b. Analyst following (0.5 mark): If it is a publicly traded company, see if you can find a listing of the sell-side analysts who follow the company and what they think about the stock. Many services provide information on both metrics, with a breakdown of buy, sell and hold recommendations from analysts following a company.

rhe company ia puma

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1) The total market capitalization of PUMA SE is $13.3 Billion which can be calculated by multiplying the equity price of 1 share i.e $ 90.60 with the total volume of shares available for trading i.e 147200000(147.2 million):- -90.60 X 147200000 =13,336, 320, 000(13.3 Billion To find the free float share of the company i.e PUMA SE we can refer to share statistics at https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PUM.DE/key- statistics/ and can find out easily that around 82.83 Million shares are free float, however, the formula is: closely-held shares for trading in the company (44%)= 44% X 147.2 million=64.7 Million share held by institutions(27%)= 27% X 147.2 million= 39.7 Million free float shares= Outstanding shares - closely-held shares(44%) - share held by institutions(27%) free float shares for public trading = 147.2 - 64.7 - 39.7 =42.8 Million shares Bid price= $90.6 X 1000 Ask price= $90.6 X 2900))