2021年7月24日

《环球邮报》书签请登录听这个故事。也可以在法语和中文。这个翻译已经自动生成和尚未验证的准确性。完全免责声明克里斯托弗Katsarov /《环球邮报》/《环球邮报》Shopify Inc .的股票继续运行,越过2000美元大关在多伦多证券交易所首次本周,创始人兼首席执行官Tobias Lutke从来没有富裕。电子商务软件提供商Lutke先生的股份现在价值13.3美元,或16.7美元加元。此外,股票销售记录显示Lutke先生已生成的总销售收入4.9亿美元的2020年年初以来,通过出售Shopify股票。他的股权可能使Lutke先生最富有的加拿大人,当然,它也使他最富有的加拿大公司创始人创造了自己的财富。Shopify和40岁的Lutke先生花了16年积累他的数十亿美元。他的股权价值约20亿美元就在两年前。故事继续下面的广告Shopify在纽约证券交易所上市5月20日,2015年在每股17美元。 It closed Friday at US$1,643.32. The stock’s recent run – it’s up more than 12 per cent this week alone – is due to increasing optimism over the company’s second-quarter earnings, to be released Tuesday morning. Analysts were worried early this year that the company would struggle to repeat its scorching growth pace of the past year, which resulted from the shift to online commerce during the pandemic. But recently many have backtracked from that view and upped their forecasts and price targets for Shopify stock. The consensus view is that Shopify will disclose that its June 30 quarter was the first in which it topped US$1-billion in revenue. It’s estimated about 10 per cent of all e-commerce traffic in the U.S. goes through stores hosted by Shopify, second only to Amazon.com Inc.’s 39 per cent. Richard Tse, an analyst with National Bank, this month raised his estimates and target share price to US$2,000 from US$1,650. He expects Shopify to report that the number of merchants it serves grew at one of its highest rates of the past two years. Paul Treiber of RBC Dominion Securities Inc. raised his target price on Friday to US$1,800 per share, from US$1,700, saying “the rally reflects improving investor sentiment that Shopify’s growth in the near-term would decelerate less than feared and greater confidence in Shopify’s long-term opportunity.” Guardian Funds, which owned US$117-million of Shopify as of its most recent disclosures, told clients in its second-quarter letter to investors it believes Shopify will have a US$1-trillion market capitalization before 2030, up from about US$200-billion today. (Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon and Alphabet Inc. are the only companies with that value today, with Facebook Inc. dancing around the mark.) Story continues below advertisement Mr. Lutke owns just under 7.5 million of Shopify’s special Class B shares, which allow their holders 10 votes per share. He also owns about 80,500 of the Class A shares, which trade on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges. Together, those holdings are worth about US$12.4-billion at Friday’s closing price. Mr. Lutke also has about 580,000 stock options worth about US$850-million, assuming they were exercised now (although some haven’t vested and are not available for sale). Of those, 403,348 were granted prior to the company’s 2015 IPO, are linked to the Class B multiple-voting shares and have an exercise price of US$6.22 apiece. They must be used by December, 2024. Mr. Lutke’s $490-million in stock sales since the beginning of 2020 have largely come from the exercise of stock options, meaning his pre-tax net proceeds were less than $490-million. He has been using a stock-sales plan that allows him to execute regularly scheduled transactions. Each week this month, he exercised 3,210 options for US$180.38 per share – a cost of US$579,019 – and sold the stock for gross proceeds of more than US$5-million. Trackers of the world’s wealthiest individuals list industrialist Jim Pattison; Anthony von Mandl, the creator of Mike’s Hard Lemonade; and Lululemon Athletica Inc. founder Chip Wilson among Canada’s richest. Joseph Tsai, a Taiwan-born Canadian citizen who lives in the United States and is a co-founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., has an estimated personal wealth of about US$10.5-billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. The seven grandchildren of media mogul Roy Thomson typically make the lists. Woodbridge Co. Ltd., the Thomson family holding company and controlling shareholder of Thomson Reuters, also owns The Globe and Mail. Story continues below advertisement Your time is valuable. Have the Top Business Headlines newsletter conveniently delivered to your inbox in the morning or evening. Sign up today . Your Globe