speculative
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Goldman defines speculative trading based on the share of volume in unprofitable stocks, penny stocks and those companies where the enterprise value to sales is higher than 10.
From MarketWatch
At most, these should be considered speculative side bets, not core investment holdings.
Fairly early in his lengthy investment career, in the mid-1960s, this thrifty son of Yorkshire, England, grew besotted with speculative small-cap stocks.
From Barron's
The oil-to-silver price ratio points to the precious metal being in “a speculative bubble” or oil being “excessively out of favor,” said Colas.
From MarketWatch
Moody's cut the city's credit rating from Baa3 to Ba1, a category with high risk often described as speculative or junk grade.
From Barron's
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