T alking about investing power, quite a few of us would have been involved in financial investments (i.e. deposits, mutual funds, shares, or other). We would have read about windfall gains made by investment gurus and conversely also heard/seen the major risks in equity investments . Let’s take a couple of big examples from the Indian IT space: Wipro and Infosys . The market enthusiasts would already know where I am leading this discussion to, and may want to skip the reading. But for the benefit of the general population, let’s understand how these companies fared since their inception for a shareholder . Case 1: Investing in Wipro What if you / your father could invest 100 shares of Wipro in the year 1980 and did nothing since then? Wipro was founded in 1941 with 17,000 equity shares and incorporated in 1945. As the base price or face value per share price used to be Rs 100 at that time. Assuming a minimum purchase of 100 shares (as was the norm in the era), ...
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