(Tiper Stock Exchange) – Euronext confirms its attractiveness among the European market platformsthanks to the high number of listings of new shares and bonds that took place in 2022, which confirm its position as the largest stock exchange operator in Europe in terms of aggregate market capitalisation.
Euronext, in fact, is the largest European financial infrastructure and manages stock exchanges Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Oslo, Milan and Parishosting over 1,900 broadcasters of shares, for a value of 6,400 billion euros of capitalization of the aggregate market. The 25% of shares traded in Europe it changed hands on Euronext markets.
“Euronext has confirmed its leadership as listing venue number one stock in Europe. We continue to support issuers on their journey through the capital markets by leveraging ours European roots and on ours global ambition to provide them with the means to grow and achieve their goals,” he explained Stéphane BoujnahCEO and Chairman of the Board of Euronext.
“Euronext continues to play a central role in making the capital markets union project a tangible reality – added Boujnah – by creating a single integrated capital market in the European Union. In 2022, we created Euronext Tech Leaders to bring together European tech champions in the same European segment and index. In March next year, the migration of Italian markets to Euronext Optiq’s state-of-the-art proprietary trading platform will further strengthen our unique European liquidity pool and strengthen Euronext’s position as Europe’s leading listing venue.
The most attractive platform for IPOs
Euronext remains there reference venue for the listing of shares in EU, hosting almost 400 large-cap issuers and beyond 1,500 SMEscontinuing to attract leading companies across all industries and geographies.
In 2022, they were accepted 83 new share priceshalf of which are carried out by technology companies, for one capitalization of market aggregated to the quotation of 23 billion euros it’s a raised 3.8 billion of Euro.
The new segment Euronext Tech Leaderslaunched in June 2022 and dedicated to leading and high-growth technology companies, welcomed four new entriesbringing the segment total to over 110 broadcasterswith a capitalization aggregate market share of 800 billion euros as of December 29, 2022. This initiative further strengthens the Technology ecosystem of more than 700 listed technology companies, more than 660 private companies that are alumni of its pre-IPO programs, and a large international investor base funding all types of growth profiles of technology companies.
In 2022, several large-cap companies took advantage of Euronext’s visibility to initiate a process of traditional quotation: Var Energy (€774 million raised, €6.9 billion market capitalization at IPO), which is the largest company to have conducted an IPO globally in the past 10 years; there Techno probe by Giuseppe Crippa (713 million euro raised, 3.4 billion euro of equity value at listing2) and De Nora Industries (480 million euro raised, 2.7 billion in equity value at listing3). Other companies have landed on the stock exchange after a spin-off from their respective parent companies: Technicolor Creative Studios (1.1 billion euro capitalization at listing) e DEME (2.4 billion euro capitalization at listing). Finally, others have chosen to carry out operations of aggregation with listed SPACs: FL Entertainment (4.5 billion market capitalization at listing) e Deezer (1 billion market capitalization at listing).
Italy updates the regulation
This year Euronext introduced a new listing regulation in Italy, harmonizing it with Group and global standards, to simplify access to finance and IPOs
The bond market confirms world leadership
The debt instruments (bonds) listing activity also grew in 2022, reinforcing Euronext’s global leadership position.
In 2022 they were more than 7,800 new bonds listedcarrying the total to over 53,000 bonds listed at the end of 2022
Euronext’s leadership position in the ESG bonds has been strengthened with over 310 new quoteswhich allowed for raise 200 billion of Euro. At the end of 2022, a total of €1 trillion was raised via ESG bonds on the Euronext markets.
Business services
Also Euronext Corporate ServicesEuronext’s suite of digital and business solutions, performed very well with over 450 new customers, supported by accelerating digitalization trends. Euronext Corporate Services now has over 4,500 clients in 30 countries.