Chapter 19 Buying Microsoft?

Since the reputation of being rich as a "local tyrant brother from the Arab world" spread, countless fund investment banks and companies have come to the door in the hope of getting Jia Lei's investment shares.

But on this day, Jia Lei made an exception to see someone!

"I've been here a few times, but I've been blocked out of the community by the staff, but this time I can only see you after looking for Pete. The loyal Mr. Novan stood in front of Jia Lei and said.

If Novan hadn't come to the door by himself, Jia Lei would have almost forgotten him.

"Are you ready for what I want?" asked Jia Lei.

"Ready, it's all here. Novan pointed to the suitcase under his feet and said, because there are many stocks listed on the two exchanges, and the sorted information is more than 20 catties.

"On the left of the table are NYSE-listed stocks, and on the right of the table are NASDAQ stocks. Stocks with a red label are falling, and stocks with a green label are rising. As he spoke, Novan put the information in categories, and Jia Lei immediately walked over with interest.

Novan sorted out these stocks very carefully, not only made simple files for these stocks according to Jia Lei's requirements, but also divided them into different folders according to the type of stock plate and put them together.

Without hesitation, Jia Lei stretched out his hand to the stocks on the NASDAQ exchange, and after flipping through a few folders, he finally saw the Internet technology stocks he wanted.

Jia Lei was pleasantly surprised, took this folder and looked through it carefully, and finally an hour later, Jia Lei found seven or eight trademarks that he had seen in his previous life from the information of the two exchanges!

Yes, trademarks!

"Microsoft, Apple, IBM, McDonald's, Goldman Sachs, Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Intel, Amway...... Why is there no Amazon? Maybe it's not on the market yet!" Jia Lei said to himself in Chinese.

Fortunately, Apple, which Jia Lei cares about the most, has gone public, and Jobs has just arrived at Apple, and its stock price is less than $70.

This stock price has also nearly doubled compared to the beginning of the year! Jia Lei can't wait to come over to buy stocks as soon as he is reborn.

"Apple's stock is good, can I buy $100 million if I want to?" Jia Lei said.

"Boss, I'm afraid we won't be able to buy that many shares, and the company's Mr. Jobs, who launched a "pyramid" computer a few months ago, has sold very well, and now the company's stock is the hottest stock. Everyone keeps him in their hands and waits for the value to appreciate, and not many people are willing to sell!" said Pete, a professional investment advisor who knows a lot about the stocks in the stock market.

"I've heard that Microsoft's stock price is very low, less than a dollar, can I buy it? Both of them have good shares. Jia Lei then gave up on Apple and turned his head to Bill Gates' Microsoft.

"Some of the company's shares can be bought, and it is being investigated by the Anti-Monopoly Investigation Commission of Country M, but its stock price is not 1 yuan, but about 70 yuan! Now all technology stocks are rising sharply, and the stock prices of companies with the word "electronics" are rising! Many shareholders and funds that hold shares in these companies are refusing to sell their shares. Pete said that this situation is similar to the domestic deep development of reluctance to sell at a price.

"The stock price is different from the one you remember in your previous life?" Jia Lei just hesitated, he felt that the stock price of one or two yuan written in his previous life was probably the pre-resumption. Take the stock price of one share in 2017 back to the price of this stock in 1900! Some stock prices will be hundreds of times lower than the real stock price at that time!

When Jia Lei heard Pete say this, he set his eyes on the outliers in the technology stocks on the desktop, it was a thin folder, and Jia Lei opened this folder and fell down!

There are only a few thin pieces of information paper poured out of this folder of electronic technology stocks, and a large green label appears in the top conspicuous position, which is the only technology stock in the NASDAQ that has fallen against the trend.

"Didn't you say that all technology stocks with the word electronics are rising, so why did this company fall so badly? Looking at this stock price, it has fallen several times in a row, what does this company do?" Jia Lei saw a familiar trademark from these pieces of paper and picked it up and asked.

The stock market of country M has begun to recover from the crash after 1987, and the new darling technology stocks of the stock market are all rising rapidly, but the stock of this company has fluctuated violently and fallen sharply, and has fallen to the floor.

Mrs. Lerner, one of the founders of the company, had an intolerable temper, and the eight vice presidents of their company could not bear it and threatened to dismiss Mrs. Lerner from the board of directors in August. Novan glanced at the company's trademark and explained to Jia Lei responsibly that Jia Lei, who was drinking water, puffed the water in his mouth and choked on it.

