Glossary
- Fair value
- FBF
- Fee schedule of the stock exchange
- Filing
- Fill or kill
- Final withholding tax
- Financial futures transaction
- First price
- First Quotation Board
- Fixed-price offering system
- Fixing
- Flat-price
- Float
- Floating Rate Notes
- Floor (warrants)
- Floor trading
- Foreign bond
- Foreign exchange
- Forward
- Forward transaction
- Free float
- Freiverkehr (Regulated Unofficial Market)
- Freiverkehrsausschuss (Admissions Committee for the Unofficial Market)
- Front-Running
- Full disclosure
- Fund
- Fund management
- Fund of funds
- Fundamental analysis
- Fungibility
- Future
Float
The number of shares in a company that are owned by many different shareholders and can be traded freely in the capital market.
The float refers to shares that are not owned by major shareholders, and can therefore be acquired and traded by the general public. As a rule, the larger the float, the easier it is for investors to buy and sell the stock.
Since June 2002, the stocks in Deutsche Börse's share indices have been weighted according to trading volume and market capitalisation based on the number of shares in free float.
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