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penny stock en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (UK, US) A 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:

Forms

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penny stocks Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

blue chip

Relateds

stock promoter

Translations (2)

fi senttiosake (highly speculative stock) · sv frimärksaktie (highly speculative stock)