Purchasing 100,000 shares of stock at .01 would cost you an investment of $1,000. If you so happen to find that stock that rises from .01 to $1, then you've just made a $99,000 profit! The object of the game is to find one that performs. You must filter through a lot of data to get even remotely close to build a good Penny Stock List. Complete financial stock market coverage with breaking news, analysis, stock quotes, before & after hours market data, research and earnings for stocks on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq See, if we're to roll with the traditional penny-stock definition of an equity trading below $5 a share, buying into your fractional chunk of the Standard & Poor's 500 includes 15 of the 500