verb
Etymology
Origin of underprice
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Companies also tend to underprice their IPO to make sure their shares have a successful launch in the public markets.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
In other words, amid all of the noise about the prospect of change, don't underprice the prospect of no change.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Early on, the goal was to overdeliver and underprice.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
It is not right if somebody’s just going to copy what you make and try to underprice you and try to drive companies out of the space.
From The Verge ● Mar. 1, 2022
Dealers began to underprice one another; profits vanished.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
“He’s certainly, in relative terms, underpriced for all that he’s done for the team,” said Jonathan Boyar, principal at the Boyar Value Group and a longtime investor in MSG Sports.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
An expert witness testified that Left’s words carried special weight because traders thought he had “skin in the game” when he tweeted about whether a stock was overvalued or underpriced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
While oil has already had a blowout year due to the unresolved and devastating Iran war, some say it’s underpriced as big shortages loom.
From MarketWatch ● May 14, 2026
“The fact is that driving remains underpriced, parking remains underpriced, so people are using it more than they would if it were priced at market rates,” Schank said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
When gold had been trading around $650 an ounce for the past two years, an option to buy it for $2,000 an ounce anytime during the next ten years might well be badly underpriced.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
With global reserves running low — and fuel supply pressures beyond the Iran war — oil traders could be in jeopardy of underpricing the ongoing energy shock.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
“We have highlighted several times that the gas market is underpricing the scale of the supply impact from the Persian Gulf,” analysts at ING say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Blue Owl built its direct-lending business by borrowing from the Silicon Valley playbook of “Scale first, monetize later,” or by underpricing established private-credit firms External link to gain deal flow, and raising fees later.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025
In some cases, policymakers have bound the hands of insurance companies, leading to an underpricing of risk.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2023
In the bank's baseline scenario, Treasury yields will continue to have "more degrees of freedom" than JGBs, noting that U.S. front-end rates "are overpricing recession odds, and underpricing the Fed cycle".
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
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