NEW YORK, Dec. 15, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- S&P
Capital IQ (MHFI) announced today that it has commenced Factual
Stock Report coverage on ADVFN PLC.
ADVFN Plc, owner of Investors Hub, (OTCQX: IHUBY; LSE: AFN) is
principally engaged in the development and provision of financial
information primarily via the Internet and the development and
exploitation of ancillary Internet sites. The company operates a
global stocks and shares information website that provides stock
prices and tools for all major world markets, indices, forex pairs,
futures, options, ETFs and covered warrants. Its website provides
streaming charts, real-time quotes, financials, monitor watch
lists, news and research and portfolio data.
Investors Hub, a small cap investor community and a wholly-owned
subsidiary of ADVFN since 2006, has been online for over 14 years
and currently has 493,096 Members who have posted 105,254,156
Messages on 23,629 Boards. Members currently write on average
40,000 new Messages each trading day, according to the company.
Revenues from Investors Hub accounted for about one half of
group revenues for fiscal 2014.
As of April 2014, comScore, an
internet technology company that measures navigation activity in
the digital world, ranked Investorshub #9 by page traffic in
Business/Finance, News/Research in North
America.
ADVFN covers 80 stock exchanges across the globe. The company
provides stock price data from the following exchanges: Athens
Indices, Athens Stock Exchange, Australian Stock Exchange,
BM&F- Brazilian Commodities, Bombay Stock Exchange, Brazil
Bovespa Exchange, Brazilian Indicators, Chicago Mercantile
Exchange, COMEX Commodities Exchange, Copenhagen Stock Exchange,
Deutsche Boerse Indices, DOW JONES Indices, EURONEXT, Euronext
LIFFE, FTSE Indices, Fukuoka Stock Exchange, GTIS Forex, Helsinki
Stock Exchange, Hercules Stock Exchange, Hong Kong Stock Exchange,
Hong-Kong Futures Exchange, Irish Indices, Irish Stock Exchange,
Italian Stock Exchange, Jakarta Stock Exchange (beta), JSE
Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Kansas Board of Trade, LIFFE Commodities,
LIFFE Equities, LIFFE Interest Rates, London Stock Exchange, MEFF
Equities Derivatives, MEFF Financial Derivatives, Mexico, Montreal Derivatives Exchange, NASDAQ
Indices, NASDAQ Stock Market, New York Stock Exchange, New York
Stock Exchange Indices, NSE India (beta), NYMEX Commodities
Exchange, PLUS, OMX Nordic Exchange, Osaka Stock Exchange, OTC BB,
Pink Sheets, Russian Trading System, Santiago Stock Exchange,
Sapporo Stock Exchange, Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock
Exchange, Singapore Exchange, Spanish, Standard & Poors
Indices, Stockholm Stock Exchange, Swiss Indices, Tokyo Stock
Exchange, Toronto Stock Exchange, TSX Venture Exchange, UK Managed
Funds, Warsaw Exchange, Warsaw Indices, XETRA (Deutsche Boerse) and
American Stock Exchange.
Mobile users can access stock data with the company's iPhone,
iPad and Android apps. The company believes that its mobile
platforms are important as part of its international strategy as
many markets have heavy mobile penetration where Internet access
via handsets has pre-empted desktop penetration. ADVFN stated in
its fiscal 2014 results that its registered user base continues to
grow and is in excess of 3,000,000 (2013: 2,800,000).
The company operates in several countries, principally in the
United Kingdom and the United States. ADVFN reported in
March 2014 that it was continuing to
expand its offering globally, noting that Mexico, Japan
and the Philippines continued to
make progress.
In September 2006, ADVFN acquired
InvestorsHub.com, an online investment community website in the
North American market. The company also owns All IPO, an online IPO
trading platform.
On August 20, 2014, at the
Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders, the company
announced approval of all its existing issued ordinary shares of
0.01 pounds to be consolidated into ordinary shares of 0.25 pounds
each in the capital of the company on the basis of every 25
existing ordinary shares being consolidated into 1 new ordinary
share of 0.25 pounds.
On July 24, 2014, the company
announced the resignation of Robert Emmet as a director of the
company.
On May 8, 2014, the company
announced the appointment of Mr. Matthew
David Collom as director.
On May 7, 2014, ADVFN announced
the launch of its new FOREX app, which it believes is the most
advanced on the market for Private Investors, and is available for
free download on all iPhone and iPad devices.
On April 7, 2014, the company
announced the resignation of Ray
Negus as a director.
ADVFN Plc was originally incorporated in 1989 and is based in
London, England.
S&P Capital IQ's Factual Stock Report coverage on ADVFN PLC
will also be accessible on an ongoing basis to the investment
community by scores of buy-side institutions and sell-side firms
that utilize S&P Capital IQ research and information platforms
daily. Millions of self-directed investors also have access to the
report via their e-brokerage accounts. Please visit
http://www.advfn.com for additional information.
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