NZX’s monthly shareholder metrics for October 2014 are attached.
These metrics present the key revenue drivers across each of NZX’s businesses. Several minor amendments to the format of the metrics report have been made this month to further enhance the information presented:
- As well as disclosing the number of instruments listed on NZX markets, the report now includes data on the number of individual issuers by market
- New capital listed has been split between equity and debt
- Wholesale data statistics have been revised to provide a clearer linkage to revenues. Previously a single figure was reported for real time data terminals, this has now been broken out into “professional” (business users who are charged a fixed monthly fee) and “retail” (clients of broking institutions for whom the institutions are charged a capped monthly fee based on the level of usage). Terminal numbers are now reported on a rolling three month average basis, as the previous practice of reporting month end numbers did not take account of the fact that some data vendors only formally report their underlying terminal numbers quarterly
- Additionally, instead of reporting other data distribution arrangements in the categories of primary and secondary distributors, these are now classified on the basis of the value of the distribution licence
- As well as the monthly paid advertising page equivalents figure for the Agri Information business, a year to date figure has now been included to give a better impression of the overall trend in advertising volumes, as monthly figures can be impacted by publication timing differences
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