Hi, in this update the stock market is introduced. As you've seen some companies have public stock. That public stock can now be traded on the stock market.
The stock price is determined by a very simple algorithm. At the moment it takes into account company assets, liabilities and profitability. I don't want to disclose the exact details, but you can expect that companies that consistently earn more and have more assets(cash and assets) will cost more.
Some limitations on the new feature:
- At times the valuation can be imbalanced. I've seen company valuation go to 1$.
- Buying or selling stock doesn't affect it's price. As a CEO \ founder you can sell all of your stock and that won't change it's price. This is unrealistic: in real markets big transactions affect stock prices, CEO \ founder transactions affect them even more. This will be addressed in future updates.
Also ability to withdraw money from the company was added. This action is called paying out dividends. The money that is taken from company's cash reserves are distributed to shareholders proportionally to amount of shares that they own.
Now you can earn money by creating a successful company, withdraw the earnings and invest them into other companies.