Shares outstanding
Also called: float
Shares outstanding are all the shares of a company currently held by investors. The float is the part of them that's free to trade publicly.
Shares held by founders or locked up after an IPO are outstanding but not part of the float, because they can't be sold yet.
A small float means fewer shares change hands, so each trade moves the price more.
In Journey Shares
Each listing has 200,000 shares: 100,000 trade on the public pool and 100,000 are held in escrow for the person, released only if they claim their profile.
Related terms
- Share: A share is a single unit of a company's stock.
- Market capitalization: Market capitalization is the total value of a company's shares: the share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding.
- Liquidity: Liquidity is how easily something can be bought or sold quickly without moving its price much.
- IPO (initial public offering): An IPO is the first time a company sells shares to the public, after which its stock trades on an exchange.
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