These Were The Companies Added And Removed From OTC Markets Indexes At The End Of Q3

Most major cap-weighted indexes are rebalanced quarterly, semi-annually, or annually. This rebalancing consists of adding and removing securities based on market cap fluctuations throughout the quarter. 

It’s up to the index provider to make and publicize these changes, usually at or in the days after the end of a quarter. The indexes created by OTC Markets all rebalance at the end of every quarter to account for the changing prices of their components. Here’s how each of the market’s major indexes rebalanced at the end of Q3:

OTCQX Banks

The OTCQX Banks Index closed Q3 with 67 holdings and up 0.5%. Seventeen companies were added to the index, including Chesapeake Financial Shares, Inc. CPKF and PSB Holdings Inc. PSBQ. 

Ten companies were removed, including First Farmers Financial Corp FFMR and Marquette National Corp. MNAT. 

OTCQX Composite

The OTCQX Composite Index, the benchmark for tracking the overall performance of the most transparent domestic and international companies on OTC Markets, closed down 1.25% for the third quarter. There are 365 members of the index, 54 of which were added at the end of Q3. Notable adds include Grayscale Ethereum Trust (ETH) ETHE, Overstock.com, Inc. OSTBP, and Trulieve Cannabis Corporation TCNNF. 

Thirty-nine securities were removed from the index, including Stereotaxis, Inc. STXS and Avita Medical Ltd. RCEL, both graduated to NYSE American and  Nasdaq. 

OTCQX Billion+

The OTCQX Billion+ Index, which tracks the $1 billion-plus market cap companies trading on OTCQX, finished down 1.02% in Q3. Three new companies joined the index while five companies were removed, bringing the total to 59. 

Companies added were Green Thumb Industries Inc. GTBIF, Interconexion Electrica S.A. E.S.P. - ISA IESFY, and U.S.-based Computer Services, Inc. CSVI, which joins the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (BTC) GBTC as the only domestic companies in the index.

The five companies removed were Acreage Holdings Inc. ACRGF, Koninklijke Ahold Delhaize N.V. ADRNY, Ocean Yield ASA OYIEF, Software AG STWRY, and UPM-Kymmene Corp. UPMMY. 

OTCQX Dividend

The OTCQX Dividend Index finished Q3 down 0.8% with 113 holdings. Twenty-two new companies were added to the index in the quarter while 12 companies were removed. Eleven of those companies were removed for stopping their dividend programs, while Alerus Financial Corp. ALRS graduated to Nasdaq.

OTCQX U.S.

Over half of the securities that trade on OTCQX are based in the U.S. Of those, 120 are in the OTCQX U.S. Index. The index closed down 7.8% in Q3, with 27 additions and 17 deletions. 

Notable additions include MariMed Inc. MRMD, Prime Meridian Holding Co. PMHG, and Calvin B. Taylor Bankshares, Inc. TYCB. Deletions include Forbes Energy Services Ltd. FLSS and Amplify Energy Corp. AMPY. 

OTCQX Cannabis

OTC Markets’ newest index closed down 27.2% in Q3. The total number of companies in the index stayed constant, as eight companies were added and eight were removed. 

The companies added were Australis Capital Inc. AUSAF, Dixie Brands Inc. DXBRF, Eve and Co Incorporated EEVVF, Green Thumb Industries Inc. GTBIF, InMed Pharmaceuticals, Inc. IMLFF, Medicine Man Technologies Inc. MDCL, Trulieve Cannabis Corporation TCNNF, and Valens Groworks Corp VGWCF. 

The eight companies removed were Beleave Inc., Emerald Health Therapeutics Inc. EMHTF, Harvest One Cannabis Inc. HRVOF, Invictus MD Strategies Corp. IVITF, Lifestyle Delivery Systems, Inc., Next Green Wave NXGWF, Radient Technologies Inc RDDTF, and THC BioMed Intl Ltd. THCBF. 

OTCQX Canada

The OTCQX Canada Index, the benchmark for tracking the overall performance of all the Canadian securities that are traded on OTCQX, closed down 10.4% in the third quarter. Twenty-seven new companies joined the index, including Rocky Mountain Dealerships Inc. RCKXF, while 16 companies were removed. 

OTCQX International

The index closed down 1.2% in Q3. The 245-company index received 31 additions and 22 deletions at the end of the quarter. Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. SMICY highlights the new additions. 

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