Listing a company in a stock exchange

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21 February 2011 Dear sir,
please tell me what is the benefits of listing a company in the stock exchange?

Thanks & regards
Karan

21 February 2011 Listing of Securities and Benefits

Listing of Securities and Benefits

Listing means admission of securities of an issuer to trading privileges on a stock exchange through a formal agreement. The prime objective of admission to dealings on the Exchange is to provide liquidity and marketability to securities, as also to provide a mechanism for effective management of trading. Thus Listing is the admission of securities to dealings on a recognized stock exchange. The securities may be of any public limited company, Central or State Government, quasi governmental and other financial institutions/corporations, municipalities, etc.

Objectives of Listing

* Provide liquidity to securities;
* Mobilize savings for economic development;
* Protect interest of investors by ensuring full disclosures

Benefits of Listing:

The following are the benefits of listing of securities in a Stock Exchange:

A premier marketplace: The sheer volume of trading activity ensures that the impact cost is lower on the Exchange which in turn reduces the cost of trading to the investor. The automated trading system ensure consistency and transparency in the trade matching which enhances investors confidence and visibility of our market.

Visibility: The trading system provides unparallel level of trade and post-trade information. The best 5 buy and sell orders are displayed on the trading system and the total number of securities available for buying and selling is also displayed. This helps the investor to know the depth of the market. Further, corporate announcements, results, corporate actions etc are also available on the trading system.

Unprecedented reach: Stock exchanges provide a trading platform that extends across the length and breadth of the country. Investors from number of centres can avail of trading facilities. The Exchange uses the latest in communication technology to give instant access from every location.

Value addition: A listing can also be anticipated to attach importance to a company's Employee Share Ownership Scheme. In addition, a listing on a stock exchange can add value to a company. A listing could press forward brand awareness of company products and can augment a company's corporate standing. Furthermore, the superior profile, tied with larger lucidity, could add to the company's capacity to have access to traditional sources of capital.

Increasing capital: The Stock Exchange makes available access to a collection of institutional and retail investors and to the capital market. A registration on the exchange allows a company to raise capital and use it to sponsor investment and expansion. Even after a company is listed, it can boost up capital from the market, through the issue of fresh securities such as Rights issues or through the issue of a new nature of securities.

Access to a widespread shareholder base: The stock exchange puts forward companies a right of entry to a wide-ranging and mounting investor base, which contains both entity investors and plentiful local and international institutional investors.

Price Detection: A listing facilitates companies to ascertain a price for their shares.

Low cost capital: The primary gain of raising capital from the market is that it eschews a number of the intermediation expenses apparent in the other forms of capital raising. Consequently, the market endows companies with capital at a cheaper cost.

Corporate Information’s: The stock exchanges used to disseminate information and company announcements across the country. Important information regarding the company is announced to the market through the Broadcast Mode through the websides of the stock exchanges. Corporate developments such as financial results, book closure, announcements of bonus, rights, takeover, mergers etc. are disseminated across the country thus minimizing scope for price manipulation or misuse.

Trade statistics for listed companies

Listed companies are provided with monthly trade statistics for all the securities of the company listed on the Exchange.

Other Benefits: In addition to the above benefits the following are the benefits of listing of securities in a stock exchange

* Access to a widespread shareholder base
* The stock exchange puts forward companies a right of entry to a wide-ranging and mounting investor base, which contains both entity investors and plentiful local and international institutional investors.
* Price Detection
* A listing facilitates companies to ascertain a price for their shares.
* Low cost capital
* The primary gain of raising capital from the market is that it eschews a number of the intermediation expenses apparent in the other forms of capital raising. Consequently, the market endows companies with capital at a cheaper cost.

21 February 2011 https://www.csstudentsclub.com/t653-notes-on-listing-taken-from-nse-website

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