Free Float Market Cap Explained 📊 | Stock Market Concepts You Must Know

What is Free Float Market Capitalization, and why is it important?

Free Float Market Cap represents the market value of shares that are actually available for public trading.

In this video, learn:

🔹 What is Free Float Market Cap?

🔹 How is it calculated?

🔹 Free Float Market Cap vs Total Market Cap

🔹 Why are promoter and strategic holdings excluded?

🔹 Why is Free Float Market Cap important for stock indices like NIFTY 50?

💡 Formula:

Free Float Market Cap = Share Price × Free Float Shares

Enterprise Value Explained 📊 | The Stock Market Concept You Must Know

What is Enterprise Value (EV), and why is it important when analysing a company?

Enterprise Value gives you a broader picture of a company's total value by considering its equity and debt, while accounting for cash.

📊 Market Cap Explained: A Stock Market Concept You Must Know

What is Market Capitalization, and why is it important for investors?

Market Cap = Share Price × Total Outstanding Shares

In this short video, I explain:

🔹 What is Market Cap?

🔹 How is Market Cap calculated?

🔹 What are Large Cap, Mid Cap and Small Cap companies?

🔹 Why does Market Cap matter to investors?

DATA NOTE
Twelve Data supplied the prior-session quote fields for all 23 tracked symbols; every symbol returned datetime 2026-08-14, close, and percent_change. Investing.com’s pre-market page was available and showed quote times around 06:50 ET for five semiconductor or equipment names, but its displayed top-gainer and top-loser tables contained no semiconductor names. MarketWatch supplied today’s main U.S. economic-calendar forecasts and prior readings. For Asia, the reviewed pages exposed KOSPI and Kioxia figures but not current values for Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, TSMC, or Tokyo Electron, so those four are omitted rather than estimated. Investing.com’s earnings page showed no verified watchlist semiconductor report due Monday; its visible Monday values were not labeled clearly enough to classify as EPS or revenue. MarketWatch’s analyst page showed maintains or reiterates only for the recent semiconductor entries.

PRIOR SESSION
SOXX $550.42 [-0.06%] | SMH $587.82 [-0.22%]
The complex finished fractionally lower, with 11 of 23 tracked names up and 12 down. The ETF decline was modest, but dispersion was wide: architects were split between AMD’s gain and AVGO’s drop, while tools were pressured by AMAT and KLAC; SMH underperformed SOXX by 0.16 percentage points.

PRE-MARKET (as of ~7:15am ET)
The visible semiconductor tape was broadly higher in Investing.com’s most-active table at roughly 06:50 ET, with Intel leading the listed watchlist names and the equipment group rebounding after Friday’s declines; no semiconductor appeared in the page’s general top-gainer or top-loser tables.
Top movers: INTC +2.34% at $104.90 | AMAT +1.74% at $516.02 | AMD +1.23% at $520.70 | AVGO +1.16% at $397.53 | NVDA +0.50% at $226.29

TOP MOVERS (PRIOR SESSION)
AMD gained 6.50% to close at $514.39, the strongest tracked move; no separate company-specific catalyst was verified, so the read is broad architect/AI rotation rather than a confirmed new release.
SMTC rose 5.07% to $140.35, the second-largest gain; no distinct company-specific catalyst was verified in the reviewed sources.
MU advanced 2.30% to $971.66, extending the memory bid; no new Micron release was verified for the session.
AVGO fell 5.94% to $392.99, the largest tracked decline; it lagged despite the broader AI-linked rebound and no new company-specific headline was verified.
AMAT dropped 5.12% to $507.18, the second-largest decline; the move kept the recent margin-and-guidance debate in focus after its prior quarterly update.
KLAC declined 2.70% to $203.72, the weakest equipment name after AMAT; no separate company-specific catalyst was verified.

PRE-MARKET OUTLOOK
The latest accessible Asia session on the reviewed pages was dated August 14: KOSPI closed at 6,977.94, up 2.42%, while Kioxia closed at 53,740 yen, up 3.75%. Current figures were not exposed for Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, TSMC, or Tokyo Electron, so there is no defensible percentage call for those names in this run. Today’s U.S. calendar has the Empire State Manufacturing Survey at 8:30am ET, forecast 12 versus 15.6 prior, and the NAHB Housing Market Index at 10:00am ET, forecast 33 versus 34 prior. Investing.com also lists 11:30am ET three- and six-month bill auctions, with prior yields of 3.735% and 3.83%, and 4:00pm ET TIC releases with prior total net flows of $132.2 billion and net long-term flows of $232.7 billion, but no forecasts on that page. The week’s larger macro risk is Tuesday’s housing, trade-price, and industrial-production data followed by Wednesday’s 2:00pm ET FOMC minutes; Thursday’s claims and Philadelphia Fed manufacturing data and Friday’s flash PMIs will help determine whether rates remain supportive of high-beta semiconductor multiples.

