The more float (publicly tradable shares) a company has, the less volatile its stock price tends to be in the absence of other factors, and vice versa. This is because when a company has fewer public ...

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has started a review of what constitutes a free float and whether it should continue to be minimum public shareholding or only be the shares that are ...

The stockmarket regulator yesterday formed a committee to set the definition of “free float”, as a new index to be introduced on the bourses would be based on free float or tradable shares of listed ...

The proportion of a quoted companys shares not held by those closest (eg. directors, founding families) to the company who may be unlikely to sell their shares.