The future, by default, il is empty, il is dark. However, some managers strongly believe in the resilience, vitality and profitability of the companies they manage. They prefer pleasant numbers in a bank account to no less pleasant rustling pieces of paper - stocks.
In addition to the purely monetary value, shares carry another significant function - they are tools in the struggle for power. There are frequent cases when the head of the company generously pours out enough shares to the manager, turning him from an ordinary worker into a millionaire in the blink of an eye.
The Russian Forbes, regularly pleasing readers with interesting numbers from the life of Russian oligarchs, has compiled another rating, this time of the richest shareholders from among the leaders.
- First of all, Forbes determined which companies can boast the highest revenue this year (based on stock exchange quotes dated October 10, 2017).
- Then, 85 persons were selected from the staff of these 300 companies, who had to meet the following criteria: to be a leader or to be in the past (but in this case, to remain an active member of the board of directors); hold on their hands no more than 10% of the authorized capital of the company.
- And already out of these 85 individuals, twenty top managers were formed, possessing the most valuable shares in the Russian market.
Here's what the top 20 owners of the most expensive equity stakes in Russia look like.
Interestingly, the leaders of state and semi-state enterprises are in no hurry to exchange money for shares. Of the entrepreneurs included in the top 20, there are only three.
And only one head of the state-owned company was in the top ten - this is Igor Sechin, Rosneft’s executive director. However, even he is in no hurry to increase his share in his own enterprise. Apparently, the trauma from the fall in the price of his shareholding in 2014 still responds with pain in his heart and wallet.
The same applies to the leaders of other significant enterprises in the public sector - both to Gazprom and Sberbank. Perhaps the same fears are experienced by both the Kamaz CEO and a member of the Rostelecom board of directors, since not one of them seeks to increase the number of shares in their company in ownership.
A completely different picture in the non-state sector - its managers either have a high degree of confidence in the future of their company, or its owner simply pours out shares to them with a generous hand, as, for example, Andrei Melnichenko, who gave Dmitry Sterzhnev, number 1 rating, a ten percent package.
This is not the first case for Melnichenko - he also treated Vladimir Rashevsky, the general director of SUEK. True, he handed him not 10%, but only 7.8%, which did not prevent Vladimir from taking the fifth place in the rating of Russian holders of the most expensive shareholdings of 2017. And Dmitry Konov (fourth place in the rating) owes his wealth to billionaire Leonid Mikhelson. What is more here - personal talents, generosity or undercover fuss - is up to the reader to decide.
