overweight
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Hong Leong maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian telco sector, pegging Telekom Malaysia and CelcomDigi as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
It’s a contrarian call: the latest global fund manager survey compiled by Bank of America found that investors said they were more overweight on tech than any other sector.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
The BlackRock Investment Institute has adjusted its positioning on U.S. equities a “handful of times” in recent years, mostly between overweight and neutral, a spokesman for the institute said in emailed comments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Shorter-term Treasurys are being upgraded to overweight, and long-term Treasurys to neutral, “as higher yields now provide better compensation for interest-rate risk.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
For once in his life it paid to be overweight.
From "Holes" by Louis Sachar
Greg Swenson, director of equities at the Leuthold Group, says healthcare is one of the firm’s biggest overweights and top sectors, particularly for biotech and pharmaceuticals, which stands out for strong fundamentals and valuations.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
Materials, healthcare and information technology are their sector overweights.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 14, 2026
He recently increased his overweights in cyclical sectors such as financials and homebuilders.
From Reuters ● Jan. 5, 2022
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
If one overweights the head the whole structure is apt to become unbalanced.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
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
“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
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
Are investing algorithms flawed because they are likely overweighting historically atypical data?
From Barron's ● Apr. 15, 2026
"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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