How to Use penny stock in a Sentence

penny stock

noun
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  • For many of them, the penny stock market is like a lottery.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 25 July 2019
  • More:Ask a Fool: Are there any penny stocks worth buying?
    — Matthew Frankel, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2018
  • This is the type of stock for penny stock and microcap investors.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Contrary to their name, penny stocks rarely cost a penny.
    — Matthew Frankel, USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Madoff founded the firm as a penny stock trader in 1960.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Stocks with shares trading for less than about $5 apiece are penny stocks, often volatile and risky, so Groupon’s price doesn’t look too good these days.
    — Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2020
  • Bre-X, previously a penny stock, became an overnight success and rose to more than $250 per share.
    — Aaliyah Gibson, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • Helios has been delisted from the Nasdaq for failing to comply with the exchange’s minimum share-price rules and now trades over the counter as a penny stock.
    — Tatyana Shumsky, WSJ, 21 Mar. 2019
  • CloudCommerce is a penny stock, meaning its shares do not trade on a major stock exchange and can be bought for just pennies a share.
    — Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The miner was worth $3 billion a decade ago, but sinking gold prices and management missteps reduced it to a penny stock.
    — Yuliya Fedorinova, Bloomberg.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • Bed Bath & Beyond is a penny stock, with its shares worth $0.33 as of Thursday, and it may be headed for bankruptcy amid plunging sales and a mountain of debt.
    — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
  • But now volatility in Phunware shares is off the charts—enough to trigger Nasdaq to halt trading in the penny stock eight times before noon on Friday.
    — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Hycroft is a penny stock and saw its share price soar Tuesday on the announcement, jumping more than 92% in pre-market trading.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • When the company initially took the Riot Blockchain name, the former penny stock soared, posting a gain of more than sevenfold in 2017.
    — David Pan, Bloomberg.com, 3 Jan. 2023
  • European Lithium, which now trades as a penny stock in Australia, is trying to fund its plan to mine and process lithium from a mine near Vienna.
    — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Some cryptocurrency pioneers think alt-coins are thus more like penny stocks—ones that get talked up by shysters to lure in naive investors, who get fleeced.
    — Kotryna Zukauskaite, Smithsonian, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Naturally, Hycroft, a penny stock, went on its own meme move soon after.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • In the zany world of cryptocurrency, Dogecoin could be considered the equivalent of a junk penny stock.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 9 July 2020
  • The Thursday settlement does not spell the end of trouble for the company, whose penny stock has flatlined since legal action started last year.
    — Chase Difeliciantonio, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Investors should simply expect to lose their investment in penny stocks.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • No specific penny stocks were named in the SEC's order, which calls for a hearing on the matter and demands that Wedbush answer the commission's charges within 20 days.
    — James Rufus Koren, latimes.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Policing thousands of penny stocks, however, is beyond their reach.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 25 July 2019
  • But current and former regulators say penny stock fraud will remain as long as penny stocks are traded.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • From penny stock scams to pump-and-dump schemes to fake medical cures, the Republican Party has become associated with treating its own voters like rubes and fleecing them to the hilt.
    — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
  • It’s considered a penny stock now, with a market value recently below $350 million.
    — Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Grab, Didi, and ironSource have dropped into penny stock territory.
    — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • But these salespeople weren’t hawking vacant land, penny stocks or replacement windows.
    — Sophie Haigney and Michael Cooper, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2017
  • And Innate was obscure in biotech circles, a penny stock whose press releases and milestones were met with disinterest from mainstream analysts and indifference by the market.
    — Damian Garde, STAT, 17 Jan. 2020
  • On Facebook, there are a variety of groups dedicated to trading everything from penny stocks to cryptocurrencies on Robinhood.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2019
  • May not participate in any offering, sale or trade of penny stock, which is generally an equity security priced less than $5.
    — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 8 Sep. 2021

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