Balancing allowances and Penny shares: Difference between pages
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'' | 1. ''Investment - investment strategies - equities - listed equities.'' | ||
An ordinary equity share with a very low current market price. | |||
A common threshold for classifying a share as a penny share in the UK is a maximum current market price of GBP 0.20 = 20 pence 1 per share. | |||
Investing in such shares can be appealing to certain very naive investors, on the basis that the potential for large proportionate gains - for example a doubling of the value per share - could be considered more likely than for a stock with a higher current market price per share. | |||
They are generally very high risk investments, and unsuitable for non-professional investors. | |||
2. ''Investment - investment strategies - equities.'' | |||
Shares in very small companies, whose shares may have a very low market value per share. | |||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
* [[ | * [[Equity]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Financial Conduct Authority]] (FCA) | ||
* [[ | * [[Ordinary shares]] | ||
* [[ | * [[Penny]] | ||
* [[Penny stock]] | |||
* [[Preference shares]] | |||
* [[Share]] | |||
* [[Stock]] | |||
==External link== | |||
*[https://www.fca.org.uk/consumers/penny-shares Find out why you should be cautious about investing in penny shares or penny stocks - UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)] | |||
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[[Category:The_business_context]] | |||
[[Category:Corporate_finance]] | |||
[[Category:Investment]] | |||
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]] | |||
[[Category:Manage_risks]] | |||
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]] | |||
[[Category:Risk_reporting]] | |||
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]] | |||
Latest revision as of 16:09, 10 February 2022
1. Investment - investment strategies - equities - listed equities.
An ordinary equity share with a very low current market price.
A common threshold for classifying a share as a penny share in the UK is a maximum current market price of GBP 0.20 = 20 pence 1 per share.
Investing in such shares can be appealing to certain very naive investors, on the basis that the potential for large proportionate gains - for example a doubling of the value per share - could be considered more likely than for a stock with a higher current market price per share.
They are generally very high risk investments, and unsuitable for non-professional investors.
2. Investment - investment strategies - equities.
Shares in very small companies, whose shares may have a very low market value per share.
See also
- Equity
- Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
- Ordinary shares
- Penny
- Penny stock
- Preference shares
- Share
- Stock
