A-Mark Precious Metals

A-Mark Precious Metals (founded in 1965 as A Mark Coin Company) is a precious metals trading company. It was the first company allowed to make and sell coins from the metals recovered in the shipwreck of SS Gairsoppa. A-Mark is traded on Nasdaq and is a Fortune 500 company as of 2021.

History
Greg Manning Auctions Inc. bought a majority stake in A-Mark for $16 million in 2005. Thereafter, the firm changed its name to Escala Group, then to Spectrum Group International Inc. In 2009, it purchased the remainder of A-Mark. In 2014, Spectrum spun off A-Mark so that it could be publicly traded. A-Mark acquired Goldline International in 2017.

Shareholder structure
As of 2021, A-Mark stock is in held by institutional investors (43%), the general public (29%) and private companies (7%). Individual insiders hold about 21%.

Financial results
Following its initial public offering A-Mark has grown its revenue from US$5.9 billion in 2015 to US7.6 billion in 2021. The following list is an overview of the main financial results from recent years: