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Total shares the company has issued, including restricted and closely-held shares.
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Shares that cannot currently be sold: employee stock options under a lock-up, shares held by executives under a vesting schedule, or shares blocked after an IPO.
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Shares held long-term by founders, controlling shareholders, governments, or strategic investors who are unlikely to sell in the open market.
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Current market price per share. Used to compute float-adjusted market capitalization. Leave at zero to skip the market cap output.
Free float sharesOptimal float
7,000,000shares

Shares available for public trading

Free float percentage70%
Float-adjusted market cap175,000,000USD
Total market cap250,000,000USD
Non-tradable shares3,000,000shares
70% %
Low float<40%Optimal float40%-80%High float80%+

Free float is 70.00%, in the optimal float range (40%-80%).

  • 7,000,000 of 10,000,000 shares are freely tradable, representing 70.00% of total outstanding shares.
  • An optimal free float balances insider alignment with enough tradable supply to support institutional participation and stable price discovery.
  • Stocks in this range typically have tighter bid-ask spreads and absorb large trades more easily than low-float counterparts.
  • Float-adjusted market cap is $175,000,000, versus total market cap of $250,000,000. Index weightings based on float-adjusted caps will be proportionally lower than those using total market cap.

Next stepPair this with volume-to-float analysis: daily volume as a percentage of free float shows how quickly the entire float turns over, which is a direct measure of trading intensity and squeeze risk.

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