Many factors influence stock prices and how quickly they move up and down. While a company's financial performance and macroeconomic forces play large roles, investors should also pay attention to ...

Some companies have large shareholders who don’t intend to sell their shares publicly. They include family or founding owners, officers of the company, private equity investors and, sometimes, other ...

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 ...

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 ...