Chapter 710: Wheat Rape
Boeing is like a spinning top that has been whipped, and it suddenly runs rapidly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Everyone knows whether Boeing will eat and drink spicy food or grit its teeth and struggle in the next ten years, I am afraid it all depends on whether this time can prevent McDonnell Douglas from being acquired by Grumman.
For a large enterprise like Boeing, the sense of belonging of middle-level and low-level managers, and even front-line workers is very high. When it comes to such a major event as one's own job, the execution is of course extraordinary.
Funds from various branches and subsidiaries were quickly pooled, and the investors and shareholders mobilized by Schreinz weighed the pros and cons and began to prepare additional capital to support Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas.
Boeing's preparations, after a series of information disclosures, quickly set off a wave of upward movement in the stock market.
If Boeing is able to successfully acquire McDonnell Douglas, the advantages will be quite clear. Digesting McDonnell Douglas' production capacity and completely controlling the North American market, Boeing will completely surpass Airbus and become the No. 1 in the commercial aircraft market.
Affected by this, some institutions and investors tend to be optimistic about Boeing's future development, so they have begun to increase their investment in Boeing stocks.
The results were mixed, and the requirement that public companies should publicly execute their strategies quickly alerted Grumman and McDonnell Douglas. On the other hand, the rising stock price has made Boeing more attractive to McDonnell Douglas shareholders for a share swap.
McDonnell Douglas is not entirely supportive of Grumman's acquisition, after all, judging from the current state of McDonnell Douglas, some people believe that it needs not only capital and market, but also institutional and technological innovation.
To put it bluntly, there is no shortage of so-called "wheat traitors" among McDonnell Douglas' shareholders, and the tone and public knowledge are actually similar.
McDonnell Douglas went from being neck with Boeing to third place, and the widespread rout in the commercial aircraft market seemed to some insiders to be a bit of a "stereotyped" tendency.
Look at how well other people's Boeing 737 and 747 are sold? And what about our McDonnell Douglas? Originally, McDonald and Douglas were two losers huddled together to keep warm, and it was normal for them to not be able to beat the rich and handsome Boeing.
Now that there is such an opportunity, people who have been reincarnated as Boeing should certainly seize it.
As for the Chinese's orders? If McDonnell Douglas merges with Boeing, will the Chinese still have a choice? Left and right are rotten meat in the pot, and the hope thrown to the aviation industry Boeing is not more beneficial to the United States?
With this in mind, McDonnell Douglas's internal intention to acquire Boeing must not be said to be monolithic.
On the contrary, with antipathy to Chinese interference in large American companies like McDonnell Douglas, many people support Boeing's plan to buy McDonnell Douglas.
After all, compared with McDonnell Douglas being acquired by Grumman, it is foreseeable that the initiative of the aviation manufacturing industry in the United States will lose a considerable part and be held by the Chinese, who have always looked down on it. And once Boeing wins McDonnell Douglas, no one in the world will be able to shake the Americans' superiority in aviation.
The initiative is something that cannot be seen or touched, but no one can deny its importance.
Although Boeing cannot explicitly promote the "zhongguo threat theory", this does not affect it from using it to hype up some concepts and obtain power and financial support from the industry, investors, and relevant government departments.
When Boeing raised the banner of defending the power of the United States in the aviation manufacturing industry, there was more support for it, both openly and covertly.
McDonnell Douglas's internal shareholders are not all living in a vacuum, except for McDonnell Douglas's shares, who has no other businesses and shares in other enterprises? Not to mention some investment institutions, decision-making is often more influenced by the overall background of the industry.
With its own soaring stock price, Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas has made considerable progress in a short period of time. Some small shareholders of McDonnell Dalwell Douglas happily exchanged their McDonnell Douglas shares for Boeing shares at a premium of 50% to 100%. Transformed from the precarious McDonnell Douglas, a broken ship, to the sky-high Boeing, an aircraft carrier.
With a few good demonstrations at the beginning, Boeing went on to take several larger investor stakes. Boeing's stake in McDonnell Douglas quickly crossed the 10% threshold, posing a real threat to Grumman's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas.
Boeing's sudden entry apparently cast a shadow over the acquisition between Grumman and McDonnell Douglas, but in fact the price paid by Boeing itself was not very large.
Although it was necessary to buy the shares in the hands of the minority shareholders of McDonnell Douglas at a premium, the rise in Boeing's shares during this period also added a lot of profits to investors. The gain from the rising stock price minus the loss from the replacement of McDonnell Douglas shares is not necessarily a loss.
