Float refers to double-counted money in banking systems caused by delays in processing deposits such as paper checks. A customer's account is credited upon check deposit, yet the amount takes time to ...

“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.

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 ...