More than just your stock market
At NASDAQ, we believe your listing should represent more than just a “membership” in a stock market — it should provide tangible value back to your company and your shareholders. With this in mind, NASDAQ provides its issuers with a suite of benefits, crossing a broad spectrum of services that are essential to all public companies.
Below are the value-added benefits of listing that NASDAQ-listed companies receive, simply by listing on NASDAQ.
Relationship Managers
The NASDAQ Relationship Manager is an integral part of the value-added services that NASDAQ-listed companies receive. NASDAQ provides every listed company with one dedicated, day-to-day point of contact who is experienced and knowledgeable on market matters and other issues that affect an issuer’s business. Relationship Managers make sure issuers receive regular NASDAQ communications, including timely informational, educational and regulatory updates. Relationship Managers are in frequent contact with their companies, working to answer their questions, respond to their calls and consulting them on being a public company. He or she can even assist in developing a custom investor relations program.
Market Intelligence Desk
NASDAQ’s Market Intelligence Desk® (MID) is a team of market professionals that provide issuers with a single source of up-to-the-minute market intelligence, trading analysis, real-time information and leading-edge technology to keep them on top of the market.
NASDAQ Online
Web-based and easy to use, NASDAQ OnlineSM is unparalleled when it comes to delivering a comprehensive window on stock performance. Available exclusively to NASDAQ-listed companies, NASDAQ Online provides an effective, strategic equity management and decision making tool, helping companies manage investor relations functions as well as understand how their stock is perceived in the marketplace. Use NASDAQ Online to see how a stock is trading, follow competitors and track the market’s activity at any given moment. Prepare presentation-quality materials for institutional investors and board members using NASDAQ Online’s real-time data and report generator.
NASDAQ Select Market Maker Program
The criteria used to designate market makers with the NASDAQ Select Market Maker status have been updated, raising the bar even higher to provide listed companies with a clearer picture of which market makers are maintaining the highest levels of trading quality in their stock. The NASDAQ Select Market Maker Program is designed to provide increased transparency into the role of a company's market makers, creating a quality metric beyond trading volume for listed companies to use in their evaluation of market makers for investment banking services. Market makers that meet certain trading criteria are designated with "SMM" status, which allows companies to easily identify the brokers who meet this quality metric. A monthly report of Select Market Maker designations is available on the Select Market Maker page on NASDAQ Online at www.nasdaq.net or contact your MID Director for more information.
Four Audio Webcasts
Maximize your reach and mitigate risk of selective disclosure
NASDAQ-listed companies receive one audio webcast, up to two hours, each quarter.
Shareholder.com manages thousands of webcasts each year, ranging from earnings calls to full-day analyst conferences. Webcasting your conference calls, internal town hall meetings and investor meetings can mitigate Reg FD risk while demonstrating your corporate transparency by providing investors worldwide with the ability to participate either live or at a time that is convenient for them.
- Both Real Player and Windows Media Player streams
- Attendee registration page
- Audience reporting
- Investor portal distribution
- One-year webcast archive
- Quality assurance monitoring
Dynamic Annual Reports
Advanced online transparency tools for shareholders
NASDAQ-listed companies receive one Dynamic Annual Report each year.
Your Annual Report is your company's most viewed document. Now you can leverage that visibility with a Dynamic Annual Report.
- No proofreading is necessary; your Dynamic Annual Report seamlessly converts your PDF directly into dynamic HTML, eliminating labor intensive re-editing and proofreading
- Maintains your printed report's aesthetic and brand continuity while adding functionality
- Detailed traffic and keyword reporting
- Intuitive transparency tools for shareholders
- Keyword search
- Drop-down table of contents
- Flexible printing by page, section or entire report
- Download Excel spreadsheets
Four Press Releases
Compliance, security, accuracy and distribution
NASDAQ-listed companies receive one 500 word press release, USA National, each quarter.
