overweight
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It held an overweight for close to a year before moving to neutral in March but then shifted to overweight on U.S. stocks in April.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Citi has an overweight recommendation for the European banking sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
The strategists also shifted to an overweight position on bonds for the next 12 months from neutral in September, though they remain neutral over the next three months.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 12, 2026
Public IB maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian plantation sector, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Sergeant Maples was overweight by thirty-five pounds but still looked distinguished in his dress uniform.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 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
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
If a training data has an overrepresentation of any gender or ethnicity, the features that distinguish that group may be overweighted.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2018
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
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
