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Alcon (ALC) Short Percentage of Float


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What is Alcon Short Percentage of Float?

Short Percentage of Float is the percentage of shares shorted compared to the float.

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Competitive Comparison of Alcon's Short Percentage of Float

For the Medical Instruments & Supplies subindustry, Alcon's Short Percentage of Float, along with its competitors' market caps and Short Percentage of Float data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Alcon's Short Percentage of Float Distribution in the Medical Devices & Instruments Industry

For the Medical Devices & Instruments industry and Healthcare sector, Alcon's Short Percentage of Float distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alcon's Short Percentage of Float falls into.



Alcon (ALC) Business Description

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Alcon is one of the leading visioncare companies in the world. Following nine years as a Novartis subsidiary, it was spun off as a public company in April 2019. Alcon operates in two segments: visioncare and surgical. Visioncare comprises contact lenses, lenscare solutions, and a suite of ocular health products. With brands like Dailies, Total1, and Air Optix, Alcon controls one fourth of the U.S. contact lens market. Surgical comprises intraocular lenses, ophthalmic surgical equipment, and consumables used during surgeries. Its main products include Centurion, a phacoemulsification device used during cataract surgeries, and a portfolio of IOLs including PanOptix and Vivity. Alcon has one of the largest installed bases of eye surgical equipment in the world.