more exercise, the vet says.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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
All of which means that investors seeking exposure should either buy a dedicated Latin America fund or an actively managed emerging markets fund that overweights the region.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2025
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
They had charades during the rest hour that afternoon, the overweights headed by the bishop, against the underweights headed by Mr. Moody.
From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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
“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
Bank of America strategists are overweighting financials and healthcare along with materials but are keeping tech stocks at market weight, citing concerns over an artificial-intelligence bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
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