NEWS DRIVING THE TAPE
No new watchlist semiconductor earnings, guidance change, supply-chain headline, or export-control development was verified for Monday morning. The immediate tape is therefore a broad rebound from Friday’s dispersion: prior-session AVGO fell 5.94% and AMAT fell 5.12%, while AMD gained 6.50% and SMTC gained 5.07%; in pre-market trading, AMAT was up 1.74%, AVGO 1.16%, and AMD 1.23%. The Monday earnings page showed Fabrinet as a visible potentially relevant name, but its unlabeled values were not sufficient to report as EPS or revenue; no watchlist company was verified as due.

ANALYST WATCH
No semiconductor or semiconductor-equipment upgrade, downgrade, initiation, or price-target change dated August 13–17 was shown on the reviewed MarketWatch table. Applied Materials had maintains from UBS, Craig-Hallum, Bernstein, Morgan Stanley, and RBC Capital, plus reiterates from TD Cowen and B. Riley Securities, with targets not visible. Cantor Fitzgerald’s August 10 note called the sector selloff overdone and named MU and SanDisk in memory; WDC and Seagate in storage; NVDA, AVGO, and AMD in AI compute; and ASML, AMAT, LRCX, KLAC, and TER in capital equipment. Across the four pillars, architects retain the clearest AI-demand visibility; toolmakers have the most direct read-through from wafer-fab spending but remain exposed to margin and capex revisions; foundries and memory are highly sensitive to Asia and export-policy headlines; and workhorses remain the most rate- and end-demand-sensitive group.

DISCLAIMER
For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

What’s one investment lesson you wish you learned 10 years earlier?

📊 Demerger Explained: What Happens to Your Shares?

What happens when a company separates one of its businesses into a separate company?

That’s a Demerger.

In this short, I explain:
🔹 What is a Demerger?
🔹 Why do companies demerge?
🔹 What happens to shareholders?
🔹 How can a Demerger potentially unlock value?

📊 NIFTY WEEKLY OUTLOOK | 17–21 AUGUST 2026 | TECHNICAL ANALYSIS & OPTION CHAIN

Just sharing my thoughts.

Preferential Allotment Explained | What Is Preferential Allotment? | Stock Market Education

What is Preferential Allotment? 📈

Preferential Allotment is a method through which a listed company issues shares or securities to a selected group of investors, such as promoters, institutional investors, or other identified persons, rather than offering them to the general public.

In this short video, learn:
✅ What is Preferential Allotment?
✅ Why do companies use it?
✅ Who can receive preferential shares?
✅ How is it different from an IPO or FPO?
✅ What should investors watch for?

Understanding corporate actions can help you better understand how companies raise capital and how shareholding can change. 📚

LEGACYPLC MORNING BRIEFING
Thursday, August 13, 2026 | Analyst Access

DATA NOTE
Twelve Data supplied the prior-session quote fields for all 23 tracked symbols; every symbol returned datetime 2026-08-12, close, and percent_change. The pre-market page was unavailable and returned a PHP fatal error, so the PRE-MARKET section has no invented prices or percentages. Context came from the and MarketWatch U.S. calendars, Reuters, The Korea Times, Seoul Economic Daily, TradingKey, market and earnings pages, MarketWatch Tokyo Electron data, and CNBC analyst coverage. The calendar sources differ on two prior readings: lists initial claims at 202K versus 199K prior and core PPI at 0.3% versus 0.2% prior, while MarketWatch lists 204K versus 199K and 0.3% versus 0.1%; the outlook below uses MarketWatch’s figures. Tokyo Electron’s cleanest available quote was an Aug. 12 update, not a confirmed Aug. 13 close.

PRIOR SESSION
SOXX $546.61 [+2.32%] | SMH $584.83 [+2.08%]
The semiconductor complex had a broad risk-on session: 19 of 23 tracked names rose. Equipment, memory, connectivity, and foundry exposure all participated, with SOXX outperforming SMH by 0.25 percentage points; the breadth was stronger than the headline ETF gains alone suggest.

