In stock market analysis, many numbers get thrown around—market capitalization, price-to-earnings ratios, and total shares outstanding. Yet, one critical metric often misunderstood by individual ...

Michael Boyle is an experienced financial professional with more than 10 years working with financial planning, derivatives, equities, fixed income, project management, and analytics. The free-float ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Average daily float refers to the dollar amount of checks or other negotiable instruments ...