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Wealth Creators - Episode 4

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A IT company, A Paint Company, A Bank and what now? Look around your house, You will find one. Above the Air conditioner that conditions the temperature of your room, near that LED TV, may be next to the refrigerator... That Saucer plate like thing gadget that guards your electrical appliances from the shocks by stabilizing the power supply..  Please guess what I am talking about! Okay, Here is another clue -  Oh yeah! The Stabilizer and today's Wealth Creator is  V-Guard Industries. I myself did not know so much about this company until my Ex-Manager popped up this name. This is his Ex-company. Ex-Manager's Ex-Company, Weird ?! ? Aaargh!   A Look into the history of V-Guard -  Started in 1977, when Kochouseph Chittilappilly set out to build a brand in the Indian electric and electronic goods industry Started with a small manufacturing unit for voltage stabilizers, a capital of Rs.100,000 and two employees the company now has over 500 distributors, 30,000 retaile

Understanding the Share Price - II

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                                          In the earlier blog , we saw that share price of a company is the function of the Profits that the company makes and the no of equity shares it has. Lower Equity shares and higher profits would mean a very high share price (MRF, EIcher Motors) and vice versa.  As simple as it can get.  Now we will see why the share price goes up and down putting its holders on a roller coaster, a ride that not many are adept handling.   As said earlier, If a company is earning 10 per share and an investor is ready to pay 10 times its earnings ( i.e.,) then the share price will work out to be 100. But World and life is not so simple and as are markets. Life, world and markets are all built on hopes. Hope that tomorrow will be better than today, hope that one's view of things will be win over other's view of same thing. Lets look at how things work in actual world by looking two different companies.  The Price Keeps going up -  VAKRANJEE SOFTWARE

The Rule of 15!

                       Nothing gives you more joy than doing you what you love to do. The joy increases many-fold when people follow up on you to do the most lovable thing you do! You feel special. Last week, We missed to publish our blog. That's when we realized that "Silence is louder than noise". This time our silence was returned by noise of our beloved readers asking - " Where is this week's blog? Did you forget to it share with me? " When the noise is made by readers that counts upwards of 10,000, the Love is "heart-deafening", we should tell you. Before I move on, thanks to everyone of the 10,000 readers for following us and supporting our "Droplet" like small venture.  More than this, there are couple of friends who ping us to check whether the blog is up for the week and few go an extra mile by providing unbiased view of the blog, You guys are fantastic!  Whats up for this week then -  Sticking to 10,000 still, in a book cal