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Shares outstanding across every company with a recent quarterly filing: percentiles, in millions of shares

Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-07-26, from Stock Float vs. Shares Outstanding Explained.

as of scalar 1×6read in context →
companies
6,111
p10 shares m
3.9
p25 shares m
15.6
median shares m
50.1
p75 shares m
148.2
p90 shares m
452.6
Rows × columns
1 × 6
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Shares outstanding across every company with a recent quarterly filing: percentiles, in millions of shares, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
companies number every row is 6,111
p10_shares_m number every row is 3.9 count
p25_shares_m number every row is 15.6 count
median_shares_m number every row is 50.1 count
p75_shares_m number every row is 148.2 count
p90_shares_m number every row is 452.6 count

Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.

the exact SQL behind every number 
WITH latest AS (
    SELECT tk AS ticker,
           argMax(basic_shares_outstanding, (filing_date, period_end)) AS shares
    FROM global_markets.stocks_income_statements
    ARRAY JOIN tickers AS tk
    WHERE timeframe = 'quarterly'
      AND filing_date >= '2025-10-01'
      AND filing_date <= '2026-07-10'
      AND basic_shares_outstanding > 0
    GROUP BY tk
)
SELECT count() AS companies,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.10)(shares, cityHash64(ticker)) / 1e6, 1) AS p10_shares_m,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.25)(shares, cityHash64(ticker)) / 1e6, 1) AS p25_shares_m,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.50)(shares, cityHash64(ticker)) / 1e6, 1) AS median_shares_m,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.75)(shares, cityHash64(ticker)) / 1e6, 1) AS p75_shares_m,
       round(quantileDeterministic(0.90)(shares, cityHash64(ticker)) / 1e6, 1) AS p90_shares_m
FROM latest

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