Main Market Tips

The Main market of the London Stock Exchange is the world’s most successful stock market.

The London Stock Exchange Main Market is a world leading market for the admission and trading of equity, debt and other securities. Its location at the heart of the world’s pre-eminent financial centre makes it the ideal home to more than 1,000 companies from 100 countries, including many of the world’s largest, most successful and dynamic companies.

The Main Market represents a badge of quality for every company admitted to and traded on it, and admission remains an aspiration for many companies worldwide.

The London Stock Exchange Main Market is home to around 1,100 companies with a combined market cap of £3 trillion. In the past five years alone, 555 companies have raised over £160bn on our Main Market segments. Daily volume of trades of Main Market companies averaged £4.5bn.

There are four segments within the Main Market, each fulfilling different issuer requirements:

  • PREMIUM SEGMENT – The highest listing standards for the world’s leading companies
  • STANDARD SEGMENT – Core European listing standards for equity and GDR issuers
  • HIGH GROWTH SEGMENT – launch pad for growth businesses on their journey to the Premium Segment.
  • SPECIALIST FUND SEGMENT – Designed for investment funds that wish to target institutional investors or professionally advised investors only.

The variety of segments in the Main market, it can make it a good place for variable rate investments, Main Market Tips can prove to be lucrative with wise investments. The following are a selection of the Main Market Tips we are confident to provide to our members. For more Main Market Tips, make sure you sign up to our monthly newsletter HERE.

Hercules – 38.5p

6 November 2025 - Academy update The company has revealed that its trading academy, which provides a range of courses relating to the construction and infrastructure industries, has exceeded expectations...

Watches of Switzerland – 401p

6 November 2025 - trading update The leading retailer of watches and jewellery has issued a positive trading update for the 26 week period to 26 October 2025 and this...

Kitwave Group – 215.5p

5 November 2025 - trading update The wholesale distribution group, which supplies frozen, chilled and fresh food, alcohol, tobacco, groceries and impulse products to some 46,000 mainly independent retailers from...

Hercules – 38.35p

5 November 2025 - director dealing Shares in the AIM-listed technology enabled labour supply company continue to lag, and non-executive director Martin Tedham has used this share price weakness to...

Smiths News – 65.5p

4 November 2025 - annual results The UK's largest news wholesaler and a leading provider of early morning delivery services has announced its annual results for the 52 weeks to...