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How many shares a broker lists is a figure the broker publishes itself. The brokers below publish a count of tradable shares in the market-coverage figures we have read from their own pages. Nothing on the wire we receive separates genuine share dealing from a share CFD — a difference that decides what you actually own — so this page does not say which of the two a broker offers.
Who is on this page: Every broker record whose checked market-coverage figures carry the broker's own published count of tradable shares.
Ordered by how much of the broker's own published terms we have checked, then alphabetically — this is not a quality ranking.
6 of the 198 broker records we hold qualify for this page. 29 of 198 brokers on record have had their market-coverage figures checked.
No, and that is the gap on this page. Our records carry the number of shares a broker publishes but nothing that says whether those are shares you would own or contracts for difference on their price. The difference decides your voting rights, how dividends reach you and whether a daily financing charge applies, so ask the broker which one the count refers to.
Usually CFDs. You take price exposure without owning the share, which means no voting rights, cash adjustments in place of dividends, and an overnight financing charge. A few brokers offer genuine share dealing alongside, which is a materially different product.
Long positions are credited a cash adjustment and short positions are debited, around the ex-dividend date. The adjustment is not always the full dividend, and the credit may be net of withholding tax.
A financing charge based on a benchmark rate plus the broker's markup, applied daily. Over months that charge can exceed any commission saving, which is what makes CFDs poorly suited to long-term holding.
The first 5 of the 6 brokers above whose own published terms we hold, in the order of the list — the table stops at 5. The terms we hold for the other 1 are on their cards above. A cell reading not checked means nobody has read that figure off the broker's pages yet — it is not a finding that the broker lacks it.
| Broker | Licences checked | Platforms published | Minimum deposit published | Max advertised retail leverage | Demo | Raw-spread account | Swap-free account |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Admirals | 1register entry, read 2026-09-02 | MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5Source, read 2026-10-05 | 1 EUR (the lowest in the accounts we read)Source, read 2026-10-05 | 30:1 (CySEC CY, advertised)Source, read 2026-10-05 | yes, no stated expirySource, read 2026-10-05 | publishedSource, read 2026-10-05 | publishedSource, read 2026-10-05 |
| Pepperstone Markets Limited | 2register entry, read 2026-09-16register entry, read 2026-08-30 | MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, cTrader, TradingView, Proprietary web platformSource, read 2026-10-05 | 0 USD (the lowest in the accounts we read)Source, read 2026-10-05 | 200:1 (SCB_BS BS, advertised)Source, read 2026-10-05 | yes, 60 daysSource, read 2026-10-05 | publishedSource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 |
| ATFX | 1register entry, read 2026-09-17 | MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5Source, read 2026-10-05 | 100 USD (the lowest in the accounts we read)Source, read 2026-10-05 | 500:1 (FSC_MU MU, advertised)Source, read 2026-10-05 | yes, no stated expirySource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 |
| Moneta Markets | 1register entry, read 2026-09-19 | MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, Proprietary web platformSource, read 2026-10-05 | 50 USD (the lowest in the accounts we read)Source, read 2026-10-05 | 1000:1 (SLIBC LC, advertised)Source, read 2026-10-05 | yes, no stated expirySource, read 2026-10-05 | publishedSource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 |
| IG International Limited | 1register entry, read 2026-09-23 | Proprietary web platform, MetaTrader 4, MetaTrader 5, TradingViewSource, read 2026-10-05 | 0 USD (the lowest in the accounts we read)Source, read 2026-10-05 | 200:1 (BMA BM, advertised)Source, read 2026-10-05 | yes, no stated expirySource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 | not in the account list we readSource, read 2026-10-05 |
Admirals
Pepperstone Markets Limited
ATFX
Moneta Markets
IG International Limited
Each summary below is generated from the records on this page and nothing else.
Each count below is the market-coverage figure the broker publishes itself — shares, indices, instruments in total — transcribed with the page it came from and the day it was read. How many of our records carry those figures at all is counted beside the list rather than asserted here. What the wire does not carry is the distinction between genuine share dealing and a share CFD, so no count on this page tells you what you would actually own, and nothing here is a commission or custody comparison.
Our research hub holds 198 broker records for this site. Of the 10 registrations listed above, 8 were read on the regulator's own public register on the date shown. Of the rest, 2 are on record and not yet confirmed on a register — the label beside each one says which. Each one links to the register entry. The 45 figures on this page beyond those registrations were transcribed from a page the broker publishes them on, and each one links to that page with the date somebody read it. Where a date is old, treat the figure as old — brokers change pricing and licences without telling us.
If you intend to hold for months, the financing charge makes a share CFD the wrong instrument. A published share count says how many instruments exist on the platform and nothing about which of the two you would be buying, so settle that question with the broker before you judge the number.