As a company the club strives to make a profit through ticket sales, as well as through income accumulated by competing in national, continental and global football.

Outside the Netherlands in countries such as the UK, Germany, Italy or Turkey there are more football clubs with IPOs, including Manchester United, who are accredited with advising Ajax Amsterdam to enter the stock market.

[4] In 1900, Floris Stempel, Carel Reeser and Johan Dade founded the Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax in Amsterdam.

AFC AJax NV own 13% of the new stadium, which includes a training facility Sportpark De Toekomst, itself with a capacity of 5,000.

In 1998, AFC Ajax NV was created as the club registered as a Naamloze vennootschap company and were listed on the stock exchange Euronext Amsterdam on May 17 of that year.

[9] In 2003, AFC Ajax NV sold all of its shares in Germinal Beerschot back to Belgian businessman Jos Verhaegen for the symbolic price of €1, ending the fusion of both clubs and their joint operations.

They cited that Ajax Cape Town have failed to produce enough talent at the level they strive for as the major reason behind the sale, with the club also failing to gain promotion to the ABSA Premiership twice, South Africa's premier football competition after being relegated in 2018[13] In 2023 American investor group Citibank bought 4% of the shares with 763.181 in total.