Definition
The total number of shares publicly owned and available for trading, excluding restricted shares held by company insiders.
In Panel Profits
The percentage of a comic issue's total certified census that actively trades in public auctions each year, versus copies locked in permanent private vaults or institutional collections.
Comic-market example
Action Comics #1 has only ~78 certified copies known on the CGC/CBCS census. With an average of only 2 public sales per year, its Asset Float Velocity is an ultra-scarce ~2.5%.
Calculation
Scarcity Velocity (%) = (Annual Public Auction Sales / Total Certified Census Population) × 100
Common mistakes
Do not treat raw estimated print runs as active circulating float.