Stock float refers to shares available for public trading, excluding insider and restricted stocks. Smaller floats can cause high volatility and price shifts as seen in GameStop's 2021 squeeze.

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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 ...