Chapter 529: Starry Sky (5)

Chapter 529: Starry Sky (5)

Without giving the reporter a chance to ask questions, Li Keqing quickly threw out the second bombshell: "As the price for Mr. Buffett's stake in the Star Group, Mr. Buffett's 5.2% of the shares will be officially owned by the Star Group, and the Star Group will currently hold 50.2% of Apple's shares, officially completing the holding of Apple Co., Ltd., and Apple will officially become one of the holding subsidiaries of the Star Group."

"Boom", if Li Keqing's first news just now made the scene a little scorching, then this second news is like throwing a white phosphorus incendiary bomb down, and the scene suddenly became violent and crazy, although as early as when Star Group got 45% of Apple's shares, some people had predicted today's ending, but after all, it was just a prediction, and although 5% of the stock seems to be a small number, it also depends on what kind of company.

Now Apple's market capitalization is hundreds of billions of dollars, and five percent is already a pretty large number, but just when everyone was guessing when that day would come, they didn't expect the Star Group to complete the acquisition so soon, which is not counted, and it seems that there is another news, that is, Buffett seems to have entered the board of directors of the Star Group through a share exchange.

Warren Buffett is the first foreigner to enter the board of directors of the Star Group, although everyone doesn't quite understand how this is done, but the Star Group has not let anyone take advantage of it since its inception, and it is obvious that Buffett has shed a lot of blood. The news of Apple's successful acquisition by Star Group is like a worldwide earthquake, shaking people all over the world a little confused.

A super company with a market capitalization of nearly $300 billion was bought over like this? Everyone is trying to digest the news, but some people reacted quite quickly, the most direct reaction was the US stock market, Apple's stock had slowly risen to $310.88, but when the news broke, Apple's stock began to fall slightly.

All of this happened in just a few minutes, and the press conference continued, because this was a press conference held in American time, so it was already evening in the country at this time, but there were still quite a lot of people watching. But more concerned are these Apple fans in Europe and the United States, in their opinion, Apple's acquisition is simply like the white people in the United States are not psychologically discriminating against black people, which makes people feel extremely incredible.

But they had to accept this news, but everyone was quietly waiting for the next news from the top management of the two companies, since the two companies had such a big move, then it was obvious that there should be other news to be announced.

“…… In order to maintain Apple's better development, Star Group decided to continue to hire Mr. Jobs as the president of Apple, and gave Mr. Jobs 0.1% of the shares of Star Group as a reward. In addition, Star Group will transfer 20 percent of its shares to Star Heavy Industries Holdings, while Apple will pay $20 billion to acquire 10 percent of Star Heavy Industries' shares. Li Keqing smiled and threw out the third message.

The shares of Apple under the Star Group were transferred to Star Heavy Industries, and then Apple was allowed to invest in the purchase of shares of Star Heavy Industries, and Apple's shares were successfully reduced to 30.02 percent, although because Apple invested in the purchase of shares of Star Heavy Industries, although 90 percent of the shares of Star Heavy Industries are still in the hands of Star Group, but in this way, in fact, Apple is equivalent to buying back some of its own shares, and the actual holding ratio of Star Group has been reduced to less than 50 percent.

But no one cares about this, first of all, the mutual holding of the two companies is the shares of other companies purchased by the whole company, and there is not much after being distributed to all the shareholders of this company, but in this way, the shareholder structure of the two companies can be more reasonable.

Moreover, this cross-holding also has the advantage of increasing the market value of Star Heavy Industries' listing, and at the same time, it is also conducive to future management and avoiding some villains with ulterior motives. Because Star Heavy Industries holds 20% of Apple's shares, because of this Apple stock alone, it has increased the market value of Star Heavy Industries by 56 billion US dollars, plus the original assets of Star Heavy Industries, and the gimmick of the new battery that Star Heavy Industries just started, its total market value is close to 200 billion US dollars.

In this way, after the listing in the future, even if the Star Group releases enough tradable shares, there is no need to worry about the possibility of forced acquisition by others, because the cost will be astronomical.

With the end of the Star Group's press conference, the world has also fallen into a new shock, just when people all over the world are discussing the Star Group's successful and complete acquisition of Apple, but Zhang Yang has long since thrown this matter away.

I said...... Mr. Zhang Yang, you have an old Chinese saying, you are too unkind. Jobs looked at Zhang Yang with a speechless face. Because the secret agreement has been invalidated, now Li Keqing's words directly occupy more than half of the shares of Apple's board of directors, plus Li Yuxuan and Tan Yudie's 6%, and the opinions of other directors are basically negligible.

