What Are The Ways To Go For Stock Market Listing?

There are different ways to go public in the US. There are three main grades of listing:

Here are the levels of stock listing.

OTC PINK SHEETS:

The most well-known quotation service for over the counter stocks usually termed "the pinks". There are technically no particulars needed for reports or audited financials on the pinks, however, the pinks have established their own voluntary reporting system and implement it by publishing symbols to represent the level of disclosure each organization is subscribing to. To publish voluntary details requires charges of roughly $5000 a year.

THE OTC BB: The OTC Bulletin Board is controlled by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and mandates that all companies whose stock is exchanged on the OTC Bulletin Board keep their current reporting status with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which needs current audited financial statements. There are no fees paid to FINRA for this quotation, but having a public company current with its SEC reports can cost $25,000 - $50,000 a year.

EXCHANGES:

The OTC PINK SHEETS and the OTC Bulletin Board are viable stock markets especially for budding and new companies, but clients with flourishing businesses will prefer to be on one of the mature and higher equity markets - Nasdaq Small-Cap, Nasdaq NMS or NYSE. Each of these exchanges has its own qualifications that a business must meet to be listed on the exchange. Usually the types of qualification variables they look for include asset levels, number of financial partners, required Board level committees, revenues, and market capitalization. In addition all exchanges require the company to maintain a current reporting status with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Listing on the stock markets usually involves fees in the range of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

For a US company a quotation on the US stock markets improve points. For Example, a quotation is a means to:

1) Grow your company easier and make it more strong by increasing your ability to attract "mergers", "acquisitions" and also "strategic partners;

2) Develop your company faster and make it more powerful by developing its ability to compete for large corporate opportunities;

3) Leverage your personal return on investment as an owner by cutting down the amount of time it will take to make money on your investment, along with increasing the valuation of your company, as well as, adjusting the liquidity of your asset to a much more liquid form than that of a private firm;

4)Raise money faster and cheaper by improving the "liquidity" factor for your investors

Now most of these suggestions are for organizations going public from scratch. For those of you seeking to buy a shell corporation (public shell), to go for mergers, then you might want to decide changing a quotation as above. For more tips on this subject try googling phrases like "mergers companies" or "reverse mergers".