penny stock

noun

: a usually unlisted highly speculative stock usually selling for a dollar or less

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The Wolf of Wall Street, Jordan Belfort, who was serving time for fraud related to his notorious penny stock scheme immortalized by Martin Scorsese’s 2013 film. Will Yakowicz, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025 Nonetheless, there are numerous risks associated with this penny stock. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025 Volume in penny stocks is now running in the 98 th percentile of all periods since 1990, and turnover in stocks with enterprise-value-to-sales ratios above 10 is in the 96 th , the firm says. Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 July 2025 Furthermore, penny stocks were excluded from the study (the average market capitalization as of March 2021 for the 103 firms was about $1.6 billion). Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for penny stock

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1920, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of penny stock was circa 1920

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“Penny stock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/penny%20stock. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.

Legal Definition

penny stock

see stock

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