penny stock

noun

A highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.

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Meanings

nounpenny stock (plural penny stocks)

plural penny stocks

  1. UKUSbusinessA highly speculative stock selling for less than one dollar or pound per share and quoted in cents or pence.

    Every so often, the practice reappears in the trading of “penny stocks”—cheap, rarely traded, shares. Years ago when volume was thinner, it was said to be common in blue chips too.

    2000 August 10, “The price is wrong”, in The Economist, →ISSN

Translations

Finnish senttiosake
  • senttiosakehighly speculative stock
Swedish frimärksaktie
  • frimärksaktiehighly speculative stock
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Chicago

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