So Apple and Star Heavy Industries exchanged shares, and the matter of evaluating the purchase of Star Heavy Industries shares naturally passed directly, and this is what Jobs said, although Apple's market value is quite good now, but Apple's cash is actually not much, especially although Apple's factory is still secretly producing iPhone1 generation, during this time, because of the stimulation of iPhone2, the sales of iPhone1 not only declined, but began to rise sharply.

Just because of one sentence, that is, after the iphone2 is listed, Apple will give priority to meeting the trade-in personnel, this news makes the people who are looking forward to the iphone2 all over the world are crazy to buy the iphone1, anyway, there is basically no need to add much money to the exchange, which is converted to add a dozen or twenty dollars, and the people who can buy the iphone with this money naturally don't care.

This has caused a peculiar phenomenon, knowing that the company's second-generation products are about to go on the market, everyone is still crazy to buy the company's first-generation products, although the ideal is beautiful, but in fact, this is nothing more than advance iphone2 users

In just a few days, the sales of iPhone1 have successfully approached the global sales of 20 million units, this number has made all the mobile phone manufacturers in the world almost faint, 20 million Although mobile phones are now quite popular, but the number of mobile phone users in the world is actually about one billion, and a considerable number of people in this billion are not able to buy high-end products such as iPhone.

Among the limited high-end users, Apple was stunned to snatch 20 million users, but this proportion is not low at all, as we all know, no matter what product, what kind of product is the most profitable? Nothing more than high-end luxury. And Apple's number is still rising wildly.

Although Apple's earnings are terrifying, in fact, Apple's liquidity is less than $30 billion now, and after the iPhone 2 is launched, I am afraid that there will only be expenditures for a long time, and there will be no income. Now that Zhang Yang has taken advantage of the stock swap to siphon $20 billion in cash from Apple, and the funds available to Jobs have been greatly reduced, can he not be depressed?

Zhang Yang immediately snorted, quickly patted Jobs on the shoulder and said, "Steve, we don't have to shut ourselves off, I'll invite you to dinner when we get to China." Will you still look at this little money? ”

Jobs was a little crying and laughing, what kind of rice can eat 20 billion? Not to mention the US dollar, even the 20 billion won has more than 100 million RMB, and you can't eat so much money if you eat platinum. Zhang Yang is also helpless, Luo Gai's time is limited, and if the equipment is bought back a day earlier, he will be able to devote himself to research a day earlier.

But now the gap of the Star Group is actually quite large, overall, the cash that the Star Group can now withdraw, including Apple's $20 billion, is only about $50 billion, and some of this is bank loans. The purchase of the equipment needed by Luo Gai would require close to 10 billion US dollars, firstly, it was built for Luo Gai by Zhang Yang, and secondly, the high-tech laboratory piled up by 10 billion US dollars needless to say how advanced it is, even if Luo Gai died, the Star Group's own technical department would need this laboratory, and this cost was not a waste.

The second is about the construction process of this battery production line, as well as the site of Star Heavy Industries, etc., which will probably cost billions of dollars, and as for the rest of the money, Zhang Yang doesn't know where else to spend. In particular, many of the ideas in Zhang Yang's heart can already be implemented, and they are all projects that cost money.

The 50 billion was spent by one-third at once, and I don't know if the rest of the money is enough. "Well, now that Apple is your company, I think you are also responsible for its future development, so if there is insufficient liquidity in the future, I think you should solve it." Jobs struggled for a while and let go, anyway, he was just a CEO. In the future, if there is a problem with the company, it is Zhang Yang who is really anxious, he is a typical emperor who is not anxious and the eunuch is in a hurry.

After returning from the United States, Zhang Yang was called to the office by Chen Xiaowei as soon as possible. "What's the matter?" Zhang Yang looked at Chen Xiaowei a little strangely and asked.

"What can be the matter, some officials from the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of National Security have come to us and want to talk to us about this battery technology." Chen Xiaowei rubbed her forehead helplessly and said.

"Oh, this, you can just send someone to talk to them, you don't have to look for me." Although Zhang Yang doesn't know what these people are here for, but he can guess that their purpose must be multiple, the first must be to inquire about the role of this battery in the military field, which Zhang Yang has long thought of, a mobile phone-sized battery can improve the performance by more than 30 times, this is still weakened The battery will be enlarged year-on-year, and if it is not weakened, the former electric car and so on will no longer be a dream