To be sure, there are some solid reasons why investors might still shy away from the stock.

The only hitch was that investors, for whatever reason, shied away from the junk.

Institutional investors shied away, declining to offer any bids at all.

Indeed, with returns so low and risk increasing, investors are shying away from Government bonds.

A commercial deficit was recorded at the end of 1971 and private investors shied away.

Since the October collapse, individual investors have shied away from investing in greater numbers.

"The riskier projects that investors would have shied away from are now going to be taken on."

"Foreign investors will shy away from such markets," he said.

New evidence appeared to show that investors have been shying away from the equities market.

Some companies and investors shy away from businesses that are heavily reliant on government contracts.