definition of penny stock


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penny stock
A stock which sells for less than one dollar per share. Penny stocks usually have only a few million dollars in assets and often a short, sometimes cloudy operating history. Reporting requirements for penny stocks are not as rigorous as for regularly listed stocks.

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