Most Active Penny Stocks Today

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.

Session: NORMAL · Last updated: 9/19/2026 12:00:29 AM

Most Active Penny Stocks Today

#SymbolCompanyPriceChg %Volume
1IMCCIM Cannabis Corp. Common Shares$4.2300143.10%79.7M
2GRABGrab Holdings Limited Class A Ordinary Shares$2.7950-0.53%86.7M
3GIPRGeneration Income Properties Inc. Common Stock$0.718363.44%142.7M
4KEELKeel Infrastructure Corp. Common Stock$4.010011.08%49.2M
5QNMEQuanome Technologies, Inc. Common Stock$0.558392.25%317.9M
6STLAStellantis N.V.$4.8200-4.55%33.1M
7TNMGTNL Mediagene Ordinary Shares$3.870043.87%12.9M
8TRUGTruGolf Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock$0.498029.76%169.9M
9MRNOMurano Global Investments PLC Ordinary Shares$0.344756.75%321.2M
10ZTGZenta Group Company Limited Class A Ordinary Shares$1.810050.83%51.5M
11CYPHCypherpunk Technologies Inc. Common Stock$3.600017.26%27.1M
12RXRXRecursion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Class A Common Stock$3.83008.19%24.7M
13PLUGPlug Power Inc.$2.0900-1.42%43.8M
14NCPLNetcapital Inc. Common Stock$0.740731.54%108.5M
15NIONIO Inc. American depositary shares, each representing one Class A ordinary share$3.66001.10%20.1M
16BTEBaytex Energy Corp.$4.8400-0.21%16.9M
17EOSEEos Energy Enterprises, Inc. Class A Common Stock$3.9600-0.50%19.2M
18ABEVAMBEV S.A.$2.9400-1.34%23.8M
19DNNDenison Mines Corp$2.8600-1.04%23.5M
20OPENOpendoor Technologies Inc Common Stock$2.5600-0.20%24.6M

Why Dollar Volume, Not Share Count

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?

How To Use This List

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.

  • Tradability first. Dollar volume is the best single proxy for whether you can exit. Under roughly $500K in daily dollar volume, assume slippage will cost you more than your edge.
  • Spread scales inversely with it. The names at the top of this list generally have penny-wide spreads; the ones that never appear here can cost 10–20% on a round trip.
  • Persistence is the real tell. A name that appears here for several sessions running has found genuine participation. One-day appearances are usually a single catalyst working through.
  • Cross-check against the move. High dollar volume plus a large gain is participation. High dollar volume plus a flat price is distribution or accumulation — someone is filling a large order.

Most Active vs Unusual Volume

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.