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Penny Stocks To Watch Today - May 2nd

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat's screener highlights seven penny stocks to watch today: Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR), SOBR Safe (SOBR), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), BigBear.ai (BBAI), Lakewood‑Amedex Biotherapeutics (LABT), Beyond Meat (BYND), and Direxion Daily AMD Bear 1X Shares (AMDD); these had the highest dollar trading volume among penny stocks in recent days.
  • Penny stocks generally trade under $5 and often on OTC markets, making them highly speculative and volatile with low liquidity and greater risk of price manipulation compared with larger, exchange‑listed stocks.
  • Notable inclusions span sectors—from household names like JetBlue and Beyond Meat to pharma Esperion (maker of NEXLETOL/NEXLIZET) and an inverse ETF (AMDD)—so investors should be aware the group represents varied business models and risk profiles.
  • Five stocks we like better than Esperion Therapeutics.

Esperion Therapeutics, SOBR Safe, JetBlue Airways, BigBear.ai, Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics, Beyond Meat, and Direxion Daily AMD Bear 1X Shares are the seven Penny stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Penny stocks are shares of very small, often thinly traded companies that typically sell for under $5 per share (the SEC's common cutoff) and frequently trade on over-the-counter markets rather than major exchanges. They tend to be highly speculative and volatile with low liquidity and greater risk of price manipulation, making them riskier investments than larger, exchange-listed stocks. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Penny stocks within the last several days.

Esperion Therapeutics (ESPR)

Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical company, develops and commercializes medicines for the treatment of patients with elevated low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C). Its marketed products include NEXLETOL (bempedoic acid) and NEXLIZET (bempedoic acid and ezetimibe) tablets that are oral, once-daily, non-statin medicines for the treatment of primary hyperlipidemia in adults with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease who require additional lowering of LDL-C.

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SOBR Safe (SOBR)

SOBR Safe, Inc., a hardware and software company, develops non-invasive alcohol detection, biometric identity verification, and real-time cloud-based alerts and reporting systems in North America. The company provides SOBRcheck, a stationary identification and alcohol monitoring product; and SOBRsure, a transdermal, alcohol-detecting wearable band.

Read Our Latest Research Report on SOBR

JetBlue Airways (JBLU)

JetBlue Airways Corporation provides air transportation services. The company operates a fleet of Airbus A321, Airbus A220, Airbus A321neo, Airbus A320 Restyled, Airbus A320, Airbus A321 with Mint, Airbus A321neo with Mint, Airbus A321neoLR with Mint, and Embraer E190 aircraft. It also serves 100 destinations across the United States, the Caribbean and Latin America, Canada, and Europe.

Read Our Latest Research Report on JBLU

BigBear.ai (BBAI)

BigBear.ai Holdings, Inc. provides artificial intelligence-powered decision intelligence solutions. It offers national security, supply chain management, and digital identity and biometrics solutions. The company also provides data ingestion, data enrichment, data processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, and predictive visualization solutions and services.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BBAI

Lakewood-Amedex Biotherapeutics (LABT)

We are a biotechnology company focused on leveraging unique, pioneering science to address unmet needs in the treatment of infectious diseases, improving patient outcomes, and significantly reducing the threat posed by antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains, including methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin resistant Enterococci species (VRE), and others.

Read Our Latest Research Report on LABT

Beyond Meat (BYND)

Beyond Meat, Inc., a plant-based meat company, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. The company sells a range of plant-based meat products across the platforms of beef, pork, and poultry. It sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club stores, and natural retailer channels, as well as various food-away-from-home channels, including restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools.

Read Our Latest Research Report on BYND

Direxion Daily AMD Bear 1X Shares (AMDD)

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