Penny stocks with great upside

Screening Filters

1. Share Price: $0.50 – $5.00

   • Purpose: Capture U.S. “penny stock” price range.
   • Rationale: In U.S. markets, penny stocks are commonly defined as stocks trading below $5. Setting the maximum at $5 aligns directly with your request. The $0.50 minimum helps avoid the most illiquid, ultra-low-priced names (e.g., $0.01–$0.10) that often have extreme volatility, wide spreads, and poor tradeability, while still firmly in penny-stock territory.

2. Market Cap: $50M – $1.5B

   • Purpose: Focus on smaller companies where upside can be meaningful, while filtering out micro/nanocaps that are often too risky or illiquid.
   • Rationale:
     • A minimum of $50M excludes the tiniest, often highly speculative shells and story stocks.
     • A maximum of $1.5B keeps us in the small-cap range, where growth and multiple expansion can still be substantial—consistent with seeking “great upside potential.”

3. Monthly Average Dollar Volume: ≥ $500,000

   • Purpose: Ensure basic liquidity so the stocks are actually tradable.
   • Rationale: Penny stocks can be extremely illiquid. By requiring at least $500K in average monthly dollar volume, the screener filters out names that barely trade, helping reduce the risk of being stuck in a position or facing extreme bid–ask spreads, while still allowing smaller, less-followed stocks that might have upside.

4. Exchange Listing: NYSE (XNYS), NASDAQ (XNAS), AMEX (XASE)

   • Purpose: Restrict results to major U.S. exchanges.
   • Rationale: Many penny stocks trade OTC, where disclosure and regulation are weaker. Limiting to NYSE, NASDAQ, and AMEX focuses on U.S.-listed companies that meet stricter listing standards (financial reporting, minimum price, etc.), improving data quality and reducing some of the more extreme risks, while still fitting your “US market” requirement.

5. Quarterly Revenue YoY Growth: ≥ 20%

   • Purpose: Identify companies showing strong fundamental growth.
   • Rationale: “Great upside potential” often comes from companies that are actually growing. Requiring at least 20% year-over-year revenue growth in the latest quarter helps narrow the universe to businesses that are expanding quickly, which is a core driver of long-term price appreciation.

6. Target Price Upside Potential: “MoreAbovePrice”

   • Purpose: Select stocks where analysts’ target prices are meaningfully above the current price.
   • Rationale: This directly addresses “great upside potential” from a valuation/expectations standpoint. “MoreAbovePrice” means analysts see a solid gap between current trading price and their target price, implying forecasted upside. While not a guarantee, it’s an objective way to screen for names the analyst community believes are undervalued or poised to rise.

Why Results Match Your Request

• Penny stocks: Enforced by the price filter ($0.50–$5) and small-cap market cap range, which match common definitions of U.S. penny/small stocks.
• U.S. market: Ensured by the exchange filter (NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX), all major U.S. exchanges.
• Great upside potential: Addressed by combining:
  • Strong growth via ≥ 20% YoY revenue growth, and
  • Valuation upside via analyst target prices meaningfully above current levels, plus
  • Smaller-cap profile, where growth can translate into larger percentage moves.

Together, these filters aim to surface U.S.-listed penny stocks that are (1) small but not purely speculative, (2) tradable, and (3) both fundamentally growing and viewed by analysts as having material upside from current prices.