The best stocks under $50 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 $50. Read on for the results!
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What Are the Best Stocks to Buy Under $50 in February 2025?
To find the best stocks to buy under $50 in February 2025 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 $50, I input the following criteria:
- Last Price ≤ $50
- Last Price ≥ $30
- Volume ≥ 30,000
When I run this screen in February 2025 and sort by percent change, it gives me the following top results:
Best Stocks Under $50 to Buy in February 2025
The best stocks under $50 in February 2025 are:
- Summit Materials Inc. Class A [NYSE: SUM]
- Bright Minds Biosciences Inc. [NASDAQ: DRUG]
- Box Inc. Class A [NYSE: BOX]
- Defiance Daily Target 1.75x Long MSTR ETF [NASDAQ: MSTX]
- Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. [NASDAQ: DJT]
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!
Summit Materials Inc. Class A [NYSE: SUM]
Summit Materials is a top-10 aggregates supplier and top-15 cement producer in the U.S. Founded as a roll-up strategy in 2009, the company has grown through a very active acquisition strategy. While cement and aggregates constituted about 35% of the firm’s revenue in 2020, these higher-margin businesses constituted nearly 55% of gross profit. Summit’s downstream businesses and services include asphalt, ready-mix concrete, and paving. While these constitute about 65% of revenue, their lower margins lead to gross profit contribution of roughly 45%.
Bright Minds Biosciences Inc. [NASDAQ: DRUG]
Bright Minds Biosciences Inc is focused on developing novel transformative treatments for neuropsychiatric disorders, epilepsy, and pain. The company has a portfolio of next-generation serotonin agonists designed to target neurocircuit abnormalities that are responsible for difficult to treat disorders such as resistant epilepsy, treatment resistant depression, PTSD, and pain. The company’s drugs have been designed to potentially retain the powerful therapeutic aspects of psychedelic and other serotonergic compounds, while minimizing the side effects, thereby creating superior drugs to first-generation compounds, such as psilocybin.
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc. [NASDAQ: PLAY]
Dave & Buster’s Entertainment Inc owns and operates nearly a hundred entertainment and dining establishments in the United States where customers can eat, drink, play games, and watch televised sports. The play division includes amusement, simulation, and video games, accounts for more than half of total company revenue. Food and beverage accounts for the rest. About one third of food and beverage revenue comes from alcoholic drinks, with the rest coming from food and nonalcoholic beverages.
Defiance Daily Target 1.75x Long MSTR ETF [NASDAQ: MSTX]
The Fund is an actively managed exchange traded fund (ETF) that attempts to achieve 1.75 times (175 percent) the daily percentage change in the share price of the Underlying Security by entering into swap agreements on the Underlying Security. The Fund aims to achieve this daily percentage change for a single day, and not for any other period. A single day means the period from the close of regular trading on one trading day to the close on the next trading day. Seeks daily leveraged investment results of 2.
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. [NASDAQ: DJT]
Trump Media & Technology Group Corp. (NASDAQ: DJT), is a social media and technology-focused company. The Company’s social media platform, TruthSocial, provides an outlet outside of Big Tech that encourages open global conversation without discriminating against political ideology. The Company is also focused on developing a subscription-based video streaming service, TMTG+, which intends to include access to non-woke entertainment, news, documentaries, podcasts and more.
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 $50 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 $50 FAQs
Just because a stock trades for under $50 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 $50?
Get a powerful stock screener like the one in StocksToTrade, and start building parameters. When I’m looking for tradable stocks under $50, 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 $50?
A stock under $50 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 $50 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 $50?
I don’t have a “favorite” stock under $50 — 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 $50 that pay dividends?
I wouldn’t recommend any stocks to buy under $50 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.
