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And it issues a series of indices, properly weighted by the free float of shares.
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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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Pegasus has a free float of about 16 million shares.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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British shares, on the other hand, could be a big winner thanks to the high average free-float of British stocks.
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