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In 2006, Infosys bought out Citibank's share at a price of ₹592 per share, Citibank having invested at ₹0.20 per share. [4] It opened its first international office in Brno, Czech Republic in 2004 to support its European clients. In 2006, its employee strength reached 10,000 and its name was changed from Progeon Limited to Infosys BPO Limited.
In India, Infosys shares are listed on the BSE, where it is a part of the BSE SENSEX, and on the NSE, where it is included in the NIFTY 50 index. [53] Infosys also trades its shares through American depositary receipts (ADRs) on the New York Stock Exchange. [54] Over the years, the shareholding of Infosys's promoters has steadily decreased.
The NIFTY 50 index is a free float market capitalisation-weighted index.. Stocks are added to the index based on the following criteria: [1] Must have traded at an average impact cost of 0.50% or less during the last six months for 90% of the observations, for the basket size of Rs. 100 Million.
The company was incorporated as "Infosys Consultants Pvt Ltd.", with Raghavan's house in Model Colony, north-central Pune as the registered office. [1] Raghavan is the first official employee of the Infosys company and he retired as joint managing director in 2000. After retiring from Infosys, he worked as a chairman at Murugappa Group for one ...
An issue of bonus shares is referred to as a bonus share issue. A bonus issue is usually based upon the number of shares that shareholders already own. [2] (For example, the bonus issue may be "n shares for each x shares held"; but with fractions of a share not permitted.) While the issue of bonus shares increases the total number of shares ...
Murthy was the CEO of Infosys for 21 years from 1981 to 2002 [29] and was succeeded by co-founder Nandan Nilekani. [31] At Infosys he articulated, designed and implemented a global delivery model for IT services outsourcing from India. [32] He was the chairman of the board from 2002 to 2006, after which he also became the chief mentor.
The main effect of stock splits is an increase in the liquidity of a stock: [3] there are more buyers and sellers for 10 shares at $10 than 1 share at $100. Some companies avoid a stock split to obtain the opposite strategy: by refusing to split the stock and keeping the price high, they reduce trading volume.
Infosys Consulting is a management consulting, IT consulting practice within the larger Infosys organization which works in strategy, IT transformation, change management and business analytics. Infosys Consulting operates globally and currently has offices in 18 countries across the Americas, Asia Pacific and Europe.