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How to use the word underperformance in a Sentence?

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The underperformance of companies that went public in 2021 doesn't bode well for companies looking to go public now. Companies are waiting to see how things level out.

Rachel Gerring

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even the most patient long-term shareholders can not be expected to endure the punishing underperformance and perpetual value disconnect seen at Kohl's.

Engine Capital

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They're following the Political Science, the underperformance of Democrats in November likely served as a wake-up call for politicians embracing restrictions. Polling likely nudged these politicians towards relaxing mandates. But whether the rollback is because of a genuine change of heart or due to political pressure, the result is the same: families have more freedom to choose. At the same time, choosing whether your child wears a mask at school is an extremely low bar when it comes to parental rights in education.

School Choice Corey DeAngelis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Investors who piled in to the long-term thematic ETF continue to stick with it despite continued underperformance in 2021 in hopes that 2020 success will be repeated.

Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Big client zeitgeist in past two weeks has unambiguously been to buy the FAANMG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Microsoft and Google-owner Alphabet) underperformance.

Michael Hartnett

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

If you look at the breakdown of franc performance since the start of the year, it is clear that franc underperformance has been concentrated versus the high beta currencies and sterling in particular.

Kamal Sharma

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The balance sheet cap exists because leadership failed to both oversee and build the appropriate infrastructure of the company, our financial underperformance is because leadership didn't make the difficult decisions necessary.

Charlie Scharf

Found on CNN
3 years ago

That is an area where you will see some underperformance due to the climate change issue.

Dan Ivascyn

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The underperformance at Family Dollar since the acquisition has persisted long enough.

Jeffrey Smith

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There is now an urgent need and opportunity to address the significant and persistent underperformance of the industrial businesses.

Lars Foerberg

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I view the current underperformance in banks stocks as an important intermediate-term opportunity to acquire valuable long term investments, deutsche Bank's woes are actually a positive for U.S. money center banks that are rapidly gaining share in fixed-income trading and retail and corporate lending.

Doug Kass

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

( It's) the topic of the day, the year and the century, it would appear, listen, my view was that there was a general over-reaction to the underperformance.

Chief Executive James Gorman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

( It's) the topic of the day, the year and the century, it would appear, listen, my view was that there was a general overreaction to the underperformance.

Chief Executive James Gorman

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Weaker earnings are starting to become a problem, companies that disappoint are being punished disproportionately while those that surprise on the positive side shoot up, indicating that markets are nervous and have little patience with underperformance.

Philippe Gijsels

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You have a tremendous amount of underperformance out there in the hedge fund community, when the market starts to turn, it starts to feed on itself because people can't afford to miss out on a rally.

Ian Winer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The weakness in the Turkish market is clearly related to what is going on in Syria, the tensions between Turkey and Russia and the terrorist attacks - the underperformance can only be explained by this factor.

Murat Toprak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Security concerns are the main reason for Turkey's underperformance but also the central bank, which has done nothing in terms of responding to the Fed and rising inflation pressures.

Societe Generale strategist Roxana Hulea

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It’s definitely been a tough year for event, given high volatility and underperformance, it wouldn’t be surprising to see even more outflows in 2016.

Jonathan Lubert

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But, as a result of the mismatching, many blacks and Hispanics who likely would have excelled at less elite schools are placed in a position where underperformance is all but inevitable because they are less academically prepared than the white and Asian students with whom they must compete.

Clarence Thomas

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Unlike mutual fund investors that tend to be more patient and long-term focused, those in the Pimco Total Return ETF that can trade intraday may have shorter time horizons, as an active ETF lags its peers, investors question whether the higher expense ratio is warranted. The recent underperformance likely played a role.

Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Being negative on pharmaceuticals and biotech has not been the right move thus far in 2015, but almost all the objective data suggests that underperformance is likely in the months ahead.

Tobias Levkovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They remain primarily known as a bond shop, and assets in their bond funds have declined as investors were concerned with leadership changes... and periods of underperformance.

Todd Rosenbluth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Your body and mind both need time to recover for overall health and in order to achieve optimal performance, failing to recognize this and training too hard can lead to fatigue and, ironically, underperformance, the so-called overtraining syndrome.

James Ting

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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