Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange

TORONTO, Oct. 4, 2012 /CNW/ - TMX Group today announced its financing activity on Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange for September 2012.

Toronto Stock Exchange welcomed three new issuers in September 2012, which was down from August 2012 when there were 5 and down from the same month a year earlier when there were 20. Of the new listings, one was from the mining sector, one was from the real estate sector and one was from the financial services sector. Total financings raised was up 46% from the previous month and was up 32% from September 2011. The total number of financings was 42, which was up from 41 in August 2012, but was down from September 2011 when there were 56.

TSX Venture Exchange welcomed 7 new issuers in September 2012, which was down from the previous month when there were 12 and down from September 2011 when there were 15. Six of the new issuers were from the Capital Pool Company Program and one was from the mining sector. Total financings raised was up 18% compared to August 2012 and was up 21% compared to September 2011. There were 137 financings in September 2012 compared to 132 in August 2012 and 133 in September 2011.

TMX Group consolidated trading statistics for September 2012 can be viewed at www.tmx.com.

Toronto Stock Exchange

	September 2012	August 2012	September 2011
Issuers Listed	1,570	1,573	1,571
New Issuers Listed	3	5	20
IPOs	0	3	14
Graduates from TSXV	1	2	5
Issues Listed	2,211	2,208	2,167
IPO Financings Raised	$0	$256,145,000	$106,646,000
Secondary Financings Raised	$3,931,667,648	$2,856,726,551	$2,003,865,516
Supplemental Financings Raised	$1,310,852,285	$478,885,010	$1,873,017,576
Total Financings Raised	$5,242,519,933	$3,591,756,561	$3,983,529,092
Total Number of Financings	42	41	56
Market Cap Listed Issues	$2,114,678,296,921	$2,043,019,544,548	$1,933,821,216,059

Year-to-date Statistics

	2012	2011	% change
New Issuers Listed	85	158	-46.2
IPOs	57	106	-46.2
Graduates from TSXV	23	32	-28.1
IPO Financings Raised	$1,776,354,205	$5,615,263,318	-68.4
Secondary Financings Raised	$21,946,905,117	$14,393,011,567	+52.5
Supplemental Financings Raised	$13,713,193,965	$11,234,235,224	+22.1
Total Financings Raised	$37,436,453,287	$31,242,510,109	+19.8
Total Number of Financings	493	535	-7.9
Market Cap Listed Issues	$2,114,678,296,921	$1,933,821,216,059	+9.4

TSX Venture Exchange

	September 2012	August 2012	September 2011
Issuers Listed	2,492	2,489	2,432
New Issuers Listed	7	12	15
IPOs	6	6	13
Graduates to TSX	1	2	5
Issues Listed	2,573	2,566	2,523
IPO Financings Raised	$1,892,820	$4,425,706	$8,226,750
Secondary Financings Raised (1)	$258,685,411	$51,598,802	$44,500,000
Supplemental Financings Raised	$154,946,527	$294,962,472	$290,507,238
Total Financings Raised	$415,524,758	$350,986,980	$343,233,988
Total Number of Financings	137	132	133
Market Cap Listed Issues	$45,293,658,689	$42,807,433,124	$49,757,078,298

Year-to-date Statistics

	2012	2011	% Change
New Issuers Listed	126	160	-21.3
IPOs	95	115	-17.4
Graduates to TSX	23	32	-28.1
IPO Financings Raised	$123,002,238	$242,743,290	-49.3
Secondary Financings Raised (1)	$1,191,179,503	$2,505,703,345	-52.5
Supplemental Financings Raised	$2,948,478,848	$5,852,766,072	-49.6
Total Financings Raised	$4,262,660,589	$8,601,212,707	-50.4
Total Number of Financings	1,356	1,800	-24.7
Market Cap Listed Issues	$45,293,658,689	$49,757,078,298	-8.9

(1)     Secondary financings include prospectus offerings on both a treasury and secondary basis

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TMX Group welcomes the following companies that listed during September 2012

Toronto Stock Exchange

Issuer Name	Company Symbol
Atrium Mortgage Investment Corporation	AI
IMX Resources Limited	IXR
Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust	AAR

TSX Venture Exchange

Issuer Name	Company Symbol
Aim Explorations Ltd.	AXN.P
Benz Captial Corp.	BZ.P
OneCap Investment Corp.	OIC.P
Scorpion Resources Inc.	SR.P
Quartet Resources Limited	QRL.P
Virginia Energy Resources Inc.	VUI
Westham Resources Corp.	WHR.P

About TMX Group (TSX-X)

TMX Group's key subsidiaries operate cash and derivative markets for multiple asset classes including equities, fixed income and energy. Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, TMX Select, Alpha Group, The Canadian Depository for Securities, Montreal Exchange, Canadian Derivatives Clearing Corporation, Natural Gas Exchange, Boston Options Exchange, Shorcan, Shorcan Energy Brokers, Equicom and other TMX Group companies provide listing markets, trading markets, clearing facilities, data products and other services to the global financial community.  TMX Group is headquartered in Toronto and operates offices across Canada (Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver), in key U.S. markets (New York, Houston, Boston and Chicago) as well as in London, Beijing and Sydney.  For more information about TMX Group, visit our website at www.tmx.com.  Follow TMX Group on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tmxgroup.

 

 

SOURCE: TSX Group Inc.

For further information:

Aimee Paget
Communications Specialist
TMX Group
416-947-4685
aimee.paget@tmx.com