2. • Established for the purpose of
assisting,regulating and controlling business of
buying,selling and dealing in securities
• Provides a market for the trading of securities
to induviduals and organizations seeking to
invest their saving or excess funds through the
purshase of securities
3. • Established rules for fair trading
practice and regulates the trading
activities of its members according to
this rules
• Provides a physical location for buying
and selling securities that have been
listed for trading on that exchange
4. • Stock is a share in the ownership of a
company. It represents a claim on
the company's assets and earnings
• Whether you say shares, equity or
stock, it all means the same thing.
5. • When a company would like to grow, it
issues stocks to raise funds and pay for
ongoing business activities
• It is popular because:
-The company does not have to repay the
money
-Paying dividends is optional
7. What is a stock market?
• Place where business of buying and
selling stock takes place
• The stock market is not a specific
place, though some people use a specific
term
8. Desirable Characteristics of a stock
market
• Availability of Information Market efficiency
• Prices react quickly to new information
• Small price fluctuations
• Narrow price spread
9. • Primary market
-Channel for creation of new securities
• Secondary market
-The new securities issued in the primary
market are traded the secondary market
10. Market Timings
• Trading on the equities segment takes place on all
days of the week (except Saturdays and Sundays and
holidays declared by the exchange in advance)
• The market timings of the equities segment are:
Normal market open : 09:55 hours
Normal market close : 15:30 hours
The closing session is held between 15.50hours and
16.00 hours
11. • People who buy or sell stock on an exchange
do so through a broker
• The broker takes your order to the floor of the
exchange looks for a broker representating
someone wanting to buy/sell.
• If a mutually agreeable price is found the
trade is made
12.
13. • List any company in the stock exchange is not
easy.
WHY?
He has to satisfy many legal
requirements under the lays regulation public
companies as well the stock exchange listing
requirements
14. Listing Requirements
• There are specific requierements for allowing
a public company to list its securities on the
stock exchange these are set out in the
legislation
• However when a company is listed in a stock
exchange it enjoys many benefits compared to
when it was a private limited liability
company.
15. • Visibility
• Market Support
• Investors Confidence
• Increased demands for products and services
• Overall increase in profitability
16. …Once Traded
• Aura of reliability
• Accuracy in Reporting financial Data
• Reputation
• Strength
BUT….
17. • Stock exchange can delist companies for number
of reasons including:
Merger with another companies
Solvency Problems
Name change company asked to be removed
Failure to comply with exchange rules
18. • A company listed in the stock exchange has
considerable benefits compared to a private
limited liability company if that company can
satisfy the legal requirements for a public
company
• Stock exchange listing of a company has many
durable benefits to the company in terms of its
potential to grow and expand than a private
limited liability company