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Infosys said that as on March 31, 2006, N R Narayana Murthy owns 5.91 per cent stake in the company with 16,275,263 shares.
Nandan Nilekani and his family holds 4.09 per cent stake in Infosys with 11281321 shares worth over Rs 3500 crores. S Gopalakrishnan, COO of the company holds 3.97 per cent of the company and owns 10,932,330 shares, which is priced at over Rs 3500 crore.
Board of directors of the company together hold 54902931 shares which is 19.92 percent of the total holding in the company, which is valued over Rs 17,634 crore.
Just a 19.92% in the company adds up to a whopping Rs 17,634..............so can you actually imagine the total evaluation of the company .
The total evaluation of the deal was estimated at $7.6 billion.
The interesting thing is that prior to this deal Tata Steel was only the 56th largest producer of steel,now,its the 5th largest producer of steel in the world.
Another fact is that,this deal is amongst the top 5 deals witnessed in the steel industry over the last couple of years interms of evaluation,the biggest deal being the Arcelor-Mittal deal evaluated at $32 billion.