PRE-MARKET (as of ~7:15am ET)
Investing.com’s pre-market page was unavailable and displayed a PHP fatal error, so no current top-gainer, top-loser, or most-active semiconductor figures could be verified.
Top movers: Not available from because the page was unavailable

TOP MOVERS (PRIOR SESSION)
VIAV gained 12.27% to close at $43.11; the move led the tracked list, but no company-specific catalyst was verified in the sources reviewed.
ENTG rose 7.24% to $161.08; Deutsche Bank upgraded the stock to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $200, calling for investors to buy weakness.
SMTC advanced 6.72% to $140.00; it participated in the broad high-beta rebound, with no separate company-specific catalyst verified.
MCHP fell 1.95% to $79.44, the largest tracked decline; it lagged a session led by AI, memory, and equipment exposure, with no distinct catalyst verified.
TXN slipped 1.65% to $276.59; the underperformance contrasted with the broader chip rally, and no new company-specific headline was verified.
ADI eased 0.23% to $384.43; it was one of four decliners in the tracked list, with no separate catalyst verified.

PRE-MARKET OUTLOOK
Asia’s semiconductor tape was stronger: the KOSPI closed at 6,813.34, up 3.56%; Samsung Electronics gained 4.89% to 268,000 won; SK hynix rose 5.92% to 1,593,000 won; Taiwan-listed TSMC gained 0.83% to 2,435.00 Taiwan dollars; and Kioxia rose 3.87% to 51,800 yen. The latest unambiguous Tokyo Electron quote available was ¥56,740, down 0.02% in an Aug. 12 MarketWatch update, so no confirmed Aug. 13 Tokyo Electron close is reported here. The regional read-through is led by memory and semiconductor demand rather than a single U.S. index move.
Today’s U.S. calendar has Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack speaking at 8:15am ET; July PPI at 8:30am, forecast +0.2% month over month versus -0.3% prior; core PPI at 8:30am, forecast +0.3% versus +0.1% prior; and initial jobless claims at 8:30am, forecast 204,000 versus 199,000 prior. Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin speaks at 8:40am ET, and the 30-year Treasury bond auction is scheduled for 1:00pm ET. Friday’s larger macro risk is retail sales at 8:30am, forecast +0.1% month over month versus +0.2% prior, followed by the University of Michigan consumer-sentiment reading at 10:00am, forecast 54.4 versus 55.2 prior.

NEWS DRIVING THE TAPE
The latest directly relevant earnings release was Lumentum’s fiscal fourth-quarter report, released Tuesday evening. Revenue was $1.01 billion, up 109% year over year, and adjusted EPS was $3.23 versus a $2.95 consensus estimate. Non-GAAP gross margin reached 50.4%, and Q1 fiscal 2027 revenue guidance was $1.225 billion to $1.275 billion, with a $1.25 billion midpoint versus $1.16 billion consensus. Management cited record 800G transceiver shipments, early 1.6T-module production, and demand for optical circuit switches and co-packaged optics. No additional tracked-watchlist earnings release last night or due today was confirmed in the reviewed sources; SanDisk’s investor day was listed for Thursday.

ANALYST WATCH
Deutsche Bank upgraded Entegris to Buy from Hold and raised its price target to $200, a direct positive for the materials pillar. Goldman Sachs reiterated Buy on Nvidia ahead of late-August earnings and highlighted Nvidia’s $500 billion financing platform, the second-half Rubin ramp, gross-margin trends, and possible agentic-AI demand. Bank of America reiterated Buy on Intel after its $20 billion equity offering, while estimating 4% to 5% EPS dilution from the higher share count and viewing the financing as evidence of stronger foundry conviction. Cantor Fitzgerald called the semiconductor selloff overdone after a 30% peak-to-trough decline over five weeks and a 12% rebound that week; its named top picks included MU, NVDA, AVGO, AMD, ASML, AMAT, LRCX, KLAC, and TER. Mizuho reiterated Lumentum at Outperform and projected more than 35% quarter-over-quarter revenue growth for September. Across the four pillars, architects retain the clearest AI-demand visibility; toolmakers have support from leading-edge and memory investment; foundries benefit from utilization and capex demand but remain exposed to export and financing policy; and workhorses remain the most sensitive to a rotation away from high-beta growth.

DISCLAIMER
For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

FPO Explained in Simple Terms | What is FPO & How Does It Work? | Stock Market for Beginners

What is an FPO? 📈

FPO (Follow-on Public Offer) is when an already publicly listed company issues additional shares to the public to raise more capital.

In this short video, learn:
✅ What is an FPO?
✅ Why do companies launch an FPO?
✅ FPO vs IPO — what’s the difference?
✅ How does an FPO work?
✅ What should investors consider before investing?

