Delisting: what happens when a security is removed from trading
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Delisting is the removal of a security from the list admitted to trading. Ownership survives; liquidity disappears.
Why it happens
At the issuer's initiative — for instance when the main shareholder buys out the stock, or during a reorganisation. By decision of the exchange — when listing requirements are breached. For external reasons — resolution, bankruptcy, a change in the issuer's status.
What the owner keeps
The record at the depository and the rights of a shareholder or creditor. Dividends on a share, if declared, are paid; coupons on a bond, if the issuer is solvent, likewise.
What is gone is the ability to sell at an exchange price. What remains is the over-the-counter market, with a wide spread and a long search for a buyer.
The mandatory offer
In several cases a buyout procedure for dissenting shareholders at a price set by law applies when a company leaves the exchange. The terms and deadlines are strictly regulated, and missing a deadline means losing the option.
How to see it coming
Delisting decisions are published in advance in the issuer's disclosure and in exchange notices. Tracking corporate events for your own holdings is not optional but part of owning them: Corporate events: what a holder has to track.
What it means when choosing
Delisting risk is higher where the listing level is lower and ownership more concentrated. Another argument for paying attention to the listing level and liquidity.
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