A 9,500% Stock Surge Turns Janitors Into Millionaires in China

  • Sunny Optical’s unusual move enriched about 400 workers
  • The stock is one of the world’s best performers since 2008
Janitors Are Becoming Millionaires Thanks to This Stock’s 9,500% Rally
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At most big companies, it’s pretty clear who the millionaires are: top executives, rainmakers, science whizzes with PhDs.

But at China’s Sunny Optical Technology Group -- whose stock has climbed faster than any other in MSCI Inc.’s global indexes over the past decade -- the richest employees are just as likely to be factory workers, janitors and cafeteria chefs.