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
But their sharply different profitability levels gives AMD the advantage of being able to underprice Nvidia and still boost its margins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 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
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
Simon Adler, a fund manager with Schroders, argues that investors need to look for unloved situations that are underpriced.
From Barron's ● Mar. 19, 2026
Pinterest says it will ramp up share buybacks after picking up fresh support from an activist investor and declaring its stock to be underpriced.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 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
“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
“With stocks at their highs amid rising oil and rates, we believe stocks are underpricing the war risk,” they said.
From MarketWatch ● May 6, 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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