"Mrs. Lerner is the founder and boss of the company, how could she be fired?" Jia Lei asked in disbelief.

"Oh, but we are in country M, and all the listed companies in country M are all public-owned companies, and they belong to all shareholders and shareholders at the same time, and the founder and chairman of the board of directors are all employees of the company, so naturally he can also be fired. Pete explained.

"So their company's stock price plummeted because of the dismissal of the founder?" Jia Lei asked in a special gossip, listening to gossip is much more interesting than listening to boring financial statements.

The fired Mrs. Lerner is one of the inventors of the company's only patented product, and she and her husband, Mr. Lerner, hold a total of 35.2% of the company's shares. I've heard that Mr. Lerner is also planning to leave the company, and that the two founders and inventors of the technology company are all leaving. It's no wonder that the stock price doesn't fall!" Pete said along with the gossip, which is almost a thing that everyone on Wall Street knows.

"I heard that Mrs. Lerner and his husband were planning to sell all their shares in the company and start a new one, so investors were very unoptimistic about the company's prospects, and the company's share price fell a lot. You know, this is a high-tech electronics company, and it needs professionals and inventors, not a group of businessmen. Novan analyzed, and Jia Lei nodded approvingly.

Since this kind of bizarre thing can happen to this company, then it will definitely have no future in the future, and the stock price should fall! Jia Lei thought of this, put its information aside, and after the gossip was over, he should do his right thing.

"I still have about $100 million in cash in my hand, and I order you to do your best to buy Microsoft stock for me now. $100 million! Buy all Microsoft shares. Jia Lei said in an accentuated voice on all two words.

"I'm afraid it's impossible to buy $100 million of the boss's shares, and his chairman and employees hold nearly 70 percent of the non-tradable shares! But I will do my best, the shares that are circulating in the market are about tens of millions of dollars in addition to those in the hands of various funds, and I can also contact some individual minority shareholders and company employees who have the company's original shares, but it will take time. Pete said.

Jia Lei breathed a sigh of relief, Microsoft is the stock with the biggest increase Jia Lei knows, and as long as he can buy Microsoft shares, he will definitely make money.

"Okay, let's do it for now, you put away the rest of the papers on the table and put them aside, maybe I'll use them later. After Jia Lei finished speaking, he went to write a check to Novan.

Pete stacked the documents in order at the table, and Jia Lei didn't know why he always subconsciously looked at him!

Obviously, he has decided to buy shares of Microsoft Corporation, but Jia Lei always feels that he has ignored something?

Jia Lei finally couldn't help but stand up and run to Pete's side after handing the check to Novan irritably, Jia Lei felt that there was a source of his troubles here.

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Jia Lei swept his gaze from the documents one by one, and finally set his eyes on the documents of the company that had gossiped about just now.

A little green in the red bush, it's really too conspicuous!

Jia Lei hesitated for a moment, but he still stepped forward to get the document again, just now he only cared about the gossip and didn't read the document carefully, and now he still feels that the big trademark on it is a little familiar.

In order to get a good night's sleep today, Jia Lei decided to find out about this annoying thing! So he opened his mouth to ask Pete about this company again, and this time he first had to find out the name of the company.

"Why do I always think this logo is familiar? What is the product that this company is famous for?Is there a subsidiary below?" Jia Lei asked Pete and Novan, pointing to the company's trademark.

"Sir, you think it is familiar, Cisco This is a group of English words in San Francisco (San Francisco), Cisco was originally established with the original intention of using the company's registered place as San Francisco as the name of the company, but according to the law of country m, no company shall use the city as the name of the product brand. In desperation, they can only use the last five letters of San Francisco to register, do you see that their company's trademark is clearly the San Francisco Bridge? Novan said.

Jia Lei felt his brain explode after hearing Cisco's pronunciation, Cisco ...... Cisco……

"Oh, God, boss, don't be kidding, this is just a small company that has just been established, where did it get its subsidiary! And this company has only one of its most famous products, and that is the network? If it weren't for the bizarre gossip of the board of directors firing the chairman and founder, the people on Wall Street wouldn't have noticed this small company. Pete said disdainfully.

Pete is a fund manager in the investment department of Citibank, and he has always looked down on such an unknown small company! However, because of the professional quality of a fund manager, he knows a little about every listed company.

"Production...... Computer networks? But the network is invisible...... How is it going to be produced?" Jia Lei asked flutteringly.

"The founders of their company wanted to connect computers through telephone wires like spider webs, and the Lerners invented a little box......