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Best Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents to Buy Today

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Written by Timothy Sykes
Updated 10/28/2025 8 min read
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The best penny stocks under 25 cents to buy today depend on today’s chart. The fact is, 99.9% of these cheap stocks will eventually be worth less than they are right now. That’s why I tell my students to build a watchlist every day.

The best traders watch more stocks than they trade. That’s essential for getting to know the charts of these stocks — these charts will give you valuable info about their future moves. If you study the patterns these stocks follow, you can find opportunities for the kind of small gains that can grow a small account fast.

Today I’ll show you how to build a watchlist for stocks under 25 cents. Read on for the results!

Best Penny Stocks Under 25 cents to Buy in January 2026

The best penny stocks under 25 cents in January 2026 are:

This is a watchlist — not a “buy list.”

I’m sharing this so you can see my process. If you want to see more NO-COST watchlists, you can sign up for my weekly watchlist here.

What Are the Best Penny Stocks to Buy Under 25 cents in January 2026?

To find the best penny stocks to buy under 25 cents in January 2026 requires a top-level stock screener. I use the one in StocksToTrade — I helped design it, so it has all the tools and customizations I look for to create my penny stock watchlists.

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To find watch-worthy penny stocks under 25 cents, I input the following criteria:

  • Last Price ≤ $0.25
  • Last Price ≥ $0.05
  • Volume ≥ 100,000
  • Number of Trades ≥ 50

When I run this screen in January 2026 and sort by percent change, it gives me the following top results:

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Read on for the best penny stocks that I’m watching today!

Zion Oil & Gas Inc [OTCQB: ZNOG]

Zion Oil & Gas Inc is the United States-based oil and gas exploration and production company. Zion currently holds one active petroleum exploration license onshore Israel, the Megiddo-Jezreel License covering an area of approximately 99,000 acres.

UTime Limited [NASDAQ: WTO]

UTime Ltd is engaged in the design, development, production, sales and brand operation of mobile phones, accessories and related consumer electronics. It also provides Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS), including Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Design Manufacturer (ODM) services, for well-known brands. The company operates in China and its products are sold globally, including India, Brazil, the United States, and other emerging markets in South Asia and Africa as well as Europe. It has two in-house brands, Time, known as its middle-to-high end label and targets middle class consumers from emerging markets; and Do, as its low- to mid-end brand, is positioned to the grassroots consumers and price-sensitive consumers in emerging markets.

Vivakor Inc. [NASDAQ: VIVK]

Vivakor Inc is an operator, acquirer, and developer of clean energy technologies and environmental solutions, with a focus on soil remediation. The company remediates the soil and extracts hydrocarbons, such as oils, which are then used to produce asphaltic cement and petroleum-based products. Currently, the company is focusing on remediating oil spills resulting from the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and naturally occurring oil sand deposits in the Unita basin of Eastern Utah.

Centro Inc. [NASDAQ: CENN]

Centro Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of electric light and medium-duty commercial vehicles (ECVs). The Company’s purpose-built ECVs are designed to serve a variety of corporate and governmental organizations in support of city services, last-mile delivery and other commercial applications. The Company’s ECV model Metro are sold or put into service more than 3,600 units in over 16 countries across North America, Europe and Asia.

Nightfood Hidgs Inc [OTCQB: NGTF]

NightFood Holdings Inc has its markets based on the food and snack industry. The company is in the business of manufacturing, marketing, and distributing snacks specifically for consumption in the evening. It provides ice cream products through distributors and non-traditional retailers.

Which Is the Cheapest High-Potential Stock to Buy Right Now?

To find the cheapest high-potential stocks, you have to study their charts.

Take a look at the 1-year chart for Clean Vision Corp. [OTCPK: CLNV]:

See how many spikes this stock had in the past year? Each one of these spikes was a trading opportunity — that’s the way I’ve made over $8,000 in total earnings trading this stock (click the link to see my individual trades).

However, that’s not a recommendation to “buy” this stock. See how it drops after every spike?

