Post #4135 by zeelotes on the Mechanical Investing board

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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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