Regardless of how you wish to calculate, let's look at some other stocks to see how floats are structured... By yahoo.com (your equivalent) published value of float as a percentage of outstanding shares: MSFT: 97.7% AAPL: 92.7% TSLA: 78.9% NOW: 99.2% GM: 87.4% PFE: 99.99% TMO: 99.8% What's your point again?