this research aims to propose strategic guidelines that allow financial growth through the stock market for the entities that make up the Cooperative sector of the municipality of Monteria, Cordoba. It was developed under a quantitative methodology, a questionnaire was applied to 41 entities of the cooperative sector, validated by expert judgment and discriminant validity, the reliability was 0.890. The results showed that cooperative entities have excess liquidity in some periods of the year and lack investment plans to increase economic resources; On the other hand, comparisons were made between the capital instruments offered by the Colombian Stock Exchange, for which strategic guidelines were drawn up for the financial growth of cooperative entities.