Chapter 257: Huawei Wants to Be Sold?
Ma Xi temporarily lived in Ye Dongqing's house because of jet lag, she didn't sleep well last night, and after the luxury apartment on the upper floor of Puchuan Building was vacant for nearly a month, someone finally moved in again.
Even if the island next to Long Island is renovated, Ye Dongqing does not plan to sell this apartment, it is upstairs of Freshwater Investment Group, and it is on Fifth Avenue, located in the core area of Midtown Manhattan.
After coming to Tamsui Investment Group, he plunged into piles of documents, approving financial reports, tax statements and everything that need to be signed by him, the owner of the company, signing is not troublesome, but it is more troublesome to review, you don't need to look carefully one by one, but you still need to understand the general situation.
Time into 2004, this time of the Tamsui investment group, and last year is not the same, the main business is still all kinds of investment, mainly investment in various Internet companies, spending half of the total assets under management, an Apple company before and after the investment of nearly two billion US dollars, in addition to corporate bonds and treasury bonds, set aside a part of cash, about one billion US dollars, and part of the money is invested in the commodity trading market, mainly refers to crude oil futures.
Since Ye Dongqing opened a position, the current profit scale hovered around 700 million US dollars, after experiencing the last surge, it is necessary to lay the foundation for the next wave of market, the oil price fluctuations in the past two weeks are not big overall, the long-term rise in the market can be expected, Ye Dongqing has the patience to wait slowly, a professional team in the company 24 hours a day to help him pay attention to all the trends in the crude oil market, he looked at the information, and did not find any problems for the time being.
In this pile of documents, he flipped through a relatively interesting record, and at the moment he took a closer look at the folder in his hand, and was surprised to find that in January, Motorola actually signed an acquisition contract worth $7.5 billion with the Huawei he knew, and Motorola tried to acquire Huawei as a whole.
This surprised Ye Dongqing, in his memory, this company should have no external shareholders, all the shares are concentrated in the hands of Huawei's executives and employees, which is also one of the reasons why Huawei will be crowded out in the future, if there is Wall Street capital, or which Silicon Valley company holds a large amount of Huawei shares, the situation will definitely become different, and most of the shares will not encounter such strong resistance when opening up the global market.
However, the document in his hand, clearly recorded the news that Motorola was about to acquire Huawei as a whole, Ye Dongqing did not know whether this incident had happened in his previous life, but now it did happen, he was surprised by this, and hurriedly called the secretary team to ask them to help collect all the news about the acquisition, especially the recent transaction trends, to be honest, he is more interested in this company, but he already has so many shares in Apple, it is not necessary to invest, if possible, it will be a good thing to obtain some shares through financing。
In this era, Huawei was indeed almost sold, selling for about $7.5 billion, and the deal has come to an end, just waiting for the new Motorola CEO to nod and agree.
Today's Huawei is not the Huawei of the future, the mobile phone business has not yet been carried out, the competitors are mainly the American Cisco, and in the lawsuit with Cisco, it is almost overwhelmed, the business is tepid, it is still profitable, but the influence is not much, it is just an ordinary technology company.
Ye Dongqing quickly got feedback, and his subordinates told him that in January this year, Mr. Mike Zafirowski, chief operating officer of Motorola, and Larry Chen, who is in charge of Huaxia business, negotiated the acquisition with the general manager of Huawei on Nanhai Island. Zafirowski resigned as CEO of Motorola Group, mainly because of the large volatility in Motorola's stock price caused by the failure to release a new mobile phone as promised during last Christmas, and the failure to meet expectations in full-year earnings growth, forcing this guy to resign voluntarily to appease the board of directors and shareholders at large.
And not because the other party was a little beauty, he was polite to this junior of Mr. Bernard Madoff, lit a cigar and cocked Erlang's legs, and his tone was slightly impatient: "Tell me the key point directly, how is the progress of this deal now? The new CEO of Motorola still intends to buy it?"
Elizabeth Madoff has successfully come to Freshwater Investment Group for an internship through the relationship of the old Bernard, because Ye Dongqing has been absent from New York for a long time some time ago, so the two have not met much, counting the last meeting, this is only the second time.
She paused slightly, and then said: "No, according to the information I just learned from the consulting company, the executives of Motorola Group do not seem to approve of this transaction, the project has been temporarily shelved, they believe that the acquisition will cost too much cash, and the recent financial situation of Motorola Group does not seem to be very good, and intends to focus on the mobile phone business." ”
"That's amazing!"
Ye Dongqing is really happy, although the process has been changed, so he does not know whether Huawei will develop into a communications industry giant that can directly compete with Cisco like the Huawei in his memory, which does not prevent him from having a whim, trying to cut off the beard halfway, and trying to contact Huawei's senior management to see if he can get some shares.
Originally, when he was in Pengcheng, he subconsciously thought that Huawei would not accept financing from the United States, so he didn't talk to them at all, but now he found that things were not as simple as he imagined, so he started to think carefully and prepared to buy another potential stock.
Pointing to the small wine cabinet casually, he asked Elizabeth Madoff to bring him a bottle of beer, and he continued to speak: "Thank you, you go and help me find Mr. McCord, and by the way, help confirm this news from Motorola, there should be publicly disclosed information, right, Motorola is a listed company, please let me know after confirming that it is correct." ”
Long before Elizabeth came to work, old Madoff had a deep conversation with this Jewish girl, not because he had ill intentions towards Ye Dongqing, but that the old man hoped that she could successfully take down Ye Dongqing.
For the first time in her life, Elizabeth lost confidence in her appearance, because Ye Dongqing didn't pay attention to her at all, just like other people in the company, as a woman, she was somewhat concerned about this, and smiled and replied: "Mr. McCord is on his way back from Washington, you should know, the meeting organized by the Securities and Exchange Commission ......"