Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy, before ringing the bell opening the New York Stock Exchange Thursday, said that while Newsmax’s public offering has made national and international headlines, his main concern is about the growth of the company. 

“As a CEO, you know, I don’t really worry about the stock price because my job is to worry about the growth of the company,” Ruddy told Newsmax correspondent Christina Thompson from the floor of the stock exchange. “We’ve done a tremendous job.”

Ruddy pointed out that even though “everybody said we’d never go anywhere,” the Newsmax television network is “number four in cable news. We’re number seven in all of cable. We reach 40 million people. Reuters says that we’re one of the top 12 media, so I think things are going to go really well.”

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