“The float” refers to all of a company’s outstanding shares of stock that are available to the public for trading on the open market.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has started a review of what constitutes a free float and whether it should continue to be minimum public shareholding or only be the shares that are ...

The stockmarket regulator yesterday formed a committee to set the definition of “free float”, as a new index to be introduced on the bourses would be based on free float or tradable shares of listed ...