What is a pink sheet stock? is it the same as a penny stock or a hidden stock?

Question

is it also called pink dot?

Answer 1

Pink sheet stocks are stocks that are not listed on a major stock exchange, yes you absolutely can buy pink sheet stocks I have purchased them many times with a standard broker i.e. Choice Trade, Ameritrade, E-Trade etc. Pink sheet stocks can be anywhere in value. Pink sheets do not necessarly sell for pennys although most of them do. Be careful about selecting a broker to trade penny stocks or pink sheet stocks because some of them will charge you by the amount of shares you buy in addition to the standard broker fee per trade.  Choice Trade is good if you do not have a broker. The heirarchy for stocks goes like this Large Caps, Mid Caps, Small Caps, Penny Stocks, Pink Sheets, here are a links about pink sheet stocks:

http://www.hashemian.com/financial-marke...

http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/index.jsp

Answer 2

A pink sheet stock is a stock that does not qualify for listing on an exchange and has quotes listed with a quote service (pinksheets.com)

It's called that because the quote service existed before the internet and distributed it's quote listings on sheets of paper that were actually pink so that they wouldn't get lost on brokers' desks.  The grammatical construction "in the pink sheets" still sounds like they're on paper, but it's a tradition to talk about these listing that way.

Penny stocks are stocks that trade under $1 and are often listed in the pink sheets.

Hidden stocks is a term used by people who want to sell you a hot tip and want you to believe that they have found some secret value that nobody else knows about.

Answer 3

A pink sheet stock is a stock that is often refered to as a "penny stock"

I never heard the term "hidden stock" or "pink dot", but I;ve only been in the business for 40+ years,

These are stock that are not or can not be traded on any registered exchange.  

You can take a look at the pink sheet site at http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/ind...