diff --git a/Market-Manipulation/2021-04-22-GME-Float-Percentage-Trading-on-OTC-is-234x-Higher-than-DOW-30-Stocks.md b/Market-Manipulation/2021-04-22-GME-Float-Percentage-Trading-on-OTC-is-234x-Higher-than-DOW-30-Stocks.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0fee629 --- /dev/null +++ b/Market-Manipulation/2021-04-22-GME-Float-Percentage-Trading-on-OTC-is-234x-Higher-than-DOW-30-Stocks.md @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +ANALYSIS - GME percentage of float trading on OTC market is 234 TIMES HIGHER than Dow 30 stocks! +================================================================================================ + +| Author | Source | +| :----: | :----: | +| [u/nibbie1998](https://www.reddit.com/user/nibbie1998/) | [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/mw2p3j/analysis_gme_percentage_of_float_trading_on_otc/) | + +--- + +[Education 👨‍🏫 | Data 🔢](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/search?q=flair_name%3A%22Education%20%F0%9F%91%A8%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8F%AB%20%7C%20Data%20%F0%9F%94%A2%22&restrict_sr=1) + +Hey Apes! + +I did a comparison between the trading data (February 2021) on the OTC from the Dow 30 stocks and GME. I found out that the average trading volume divided by the float for Dow 30 stocks is 2.80%. One outlier was Boeing Company with 16.80% of float. Most of them were between 1.2% and 4.4%. For GME this is 655.80% of float! This is 234 times higher than 'normal stocks'. + +Additional analysis by [u/Important-Ad6786](https://www.reddit.com/u/Important-Ad6786/): + +*"Downloaded the outstanding share numbers and this FINRA data for 9,000 companies.* + +*Filtered out companies with a market cap smaller than $5 billion, and then sorted them by ratio of OTC reported shares traded to the number of oustanding shares.* + +*Outstanding shares isn't the same as float, but still provides a good picture of how anomalous this is.* + +*This provides some insight as even among lower market cap companies, GME is still anomalous with 400%+ shares trades compared to the number of outstanding shares."* + +[Comparison of shares traded as % of outstanding shares](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/mw2p3j/analysis_gme_percentage_of_float_trading_on_otc/gvfvesq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) + +Sources: + +Files used:  + +Stock float data:  + +OTC trading data:  + +Dow 30 stocks: