More often, a low risk stock is a mediocre, if not a laggard performer.
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The energy sector has been a laggard all year given slowing economic growth around the globe.
U.S. shopping-mall owners, already hit with store closures by longtime laggard Sears Holding Corp.
Minitel inevitably proved a dead end, and France remains a laggard in the global internet race.
Exelon's stock has long been a laggard in the utility sector, far underperforming the Utilities SPDR.
The other half of the business, Motorola Solutions, has hardly been a laggard, climbing 28.8%.
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The NASDAQ is the laggard up 3.8% and trailing its September 21, 2012 high at 3196.93.
Bihar, long a laggard in development, has slipped back further since Mr Yadav took over.
Education is undoubtedly an important public good, and British education undoubtedly an international laggard.
Cisco Though a laggard in optics, it has seen the light and is buying talent at a fast pace.
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The energy sector was a laggard, with fossil fuel companies bringing up the rear.
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It is also a laggard, tending to recover a full two quarters after the recession officially ends.
Brazil, India and China continue to the top list of corporate names, with Russia still a laggard.
The big winners have been the luxury retailers since the nadir, and Wal-Mart has been a laggard.
SBC, long a laggard compared with its larger rival Verizon, has recently begun to outshine its competitor.
Apache has been another laggard in one of the best performing sectors in the markets these days.
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Routers were a sales laggard as revenue from that product declined 6 percent from a year earlier.
While other bank stocks have yet to fully recover from 2007, Citi remains the laggard by far.
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Yet just because America remains a laggard does not mean the rest of the world will stop.
Even that longtime laggard, apartments, is surging as demand rises, because mortgage payments are climbing, discouraging home buying.
He says that in 2010, growth rates were highest for hardware, and then software, with services a laggard.
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In " Laggard ", you fail to credit how quickly Alcatel has made up for lost ground.
Until a decade ago America's medical profession had indeed been laggard and callous in providing pain relief to patients.
But some are managing to use the distinctive features of mobile devices to vault ahead of that laggard pack.
In the fast-paced world of smartphones, Nokia is currently regarded as a laggard.
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Apple was a laggard too, giving up an early gain to fall 0.7%.
Industry laggard Atlantic Southeast mishandled 17 bags for every 1, 000 passengers it carried last year, according to the DOT report.
The swing higher came without the participation of one laggard, as Apple shares slumped to a fresh 52-week low.
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While there are many things turning in the right direction for the U.S. economy, the labor market remains a laggard.
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