Founded over 400 years ago, Deutsche Borse's Frankfurt Stock Exchange is the world's third largest trading exchange, ranking only behind the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ. The Frankfurt Stock Exchange is home to public companies from more than 80 different countries with companies from North American making up almost 40% of the total companies listed, including more than 3,200 from the United States alone. More and more companies from countries like the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, India, China and more are choosing the Frankfurt Stock Exchange over their home country's stock exchange. Here are some reasons why:
More About the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
The "International Stock Exchange"
With more international listings than any other stock exchange, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange is the most internationally respected stock exchange in the world. Companies from more than 80 countries are represented on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange with more than 40% from North America, 31% from Europe (including Russia), 14% from Asia and 6% from Australia and Africa. As of the end of 2010, more than 65% of the total trades were from countries outside Germany, with more than 22% from US investors and more than 24% of from UK investors.
Massive Trading Volume/Liquidity
Trades executed by international investors through Xetra, the Frankfurt Stock Exchange’s highly acclaimed electronic trading platform, have increased continuously in recent years. Last year, in 2010, 1.32 trillion Euros traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, an increase of 16 percent over 2009! In just December 2010, 14.6 million transactions were executed through Xetra, a huge increase of 39 percent over December 2009.
Access to Investor Capital
The Frankfurt Stock Exchange receives massive exposure to investor capital with greater than 250 international trading institutions and more than 4,500 traders worldwide. Investors directly connected to trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange represent a full 35% of the world's investment capital.
Growth of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange
More than 17 million trades were executed through Xetra, with total trading volume of over 100 billion Euros in the month of November 2010 with more than 113 billion Euros traded on both Xetra and on the floor at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, a full 18 percent increase over the prior year. In the month of December 2010, 92.9 billion Euros traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. This order book turnover is up 14 percent compared to from December of 2009. In the year 2010, 1.32 trillion Euros traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (an increase of 16 percent compared to 2009). In just the month of December 2010, 14.6 million transactions were executed through Xetra, which was a huge 39 percent increase over December 2009. Based on our experience, this growth trend is very likely to continue in the coming years.
What Companies Trade on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange?
When you go public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, you are in very good company. Companies such as BMW, Volkswagon, Commerzbank, Adidas Group, Hugo Boss, Bayer, Lufthansa, Daimler, Metro Group, Deutsche Bank, and BASF Chemical Company are currently listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, just to name a few.
Fun Frankfurt Facts:
Frankfurt Stock Exchange statistics as of Jan, 2011
Total companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 11,877
German companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 1,082
US companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 3,451
Total companies listed on the OTCBB: 2,896
Canadian companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 1,622
Chinese and Hong Kong companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 534
UK companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 563
Australia companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 588
Indian companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 30
Japanese companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 535
French companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange: 241
Not-so-Fun Facts About the OTCBB:
There are more US companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange than there are total companies listed on the OTCBB (3,451 US companies listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange vs only 2,896 total companies listed on the OTCBB)
Market makers per security in the OTCBB has gone from an average of 6.8 per company in 2009 to only 2.32 per company in 2010. That’s more than a 65% drop in the market makers stock coverage in only 1 year. This is not good.
In 2009, there were 3,535 companies trading on the OTCBB. In December 2010, there were only 2,896. A drop of almost 20% in only one year.
Progress?...there were more companies trading on the OTCBB in 2002, than there are today, in 2011, nine years later. Compare this decline to a massive growth of a full 39% in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange trading volume in only one year from December 2009 to December 2010.
SOURCE: http://www.otcbb.com/dynamic/tradingdata/monthly/generalstatistics.htm
SOURCE: http://www.otcbb.com/dynamic/tradingdata/securitiespositions/securedata.htm
SOURCE: http://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/DE/index.aspx?pageID=30