How to Use underperform in a Sentence

underperform

verb
Definition of underperformnext
  • The report shows which schools are underperforming.
  • To be sure, these type of funds do tend to underperform when the market rallies.
    — Jesse Pound, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Thus, the stock is likely to underperform the S&P500 over the next month (twenty-one trading days).
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 5 Apr. 2021
  • The team underperformed, weighed down by their young non-talents, limped into the playoffs, beat the Kings and lost to the Lakers.
    — Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Often, stocks that underperform in the prior year will have more room to grow in the current year.
    — David Rae, Forbes, 17 May 2022
  • There is a good chance that the stock will continue to underperform the market for some time.
    — Charles Rotblut, Forbes, 25 June 2021
  • In the year-to-date period, Chevron’s stock has underperformed the market with a 2.3% gain.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The Legend of Chun-Li, which underperformed at the box office.
    — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 June 2024
  • This works the other way, too, with teams that underperform one season seeing a jump in wins the next.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland, 3 Sep. 2021
  • After the project underperformed, she was dropped from that label and had to move back to Missouri.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • The stock has underperformed its peers, sliding more than 30% this year.
    — Jason Del Rey, Fortune Asia, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Friday has the best chance to underperform on heat as clouds and showers are more prevalent.
    — Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2021
  • And those folks that don’t embrace that mantra tend to underperform over long periods of time.
    — Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Bean was traded to the Dodgers after underperforming with the Tigers.
    — Victoria Edel, Peoplemag, 6 Aug. 2024
  • The two-level big box store, a former Montgomery Ward, has underperformed and will close April 5.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2024
  • In fact, underperforming swaths of it should be allowed to fail.
    — Dan K. Eberhart For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 21 May 2020
  • One caveat: Even if strategists feel good about the market as a whole, there's room for shares in certain sectors to underperform.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 5 Jan. 2022
  • The two sides face off again, on Tuesday, in what is being billed as a crunch match for underperforming China.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Of course, underperforming CEOs might just be unlucky to lead companies in the wrong markets at the wrong times.
    — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Under Armour has underperformed for years and its stock price has plummeted 65% in the past three years.
    — Lorraine Mirabella, Baltimore Sun, 14 Mar. 2024
  • What should be done to raise the performance of underperforming students and schools?
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • The group believes that shine will also rub off on its store on the famous shopping street, which has underperformed since its opening in 2019.
    — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 14 June 2024
  • In a four-way primary in 2022, Bowman scored little more than half the vote and underperformed in Westchester.
    — Lloyd Green, New York Daily News, 27 June 2024
  • The stock fell nearly 5% on Thursday, underperforming the broader market and putting it on course for its worst day in more than two months.
    — Reuters, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Still, Trump is likely to severely underperform his 2016 vote percentage in the state, and that could hurt Daines.
    — al, 2 Nov. 2020
  • That's a long way of saying a growth fund that didn't include the fastest-growing big cap was, naturally, doomed to underperform.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • That Marvel was not the only Disney brand underperforming at the box office didn’t help.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The company is closing 150 underperforming stores over the next few years.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 27 Feb. 2024
  • But Buckingham Nicks ultimately underperformed, and the duo was dropped from their label.
    — John Russell, People.com, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Barclays analyst Jeffrey Bernstein retained his overweight rating but noted that shares may underperform over the short run.
    — Samantha Subin, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2024

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