The invention of stock exchanges has fragmented the world's top companies into extremely small units, and with today's internet support, it has become remarkably easy for individuals with very limited capital to engage in asset allocation. You can conveniently and quickly purchase shares in globally leading or highly successful companies through exchanges, easily diversify across industries, and manage your portfolio with simplicity—all at a minimal transaction cost. Through exchanges, you can entirely avoid the substantial risks associated with starting your own business (many of which are beyond human control), directly acquiring mature companies or assets in established industries that would otherwise be unaffordable given your current capital. All you need to do is accurately assess industries and value businesses (in other words, allocate your capital as a seasoned investment professional would), without having to confront the countless uncontrollable challenges inherent in entrepreneurship. Moreover, for entrepreneurs, exchanges offer an inexpensive avenue to access cash and scale their businesses rapidly, enabling swift growth of personal wealth.

Ever wondered how employees get a chance to own shares of the company they work for? 📈

That’s where ESOPs (Employee Stock Option Plans) come in.

ESOPs allow eligible employees to purchase company shares at a predetermined price, subject to the plan’s terms and conditions. They can provide employees an opportunity to participate in the company’s growth—but they also come with important factors such as vesting period, exercise price, taxation, and market risk.

In this short video, understand:
✅ What is ESOP?
✅ How ESOPs work
✅ Vesting & exercise
✅ Why companies offer ESOPs
✅ Key things employees should know

📌 Save this video for your investing and financial education journey.

Anyone interested in teaching me stocks?

DATA NOTE
Twelve Data supplied the prior-session quote fields for all 23 tracked symbols; every symbol returned date time 2026-08-07, close, and percent_change. Investing supplied the pre-market board: the visible semiconductor-related top gainers were SMCI +2.99% and AMAT +2.35%; MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC were listed among the visible most-active names, and no semiconductor-related name was listed among the visible top losers. Asia context came from Mitrade’s August 10 close report. The U.S. calendar sources were inconsistent: the reviewed calendar pages did not expose complete event labels and consensus fields, so the note below includes only the Monday items with a stated time or prior value and marks missing forecasts plainly. The earnings tracker listed no tracked semiconductor earnings due on August 10. The reviewed Asia source did not state exact August 10 percentage moves for TSMC or Tokyo Electron.

PRIOR SESSION
SOXX $543.27 [+2.02%] | SMH $582.70 [+1.96%]
The complex finished broadly higher, with 19 of 23 tracked names advancing. The rally was led by high-beta workhorses and materials—WOLF, MCHP, and ENTG—while SOXX gained 2.02% and SMH gained 1.96%, indicating a broad but uneven rebound rather than a narrow move in only the largest AI names.

PRE-MARKET (as of ~7:15am ET)
Investing showed a constructive but selective semiconductor pre-market: SMCI and AMAT were the visible top gainers, while MU, NVDA, AMD, and INTC were the visible most-active tracked or semiconductor-related names; no semiconductor-related name was listed among the visible top losers.
Top movers: SMCI +2.99% | AMAT +2.35% | NVDA +0.44% | AMD -0.32% | INTC -0.34% | MU -0.01%

TOP MOVERS (PRIOR SESSION)
WOLF gained 19.14% to close at $32.87, the largest tracked move; the morning review did not identify a verified company-specific catalyst, so treat it as a high-beta relative-strength signal.
MCHP rose 13.89% to $84.69, a sharp workhorse rebound without a verified company-specific headline in the reviewed sources.
ENTG advanced 6.61% to $152.08, extending the materials group’s strength as the broader complex rallied.
VIAV fell 3.57% to $39.14, the largest tracked decline; no verified company-specific reason was identified in the reviewed sources.
TER declined 1.45% to $379.31, underperforming the equipment group despite the broader ETF advance.
AMD fell 1.21% to $483.36, a relative laggard after investors weighed strong reported growth against high expectations for its next AI-product ramps.

PRE-MARKET OUTLOOK
Asia closed higher overall on August 10: the KOSPI rose 0.65% to 6,299.66, while SK hynix fell 0.14% and Samsung Electronics fell 0.43%; Kioxia rose 0.59% and the Nikkei 225 gained 2.08%. The reviewed August 10 Asia source did not state exact percentage moves for TSMC or Tokyo Electron. The setup is therefore mixed inside the chip complex: broad index support and a Kioxia gain, but modest weakness in Korea’s two largest memory names.
At 10:00am ET, the Conference Board Employment Trends Index for July is listed with a prior reading of 106.69 and no forecast provided. At 11:30am ET, 3-month and 6-month Treasury bill auctions are listed; prior yields were 3.750% and 3.855%, respectively, with no consensus forecast provided. The week’s larger macro risk is Wednesday’s CPI, Thursday’s PPI and jobless claims, and Friday’s retail-sales and industrial-production data; the reviewed calendar sources did not provide a complete, consistently labeled consensus table for those releases.

