AIM – not as illiquid as you thought!
While many remain concerned that AIM quoted stocks lack liquidity, statistics from the London Stock Exchange highlight how this has improved significantly over the past few years. However, changes imposed because of the idiotic Mifid II are hardly likely to be helpful for small companies!
To end October 2017 the total value of shares traded on AIM was £56.5bn, which is already 30% up on 2016. The average daily value in 2017 at £268m is the highest since 2007 when average daily trading touched £296m. But back in 2007 there were a huge number of new Admissions with AIM peaking at 1673 companies. This compares with only 957 on AIM at the end of October 2017. - Most actively traded securities The larger companies skew the numbers somewhat with ASOS (AIM:ASOS) the most actively traded AIM stock in October with a whopping £911m of the…