I heard that the margins in Medical retailing are quite higher owing to multiple layers and even Doctors that prescribe a medicine gets their own commissions. But I never had a clue of how much the effective total margin would be for the whole distribution chain.

While I was searching for multi-vitamin capsules sold in India for a price comparison and hit the page at Ind-Swift Healthcare  where the firm mentioned the MSRP and price to super stockist (or the first level distribution as per my understanding).

The prices vary for different items. Injectable are the lowest, where MSRP is just about 50-100% higher than the super stockist price. But when it comes to tablets and capsules, the margins are as high as 1000% to 1200% and some nutrients are still higher.

Can’t believe? Check for youself here :  IndSwift

No wonder, Doctors always prescribe a certain medication for a variety of choices.

This post was published from my iphone using the new wordpress app on iPhone. App is pretty cool, though very elementary.

When a sprinter runs the race and win a gold medal despite a whole bunch of odds, but misses the commentators expectations by 1/100th of a second, who is wrong? The commentator? or the athlete? Who should get punished? Do we respect the athlete for his/her performance or based on how commentators view the whole event?

In the wall street, always, the athlete gets punished. Even when they miss, Analysts continue to sell their reports and analysis, by writing why companies did not meet their expectations. What a spin?

Does every investor in Wall Street do their own due diligence and trade stocks or do so based on TV Shows and projections from salaried Analysts that write reports. When Analysts forecasts are not met, why media always points to the company and say the company failed. Why don’t they even doubt the analyst’s report that report missed the projections.

Company Results: Google net income grew by 35% to $1.25. 

Wall Street Reaction: Google, You missed my projections, You failed. Shares fall by almost 10%

On Friday, Google announced its results for the second quarter. Despite the falling markets and thrifty spending by many companies, Google racked up its income, an increase of 35%.

Google’s net income grew 35 percent, to $1.25 billion, or $3.92 a share, compared with $925 million, or $2.93 a share, in the second quarter of 2007. Revenue climbed 39 percent, to $5.37 billion, from $3.87 billion a year earlier.

Google Earnings Are Below Forecasts, and Shares Fall - NYTimes.com

Company: Citigroup reports $2.5B in losses

WallStreet Reaction: Citigroup, you missed my projection too. You failed. I am surprised. Shares of Citigroup rose $1.38, or about 8 percent, to $19.35

For the quarter Citigroup lost 54 cents a share, and reported write-downs of $7.2 billion on its investments. On the consumer debt front, the bank also announced $4.4 billion in net credit losses and $2.5 billion to increase credit reserves.

NYTimes Article

Its very funny to look at job advertisements for Software Developers, particularly in the enterprise. Many times those requirements look like are actually written by completely non-technical business managers, who have no clue about what they really need.

And its quite shocking that many IT consultants garnish their resumes to fit to that profile. They get short listed, interviewed and selected to work on those projects. Something, I have been trying hard to understand, but so far, clearly running out of luck.

See a sample requirement I just received:

The requirement says they need an experienced IT Professional with 10 years of solid IT development experience with the following skill set:

“Development Life Cycle, C++, Oracle (SQL & PL/SQL), Java (JDK 1.4/1.5), J2EE , Servlets, JSP, JDeveloper, Client/Server, Intranet, Internet, Multi tier enterprise applications, CVS, UNIX, Oracle Application Server, Twiki, Windows & Unix OS, JDBC, HTML, UML, XML, XSLT, HTML, XMLSpy 3.5 Tools, Schema, HTTP & JavaScript.

Any clue, who are they looking for?