Underweight definitions
Below the normal, desirable, or allowed weight.
adjective
Holding or containing relatively less of a specified asset, security, etc.
adjective
Weight that is less than needed, desired, or allowed.
noun
In investing, to hold a smaller amount or proportion of in a portfolio, as in relation to some benchmark.
To underweight technology stocks.
verb
Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.
adjective
Insufficiency of weight.
noun
Weighing less than is normal, healthy, or required.
adjective
Insufficiency of weight.
noun
An investment or a sector that takes up a relatively small percentage of a portfolio. For example, an analyst might tell investors to underweight their holdings of technology stocks, or a person may say that their telecom holdings are underweighted. Underweight contrasts with overweight, which means that there is a disproportionately high amount of funds in a particular stock or sector.
He's so underweight he's had to buy smaller clothes.
He's thirty pounds underweight.
adjective
Not too heavy for an intended purpose.
The suitcase is just slightly underweight; I'll let it on the plane.
adjective
(finance) Being less invested in a particular area than market wisdom suggests.
The fund is underweight in mining.
adjective
The state or quality of being underweight.
noun
To give insufficient weight to (a consideration); to underestimate the importance of.
verb
Origin of underweight
under- +"Ž weight.