How to Use underperform in a Sentence

underperform

verb

• 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
• Since then the stock has underperformed the index by nearly 250%.
  — Ben Carlson, Fortune, 11 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Some of the underperforming Bar Louies were near malls and saw declining foot traffic.
  — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2020
• Chevron’s stock is largely flat for the year, underperforming the S&P 500 energy sector which has gained more than 6%.
  — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 1 Nov. 2024
• But down in the pop field, Swift actually underperformed.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024