It follows my 7-step pennystocking framework perfectly. This is the chart you have to commit to memory:

What Are the Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents with the Highest Potential?

Look up at the charts of the stocks above. Do you see any spikes in their long-term chart? That’s a good sign.

History doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. And that’s a good thing for former runners…

Penny Stocks Under 25 Cents FAQs

Just because a stock trades for under 25 cents doesn’t make it cheap. Read on for some more questions you might be asking…

Where can one find the list of companies’ penny stocks under 25 cents?

Get a powerful stock screener like the one in StocksToTrade, and start building parameters. When I’m looking for tradable penny stocks under 25 cents, I want their volume to be great enough for the stock to be liquid. This way I can enter and exit a position more easily.

What are high-volume penny stocks under 25 cents?

A penny stock under 25 cents needs high volume for me to trade it. When I’m building my stock scan, I’ll typically look for stocks that have traded over 1 million shares so far that day.

The scanner I’m using in this article is set to look for penny stocks that have traded more than 100,000 shares. This will help you identify watch-worthy stocks — even if you’re looking in pre-market.

What are some great penny stocks under 25 cents for selling calls and puts?

Options are only offered on certain stocks. Many stocks under 25 cents won’t qualify.

What is Tim Sykes’ favorite stock under 25 cents?

I don’t have a “favorite” stock under 25 cents — I think penny stocks are bad investments, and I don’t trust them at all. Trading scared has helped me make some profitable trades. One ticker that is ALWAYS on watch is Ozop Energy Solutions Inc. (OTCPK: OZSC) — I’ve made $45k over the years trading this penny stock (click the link for my individual trades).

What are the best stocks to buy under 25 cents that pay dividends?

Stocks that trade under 25 cents don’t usually pay dividends. Stocks that cost this little generally don’t have much going for them.

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The available research on day trading suggests that most active traders lose money. Fees and overtrading are major contributors to these losses.

A 2000 study called “Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors” evaluated 66,465 U.S. households that held stocks from 1991 to 1996. The households that traded most averaged an 11.4% annual return during a period where the overall market gained 17.9%. These lower returns were attributed to overconfidence.

A 2014 paper (revised 2019) titled “Learning Fast or Slow?” analyzed the complete transaction history of the Taiwan Stock Exchange between 1992 and 2006. It looked at the ongoing performance of day traders in this sample, and found that 97% of day traders can expect to lose money from trading, and more than 90% of all day trading volume can be traced to investors who predictably lose money. Additionally, it tied the behavior of gamblers and drivers who get more speeding tickets to overtrading, and cited studies showing that legalized gambling has an inverse effect on trading volume.

A 2019 research study (revised 2020) called “Day Trading for a Living?” observed 19,646 Brazilian futures contract traders who started day trading from 2013 to 2015, and recorded two years of their trading activity. The study authors found that 97% of traders with more than 300 days actively trading lost money, and only 1.1% earned more than the Brazilian minimum wage ($16 USD per day). They hypothesized that the greater returns shown in previous studies did not differentiate between frequent day traders and those who traded rarely, and that more frequent trading activity decreases the chance of profitability.

These studies show the wide variance of the available data on day trading profitability. One thing that seems clear from the research is that most day traders lose money .

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Citations for Disclaimer

Barber, Brad M. and Odean, Terrance, Trading is Hazardous to Your Wealth: The Common Stock Investment Performance of Individual Investors. Available at SSRN: “Day Trading for a Living?”

Barber, Brad M. and Lee, Yi-Tsung and Liu, Yu-Jane and Odean, Terrance and Zhang, Ke, Learning Fast or Slow? (May 28, 2019). Forthcoming: Review of Asset Pricing Studies, Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=2535636”

Chague, Fernando and De-Losso, Rodrigo and Giovannetti, Bruno, Day Trading for a Living? (June 11, 2020). Available at SSRN: “https://ssrn.com/abstract=3423101”