A-Mark Precious Metals Inc

A-Mark Precious Metals Inc. together with its subsidiaries operates as a precious metals trading company. It operates in three segments: Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services Direct-to-Consumer and Secured Lending. The Wholesale Sales & Ancillary Services segment sells gold silver platinum and palladium in the form of bars plates powders wafers grains ingots and coins. This segment also offers various ancillary services including financing storage consignment logistics and various customized financial programs; and designs and produces minted silver products. The Direct-to-Consumer segment provides access to an array of gold silver copper platinum and palladium products through its websites and marketplaces. It operates five company-owned websites targeting specific niches within the precious metals retail market. This segment also operates as a direct retailer of precious metals to the investor community and markets its precious metal products on television radio and the internet as well as through customer service outreach. The Secured Lending segment originates and acquires commercial loans secured by bullion and numismatic coins; and serves coin and precious metal dealers investors and collectors. It serves customers including financial institutions bullion retailers industrial manufacturers and fabricators sovereign mints refiners coin and metal dealers investors collectors and e-commerce and other retail customers. The company has operations in the United States rest of North America Europe the Asia Pacific Africa and Australia. A-Mark Precious Metals Inc. was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in El Segundo California.