What is the difference between primary market and secondary market?

[S P Sree Rakshaa]

Primary Market is where companies come for an “Initial Public Offering”. It is where the shares of the company are sold to the public for the first time.

Secondary Market is where the buying and selling happens with the already public corporations.

[naveen.balaji]

Primary market is a place where the company comes for offering for the first time.

secondary market is nothing but a Stock Exchange where the buyers and sellers executes their trading.

[Naresh jain]

primary market is the issuing of the shares of the company to the shareholders for the first time.

secondary market is a place where shareholders transfer their shares and execute the trade. thats why it is called secondary makret.

[surya]

Primary market- Where the investors buy the share directly from the company for the first time.

Secondary market-Where investors trade among themselves, stocks can be directly bought from the seller,stock exchange.

[Raja]

<p style=”margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.69cm;”><span style=”color: #000000;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia, Arial;”><span style=”font-size: 13pt;”>In primary market investors buy shares directly from the company, while in secondary market investoers trade the shares themselves.</span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.69cm;”><span style=”color: #000000;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia, Arial;”><span style=”font-size: 13pt;”>The prices in the primary market are fixed while the prices vary in the secondary market depending upon the demand and supply.</span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.69cm;”><span style=”color: #000000;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia, Arial;”><span style=”font-size: 13pt;”>Investment bankers do the selling of securities in case of Primary Market. Conversely, brokers act as intermediaries while trading is done in the secondary market.</span></span></span></p>
 
<p style=”margin-left: 1.27cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 0.69cm;”><span style=”color: #000000;”><span style=”font-family: Georgia, Arial;”><span style=”font-size: 13pt;”>In the primary market, security can be sold only once, whereas it can be done an infinite number of times in case of a secondary market.</span></span></span></p>

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