overweight
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The bank has an overweight rating and A$5.00/share target on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Previous research has linked greater consumption of UPFs with higher risks of overweight and obesity, metabolic disease, inflammatory markers, cardiovascular disease, especially heart attacks and strokes, and premature death.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The bank is overweight the financial, industrial and consumer discretionary goods sectors.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 24, 2026
Raising their recommendation on the stock to overweight from equal-weight, MS analysts tell clients that the Australia-listed company’s expansion from its core network-as-a-service capabilities means it is now a capital-intensive artificial-intelligence infrastructure and computing provider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A short, slightly overweight man was lowering himself down.
From "We'll Fly Away" by Bryan Bliss
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
In truth, Mr. Benny as a regrater fell disastrously short of success, being prone to sell at monstrous overweights, which ate up the profits.
From Shining Ferry by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
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
