What is the difference between primary market and secondary market?

[Hariesh]

Primary Market is the market in which the shares are directly offered by the company.

Secondary market is the market in which the stocks are traded between people (i.e) from one person to another.

[Leena Nathan]

Primary Market is the market where Initial Public Offering takes place whereas in secondary market the previously issued financial instruments such as stocks ,bonds,futures,options are bought and sold

[Kannan]

When an IPO is floated, shares will be distributed among the applicant on the basis of the number of applications and the shares allocated through this is called as Primary Market.

When people buy and sell shares through NSE, BSE and other exchanges it is called as secondary market as it is being sold or bought second time.

[FRANKLIN]

Primary market is the place where shares are sold for the first time by a company

Secondary market is the place where shares are sold or bought after buying in an IPO

[murugan]

first time selling the shares of the company is called primary market

buying and selling through stock market is secondary market

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