highflier

American  

[hahy-flahy-er] / ˈhaɪˈflaɪ ər /

Or high-flier,

noun

1. a person who is extravagant or goes to extremes in aims, pretensions, opinions, etc.

2. a person or thing that flies high.

3. a stock, often speculative, whose price moves up or down widely.

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Etymology

Origin of highflier

First recorded in 1680–90; high + flier

Example Sentences

Tesla stock, once a market highflier, has vastly underperformed several of its Magnificent Seven peers as sales of its electric vehicles have slowed.

From The Wall Street Journal

He is focused instead on what he calls JOMO, or the joy of missing out on a potential shakeout in tech stocks such as Palantir Technologies and other Nasdaq highfliers.

From Barron's

Many of these are recent highfliers with distant visions of profits.

From Barron's

The Wall Street Journal outlined some of the most striking examples of what happened to the onetime highflier:

From New York Times

I remember back in ’99, the highfliers were Cisco and Sun.

From New York Times