Example Sentences

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Scharf said loan growth was outperforming expectations from the start of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026

I asked if she knew that her stock was outperforming Nvidia —year to date, that is.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Following the eight previous instances where the average S&P 500 stock was outperforming the index by such a wide margin, the median one-year forward performance was a drop of 1.3%.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 12, 2026

There was no official explanation — though it surely wasn’t because the economy was outperforming the government’s 5.5 percent annual target.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2022

The stock was outperforming a 1 percent rise in the DJ Stoxx index for the European auto industry .SXAP.

From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2013