Free float

The shares available to trade, excluding those held by insiders and other locked-up holders.

How to use it

A small float can make a stock move violently on modest volume.

In Kereon

Kereon shows this figure as its data vendor publishes it and does not recompute it, so the vendor's exact inputs — which period's earnings, which balance sheet, which adjustments — are not visible here. The calculation above is the standard definition.

Also called: free float.

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