: a usually unlisted highly speculative stock usually selling for a dollar or less
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Opendoor, which had fallen into a penny stock earlier this year, became a meme name supported by retail traders, but the stock is still about half of its record price in 2021.—Yun Li, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025 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 Traditionally, however, penny stocks are pretty risky.—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for penny stock
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