Exploit

[SuboptimizedUtopia]

Little exploit: If you buy shares using your own money, the share price goes up. Do this immediately at the start of the game and the stock price should go up to $11.9. Next, issue as many share as possible and wait until the stock price goes below the book value per share, preferably when the p/b is at around 0.7, then pause the game and do a buyback. Since the stock price does not increase when you do a buyback and the bvps theoretically does, you will profit immensely (the game only updates it when you unpause).

Once you bought all the shares, watch the bvps and the stock price go up and wait until it reaches a p/b of 1.2 or more.

Rinse and repeat a few times and you should have a net worth of 200mil within a year or two. This is very useful when you set the game so the difficulty/competitiveness of local competitors and corporations are extremely high.

[Sir Scarfalot]

Sounds similar to the almighty Chicken Gambit.

What I do is I buy my own stock, pressuring it upwards, then do the thing where I issue crazy amounts of shares. As many as possible, and get a bank loan for the 10 mil.

Build an HQ, HR department, a large farm (set to produce froz chicken and eggs), and a supermarket. Take a couple days to ensure all the units are connected the way they should be, make sure internal sale is yes, set prices to at-cost except the retail which should be equal to local competition’s price, and set advertising to 0 for now.

Then use the HR department to intensive train everyone until the farm is at full level 9 and blue employees. Once the now quality 100 meat and eggs hits the shelves, advertise your butt off and set training on the supermarket to high.

At this point, your huge training expenditure means your finances look like hell; the P/E on your stocks looks like you’ll go bankrupt within months if not days, so your stock price will drop precipitously. You want this to happen. If it’s moving slowly, try and lose more money by setting up R&D and raising the training bar there. The chicken will make fat stacks of cash *very* fast, so even though your ‘profit’ seems bad, you’re fine. Once your stock value drops below about $5 per, buy yourself back ASAP off the chicken money, lowering training and advertising for a quicker cash boost. You’ll promptly own yourself and easily dominate a solid chunk of the chicken products market in a city. Don’t forget to pay back your bank loan after you own yourself!

From there, you’re basically set, but what I’ve found is that you can easily set up your initial R&D to research the old standard foundation of plastic, cold/cough/headache, eyeshadow, toiletcleaner, toothpaste, etc. and expand into that market with its insane profit margins and easy supply chain. With that, buy your advertising, max advertising in everything, build a 3x3 R&D for every researchable product, and dominate every industry within about 20 years~