Corporate actions
Delisting
A company’s shares being removed from an exchange.
How it works
Delisting happens voluntarily after a takeover or going private, or involuntarily when a company fails to meet listing standards.
After an involuntary delisting the shares may trade over the counter with far less liquidity, or become effectively untradeable.
Related terms
- ListingA company’s admission to trade its shares on a particular exchange, under that exchange’s rules.
- LiquidityHow quickly you can turn something into cash at a fair price, without moving the price against yourself.
- Survivorship biasThe distortion caused by measuring only the things that made it, and ignoring the ones that failed.
- ExchangeA regulated marketplace where buyers and sellers of securities are matched under published rules.
More in Corporate actions
- Dilution
- Corporate action
- Dividend cover
- Consensus estimate
- Dividend cut
- Analyst rating
- Dividend reinvestment
- Underwriter
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