How to Use penny stock in a Sentence

penny stock

noun

• 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
• Its shares slumped as much as 87 percent in Hong Kong trading following a 17-month halt, becoming a penny stock.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Aug. 2023
• 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
• The New York Stock Exchange requires a minimum closing price of $1 per share and such reverse splits are standard practice for penny stocks seeking to maintain their listings.
  — Lynn Doan, Fortune, 18 Aug. 2023
• 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

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