contrarian

Example Sentences

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Least-loved software and commercial and professional services remain on the bank’s contrarian buy list.

From MarketWatch • May 6, 2026

This “extreme pessimism” is the contrarian tailwind the market has been waiting for.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

Gold and gold-mining stocks are likely to gain over the next several weeks, according to a contrarian analysis of sentiment from those following the gold market.

From MarketWatch • May 5, 2026

I left the theater feeling giddily put through the wringer by its contrarian depictions of heroes and fiends.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Given that there is some rough economic estimate of a stock’s value, regression to the mean can sometimes be used to justify a kind of contrarian strategy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos