Dirty stocks are the name given to those type of stock issues that are not considered to have a good delivery. The transaction comes to a halt while the status of the stock is evaluated when a stock is identified as being dirty. Before that the dirty stock is awarded the status of good delivery any problems that are found to exist must be resolved.

Why a stock is given a status of a Dirty Stock?
The status of dirty stock comes about because of some irregularity in the supporting documents by which the the veracity of the stock is confirmed.
