Burr Oak Coal Corp. (BOAK.PK)

Its shares trade under the stock symbol BOAK.PK, on the Pink Sheets. Trading Pink Sheet stocks is one of the risky forms of investing.

In total, 1000 employees are working at this mid sized company. The company should have enough employees to implement their ongoing business plan. But the cost of all of these people is not cheap. In order to evaluate a potential investment in this company, you should carefully consider the size of the workforce.

The company's share price reached $0.95 on Feb 4, 2009 Stocks under $1.00 are often followed by liquidity issues. Also there is often little hope of share price appreciation, for stocks in this price range. They do not usually go up unless there is a significant improvement in the fundamentals.