Methods of issuing securities in the primary market are:
- Initial public offering;
- Rights
issue
(for existing companies);
- Preferential
issue.
Public limited company: A public
company or publicly traded
company is a company that has permission to offer its registered securities (stock, bonds,
etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock
exchange, or occasionally a company whose stock is traded over the counter (OTC) via market
makers who use non-exchange quotation services.
A public limited company must include the words "public limited
company" or its abbreviation "plc" at the end and as part of its
legal company name. Certain public limited companies (mostly nationalised
concerns), incorporated under special legislation, are exempted from bearing
any of the identifying suffixes
