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
  • Being undercapitalized from the get-go makes long-term success difficult.
    — Lydia Depillis, ProPublica, 7 June 2021
  • Clearly, fast-casuals are not for the hidebound - or the undercapitalized.
    — Tim Carman, charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The price adjustments allow Freddie and Fannie to keep from being undercapitalized and over-exposed to risk.
    — Anna Bahney, CNN, 27 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • But in tech, where founders are idolized yet structurally undercapitalized as individuals, the idea is both obvious and overdue.
    — Connie Etemadi, USA Today, 15 Oct. 2025
  • But Remnant’s business practices are similar to those of any number of undercapitalized drillers holding portfolios of old wells.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • This is important because old wells with declining production are often sold to increasingly undercapitalized companies that lack the means to pay for cleanup.
    — Nick Bowlin, ProPublica, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Women are launching businesses at record rates yet remain severely undercapitalized.
    — Melissa Houston, Forbes.com, 22 June 2025
  • But unlike mainstream lenders, Black banks are chronically and acutely undercapitalized.
    — CNN, 10 May 2021
  • And right now, when Black businesses are still undercapitalized and cultural landmarks keep disappearing, this story matters more than ever.
    — Sonari Glinton, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Unemployment remains a persistent problem, the banking system is chronically weak and undercapitalized, and the private sector is anemic.
    — Henry Rome, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Also, what will happen considering Argentina is very undercapitalized and has little capital?
    — Vera Bergengruen/buenos Aires, TIME, 23 May 2024
  • 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
  • Financial regulators often use such orders to compel reforms at undercapitalized or incompliant banks.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
  • For example, the program does not pay for hospitals to set up their graduate residency programs, something large hospital systems are better equipped to do than undercapitalized rural hospitals that have a greater need for new doctors.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 19 July 2024
  • Regulators here in the Permian Basin , the world’s most productive oil field, must contend with Remnant and other undercapitalized companies like it that could add even more wells to the list of orphans.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 22 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Underrepresented founders are undercapitalized from the start.
    — Marija Butkovic, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Across the country, small colleges have been closing at an alarming pace, especially institutions that were tuition-dependent, undercapitalized, enrollment-fragile and vague in their market position.
    — Christos Korgan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • 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
  • This rebranding represents our joint mission of not just financing but holistically supporting today's underserved and undercapitalized small businesses in sustainable growth.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 6 Feb. 2024
  • Today, these sectors are damaged, undercapitalized, and operationally constrained.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • 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

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