Primary Listing

  

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You have your main house where you live most of the time. You also have a summer cabin down by the lake, where you spend a lot of time between the beginning of June and the end of August. In addition, you’ve got a timeshare in Colorado, where you spend a couple of weeks every winter. And you spend every Easter at your sister's place in Florida. You spend a lot of time moving around. But your primary residence is still the main house.

A primary listing works like that, only for publicly traded stocks. It represents the main stock exchange where shares of a particular company trade. It may be listed on multiple exchanges (both the London exchange and the NYSE). But one of those represent the primary listing.

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finance a la shmoop what is a primary offering and what are primary shares all

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right people let's start with the primary offering it's pretty much just

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an IPO or initial public offering of stock that's primary and hello 1933 Act [The 1933 securites act is slid onto a desk]

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that's what gave rise to all the regulations around primary offerings its

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original shares virgin ones in fact now being offered for the first time to an [Someone holding 'extra virgin stock']

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investor public primary offering that's what it is

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but primary shares also come from private companies like a venture capital [Sign for a venture capital company]

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company might buy primary shares in a b round from whatever.com as that company

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funds its growth now once a company is already public its shares will have

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traded back and forth in many different hands over time those would be called [Secondary shares stamp]

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secondary shares and hello 1934 Act which set the regs all around

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secondaries so yeah primary 1933 secondary 1934 and well that's pretty

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much it as long as you can count to two this one's a pretty easy concept to

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would wrap your head around.. primarily.. [Woman looks confused]

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