Such a surprise result made Boeing full of motivation for the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas.
Philcondit is majestic these days, and as the No. 2 person in the company who was a technician, his original position was somewhat embarrassing. In areas such as production and technological development, he has many supporters. But in areas such as business and management, his influence is relatively weak.
However, in the operation of the acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, Philcondit undoubtedly swiped a wave of prestige within the company.
As the promoter of Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas, he is a key figure in this Boeing acquisition plan.
Persuade shareholders to support the share expansion and share swap, and choose shareholders who can support Boeing's additional investment. Analyze the minority shareholders within McDonnell Douglas who can sell their shares, and then negotiate with them one by one......
Philcondit's ability to act in business has impressed many people within Boeing. It can be said that with this performance, Philcondit took over as president after Schreinze's retirement, and it seems that it is already a sure thing.
"Thank you, Mr. Byron, for your support of Boeing. Trust me, your investment will pay off even more. ”
"Of course. ”
As a minority shareholder of 0.8 percent of McDonnell Douglas, Byron never imagined that he would be personally received by Boeing's vice president. "Mr. Condit, I believe the United States should have a stronger roster in the aerospace industry," he said excitedly. ”
"Grumman's kind of company can't make McDonnell Douglas really strong. They will only give McDonnell Douglas commercial aircraft projects to the Chinese, just as they willingly sell the little blue pill for the Chinese. Such an enterprise should not get McDonnell Douglas, and the US aviation industry should not look at the face of the Chinese. On the contrary, we must teach the Chinese a lesson that aviation is always the territory of the Americans!"
Philcondit looked serious and nodded sympathetically: "I understand what Mr. Byron means, and this is exactly why Boeing has to stand up." If there's one company that can save the American aviation industry, it's us. This is Boeing's mission, and with great power comes great responsibility. ”
Speaking of this, Philcondit suddenly smiled, patted Byron's arm, and said meaningfully: "From today on, Boeing's responsibility will also fall on Mr. Byron." ”
"Haha, it's incumbent!" Byron burst out laughing.
After the exchange of 0.8% of McDonnell Douglas's shares, the two sides negotiated that he received 0.45% of Boeing's shares. Despite the decline in shareholdings, Byron's personal wealth has risen by at least 50 percent. If you add in the still-rising premium on Boeing's stock, the final earnings could be doubled.
If Boeing can successfully acquire McDonnell Douglas, then the value of his 0.45% Boeing stake may be seven or eight times higher than McDonnell's 0.8%.
All lip service morality is fake, only business is real. Don't look at Byron acting like a Texas red neck, but in fact, if there is not enough earnings to expect, do you think he will just transfer his shares to Boeing?
Byron pulled Filcondit and said two more pleasantries, and then "reluctantly" said goodbye and left. When Byron walked into the elevator and left, an anxious staff member quietly walked up to Filcondit and whispered a word to him.
In the conference room of the acquisition project team, McDonnell Douglas has just taken a 0.8% stake, and it stands to reason that it should be a sigh of relief.
However, none of the staff who were busy coming in and out at this time could show a relaxed expression on their faces.
"What's going on?"
Philcondette hurried in, his face sinking like water.
"What's going on?" Philcondit saw that no one in the conference room had responded to him, so he had to raise his voice and ask again.
His dissatisfied look was already beyond words.
"Mr. Condit, our Boeing stock price stopped its upward trend after the market opened today. And just now......"
A young man with unkempt hair stood up in a panic, and as he spoke, he broke the computer monitor in front of him to face Filcondit, and then pointed to a red line above.
"Boeing's stock price has just fallen below today's opening price just now. Not only that, but there is no sign of stopping the decline at the moment. The huge selling orders in the market have put a lot of pressure on our stock price. ”
"Sell?" Philcondit frowned, and a nervous feeling inexplicably arose in his heart.
How can there be selling? In today's stock market, it stands to reason that they should all support Boeing, right? Wall Street cannot be happy to see Chinese control of the US aerospace industry. And where else but Wall Street has the large number of stocks needed to crush Boeing's stock price?
China's capital market is so special that Wall Street has never been able to find an opportunity to enter China. They will inevitably be wary of China's uncontrollable economy. And once this uncontrollable capital enters any of the Wall Street-controlled capital markets, it will disrupt the rhythm and cause unpredictable chaos.
Therefore, the decline in Boeing's stock price should not be the work of those financial conglomerates on Wall Street...... Right?