How to Use undercapitalized in a Sentence

undercapitalized

adjective

• The central bank said stress tests showed the lender was undercapitalized.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• In terms of poorly run, undercapitalized companies and divisions, most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 27 July 2019
• Clearly, fast-casuals are not for the hidebound - or the undercapitalized.
  — Tim Carman, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
• As the season progressed, the undercapitalized Indians kept making cuts; Burns might have preferred to remain a bench manager but may not have had a choice, as he was permitted to sub for injured or absent players.
  — Paula Allen, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Oct. 2021
• Being undercapitalized from the get-go makes long-term success difficult.
  — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 7 June 2021
• Sun Country for many years was undercapitalized, often struggling to eke out a profit or find its competitive footing.
  — Kristen Leigh Painter, Star Tribune, 16 Mar. 2021
• Big banks were undercapitalized prior to the panic and experienced losses on average equal to 6% of assets.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2018
• The Trump administration contends that taxpayers will remain at risk as long as Fannie and Freddie are undercapitalized and in the government’s grip.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2019
• There are unexplored opportunities in the U.S.—specifically the undercapitalized Latino market–and now is the moment to maximize the potential.
  — Sean Salas, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Hollywood’s technological shift from silent to sound coincided with the Great Depression and left most Black film companies undercapitalized and unable to bear the cost of expensive new sound equipment and camera gear.
  — Artel Great, The New Republic, 11 Sep. 2020
• These types of investments are a form of reinsurance, a very established market that has existed since the early 14th century but remains largely undercapitalized.
  — Benjamin Laker, Forbes, 5 July 2022
• Hispania went on a shopping spree, buying properties from undercapitalized small operators and debt from banks looking to unload assets.
  — Peter Grant, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• At the end of March, its equity capital had dwindled to $3.5 million, making the bank significantly undercapitalized.
  — Sarah Gantz, baltimoresun.com, 3 July 2017
• Worse yet, any bank that requires liquidity and liquidates part of the HTM loan portfolio would realize those losses potentially leaving the bank undercapitalized.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• Northern Dynasty is a junior mining company, and an undercapitalized one at that, more suited to mineral exploration than full-scale mine development.
  — Tim Sohn, Outside Online, 28 Oct. 2020
• But unlike mainstream lenders, Black banks are chronically and acutely undercapitalized.
  — CNN, 10 May 2021
• In American eyes, Europeans have long looked both undercapitalized and overly reliant on complex models that minimize requirements.
  — Paul J. Davies, WSJ, 3 Jan. 2017
• The Florida Legislature has been tweaking the property insurance laws for decades to shore up an industry with a long history of being undercapitalized, denying policyholder claims and enduring a tidal wave of lawsuits that far outpaces other states.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Dec. 2022
• Its accounts would have fully consolidated the acquisition and made a deduction for the minorities, leaving the acquirer undercapitalized.
  — Chris Hughes | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 5 June 2019
• The financial crisis emanated from a fragile, undercapitalized banking sector: The obvious postcrisis response was to lend much more conservatively.
  — Mike Bird, WSJ, 7 May 2021
• Financial regulators often use such orders to compel reforms at undercapitalized or incompliant banks.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• Underrepresented founders are undercapitalized from the start.
  — Marija Butkovic, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 28 Jul 2024