overweight
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“We remain overweight the group and believe investors should consider adding positions even with $100-a-barrel oil prices,” William Blair energy sector analyst Neal Dingmann wrote in recent research note, citing the same double-digit free-cash-flow yields.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 19, 2026
You’d want to underweight stocks so long as you believe interest rates will continue rising, but overweight them once you think that a rate-cut cycle is about to begin.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
Dennis Wilder, a former senior China analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, now at Georgetown University, describes Xi as a lifelong smoker, overweight, no fan of exercise—and a man long fond of a drink.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The asset manager thus moves to a significant overweight position in bonds—particularly those with short to medium maturities—with a view to generating carry returns and building its portfolio, Nizard says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Willie Streeter came back to the gym, sullen and overweight.
From "The Contender" by Robert Lipsyte
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
Length of column in a test of addition under ordinary conditions thus automatically overweights precision in the single additions as compared with knowledge of the process, and ability at carrying.
From The Psychology of Arithmetic by Edward L. (Edward Lee) Thorndike
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
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
Global investor sentiment reached its most bullish level since June 2021, with equity overweighting highest since late 2024.
From Barron's ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
"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
