Meaning & use
outperformer
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Meaning
nouncountable
A company, share, or person that achieves better results than others in the same group or market.
Grammar: Countable: use 'an outperformer' or 'outperformers' for more than one.
Patterns
- an outperformer in something
- among the outperformers
The fund's top outperformer gained 40 percent last year.
Among the outperformers in the sector were two small biotech firms.
Analysts named her the clear outperformer on the sales team.
Word forms
| plural | outperformers |
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Common combinations
- a consistent outperformer
- The stock has been a consistent outperformer for five years.
- an outperformer in the market
- The company is an outperformer in the Asian market.
- among the outperformers
- Their fund ranks among the outperformers this quarter.
- relative outperformer
- It is a relative outperformer compared with its peers.
Synonyms and how they differ
- leader
- A leader is simply the top one, while an outperformer may be one of several doing better than average.
- high flier
- Informal and often about people; an outperformer is more neutral and common in finance.
Opposites
Word family
- outperform verb
- To do better than someone or something.
- outperformance noun
- The act of doing better than others.
- outperforming adjective
- Achieving better results than others.
Commonly confused: outperformer or outperformance?
outperformer vs outperformance
Outperformance is the noun for the fact of doing better, while an outperformer is the thing or person that does better.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'outperformer' correctly?
Choose one answer.
Only sentence 2 uses 'outperformer' as a countable noun with 'an'. The others need the verb 'outperformed'.
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