PLUS Reports 7.89 Billion Share Volumes For November

Reported flow on the PLUS stock exchange showed a year on year increase of 187 per cent for the month of November at 7.89 billion shares. The exchange, a dominant venue in retail flow, continues to attract substantial retail business and although November volumes did not match the previous month’s record high the general trend continues to be very strong.

November highlights

November saw PLUS capture the majority of trades in some 800 stocks which include listed securities, such as FTSE Fledgling, FTSE Smallcap and AIM stocks. Notable examples are given below:

On-exchange trades (data from Netbuilder)

	Stock	Market Share % in trades (November 2009)*
FTSE Fledgling	COSALT PLC ORD	59.68%
FTSE Smallcap	HANSA CF	61.60%
AIM	ULTRASIS ORD	78.48%
AIM	AVANTI COMMUNICATIONS GROUP ORD	72.51%
AIM	ANGEL BIOTECH ORD	70.13%
AIM	FRONTIER MINING ORD	68.52%
AIM	NOSTRA TERRA OIL AND GAS COMPANY ORD	65.64%
AIM	PHYSIOMICS ORD	64.83%
AIM	BEACON HILL RESOURCES PLC ORD 0.01P	60.36%

PLUS also saw significant volume market share in some FTSE 100 stocks:

FTSE 100 stocks	Market Share % by volume (November 2009)*
CAPITA GROUP	4.11%
ROYAL BANK OF SCOT	6.22%
SERCO GROUP ORD	7.69%

Cyril Therét, Business Development Director, comments: “As regularly seen in our monthly numbers, one of the solidly encouraging factors for the PLUS stock exchange is our continuing success in attracting UK retail flow across the whole range of equities from the smallest to the largest cap companies. It’s clear that retail activity is back, and while initial pre and post MiFiD phase centered around MTFs / lit venues, followed by dark pools, focus is now rightly going back to the importance of the retail community in the UK equity markets.”

Background

PLUS Markets is an international retail-focused stock exchange based in London, with “Recognised Investment Exchange” status, and classed as a Market Operator under MiFID. Its offering includes the full range of stock exchange activities, namely: trading execution, the provision of proprietary market data and listing/quotation destinations. PLUS currently trades over 9,000 securities on its platform including London-listed shares (including the FTSE 100), European liquid shares, and unlisted shares quoted on the AIM and PLUS markets.

Month	Bargains	Trade value	Number of shares
June 2009	685,759	£4,869.79m	5,484.06m
July 2009	619,738	£4,696.51m	4,850.01m
August 2009	865,275	£6,500.76m	8,524.31m
September 2009	655,575	£3,425.57m	9,973.20m
October 2009	601,009	£3,196.36m	11,098.97m
*November 2009*	*463,395*	£ *2,767.27m*	*7,891.53m*