Within the stock market, the term overweight can refer to two different contexts.[1]
1) Overweight as part of a three-tiered rating system, along with "underweight" and "equal weight", is used by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock's attractiveness. If a stock is recommended to be "overweight", the analyst opines that the stock is better value for money than others.[2]
2) An investment portfolio judged to be overweight indicates that an investor holds proportionately more than the benchmark weight of a certain asset (a share, bond, industry/sector, country, currency, or asset class, etc.).[3]
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Definition 1: If a particular stock is selling for $500 and the analyst feels that the stock is worth $600, the analyst would be declaring the stock to be overweight.
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Overweight — Suppose that an investor holds 15% of his/her investment in Technology stocks. The investor's stock portfolio is then 5% overweight in Technology stocks.Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".[citation needed]
Suppose further that the investor is advised by his broker or financial adviser that Technology should be "overweight". The investor is being advised to hold more investments in Technology, as a percentage, than the weight of that asset in the index/market. In this example, the recommendation is to hold more than 10% by value of Technology shares.Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".[citation needed]
Underweight — In contrast to overweight holding, if the broker advises that Technology should be "underweight", the recommendation to the investor is to hold less than 10% by value of Technology shares.Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".Script error: No such module "Namespace detect".[citation needed]
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- ↑ http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/jargon/O/overweight
External links[]
There are several websites that offer their ratings on specific tickers. Zacks.com, Marketwatch.com, Buckster.com and theStreet.com are some of them.