Chapter Twenty-Three: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole

"Then again, what's so important about holding a board meeting in such a hurry? Old Cui Lao Mo Xiaomu came and said. ”

Several people nominated by Su Hualong felt that their palms were sweaty, and they hurriedly shook their heads again and again, and many people present also shook their heads again and again, Su Hualong's eyes closed, and a murderous aura disappeared.

Ren Xiaopei looked at the awkward atmosphere, looked at his watch and said to Su Hualong: "The meal is here, or Mr. Su, let's continue after eating?" ”

Su Hualong looked at Ren Xiaopei and nodded slowly. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and dispersed to eat.

About two hours later, the directors of Hualong Group returned to the conference room one after another.

Su Hualong watched everyone's seats change slightly, and smiled coldly, the official attack should have begun.

Sure enough, this time, without waiting for Su Hualong to speak, someone slowly opened his mouth.

"Mr. Su, in fact, several of our shareholders asked to convene a board meeting not because of anything else, in recent years, our group has accumulated to a certain extent, both from the operation and from the financial situation is very good, as we all know, we have achieved the first well-known brand of the Internet in the country, many Internet companies with less than one percent of our volume have been successfully listed, but Mr. Su, your attitude on the issue of listing has been a little ambiguous. We're bringing everyone together this time to discuss whether IPO (1) should be put on the agenda. ”

Speaking loudly and word by word, listening is not slow or urgent, but the sentences are clear and to the point, this person who spoke is Mo Cong, one of his sworn friends in the café and one of the three vice chairmen of the board of directors of Hualong Group, who was just named by Su Hualong.

Su Hualong looked at him, his heart was indescribably mixed, Mo Cong was definitely not a greedy and lustful person, he had always been stoic, Su Hualong remembered his firm eyes back then, the cigarette butts they smoked together, the common dreams they talked about together, the plans they did together countless times under the night light, in his most difficult moments, several times Mo Cong was by his side to help, Su Hualong never heard the word give up in Mo Cong's mouth, he could give up a qiē and rush forward, It is the person who should be closest to Su Hualong's heart, and it is almost impossible to use the temptation of IPO to impress a person like Mo Cong, but how could he be the first person to speak?

But he was the first to speak, with Mo Cong's prestige and connections accumulated in the Hualong Group in the past few years, this battle could become dangerous, thinking about it, there is no more suitable person than him, let alone the courage that this person needs to start, who is Mo Cong.

"I second."

"Seconded."

"Seconded."

Sure enough, after Mo Cong spoke, there was a second voice below. Su Hualong's eyes swept around, and he already had a certain number in his heart.

The articles of association of Hualong Group are somewhat different from those of other companies. 71% of the shares of Hualong Group have long been held by two world-class funds, Su Hualong and the board members present only account for 29% of the group's shares, but as the actual operator of the group, all the decision-making power is in the group board of directors, so according to the remaining 31% of the shares, Su Hualong currently occupies 10% of the shares is the largest shareholder of the board of directors, and the remaining shareholders account for 19%. According to the articles of association, the convening of the general meeting of the board of directors requires the fund holding a large number of shares to be responsible for supervising the total shareholding of shareholders by secret ballot and reaching more than 10% before it can be initiated.

Su Hualong secretly calculated in his heart that the 3% of the shares held by Mo Cong plus the remaining ten or so people who seconded the proposal had about 6% of the shares, and the remaining ten people were all small shareholders, most of whom were brought out by Mo Cong, and it was expected to support Mo Cong. So there are people, these people or who is this person?

But no one spoke again.

"Didn't seconded it anymore?" Su Hualong regained his demeanor again, looking kind and amiable, "This is a good thing, of course IPO is imperative, everyone will express their stance again." ”

Su Hualong said with a grin, Ren Xiaopei couldn't help but roll his eyes when he looked at him like this, and came here again to lure the snake out of the hole, but sure enough, a snake took the bait.

"Okay, I'll make a statement."

This time it was Wang Xiaohao who spoke. This is Su Hualong's most famous first favorite general, and it is also the most well-known person in the entire Hualong Group except Su Hualong, but it is a living signboard of Hualong Group, that is, the prodigy engineer who was selected by Su Hualong as the project manager at the age of thirteen, is only eighteen years old now, but shoulders the heavy responsibility of the core department of new product development, that is, he created countless programs that people can't put down, and brought the world's most advanced product concept to Hualong Group. Let Hualong Group's new product development and international development maintain the same level in recent years, and often even exceed the international level. His team's work is often naïve, romantic, and imaginative, just like himself.

