Funding opportunities on the stock exchange for agricultural companies

The paper aims to prove how agricultural companies can practically exploit internal and external funding sources available in the capital market. These sources are seen as an alternative dynamic capitalization / lending to companies’ projects investments, meaning both lower costs than traditional alternatives and also image benefits through share issues / public offerings or bond issues. This type of opportunities are recoverable in a bad economic context for agriculture companies, mainly due to the limitations imposed on bank lending and laborious access to funds. The methodology used in the paper is the comparative method and financing alternatives will be compared to "stock exchange – private equity", "stock exchange vs. strategic investor" and "stock exchange vs. banks", and the analytical method by describing minimum criteria required by the market operator, deducted from analyzing agricultural companies access to financing through the capital market methods (exposure, case study and conclusions). The overall result of the work lies in the awareness of the opportunities and benefits of capital market funding system. Once one company knows the outcomes, this leads to practical ways an agricultural companies can access the stock exchange, (here including practical steps that they have to follow and the criteria to perform), leading eventually to understanding how practically works a listed company, beneficiary of the grant funding system.