orphan stock

orphan stock definition - finance
A stock that is not covered by Wall Street research analysts. As investment banks laid off employees during 2001 and 2002 after the bear market settled in, an increasing number of small- to medium-sized stocks lacked coverage by Wall Street analysts.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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