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loating Stock
Floating stock is generally the most narrowed metric of analyzing a company’s stock by shares. The floating stock is a measure that excludes closely held shares. Closely held shares are stock shares that are held by company insiders or controlling investors. These types of investors typically include officers, directors, and company foundations.


Many indexes use the floating stock of a company as the basis for market cap calculation. These indexes are identified as free float capitalization indexes. The S&P 500 is one example of a free float index. As such, index providers such as S&P and others are market leaders in setting a precedent for calculating floating stock methodologies.

Outstanding Stock vs. Floating Stock Example
For example, look at the shareholders’ equity of Microsoft (MSFT). The company’s balance sheet displays authorized shares, outstanding shares, and floating stock shares. As of December 31, 2018, Microsoft had:

24 billion authorized shares
7.683 billion shares outstanding
7.677 billion floating shares
The 7.677 billion floating shares are the shares considered for the free float, market capitalization index weightings, such as in the S&P 500. In the case of Microsoft, it has a relatively small float adjustment—6 billion shares—with a flo