存托凭证(Depository Receipt, 简称DR),又称存券收据或存股证,是指在一国证券市场流通的代表外国公司有价证券的可转让凭证,属公司融资业务范畴的金融衍生工具。其英文释义如下,可更加清楚地对其有所理解:
A depositary receipt (DR) is a negotiable financial instrument issued by a bank to represent a foreign company's publicly traded securities. The depositary receipt trades on a local stock exchange. Depositary receipts facilitates buying shares in foreign companies, because the shares do not have to leave the home country. Depositary receipts that are listed and traded in the United States are American depositary receipts (ADRs). European banks issue European depositary receipts (EDRs), and other banks issue global depository receipts (GDRs).
存托凭证一般代表公司股票,但有时也代表债券。以股票为例,存托凭证是这样产生的:某国的一家公司为使其股票在外国流通,就将一定数额的股票,委托某一中间机构(通常为一银行,称为保管银行或受托银行)保管,由保管银行通知外国的存托银行在当地发行代表该股份的存托凭证,之后存托凭证便开始在外国证券交易所或柜台市场交易。
从投资人的角度来说,存托凭证是由存托银行所发行的几种可转让股票凭证,证明一定数额的某外国公司股票已寄存在该银行在外国的保管机构,而凭证的持有人实际上是寄存股票的所有人,其所有的权力与原股票持有人相同。存托凭证一般代表公司股票,但有时也代表债券。
存托凭证的当事人,在本地有证券发行公司、保管机构,在国外有存托银行、证券承销商及投资人。按其发行或交易地点之不同,存托凭证被冠以不同的名称,如美国存托凭证(American Depository Receipt, ADR)、欧洲存托凭证(European Depository Receipt, EDR)、全球存托凭证(Global Depository Receipts, GDR)、中国存托凭证(Chinese Depository Receipt, CDR)等。以下为相关例句,可供参考:
例句1
It is also a constituent stock of Morgan Stanley Capital International Index and has a sponsored American Depository Receipt Program in the United States through JPMorgan Chase Bank.
德昌电机同时还是摩根斯坦利资本国际指数成份股,并通过美国大通银行,在美国拥有一项美国存托凭证计划。
例句2
Depository Receipt a negotiable financial instrument issued by a bank to represents a foreign company's publicly traded securities.
存托凭证银行发行的金融工具,代表一家国外公司的公开上市证券。
例句3
And also the shares are traded in the form of American Depository Receipts in New York Stock Exchange.
同时,这些股票以美国存托凭证的形式在纽约证券交易所进行交易。