‘Your funeral won’t have 10 followers’: Investor owning 1 share stuns microcap AGM

A virtual annual general meeting of GKB Ophthalmics, a microcap firm in the medical equipment segment, has gone viral on social media after a shareholder who reportedly owns just one share launched a strongly worded attack on the company’s management.

The video, widely circulated by several X users in their posts, shows investor Abhishek Kalra confronting the company’s leadership over performance and governance issues.

According to the video, Kalra began by acknowledging the company’s officials for giving him a chance to speak but quickly shifted to expressing frustration at being allotted only one minute to raise his concerns.

His remarks then grew more forceful as he addressed the board and specifically targeted the company’s Managing Director, Krishna Gopal Gupta.

Kalra invoked a religious reference during his speech, stating that those who fail to return investors’ money and act with ill intentions face repercussions in future lives. He went on to directly question Gupta’s credentials despite his claim of more than 40 years in the ophthalmic industry.“You claim to have decades of experience and have also set up corporate bodies abroad, but they have never delivered profits,” Kalra said, before concluding with a stinging remark: “When your funeral procession passes, not even ten shareholders will follow behind you.”The shareholder ended his statement by demanding that Gupta step down within 10 days, declaring, “You must resign in 10 days because you cannot run the show.”Towards the end of the video, Gupta, visibly exasperated, can be heard asking company officials about Kalra’s stakeholding. A female voice responded that Kalra held only one share in the company, adding an unexpected twist to the exchange that further fueled the clip’s circulation on social media.

GKB Ophthalmics share price history

The viral episode comes at a time when the company’s stock has delivered weak returns over the medium and long term. Over the past one year, shares of GKB Ophthalmics have fallen 32.27%, while the year-to-date performance stands at a negative 18.38%. The six-month trend also reflects a decline of 2.44%. Over a two-year horizon, the stock has registered a 12.86% loss.

In the short term, however, there has been some recovery, with a 10.51% rise in the past three months.

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