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Public Corporation Questions

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uristmcstokes

All worlds
23 Jul 2016 01:44Link
Hello everyone, new here and any help would be appreciated.

So i now have a few nicely profitable corporations within my country. They became eligible for IPO's and so i went ahead and made them public. Their profits have most certainly gone up. My questions stem from how having my corporations as public can help me?

As far as i could tell, when they go public, even when i control them, i lose my profit share that i normally get from state controlled corps, so thats bad.

Also, correct me if im wrong, i don't think i get the apparently high payments you normally get outside of taxes from private corporations?

So im wondering where i gain anything from the corporation going public whilst still firmly in my control? Is it mainly from dividends from my owned shares or something?

From what i have looked at, it seems to suggest the best way to go is to try and get an enterprise to buy a controlling share of th
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Zen

All worlds
23 Jul 2016 06:05Link
There is so much to say about when you ipo corporations and what the pros/cons are.

Pros
You get paid for the shares you sell, directly towards your country/enterprise the corporation belongs to.
Once and if the corporation becomes truly public meaning no controlling country/enterprise has at/over 25% shares( this does not include investment funds )your corporation can upgrade to 250 quality and efficiency, which if done with a lot of corporations can greatly free up more workers to put in more corporations. Also the profitability of truly public corporations is much higher then state or even enterprise controlled corporations.
If you have an empire with 3 or more countries you can buy your own shares in investment funds between countries which are paid out to your workers increasing income tax and population spending.

Cons
You can not manually put in or take out cash in public corporations. If they are making loss