And it issues a series of indices, properly weighted by the free float of shares.
Now Riyadh wants to clean up the bank and float its shares on the Saudi Stock Exchange.
DKSH, a Zurich-based trade-and-services firm, said it plans to float its shares on the Swiss stock exchange this month.
Once the inflows end, the key metric to watch is whether the trading float of shares grows or shrinks.
Virgin Money chief executive Jayne-Anne Gadhia confirmed to the BBC that the bank intended to float its shares on the stock market within two to five years.
Two, in all conversations I have with investors, I recommend dollar cost average buying of companies using free cash flow growth to shrink the trading float of shares.
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Companies that have been shrinking the trading float of shares the most using free cash flow have not only significantly outperformed the high dividend ETFs, but the overall market as well.
Therefore, to invest for the future while protecting as best as possible against a future market downturn, I recommend buying portfolios of companies shrinking the trading float of shares and using free cash flow to do so.
With a family trust for a majority owner (under a stipulation that it must always hold over 50%) and unable to float new shares on the stock market, Carlsberg was simply out of the big brewery-buying game.
As insiders and venture capital investors head for the exits, expect more shares to come onto the market, and the float or the shares available for active trading will increase.
That means that out of the 96.40 million shares in the tradable float, 3.6 million shares are sold short by the bears.
That means that out of the 152.45 million shares in the tradable float, 5.28 million shares are sold short by the bears.
That means that out of the 50.50 million shares in the tradable float, 5.14 million shares are sold short by the bears.
The company has 72.6 million shares in its "float" - the number of shares circulating among the general public.
The expiration released 800 million new shares into the public float, representing 35% of outstanding shares, and many expected the flood of supply to weigh on the stock.
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One, stock prices get so expensive that even at zero interest rates corporate America stops shrinking the float and begins selling shares big time.
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As of June 30, 16.7% of the entire float of Green Mountain shares were sold short by market players who had hoped to profit by replacing borrowed shares with ones that they thought would be cheaper in the future.
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At current prices, this means that the company will buy back 982 million shares, or more than 20% of the company's float of 4.6 billion shares.
Much of the rise in market capitalisation will result from more companies issuing shares as they float on local stockmarkets, rather than from rising share prices.
It would apparently prevent companies with less than 25% of their shares in free float from making a cash-and-stock bid for a company domiciled in Luxembourg.
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They stopped selling shares and resumed buying their shares to shrink their float.
Here it is in real living color and is what happens when a reported half of the shares in the public float are shorted.
The float of 1.2 million shares on the London Stock Exchange was a disappointment, however, because more than half of the available shares went unsold.
While that figure pales in comparison to the 777 million shares that will free up for trading Nov. 14, it will increase the free float by more than a third from the current 692 million shares.
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Reforms to the market make it ever easier to float new companies and to trade their shares.
The shares have sunk below the float price and were trading at less than euro10 last week.
Of the 85 or so listed Internet companies, most are tiddlers, which float only a small fraction of their shares.
The marketplace for this small company with limited public float has absorbed over 12 million new shares in just a few weeks.
One caveat about buying Dawson is that the stock has a very small float of just 5.1 million shares (and 5.6 million total outstanding shares), even after a recent secondary stock offering to finance the purchase of more equipment and to hire more crews to fill its nine-month backlog of orders for service.
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