How to Use penny stock in a Sentence

penny stock

noun
  • The penny stock surged around 130% to above $3 a share.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • This is the type of stock for penny stock and microcap investors.
    — Q.ai - Make Genius Money Moves, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
  • Investments that are high-risk, like penny stocks, are not ideal.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • Please know that my investment goals exclude high-risk investments such as penny stocks.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Shares of the penny stock jumped about 130% in Thursday’s session.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Its shares are in the penny stock range, closing at just under 40 cents a share on Friday.
    — Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Investors should simply expect to lose their investment in penny stocks.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • That volatility makes penny stocks a bad idea for a Roth IRA.
    — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The episode was funded by a company that profiles extremely risky penny stocks.
    — Tony Cook, The Indianapolis Star, 20 Aug. 2024
  • Naturally, Hycroft, a penny stock, went on its own meme move soon after.
    — Declan Harty, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Policing thousands of penny stocks, however, is beyond their reach.
    — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 25 July 2019
  • 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
  • But current and former regulators say penny stock fraud will remain as long as penny stocks are traded.
    — New York Times, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Nine other esports groups publicly traded in various world markets have fared much worse and are now largely penny stocks.
    — Brendan Coffey, Sportico.com, 11 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the zany world of cryptocurrency, Dogecoin could be considered the equivalent of a junk penny stock.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 9 July 2020
  • The news sent the penny stock soaring nearly than 600% to just under $17 per share in yesterday's session.
    — Alex Harring, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Nonetheless, there are numerous risks associated with this penny stock.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 company’s common stock is currently considered a 'penny stock' under SEC rules.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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