| Even if it has underperformed the market over a long period, has it demonstrated robustness through tough times? |
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| Tobacco stocks have suffered from sector rotation into cyclicals, and have underperformed the market in relative terms. |
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| In a noteworthy development, the broader market generally underperformed the major indices. |
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| In more recent years, the FTSE 30 has also underperformed the wider market. |
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| So it's no surprise that, based on their price-earnings ratio, their shares have long underperformed those of most rivals. |
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| It's over, and we're out, having underperformed and underachieved in a major tournament yet again. |
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| Even by the low standards of his party, he has underperformed at reaching millennials in the thriving culture where they live. |
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| In fact, the top 20 funds not only underperformed the market as time went on, but they also underperformed the average mutual fund. |
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| The mission would fail if any of the four engine burns needed to reach the Moon and get into lunar orbit underperformed. |
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| However, Canada still underperformed in these emerging economies in terms of services exports. |
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| Overall, risk assets underperformed, as stocks underperformed bonds and within fixed income, high yield underperformed investment grade. |
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| Canada is clearly tilted towards commodities and has underperformed the U. S. this year. |
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| The Fund's Series A shares have underperformed the Energy Index through all indicated periods. |
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| The losers, meanwhile, would have underperformed by a good 6 percentage points. |
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| Plagued by concerns over generic competition plus other issues that include manufacturing problems, shares in the company have underperformed the overall market. |
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| I felt that we underperformed, especially around the middle. |
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| Irish financials have seriously underperformed due to ingrained scepticism on the part of some international investors about the Irish economy's ability to avoid a crash. |
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| Both came with endless preview videos, advance downloads, sneak peeks and assorted nonsense – and both underperformed. |
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| The other leading conservative, Rick Santorum, certainly underperformed post Iowa expectations. |
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| Indeed, oil and gas companies have significantly underperformed on the market as a whole over one year, three years, five, even 10 years. |
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| At the same time, the financial sector underperformed by comparison with the overall index. |
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| During the first half of the year the Fund slightly underperformed its benchmark, the 91 D TBill index, mainly due to a shorter term to maturity. |
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| Evidently, the group of LLDCs have underperformed since the 1990s in terms of economic growth and development. |
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| Investments in the U. K., Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands underperformed. |
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| And while it seems at home in supermarket produce aisles, it will be relegated to the household aisle of drug chains, where it initially underperformed in test. |
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| Employees who were approaching retirement or who underperformed for significant periods of time would be accommodated and tolerated rather than summarily dismissed. |
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| In terms of mathematics, the only significant difference was in Ontario, where French-language schools underperformed. |
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| On the other hand, fixed income markets benefited from the liquidity squeeze triggered by the summer's credit crunch, though credit markets underperformed. |
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| But the results also showed that Labour had underperformed against poll predictions, a result that will add to existing nervousness in the Labour party about the quality of Ed Miliband's leadership. |
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| This detracted from performance, as the energy sector was among the best performing sectors, while the consumer staples sector underperformed during the period. |
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| Our shares underperformed their five and 10 years' averages in the stock market, but given the negative performances of asset managers, property related companies and financial entities we at least held our own. |
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| The Fund's Series I shares have outperformed both the TSX Index and Energy Index over the one year and have outperformed the Energy Index since inception, and underperformed the TSX Index since inception. |
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| However, railways and port concessions have often underperformed under new management because of the absence of oversight mechanisms to enforce the agreement and lack of resources. |
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| This is the third time in the fund's 18-year history that it has registered a loss, but the first time in nine years that it has underperformed benchmark overall. |
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| Despite the core importance of industrialization in the development process, African industries have generally underperformed over the past few decades. |
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| Currently, we like some of the more defensive stocks, which underperformed during last year's rally and which provide dividend yields well above the market average. |
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