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Wealth creation - past and future

What's special about our annual Wealth 100 exercise

Wealth creation – past and future

Surely, the goal of any equity investment is to create wealth. Therefore, a hunt for the greatest wealth creators must be for the most profitable stocks. What's so special about wealth creation, you might ask? If a stock makes you money, then it's creating wealth. What else is there to wealth creation? To answer that question, think of what the word 'wealth' implies, in contrast to being merely well-off or even prosperous. Wealthy means someone who has a lot of money and has had it for a long time, generally spanning more than one generation. Or, to use a more contemporary term, it means seriously rich. Therein lies the difference between just choosing stocks that have made money and those that can create wealth consistently. Unlike most such analyses, 'Wealth Insight' looks for India's most consistent wealth creators. In our selection and analysis methodology, we give heavy weightage to consistency. If two stocks gene


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