PrimeNewswire offers delivery of full-text corporate news releases and multimedia content to a global network of thousands of media, investment community, databases, websites and web portals. This includes more than 3,500 websites, 1 million financial desktops and over 6,000 newspapers, wire services, community papers, news bureaus, trade publications, journals, television and radio stations. Distribution points include:
- Dow Jones Wire
- Reuters
- AP
- The Wall Street Journal
- New York Times
- Yahoo! Finance
- Bloomberg
- DowJones/MarketWatch.com
- MSN
- AOL
- MSNBC
- Lexis-Nexis
- Factiva
- Quote.com
Every financial release disseminated by PrimeNewswire is simultaneously delivered to the disclosure media as described by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Regulation Fair Disclosure.
Insurance Benchmarking
Securities Litigation and D&O Insurance Peer Benchmarking Reports
NASDAQ-listed companies receive one Securities Litigation Report and, subject to participation, one D&O Peer Benchmarking Report.
Companies need reliable data on securities litigation trends to make informed decisions about their D&O program size and structure. All NASDAQ issuers will receive a report from NASDAQ Insurance Agency — Carpenter Moore's comprehensive securities litigation database highlighting trends including:
- Class action filing rates
- Settlement costs
- Key case law developments
Peer information is another valuable tool in assessing the cost, quality, size and structure of your D&O program relative to peers. NASDAQ Insurance Agency — Carpenter Moore places D&O insurance for hundreds of public companies and maintains an extensive database of D&O program information. Participating NASDAQ issuers will receive a customized report on trends in D&O insurance purchasing for companies in their peer group, including:
- Limits purchased
- Program structure
- Cost
- Deductible/retentions
Four SEC 8-K or 6-K EDGAR Filings
Full-service, secure EDGAR filing agent
NASDAQ-listed companies receive one 8-K or 6-K EDGAR Filing, up to 15 pages, each quarter.
PrimeNewswire is a full service EDGAR filing agent. In addition to providing a range of document conversion and electronic filing capabilities, our EDGAR Direct service provides the industry’s most competitive solution for filing your earnings or other press releases on an 8-K or 6-K form.
MarketSite Events
The NASDAQ MarketSite, located in New York’s Times Square, provides a one-of-a-kind venue for corporate meetings, product launches, press conferences, analyst days and other special events. With its dramatic video tower — one of the largest in the world — MarketSite provides spectacular panoramic views and the ultimate high-visibility setting for any event. Additionally, NASDAQ-listed companies have exclusive access to the state-of-the-art broadcast resources at MarketSite for live or taped broadcast interviews.
The Benefits of Regulatory Integrity
NASDAQ’s strong commitment to integrity and a focus on providing a well-regulated marketplace for all parties are at the center of its values, which drive the services they provide as part of a listing on NASDAQ.
MarketWatch
This surveillance maintains a level playing field for investors, protects the integrity of the marketplace and implements fair and independent regulatory decision making. The NASDAQ MarketWatch Department conducts real-time market oversight for compliance with NASDAQ issuer disclosure obligations and NASDAQ market participant trading activity.
Listing Qualifications
Through the consistent and fair application of the initial and continued listing standards, the NASDAQ Listing Qualifications Department promotes the integrity and reputation of The NASDAQ Stock Market. A valuable resource, Listing Qualifications informs and educates issuers on proposed and recent marketplace rule changes, while responding to listing qualification questions.
Market Regulation
NASDAQ is regulated by the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc. (NASD), a regulatory organization, which monitors trading activity and maintains stringent corporate governance standards. While acting as a liaison between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the NASDAQ member firms, NASD ensures the integrity and fairness of NASDAQ.
Technologically Sound
NASDAQ’s stock market network infrastructure is one of the world’s most reliable and technologically advanced. NASDAQ’s redundant technology centers follow the highest standards for physical and network security. In fact, NASDAQ has been recognized on several occasions for its reliability, critical response, and business continuity during times of stress on the financial markets.