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Author: zeelotes 🐝🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: when will small caps rebound?
Date: 08/03/25 4:49 PM
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Jim wrote: There were 8090 US public companies in 1996. Last year it was down to 4010.

Although I agree with your point I was curious about your numbers. This is my average counts per year from 1985 to present using GTR1 data.

I wonder what is causing the difference. Where are you obtaining your data?

OCO = Operating Companies Only

      US Total  OCO           US Total  OCO
Year Issues Issues Year Issues Issues
1985 5542 5074 2005 5843 4345
1986 5687 5220 2006 5864 4289
1987 6040 5496 2007 5897 4218
1988 5897 5299 2008 5908 4106
1989 5663 5036 2009 6048 3893
1990 5644 4985 2010 5872 3708
1991 5527 4853 2011 6197 3654
1992 6016 5230 2012 6035 3474
1993 6444 5505 2013 5776 3299
1994 7171 6043 2014 6385 3526
1995 7466 6255 2015 6790 3656
1996 7973 6662 2016 6876 3599
1997 8321 6905 2017 6849 3533
1998 8198 6717 2018 6941 3512
1999 7734 6264 2019 7133 3558
2000 7512 6016 2020 7220 3519
2001 6935 5452 2021 8085 3785
2002 6403 4945 2022 8864 4013
2003 5979 4564 2023 7636 3425
2004 5849 4407 2024 8664 3825
2025 8856 3701

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