"I think so, let's go to the market. A few days ago, I wanted to buy a plane for my girlfriend to play, she seems to be obsessed with learning to fly a plane recently, but I carefully calculated that now my money doesn't seem to be enough, is it possible to buy it after the listing? ”

After listening to Su Hualong with a smile, everyone couldn't hold back their laughter, after all, many of you here are from IT, and their minds are not so complicated.

"Who told you?"

Wang Xiaohao tilted his head and replied seriously: "A few days ago, I received an email, which contained a copy of the company's half-year financial statements, I calculated it in a few minutes, I think it should be able to be listed, and the price-earnings ratio (2) will be about 50 times, which means that my money will be at least 50 times more than now." ”

Everyone took a breath when they heard this, and they all knew that Wang Xiaohao was a prodigy, but what a huge number of the company's half-year financial statements were, he could analyze them in a few minutes, and it was not much different from the number they spent a few days asking experts to analyze and calculate, which was really a bit incredible. Fortunately, Wang Xiaohao often gave them this kind of fright, and everyone quickly calmed down.

"Then why didn't you say it earlier?" Su Hualong looked at him dotingly.

"I'm afraid you will scold me, you told my mother last time that I should not fall in love." Wang Xiaohao lowered his head and secretly glanced at Su Hualong with his eyes.

"So all of you have received this financial statement?"

Everyone hesitated and nodded one after another.

Su Hualong almost understood all the situation, he glanced at Wang Xiaohao, this kid is really not the IQ of ordinary people, and now even his talent for acting is getting more and more powerful, pretending to be naïve, he didn't discuss it with him in advance, he immediately understood his thoughts, not only indirectly sued him about the financial statements, but also thought of a way to help him lead the next person out, and even Wang Xiaohao, his biggest favorite general, said that he wanted to IPO, such an atmosphere will make people more unscrupulous.

"Is there any second?" Su Hualong asked again with a smile.

Sure enough, a few more directors seconded the motion. Su Hualong thought about it again, and the share ratio in favor of the IPO has reached 10%, but Wang Xiaohao, who holds 1% of the shares, will never vote to launch the board of directors in advance, so there are still people. The remaining six shareholders here are all major shareholders holding more than 1% of the shares, and according to the number he obtained, the shares that agreed to initiate the board meeting this time are exactly 10%, so there should be another one.

Su Hualong looked at these six people, his heart was sad for a while, he remembered what Lian had said to him, "People will change, many people will never look back after they change, many people may still be wandering after they change, and there are many people who may not have changed but are confused by the situation, whether to give up on them or not, you make your own decision." ’

The remaining one, the one who was most hidden, he had to force himself to admit that he had guessed whether to give up on him. But how can you give up on him? He really hated Mu Ruoci a little fiercely.

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(1) IPO: Initial Public Offerings (IPO). It refers to the first sale of its shares by an enterprise or company (company limited by shares) to the public (initial public offering, which refers to the issuance method of the first public offering of shares of a joint-stock company to the public).

Normally, the shares of a listed company are sold through a broker or market maker on the terms agreed in the prospectus or registration statement issued by the respective securities association. Generally, once the IPO is completed, the company can apply to be listed on the stock exchange or quotation system.

(2) P/E ratio: Price-earnings ratio (P/Eratio) is also known as "price-to-earnings ratio", "price-to-earnings ratio" or "price-to-earnings ratio (P/E ratio)". The price-to-earnings ratio is one of the most commonly used indicators to assess whether a stock price level is reasonable, and is calculated by dividing the stock price by the annual earnings per share (EPS) (the same can be achieved by dividing the company's market capitalization by the annual profit attributable to shareholders). For the purpose of calculation, the stock price is usually based on the latest closing price, and in terms of EPS, if it is calculated according to the published EPS of the previous year, it is called the historical P/E ratio. The EPS estimates used to calculate the estimated P/E ratio generally use consensusestimates, which are the average or median estimates obtained by the institutions that track the company's performance by collecting the forecasts of multiple analysts. There is no set criterion for what constitutes a reasonable P/E ratio.