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2. Public float - Wikipedia

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   By public floating, companies are vulnerable to threats of speculations and market fluctuations. During the 2008 financial crisis, several companies went bankrupt because of fluctuations in the stock market, severely limiting their operating capital to the extent that they were unable to pay their creditors and were forced to liquidate their ...

3. What is a stock float? - AOL

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   A stock float can mean a couple different things. First, a stock float refers to the number of shares that are publicly available for investors.

4. Initial public offering - Wikipedia

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   After the IPO, shares are traded freely in the open market at what is known as the free float. Stock exchanges stipulate a minimum free float both in absolute terms (the total value as determined by the share price multiplied by the number of shares sold to the public) and as a proportion of the total share capital (i.e., the number of shares ...

5. Float - Wikipedia

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   Public float, the total number of shares publicly owned and available for trading, after subtracting restricted shares from the total outstanding shares; Stock market float, an initial public offering (IPO), particularly in British English; Insurance float, investable funds collected from premiums but not paid out in claims

6. Cerus to Float Issue of Common Stock - AOL

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   Cerus will float a new offering of common stock in an underwritten public offering.The pharma company didn't disclose the number of shares that will be offered, nor did it specify how much it ...

7. Health Care REIT to Float New Stock Issue - AOL

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   Health Care REIT is preparing to expand its capital base. The company announced it will issue 20 million shares of its common stock in an underwritten public flotation. The price has been pegged ...

8. Listing (finance) - Wikipedia

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   Each stock exchange has its own listing requirements or rules.Initial listing requirements usually include supplying a history of a few years of financial statements (not required for "alternative" markets targeting young firms); a sufficient size of the amount being placed among the general public (the free float), both in absolute terms and as a percentage of the total outstanding stock; an ...

9. Capitalization-weighted index - Wikipedia

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   A common version of capitalization weighting is the free-float weighting. With this method a float factor is assigned to each stock to account for the proportion of outstanding shares that are held by the general public, as opposed to "closely held" shares owned by the government, royalty, or company insiders (see float).