underinvest
Americanverb (used without object)
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As OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman recently put it, people can either overinvest and lose money or underinvest and lose revenue.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
“This is a classic situation of where we tend to underinvest, and we tend to move on, and we tend to forget. And that would be a huge mistake,” Emanuel said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2022
If this kind of theft happened too frequently, companies might underinvest in new technologies—or they might flee states that fail to enforce noncompete contracts.
From Slate ● Oct. 25, 2021
When we underinvest in children, we pay the price for the rest of their lives, through higher spending on remedial education, reactive health care and criminal justice.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 2021
When we underinvest in our own human capital, when so many Americans are only marginally literate or numerate or suffer from ill health or dependencies, then our entire country suffers.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2020
"We've probably underinvested in the last decade and now we're trying to catch up so there's quite a lot of spending," says Frankie Mayo, an energy analyst from Ember Energy.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Analyst Sam Teeger believes the ASX-listed auto-accessories supplier has underinvested in engineering and says any increased spending on this front is music to his ears.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026
Near-term consolidation, particularly any pullbacks testing the $4,000 level, could be an opportunity to build positions in gold, she adds, given that the market remains underinvested for now.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
But it’s also one, she said, that tends to be “put in a drawer” and is chronically underinvested in.
From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2026
It’s often a good idea to invest in an asset class simply because fund managers are underinvested in it.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 17, 2026
Even though massive spending on AI infrastructure has some investors worried, Boloor contends "the risk is not overinvesting, but underinvesting" in the transformative technology.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
McKinsey’s recent workplace study found many companies moving faster than their workers can adapt, underinvesting in communication, trust and training.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 18, 2025
“I think the industry is underrating and underinvesting given the scale,” Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman told me the other day during our appearance at a Paley Center for Media event in Menlo Park, Calif.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2025
Macron's administration has been criticised for underinvesting in Mayotte over a number of years.
From BBC ● Dec. 19, 2024
While companies have been criticized for spending big on buybacks at the cost of underinvesting in innovation, the repurchase of shares has been a contributor to equity market gains in recent years.
From Reuters ● Feb. 7, 2023
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