The best stocks under $200 to buy today depend on today’s chart. I’m a trader, not an investor. I don’t care if a stock is “overvalued” or “undervalued” — I’m watching the stocks grabbing the market’s attention and planning quick trades that leave ME in control.
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 $200. Read on for the results!
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What Are the Best Stocks to Buy Under $200 in December 2024?
To find the best stocks to buy under $200 in December 2024 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 stock watchlists.
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To find watch-worthy stocks under $200, I input the following criteria:
- Last Price ≤ $200
- Last Price ≥ $50
- Volume ≥ 30,000
When I run this screen in December 2024 and sort by percent change, it gives me the following top results:
Best Stocks Under $200 to Buy in December 2024
The best stocks under $200 in December 2024 are:
- Digital Realty Trust Inc. [NYSE: DLR]
- Applovin Corporation [NASDAQ: APP]
- Tapestry Inc. [NYSE: TPR]
- Viking Therapeutics Inc. [NASDAQ: VKTX]
- Twilio Inc. Class A [NYSE: TWLO]
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.
Read on for the best stocks that I’m watching today!
Digital Realty Trust Inc. [NYSE: DLR]
Digital Realty owns and operates nearly 300 data centers worldwide. It has more than 35 million rentable square feet across five continents. Digital offerings range from retail co-location where an enterprise may rent a single cabinet and rely on Digital to provide all the accommodations to cold shells where hyperscale cloud service providers can simply rent much or all of a barren power- connected building. In recent years Digital Realty has de-emphasized cold shells and now primarily provides higher-level service to tenants which outsource their related IT needs to Digital. Digital Realty has also moved more into the co-location business increasingly serving enterprises and facilitating network connections. Digital Realty operates as a real estate investment trust.
Applovin Corporation [NASDAQ: APP]
AppLovin Corp is a mobile app technology company. It focuses on growing the mobile app ecosystem by enabling the success of mobile app developers. The company’s software solutions provide advanced tools for mobile app developers to grow their businesses by automating and optimizing the marketing and monetization of their apps.
Tapestry Inc. [NYSE: TPR]
Tapestry, Inc. is an American multinational luxury fashion holding company. It is based in New York City and is the parent company of three major brands: Coach New York, Kate Spade New York and Stuart Weitzman. Originally named Coach, Inc., the business changed its name to Tapestry on October 31, 2017.
Viking Therapeutics Inc. [NASDAQ: VKTX]
Viking Therapeutics Inc is a healthcare service provider. The company specializes in the area of biopharmaceutical development focused on metabolic and endocrine disorders. The company’s clinical program pipeline consists of VK2809, VK5211, VK0214 products. VK2809 and VK0214 are orally available, tissue and receptor-subtype selective agonist of the thyroid hormone receptor beta. VK5211 is an orally available, non-steroidal selective androgen receptor modulator.
Twilio Inc. Class A [NYSE: TWLO]
Twilio is a cloud-based communication platform-as-a-service company offering communication application programming interfaces, or APls, and prebuilt solution applications aimed at improving customer engagement. Through these APIs, Twilio’s platform allows software developers to integrate messaging, voice, and video functionality into new or existing business applications. The company leverages its Super Network, Twilio’s global network of carrier relationships, to facilitate high speed cost-optimized global messaging and voice-based communications.
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 100% 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?
CLNV follows my 7-step pennystocking framework perfectly. This framework isn’t just for penny stocks though… You can also see its patterns play out in higher priced stocks like Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA).
This is the chart you have to commit to memory:
Remember this chart well, its the basis for my 7-step framework, @30DayBoot & @completepenny & you must study not to fall prey to greed/ignorance or you'll get wrecked like 90% of traders. It's VITAL to sell into excessive strength/hype, do not just hold & hope like most newbies pic.twitter.com/QsAGHsI6lp
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) February 28, 2021
What Are the Stocks Under $200 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…
https://t.co/gIIuF22exF Former runners can run again, never forget!
— Timothy Sykes (@timothysykes) December 7, 2020
Stocks Under $200 FAQs
Just because a stock trades for under $200 doesn’t make it cheap. Read on for some more questions you might be asking…
Where can one find the list of companies’ stocks under $200?
Get a powerful stock screener like the one in StocksToTrade, and start building parameters. When I’m looking for tradable stocks under $200, 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 stocks under $200?
A stock under $200 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 stocks that have traded more than 50,000 shares. This will help you identify watch-worthy stocks — even if you’re looking in pre-market.
What are some great stocks under $200 for selling calls and puts?
I don’t trade options, but my former student Mark Croock has made more than $4 million mostly with this strategy! He’s done this by adapting my penny stock strategies to the world of options… If you’re interested in learning his risk-informed approach, check out “The Ultimate Options Trading Blueprint For Small Accounts” — it’s no cost for a limited time!
What is Tim Sykes’ favorite stock under $200?
I don’t have a “favorite” stock under $200 — I mostly trade penny stocks, which trade under $5. However, penny stocks will often run above the $5 range, which happened with the SPAC stock Ocean Biomedical Inc. (NASDAQ: OCEA). It still moved like a penny stock, so I was able to use my penny stock strategies in trading it… I made $517 in four conservative trades (click the link to see my individual trades).
What are the best stocks to buy under $200 that pay dividends?
I wouldn’t recommend any stocks to buy under $200 that pay dividends, or any dividend stocks at all. You have to hold stocks through their dividend date to receive payouts, and I am more of a trader than an investor. Dividend stocks are traditionally seen as less risky to hold than other stocks — but I think that every stock is risky to hold.
Plus, dividend stocks give away some of the value that would otherwise add to their share price. That means they see less growth than non-dividend stocks, which doesn’t make them great for trading either.