• Stock market and share market essentially mean the same thing. Both terms describe an exchange in which buyers and sellers of stock or shares may trade in a market with high liquidity

Is the Stock Market and Share Market same?

Share:• Share is a unit issued by a company at the

time of raising fund from the market. It is a certificate issued to a person who applies for it and is given at a value predetermined by the company.

• It is the smallest unit of ownership that may be bought or sold on or off an exchange.

Stock:• Stocks in the reference of stock market are

the total number of shares a person has in one company or in many companies.

• Stock market is an organised market, where securities of govt, semi govt bodies and corporate enterprises are brought or sold.

• It is established for the purpose of assisting, regulating and controlling business in buying selling and dealing in securities.

• In the stock market only those securities listed in the stock exchange are transacted.

• Individuals alone can buy and sell securities.

Stock Market

1. Primary Market:

• The first group of investors to whom a new issue of a security is sold.

• The primary market consists of the issuer and the first buyers of the issue.

• The primary market can be a time more volatile than the secondary market because it is difficult to determine the underlying value of new issues.

2. Secondary Market:

• A market where investors purchase securities or assets from other investors, rather than from issuing companies themselves.

• The national exchanges - such as the New York Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ are secondary markets.

Types of Stock Market

Market ConditionsBull Market:• A financial market conditions in which

prices of securities or group of securities are rising or are expected to rise.

• Bull markets are characterized by optimism, investor confidence and expectations that strong results will continue.

Bear Market:• It is a market condition in which the

prices of securities are falling.• As investors anticipate losses in a bear

market and selling continues, pessimism only grows

BLUE CHIP :• The blue chips carry the highest value.• Large, established firms with a long record of profit growth, dividend

payout and a reputation for quality management, products and services are referred to as Blue Chip companies and their stocks are Blue Chip stocks.

PENNY :• Penny stocks are low-priced, speculative stocks that are very risky. • These stocks are generally issued by the type of companies with a

short or erratic history of revenues and earnings. INCOME :• Income stocks are stocks that pay higher-than-average dividends over

a sustained period. • These above average dividends tend to be paid by large, established

companies with stable earnings. VALUE :• A value stock is a type of stock that is currently selling at a low price. • Companies that have good earnings and growth potential but whose

stock prices do not reflect this are considered value companies. • Investors who buy value stocks believe that these stocks are only

temporarily out of favour and will soon experience great growth.

Types of Stocks

1. Company decide to go public and raise fund from the market and decide upon the Total amount to be raised from the Market.

2. They get clarification from SEBI. 3. This amount is broken down in number of shares by

deciding the Face Value. As per the norms of the SEBI the FV is to be multiple of 5. Normal practice is keeping this at Rs10.

4. Then the No of shares to be introduced in the Market is decided.

5. Depending upon the response of the Stock as IPO, when it is opened on Secondary Market the price is decided.

6. The combined collection of the firm from IPO and Secondary Market operations becomes the Market Capitalisation of the firm, from which a share of Profitability is distributed among the share holders in the form of Dividend

Procedure for listing in Stock Exchanges

• Market capitalization is often called as market cap is a measurement of the size of a business enterprise.

• It is the total dollar market value of all of a company's outstanding shares calculated by multiplying a company's shares outstanding by the current market price of one share.

• The companies were divided into large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap based on the size of market capitalization.

Large-cap: $10 billion–$100 billion. Mid-cap: $1 billion–$10 billion. Small-cap: $100 million–$1 billion.

Market Capitalization

The Top 10 Largest Stock Markets Rank Exchange Name Country

Domestic Market Capitalization(Billion

Dollars)

1New York Stock

Exchange United States 11,837

2Tokyo Stock

Exchange Japan 3,306

3 NASDAQ United States 3,239

4 Euro next Belgium, France, Holland, Portugal

2,869

5London Stock

Exchange United Kingdom 2,796

6Shanghai Stock

Exchange China 2,704

7Hong Kong Stock

Exchange Hong Kong 2,345

8Toronto Stock

Exchange Canada 1,608

9 BM & FBovespa Brazil 1,337

10Bombay Stock

Exchange

India1,306

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Stock Markets in India

Bombay Stock ExchangeType Stock Exchange

Location Mumbai, India

Founded 1875

Owner Bombay Stock Exchange Limited

Key people Madhu Kannan (CEO & MD)

Currency Indian rupee

No. of listings 5,085

Market Cap US$1.8 trillion (Dec 2010)

Volume US$231 billion (Nov 2010)

Indexes

BSE SENSEXBSE Small CapBSE Mid-CapBSE 500

Website www.bseindia.com

BSE SENSEX:• The Bombay Stock Exchange SENSEX also referred to as BSE 30.• It is a free-float market capitalization weighted index of 30 well-established and

financially sound companies listed on Bombay Stock Exchange.BSE Mid-Cap:• BSE Mid-Cap tracks the performance of scrips between 80 & 95% of

aggregate market capitalisation.• It is also introduced to track the performance of companies with

relatively smaller market capitalization.BSE Small-Cap:• BSE Small-Cap index tracks the performance of remaining 5% scrips (95-100%).• It is introduced to track the performance of companies with relatively smaller

market capitalization.BSE-500:• It represents more than 93% of the listed universe Companies with large market

capitalization.

