Funding through the Stock Market

In an increasingly competitive environment, continuous growth has become one of the basic objectives for a company. Efficient management should involve not only the capturing of the necessary funds, but also maintaining the right balance between equity and borrowed funds.

Financing via equity is, thus, essential for giving companies in expansion financial soundness, flexibility and risk reduction.

The most efficient way to achieve this type of financing is via the stock market. Listed companies can obtain, at the most adequate moment, these funds via capital increases, in very favourable conditions.

In addition, the Stock Exchange facilitates the company´s access to a wide investor community, both domestic and international, which puts its trust in the firm´s project and shares with it the goal of profit maximisation.

BME provides a free information service on the stock market listing process. At meetings with representatives of the company an analysis is conducted of the process, the parties involved, timeframes and costs. This enables the company to take the decisions concerned and manage the process efficiently.

The service helps companies to solve major unknown variables concerning access to the securities market, and answers queries such as:

• What are the requisites for a stock market listing?
• What do investors expect?
• Which advisors and intermediaries can help during the process?
• What documentation has to be submitted to the supervisors?
• What are the timeframes and costs?

• Whom is the service geared to?
• What is the added value of the service?
• Why BME?