Monday 23 August 2010

What is Free-Float Market Capitalization?

-    Free-float is defined as the total number of shares, which are actually available for day-to-day trading (hence this excludes shares locked with promoters, institutional investors, government etc)
-    Multiplying the number of free-float shares of a company with the current market price gives us the value of free-float market capitalization (FFMC)
-    How is this used?
o    Suppose in base year, FFMC of A: Rs.100,forB:  Rs.200 and so on, adding up to overall FFMC for all 30 companies in the index: Rs.1000
o    Base value of the index: Rs.100
o    Establish a proportional relationship between base value and FFMC (termed as index divisor) by equating the overall FFMC (Rs.1000) to value of the base (100 points)
o    Hence, each Rs.10 of FFMC is worth 1 point in terms of base value of the index
o    In other words, if market cap rises by Rs.100, index should rise by 10 points

Free-float market capitalization defines how much money will be required if one were to buy all the shares of a company that are available for trading


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