BSE Indexes

Some Companies listed in BSE based on Market Capitalization:

CompanyCurrent Price

(Rs) % Change Volume Equity Face Value Market Cap (Rs Cr)

Reliance Inds. 834.50 -0.08 182987 3,274.00 10 2,73,215.30

Coal India Ltd. 380.00 +0.50 63994 6,316.36 10 2,40,021.68

ONGC 275.35 +5.86 1730408 4,277.76 5 2,35,576.24

Tata Consultancy 1,055.95 +1.53 92306 195.72 1 2,06,670.53

ITC Ltd. 199.25 +0.13 73787 773.81 1 1,54,181.64

Bharti Airtel 383.80 -0.85 64074 1,898.80 5 1,45,751.89

NTPC 168.05 +2.34 138190 8,245.46 10 1,38,564.96

Infosys 2,393.30 -0.51 71284 287.00 5 1,37,375.42

SBI 1,899.20 +0.06 266889 635.00 10 1,20,599.20

HDFC Bank 485.70 +0.25 47575 466.77 2 1,13,355.09

ICICI Bank 883.00 +0.82 112707 1,152.18 10 1,01,737.49

L & T 1,609.50 +1.22 101813 122.00 2 98,179.50

HDFC 666.55 +1.78 35362 293.99 2 97,979.52

NMDC Ltd. 238.00 +1.56 8225 396.47 1 94,359.86

Wipro Ltd 348.00 -0.01 67815 491.10 2 85,451.40

Bharat Heavy Ele 1,708.00 -0.13 34093 489.52 10 83,610.02

Indian Oil Corp 319.95 +1.19 72595 2,427.95 10 77,682.26

Hindustan Unilever L 347.25 -0.59 33974 216.07 1 75,030.31

MMTC Ltd. 712.00 +1.61 6023 100.00 1 71,200.00

Adani Enterprises Lt 591.00 +1.10 14438 109.98 1 64,998.18

Company Current Price (Rs) % Change Volume Equity Face Value Market Cap (Rs Cr)

Reliance Inds. 773.75 -2.68 1024225 3,274.00 10 2,53,325.75

ONGC 246.30 -2.20 508149 4,277.76 5 2,10,722.46

Tata Consultancy 1,062.40 -2.04 183366 195.72 1 2,07,932.93

Coal India Ltd. 300.90 -0.55 573715 6,316.36 10 1,90,059.27

Infosys 2,650.55 -2.67 111157 287.00 5 1,52,141.57

ITC Ltd. 192.85 -1.66 382925 777.30 1 1,49,902.31

Bharti Airtel 364.85 -3.70 948270 1,898.80 5 1,38,555.44

NTPC 156.65 +0.58 289635 8,245.46 10 1,29,165.13

SBI 1,654.30 -2.03 773312 635.00 10 1,05,048.05

HDFC Bank 426.70 -3.85 559277 467.66 2 99,775.26

HDFC 624.65 -2.10 181526 294.44 2 91,960.97

Wipro Ltd 365.05 -3.17 298019 491.50 2 89,711.04

ICICI Bank 726.95 -2.53 755878 1,152.47 10 83,778.81

Hindustan Unilever L 383.00 -0.51 155652 216.10 1 82,766.30

L & T 1,191.35 -2.85 509347 122.23 2 72,809.36

NMDC Ltd. 181.30 -4.38 49734 396.47 1 71,880.01

Indian Oil Corp 262.60 -3.47 101045 2,427.95 10 63,757.97

Bharat Heavy Ele 255.70 -3.58 539004 489.52 2 62,585.13

Reliance Petroleum L 130.85 +0.35 2233265 4,500.00 10 58,882.50

National Stock ExchangeType Stock Exchange

Location Mumbai, India

Founded 1992

Owner National Stock Exchange of India Limited

Key people Ravi Narain (MD)

Currency Indian rupee

No. of listings 1,552

Market Cap US$1.59 trillion (Dec 2010)

IndexesS&P CNX NiftyCNX Nifty JuniorS&P CNX 500

Website www.nse-india.com

S&P CNX Nifty:• It is Standard & Poor's CRISIL NSE Index 50. Nicknamed Nifty 50 or simply

Nifty .• It is the leading index for large companies on the National Stock Exchange of

India.• The S&P CNX Nifty stocks represent about 60% of the total market capitalization

of the National Stock Exchange.CNX Nifty Junior:• It represents the next range of liquid securities after S&P CNX Nifty.• It representing approximately 10% of the traded value of all stocks on the

National Stock Exchange of India.S&P CNX 500:• The S&P CNX 500 is India’s first broad-based stock market index of the Indian

stock market. • The S&P CNX 500 represents about 96% of total market capitalization and

about 93% of the total turnover on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE).

NSE Indexes

The stock market indexes are useful in a number of ways to stock investors:

1. The market indexes provide an historical perspective of stock market performance.

2. It provide a yardstick with which investors can compare the performance of their individual stock portfolios.

3. It acts as a forecasting tool. Studying the historical performance of the stock market indexes, investors can forecast trends in the market

Importance Of Indices