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
right people let's start with the primary offering it's pretty much just
an IPO or initial public offering of stock that's primary and hello 1933 Act [The 1933 securites act is slid onto a desk]
that's what gave rise to all the regulations around primary offerings its
original shares virgin ones in fact now being offered for the first time to an [Someone holding 'extra virgin stock']
investor public primary offering that's what it is
but primary shares also come from private companies like a venture capital [Sign for a venture capital company]
company might buy primary shares in a b round from whatever.com as that company
funds its growth now once a company is already public its shares will have
traded back and forth in many different hands over time those would be called [Secondary shares stamp]
secondary shares and hello 1934 Act which set the regs all around
secondaries so yeah primary 1933 secondary 1934 and well that's pretty
much it as long as you can count to two this one's a pretty easy concept to
would wrap your head around.. primarily.. [Woman looks confused]
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