The most actively traded penny stocks in the current session — US-listed common stocks priced under $5, ranked by dollar volume (price × shares traded), not by percentage gain. This is the liquidity view: where the money actually went today.
| # | Symbol | Company | Price | Chg % | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GRAB | Grab Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary Shares | $3.3410 | -0.27% | 51.2M |
| 2 | STLA | Stellantis N.V. | $4.1050 | -3.64% | 33.3M |
| 3 | INLF | INLIF LIMITED Class A Ordinary Shares | $0.6850 | 25.69% | 75.5M |
| 4 | BBD | Banco Bradesco S.A. American Depositary Shares (Each representing one Preferred Shares) | $2.5750 | 0.19% | 46.1M |
| 5 | ACHR | Archer Aviation Inc. | $4.8650 | 3.29% | 23.2M |
| 6 | AUR | Aurora Innovation, Inc. Class A Common Stock | $4.5870 | 0.81% | 23.6M |
| 7 | QS | QuantumScape Corporation Class A Common Stock | $4.2250 | -5.06% | 24.2M |
| 8 | SCKT | Socket Mobile, Inc. New | $0.4630 | 84.39% | 222.0M |
| 9 | NIO | NIO Inc. American depositary shares, each representing one Class A ordinary share | $3.2350 | -1.37% | 29.8M |
| 10 | JBLU | JetBlue Airways Corp | $4.0280 | 0.70% | 17.7M |
| 11 | SOUN | SoundHound AI, Inc. Class A Common Stock | $3.9150 | 1.16% | 15.5M |
| 12 | BTE | Baytex Energy Corp. | $4.2550 | 2.04% | 14.7M |
| 13 | AMC | AMC ENTERTAINMENT HOLDINGS, INC. | $3.4150 | -1.30% | 17.8M |
| 14 | LUMN | Lumen Technologies, Inc. Common Stock | $4.4450 | -5.63% | 13.7M |
| 15 | NCT | Intercont (Cayman) Limited Class A Ordinary shares | $0.7230 | 76.82% | 83.5M |
| 16 | RXRX | Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Class A Common Stock | $3.5850 | 0.99% | 14.3M |
| 17 | GEVO | Gevo, Inc. | $1.8100 | 30.22% | 28.5M |
| 18 | TE | T1 Energy Inc. | $2.1250 | 2.66% | 23.9M |
| 19 | SHFS | SHF Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock | $0.0243 | 52.83% | 624.8M |
| 20 | PRME | Prime Medicine, Inc. Common Stock | $4.2940 | 10.10% | 11.0M |
Most "most active" lists rank by raw share count, which is close to meaningless in the penny universe. A stock at $0.004 trading 500 million shares looks like the busiest name on the market, but that is $2 million changing hands — less than a single institutional order in a $3 stock trading 800,000 shares. Ranking by share count just sorts your list by how cheap the stock is.
Dollar volume fixes that. It answers the question that actually matters before you take a position: can I get in and out at a price close to the one on the screen?
Activity and direction are different signals, and this page deliberately shows only the first. A stock can top the dollar-volume list while falling 12%. That is still useful information — heavy two-sided trade means the spread is tight and there is a real market — but it is not a buy signal, and a list that mixes the two questions answers neither well.
These are different screens and they rarely overlap. This page ranks on absolute dollar volume, so it is dominated by the largest, most liquid names in the under-$5 band, and it is fairly stable week to week. Unusual volume ranks each stock against its own average daily volume, which surfaces the quiet microcap suddenly trading five times its norm — the early-catalyst screen. Use this page to judge whether a name is tradable; use that one to find out what just woke up.
See also: penny stocks on unusual volume, today's top penny stock gainers, full mover board (gainers + losers), cheap stocks to buy now, pre-market penny stock movers.
Most active stocks — the same ranking with no price cap.