overweight
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“With healthy flow momentum and strong investment performance, we continue to see upside potential at current levels and therefore maintain our overweight rating,” the analysts add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Petti rates EchoStar’s stock at overweight with a $144 price target.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Long moved to a neutral rating from overweight on Dell’s stock, and he lowered his price target to $574 from $603.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Fund managers aren’t worried about that hot sector at the moment: Respondents were the most net overweight tech stocks since the summer of 2020, the height of the feverish post-Covid market rebound.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
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
Yardeni said he’s instead recommending market-weighting those two combined sectors and rebalancing by adding overweights in S&P 500 financials and industrials.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 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
It overweights the whole monument, introduces a discordant architectural motive, and is decorated by inferior sculpture.
From Donatello, by Lord Balcarres by David Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
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
At Citigroup, strategists are now recommending overweighting U.S. stocks from a prior neutral stance.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
Jonathan Harrison, a financial advisor at Sound Stewardship in Overland Park, Kan., has been overweighting large-cap value, small-caps, and international stocks in his client portfolios for years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 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
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