outperform

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“On average, teams outperform lone inventors,” says Lee Fleming, a management professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

He also argued that markets tend to outperform following a pullback, with the S&P 500 higher over the 12 months following a 10% correction around 88% of the time.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Although the S&P 500 managed to outperform many international rivals in March, it still registered its worst monthly showing in a year.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 2, 2026

He raised his rating on Disney’s stock to outperform from market perform and has set a new target price at $115 a share, or about 20% above where the stock has been trading lately.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Desaguliers and a friend later built models of both the Savery and the Newcomen engines: despite his extraordinary expertise, Desaguliers was plainly taken aback to see the Savery engine outperform the Newcomen engine.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton