So here is an example:
– Company: TransCode Therapeutics Inc.
– Stock: RNAZ
– Float: 1.58M
– Shares outstanding: 2.03M
– % Held by Insiders: 29.52 %
Yesterdays Volume was 95,516,663 so about 60 times the Float.
(All data from Yahoo Finance)
How is this possible and why is this possible?
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Some portion of the 1.58 million shares goes through many hands that day. Imagine a chain that gets a single link added to the end. Even after 100 links are added it’s still a single chain. Each chain is a share, and each link is a new trade for that share. Ultra high volumes mean the chains are very long. It takes very little time to trade stocks (adding a link to the chain) so it’s possible on very volatile days to have shares go from Alice to Bob to Charlie and David in fractions of a second.
The float is the number of shares available to be traded (number of shares outstanding, minus any restricted shares)
The volume is the number of shares that were traded on a particular day – but they could have been the same share being traded back and forth 95 million times.
A trade being counted in the day’s volume number does not remove that share from the float. They are two separate ideas.
The float is the number of shares that are available for trade on public exchanges. Volume is how many times shares of that company were traded (bought and sold) in a specific time period. And since the same share can be bought and sold multiple times, it’s entirely normal for trading volume of a company’s shares to exceed the number of shares floating.
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