overweight
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It rates Nokia at overweight with an 18 euro price target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Public IB maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian plantations sector, pegging Sarawak Plantation and TA Ann as top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
Anmuth upgraded his rating on the stock to overweight earlier this month after the launch of Muse.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
According to the NHS, data from 2024 showed that 15% of children in the UK were obese, and 26% were overweight.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
He was not a large man, but he liked to eat, and he believed himself to be overweight.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Instead, its biggest overweights are energy, healthcare and consumer defensive.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 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
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
Oftentimes information overweights a man and snuffs out what personal force there might otherwise have been.
From The Gate of Appreciation Studies in the Relation of Art to Life by Carleton Eldredge Noyes
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
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
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
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 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
