When should I sell a penny stock?
Investors should consider selling penny stocks when they achieve their target gains or if the company's fundamentals deteriorate. Additionally, setting stop-loss orders to limit potential losses is prudent.
It's rare for a penny stock to be a long-term buy-and-hold investment. The sector is built on short-term trades. If you notch a sizeable gain over a short period, book it now rather than waiting for bigger profits that may never materialize.
Penny stocks are among the market's most dangerous stocks, so you may pay a much greater price than you first expect, including potentially losing all of your investment. Here's what a penny stock is and why it's so risky to investors looking to grow their wealth.
Check the Fundamentals
So when researching penny stocks, you should carefully weigh any potential gains versus fundamental factors underlying the company: its debt, cash flow, buyout potential, and Porter's Five Forces of Competition among others.
In a best-case scenario, a penny stock has likely significantly underperformed the expectations of company management or it wouldn't be trading at such a low share price in the first place. These types of companies can always rebound, but an underperforming company isn't an ideal investment.
S.No. | Company | Industry/Sector |
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1. | Tata Consultancy Services Ltd | IT - Software |
2. | Infosys Ltd | IT - Software |
3. | Hindustan Unilever Ltd | FMCG |
4. | Reliance Industries Ltd | Refineries |
One of the quickest ways to identify a spike in the making is to start by using your stock screener to find stocks that are already moving. You should be watching for news catalysts. With penny stocks, there are a lot of information inefficiencies.
There are cited examples of individuals who did get rich off penny stocks. In 2013, for example, CNN Business first reported about Tim Grittani, who turned $1,500 into more than $1 million off penny stocks at the age of 24.
Sure, some penny stocks turned out to be massive success stories, like Apple, Ford Motor, and Monster Beverage. Find a similar success story like those top penny stocks, and you stand to make a fortune. However, you have to be willing to do the research to find them in a sea of duds.
That is the question many traders are looking to answer. Well, there is no ceiling on the price of a stock. Analysts says that penny stock companies don't often grow up to become big companies, but it does happen.
What makes a penny stock go up?
Growth or contraction in an industry as a whole can lift or topple share prices. This is true even if the specific company's value hasn't changed. Changes in returns for more stable stock, or more media attention, can cause investors to put money into riskier penny stocks, raising their prices.
- Nike (NKE)
- NVIDIA (NVDA) ...
- Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) ...
- Tractor Supply Company (TSCO) All-Time Return: +54,978% ...
- Axon (AXON) All-Time Return: +48,911% ...
- ASML (ASML) All-Time Return: +30,001% ...
- Netflix (NFLX) All-Time Return: +27,719% ...
- Tesla (TSLA) All-Time Return: +11,641% ...
A better measure of penny stock value is the price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio, which incorporates the company's annual earnings growth rate into the above equation. It is derived by dividing the P/E ratio by the expected annual growth rate in earning per share (EPS).
Penny stocks are high-risk securities with small market capitalizations that trade for a low price outside major market exchanges. A lack of history and information, as well as low liquidity, make penny stocks riskier.
Sell Worthless Stock if Your Broker Holds the Shares
Many brokers have a plan to let their good customers sell them worthless stock for $1 or 1c for the lot. If you are a good customer, and stock is with the broker, ask. You should be able to negotiate some solution that will be satisfactory to both sides.
But such stocks could just as easily fall to zero. Not surprisingly, penny stocks are generally considered to be highly speculative because of large bid-ask spreads, small market capitalization, and lack of liquidity. This article details guidelines to help investors navigate the often thorny penny stock minefield.
Stock | Expected Change in Stock Price* |
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Tesla Inc. (TSLA) | 61% |
Mastercard Inc. (MA) | 14.2% |
Salesforce Inc. (CRM) | 7.2% |
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) | 11.3% |
- Sunshine Capital Ltd. ...
- Standard Capital Markets Ltd. ...
- G G Engineering Ltd. ...
- Globe Textiles (India) Ltd. ...
- Growington Ventures India Ltd. ...
- Aakash Exploration Services Ltd. ...
- Debock Industries Ltd. ...
- Kenvi Jewels Ltd.
- Rajnandini Metal Ltd.
- G G Engineering Ltd.
- Indian Infotech & Software Ltd.
- Genpharmasec Ltd.
- Accuracy Shipping Ltd.
- Goyal Aluminiums Ltd.
- Prakash Steelage Ltd.
- Tapari Tools Ltd.
aggressive social media, email or press release campaigns, particularly of information that can't be reliably confirmed; unsolicited social media messages, emails, texts or phone calls promoting specific stocks; a lack of current publicly available financial information in SEC filings; and.
Why do people bash penny stocks?
Stock bashers disseminate misinformation in the hopes that investors will believe the false claims and sell their stock before the price drops. These individuals often target low-priced companies that have little to no available information on the market and may have positions in assets whose prices fall.
I'm Tim Sykes, a penny stock trader with $7.5 million in documented earnings over 20-plus years. My Trading Challenge has seen over 30 students become millionaire traders, and countless others find community and expert guidance.
Ticker | Name |
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STAL | Star Alliance International |
OTRK | Ontrak |
AZ | A2Z Smart Technologies |
OUST | Ouster |
- Coca-Cola. (NASDAQ: KO) ...
- Altria. (NASDAQ: MO) ...
- Amazon.com. (NASDAQ: AMZN) ...
- Celgene. (NASDAQ: CELG) ...
- Apple. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ...
- Alphabet. (NASDAQ:GOOG) ...
- Gilead Sciences. (NASDAQ: GILD) ...
- Microsoft. (NASDAQ: MSFT)
However, it remains true that penny stocks do make investors rich. They remain one of the quickest ways to multiply an investor's capital. If you can get past limited disclosures and liquidity issues, real money can be made by investing in penny stocks.