Should I sell my stock if the company might be deslisted from NASDAQ?

Because of stock option fraud? If the company continues to make good profits, can they fight the de-listing and bounce back, or should I sell before it's too late, although I will be losing money anyway? It's a small investment so I can take a risk if there's much hope for it.

I think you should have sold the very minute you first heard the news. If it is delisting because of fraud, your company's shares will go no where but down until the dust settles and someone steps in to repair the company, if they can.

Krispy Kreme Donuts (KKD) went through some hard times a while back. It wasn't fraud because the founder had simply grown the company beyond his ability to manage. The price went from close to $50 a share to around $5. It could have folded, but they brought in a good manager and got to cooking again. Today the stock is around $13.

A company in trouble can be fixed--sometimes. So, stop what you are doing and sell. Buy it back IF they fix it.

If the company is delisted from active trading floor of NASDAQ, that company is traded under pinkslip where selected brokers will buy and sell those companies stocks.The symbol will change from 3 or 4 letters to longer one.

Sweetheart, in your shoes I would go ahead and sell because if they get dropped to the OTC or Pinksheets then there may be no coming back. Many CEOs don't care about their share price or their shareholders, and don't care if they ever make it back to the big boards. Some will stay on the OTC or Pinksheets for years as they just dilute their Outstanding share count with billions of shares.

I would sell them and either buy something else or wait for them to hit bottom and buy back in real low. But my first recommendation is that you sell and then buy something else. never fall in love with a stock.

93% of the time delisting is the beginning of a slide into oblivion.

Not usually for that reason (stock option re-pricing)....A lot of company's share prices have actually increased substantially after a notice of delisting because the market realizes that it's only a formality, the company won't be delisted, and the company is cleaning up the stock option situation and therefore there will be less uncertainty in the future relating to the company's stock option pricing. Over the last year or so many very solid companies have received notices from NASDAQ requiring a notice of delisting. The reason is because companies are required to provide quarterly financial disclosures within a certain period of time after the quarter end and many companies have had to delay filings in order to give them enough time to determine if there needs to be an adjustment to their quarterly financials due to repricing of stock options. Many companies have also had to go back and re-state previous quarters. Do your research and if the delisting is only because of the stock option issue and the fundamentals of the company is strong, it is most likely a non-issue as far as the future performance of the stock.

Apple and Cheescake factory are two stocks that have or had received notices of delisting due to stock option issues...two very solid companies...I'll leave it to you to decide the investment prospects of these companies but I don't think anyone would suggest they are going out of business anytime soon.

you should of sold it when the news first hit. But ANY accounting irregularity is an automatic sell at once. Delisting is one of the worse things that can happen to stock. Sell now and take your losses.

This is a great question. I recently bought a stock called Bodisen, BBC. This is a Chinese organic fertilizer company. They were threatened with delisting and the stock got killed. Here is a link about this company:

http://www.top10traders.com/ViewPost.asp...

Stocks like this can either make you a lot of money, or lose you a lot of money. You have to look at the news stories surrounding the stock and try to make a judgement call about whether the stock will be delisted. If it ends up not being delisted, these stocks usually can make big comebacks.

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Hope this helps.

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