A stock float can mean a couple different things. First, a stock float refers to the number of shares that are publicly available for investors. Second, investors may also talk about floating a stock, ...

A stock's float shows how many free-trading shares of a publicly-traded company exist. Float can be either a precise number of shares or a percentage of its total shares outstanding. Stock float, or ...

“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.

SpaceX will go public this week in what's expected to be a historic IPO. It's small "free float" could prompt outsize volatility when trading begins.