verb
Etymology
Origin of underprice
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Moe points out that since “the demand for compute is growing faster than supply can respond, the market continues to underprice the likely duration of the semiconductor memory cycle.”
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Nvidia’s sky-high gross profit margins of more than 70% also make the company a tempting target for challengers that feel they can underprice the leader.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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
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
This man is more beloved than perfect cheese slices, underpriced two-bedrooms and summer Saturdays in the park.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
And one of the oddities of the setup is that they’re typically underpriced compared with what they’d go for in a private sale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
He buys an underpriced car, fixes it up, and resells it for a $1,000 profit.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 24, 2026
“San Francisco has dramatically underpriced the value of PG&E’s electric system, suggesting that the assets in San Francisco are worth only about $2-$3 billion,” spokeswoman Lynsey Paulo said in an email.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 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
Chevron CEO Mike Wirth and other executives from the world’s biggest oil-and-gas companies told the conference that forward oil futures are underpricing the potential impacts of the loss of supply.
From Barron's ● Mar. 28, 2026
Analysts at TD Securities, however, said markets are underpricing both the risk of rate cuts in 2026 and the magnitude of potential rate increases in 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
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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