Stock Exchanges of the World

Have you ever wondered how many stocks are listed on the major stock exchanges of the world? I did and this post is the result of my research. My source for this piece is the “World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)“. It is an association of 56 regulated exchanges around the world.

Data used here is as of the end of November 2008. There are a total of 46,678 stocks traded in the member exchanges. This count does not include investment funds. The following tables show the various exchanges and the number of domestic and foreign listings on them:

1. Americas

Exchange Name	Domestic Stocks	Foreign Stocks	Total
American SE	397	101	498
Bermuda SE	16	36	52
BM&FBOVESPA	384	9	393
Buenos Aires SE	107	5	112
Colombia SE	89	0	89
Lima SE	200	44	244
Mexican Exchange	126	247	373
Nasdaq	2,608	337	2,945
NYSE Group	2,593	421	3,014
Santiago SE	235	3	238
TSX Group	3,659	79	3,738

2. Asia-Pacific

Exchange Name	Domestic Stocks	Foreign Stocks	Total
Australian SE	1,928	84	2,012
Bombay SE	4,928	0	4,928
Bursa Malaysia	972	4	976
Colombo SE	234	0	234
Hong Kong Exchanges	1,249	10	1,259
Indonesia SE	396	0	396
Jasdaq	927	0	927
Korea Exchange	1,788	3	1,791
National Stock Exchange India	1,407	0	1,407
New Zealand Exchange	147	25	172
Osaka SE	468	1	469
Philippine SE	244	2	246
Shanghai SE	863	0	863
Shenzhen SE	740	0	740
Singapore Exchange	458	311	769
Taiwan SE Corp.	712	4	716
The Stock Exchange of Thailand	525	0	525
Tokyo SE	2,371	21	2,392

3. Europe-Middle East-Africa

Exchange Name	Domestic Stocks	Foreign Stocks	Total
Amman SE	261	0	261
Athens Exchange	284	3	287
BME Spanish Exchanges	3,534	40	3,574
Borsa Italiana	296	6	302
Budapest SE	40	3	43
Cyprus SE	122	0	122
Deutsche Borse	744	91	835
Egyptian Exchange	374	0	374
Euronext	1,012	0	1,012
Irish SE	58	10	68
Istanbul SE	318	0	318
JSE	369	44	413
Ljubljana SE	85	0	85
London SE	2,448	689	3,137
Luxembourg SE	33	230	263
Malta SE	19	0	19
Mauritius SE	65	4	69
OMX Nordic Exchange	801	25	826
Oslo Borse	214	49	263
Swiss Exchange	253	71	324
Tehran SE	356	0	356
Tel Aviv SE	631	13	644
Warsaw SE	421	26	447
Wiener Borse	102	16	118

Source: World Federation of Exchanges (WFE)

Analysis:

• The exchange with the the lowest number listings - just 19 - is the Malta SE in the country of Malta in Europe, though there may be exchanges in the world that may have fewer companies listed. But those exchanges are not listed here since they are not members of the World Federation of Exchanges.
• Luxemborg SE has the highest percentage of foreign companies listed (87%) followed by Bermuda SE (69%).
• The Bombay Stock Exchange in India has the largest number of equities listed.
• While foreign companies represent 14% of the stocks listed in the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE Group), they accounted for $11.4 trillion of its $27.1 trillion in market value as of Dec. 31, 2007.
• Just 1% of the listed companies on the Tokyo SE are non-Japanese companies.
• The tiny city state of Singapore has 458 listed companies but 40% of them are foreign companies.
• 22% of the listings in the London SE are non-British companies.
• The BME Spanish Exchanges in Spain has more than four times the number of listings than the Deutsche Borse.
• The US is number one in terms of total number of stocks listed. The three organized stock exchanges in the USA (NYSE, Amex and NASDAQ) have a total of 5,598 companies trading on them.Number two in terms of total companies traded is the Bombay SE in India and number three is the TSX group of Toronto, Canada.
• A total of 859 foreign equities trade on the big 3 US exchanges.

Note:
Deutsche Börse : Excluding the market segment “Freiverkehr” (unofficial regulated market)
Lima SE : Includes 26 foreign companies with shares negotiated under a special modality
Korea Exchange : includes Kosdaq market data
OMX Nordic Exchange : OMX includes Copenhagen, Helsinki, Iceland, Stockholm, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius Stock Exchanges
Singapore Exchange : Main Board & Sesdaq
TSX Group : includes companies listed on TSX Venture
Tehran SE : Some 90 companies have been relegated to the “Unofficial Board” which is a “Temporary Board”

Comments

[Soham Das:]

So?

2008 Dec 31 02:12 AM