The Amex: A Capital Commitment to Your Growth
Selecting the right marketplace is a fundamental and critical decision for every company. In today's increasingly competitive environment, companies face significant challenges gaining access to capital and improving visibility and ownership. Other markets may offer to help growing companies, but the American Stock Exchange makes the capital commitment.
At the Amex, listed companies find a uniquely supportive marketplace to help them create, safeguard and increase shareholder value: a centralized quality market where their specialist, the Amex senior management and an issuer services director are readily accessible and working together to enhance the attractiveness of the company's stock to investors.
As a self-regulatory organization, the Amex is committed to maintaining extraordinary integrity. By combining a specialist-based auction market with state-of-the-art trading technology – the foundation of a fair, efficient and accountable marketplace – trades are executed swiftly, with reliability, accuracy and transparency.
Summary of the Amex Advantage
- Blue-Sky Exempt: When a company lists on the Amex, a National Exchange, it is exempt from registering its stock in each of the U.S. states its securities are being offered in. This is a great advantage, as such a process can be costly and lengthy, and it can be avoided by listing on Amex unlike the Nasdaq Capital Market.
- AEMI Platform: Offers market participants a greatly expanded range of automated transaction services for equities and ETFs and combines the speed of an electronic market with the dedicated liquidity of a specialist-auction market.
- Real-time market intelligence: Specialists will make a point of proactively providing intelligence on the forces affecting your stock, breaking down trading into institutional, arbitrage and retail categories. They are in regular communication with their listings, giving those companies greater knowledge and therefore, control over their trading profiles.
- Specialist: The company chooses the Amex specialist that will act as a long-term partner, providing the best possible execution and price discovery. Specialists are superior to market makers who have no obligation to the company and can step away from trading the company's stock at anytime, therefore, causing trading imbalances and volatility.
- Increased U.S. Shareholder Ownership: Institutions and retail investors, representing the majority of total equity investment in the U.S., will only buy U.S. listed, SEC-registered equities. The company therefore has the opportunity to significantly increase U.S. investor demand for its shares beyond direct investment by U.S. international funds in the home market.