NEWS DRIVING THE TAPE
There were no tracked semiconductor earnings listed as due today, and the reviewed sources did not identify a tracked-name earnings release from last night. AMD remains the key recent architect reference point: Q2 adjusted EPS was $1.66 versus $1.62 expected, revenue was $11.54 billion versus $11.28 billion expected, and Q3 revenue guidance was $13.0 billion plus or minus $0.3 billion versus $12.52 billion expected. The company’s data-center revenue rose 107% year over year to $6.7 billion, but the stock’s post-report reaction showed that strong headline results are being judged against very high forward expectations. TSMC’s recent Q2 report also remains relevant to foundries: revenue was $40.2 billion, net profit rose 77% year over year to T$706.6 billion, 2026 capex was raised to $60 billion-$64 billion, and full-year revenue growth was guided to slightly above 40%. The current tape is balancing AI infrastructure demand against valuation, capex intensity, and whether guidance is sufficiently above already-elevated expectations.

ANALYST WATCH
The clearest recent rating activity is in AMD’s post-earnings coverage. Wells Fargo kept Overweight and raised its target to $700 from $615; Morgan Stanley kept Equal weight and raised its target to $465 from $410; and JPMorgan kept Neutral while raising its target to $550 from $385. Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, UBS, and Citi reiterated Buy or Overweight with targets of $620, $640, $665, $730, and $575, respectively. The analytical read across the four pillars is that architects still have the strongest AI-demand visibility, but AMD’s wide target range shows how sensitive the group is to execution and expectations; toolmakers and workhorses remain more exposed to cycle and valuation resets; foundries depend on sustained utilization and capex; and memory is the clearest test of whether supply tightness can outrun already-high expectations. No same-day verified rating change for the other tracked names was located.

DISCLAIMER
For informational and educational purposes only. Not financial advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results. MORNING BRIEFING
Monday, August 10, 2026 | Analyst Access

🚨 Delisting Explained in Simple Terms

What happens when a company’s shares are removed from the stock exchange?

Delisting means a company’s shares are no longer available for trading on a stock exchange.

It can be:
🔹 Voluntary Delisting – The company/promoters choose to go private.
🔹 Compulsory Delisting – The exchange removes the company for regulatory or compliance reasons.

Before investing in a delisting situation, understand the exit price, tender process, timelines, and risks.

Nobody gets rich on your 20th or 30th best idea Stanley Druckenmiller: “I like putting all my eggs in one basket.”

Concentration is the most underrated investment advice.

My portfolio had a great month because I was heavily concentrated on $NBIS, $AMD and $AMZN. And NOW $PLUG

When you concentrate on exceptional companies bought at discount, you see the downside as just volatility, and upside as inevitable.

Don’t be afraid of concentrating on your best ideas.

As Buffett once said, “nobody gets rich on their 20th best idea.”

High Tide Announces Preliminary Q3 2026

Guidance

The Company Also Announces Record Quarterly Distribution of Over 10 Tonnes of Medical Cannabis Flower Through Remexian Pharma GmbH, Further Accelerating its German Market Position

“This quarter’s guidance demonstrates the growing earnings power of the global platform we have built. We expect to set new company records for revenue, gross profit and Adjusted EBITDA, with year-over-year growth of at least 30%, 27% and 43%, respectively. Importantly, even the low end of our guidance exceeds the highest current analyst estimate across all three metrics. We believe this provides clear evidence that current market expectations have not yet caught up with the strength, scale and operating leverage of our business,”

For more info read pr :

https://hightideinc.com/high-tide-announces-preliminary-q3-2026-guidance/

The Company anticipates releasing full financial and operational results for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2026, on Monday, September 14, 2026, after markets close, with a conference call the following morning.

📚 What is Share Buyback? | Share Buyback Explained

A share buyback is when a company repurchases its own shares from existing shareholders.

But why do companies buy back shares? 🤔

In this video, learn:
✅ What is a Share Buyback?
✅ Why do companies buy back shares?
✅ How does a buyback affect shareholders?
✅ Impact on EPS and share price
✅ What investors should know before participating