Instead, it's typically used as Wall Street jargon to indicate a positive attitude about a particular stock. Nevertheless, before you give too much weight to an overweight rating, make sure you understand the full story that the analyst has to tell in justifying it. This article is part of The Motley Fool's Knowledge Center, which was created based on the collected wisdom of a fantastic community of investors. We'd love to hear your questions, thoughts, and opinions on the Knowledge Center, in general, or this page, in particular.
Your input will help us help the world invest, better! Email us at knowledgecenter fool. Thanks -- and Fool on! Discounted offers are only available to new members. Stock Advisor will renew at the then current list price. Investing The overweight rating provides a little guidance as to how specifically investors should go about purchasing the shares as it relates to their investment portfolio. Perhaps a portfolio that is heavy with technology stocks shouldn't purchase an additional technology stock based on an overweight rating since the portfolio could become out of balance.
It's important to consider that an overweight rating by some equity analysts might be a short-term trade. Investors should investigate how an analyst conducts their recommendations, determine what they're using as a benchmark, and whether they're long-term or short-term investors.
The investment time horizon, including the investor's age, will likely determine how long a stock might be held in a portfolio. For example, a retiree might hold a stock for only a few months or years because it may need to be converted to cash at some point. A millennial, on the other hand, will have a much longer outlook or time horizon for holding that stock.
The analyst's rating needs to be taken into context with the investor's time horizon, risk tolerance, and whether the money will be needed at some point in the future.
Analysts may give a stock an overweight rating due to positive earnings and raised guidance. For example, assume company DEF, a technology company, releases its quarterly earnings results and beats its earnings per share and revenue estimates.
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Also, management promised that the two companies would maintain the current combined dividend. If we want to find a stock that could multiply over the long term, what are the underlying trends we should look for Dow 30 35, Nasdaq 15, To understand this point let us focus on the MSCI sectoral allocation in this case.. Normally passive funds like ETFs and index funds broadly try to mirror this mix as that is the only way they can reduce their tracking error and reflect the MSCI India Index returns as closely as possible.
But for active fund managers this overweight and underweight on sectors boils down to the search for alpha. The reason fund managers go underweight on sectors is the search for excess returns or alpha. Fund managers are paid to beat the index because if investors want to just earn index returns then they would be better off putting money in index funds, which entail much lower costs.
The best way fund managers can generate alpha is by going underweight on underperforming sectors which have obvious structural issues. In last couple of years several sectors have underperformed due to obvious reasons. While pharma and IT have underperformed due to US regulation, telecom has underperformed due to stiff price competition from Reliance Jio.
Under these circumstances the fund manager will typically go underweight on sectors like PSBs, telecom and pharma and will go overweight on private banks, automobiles and FMCG. It is this discrepancy based on a clear view on the outlook for a sector that ultimately generates alpha for fund managers. More often than not, underweight and overweight is more a search for alpha based on a view on the sector or stock.
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