Chapter 716 [Expansion of the Horizon]

With the passage of time, the time for the disclosure of the first quarter report of 2018 came as scheduled, and the Q1 financial reports of major listed companies were released one after another.

Bluestar Technology also routinely disclosed the company's financial audit statements, with a global total revenue of $90.15 billion in the first quarter, and it was also the first time that a single quarter's revenue exceeded the integer mark of $90 billion, setting a quarter-on-quarter growth rate of 21.18%, with a net profit of $17.9 billion and a net profit of 19.86%.

The earnings report, which far exceeded the expectations of Wall Street analysts, helped Bluestar Technology's market capitalization hit the $2.5 trillion mark for the first time, making history again.

And with one of the history, there is also the NASDAQ index, which has also rushed to the 10,000-point integer mark, and several major technology giants in the "BANG+" index concept such as Bluestar Technology, Amazon, Microsoft and other companies are listed on the NASDAQ, accounting for a great weight.

Now it is no exaggeration to say that as long as the stock price of Bluestar Technology collapses, technology stocks will have to follow suit, and then properly pull the Nasdaq down and collapse together, and vice versa.

Although there was a deep "V" trend at the beginning of the year, generally speaking, the stock market of the United States has been in a bull market in the past decade, and the stock market has repeatedly hit new highs.

But behind the boom in the stock market, from another point of view, it is also a reflection of the North American economy's serious derealization, there is a very strange phenomenon is that often when the real economy is up, the stock market plummets; When the real economy was in a downturn, the stock market rose sharply.

Many people try to explain this problem with economic theory, and in the end, it is not as thorough as the uncle who is enjoying the shade under the big tree at the entrance of the village: when the economy is good, they go out to work, and when the economy is bad, they will gather at the village entrance to gamble.

The stock market of the United States continues to prosper and hit new highs, but the real economy represented by the manufacturing industry is becoming more and more declining.

At the end of April this year, the North American capital market was excited again, and an emerging giant technology company was going to IPO on the New York Stock Exchange this month, and it was a subsidiary of the Cote d'Azur, namely PureLiFi, a research and development company for optical wireless communication technology.

No one thought that the PureLiFi company, which was not treated well by the capital of Beatzhou, would grow to such a huge scale today, and the capitalists of Beatzhou have broken their thighs N times, and Luo Sheng basically belongs to the Lie Win series.

In the technology world this month, Hyland Haas, the founder of PureLiFi, can be described as high-spirited, and he is in the limelight for a while, and if there is, then Luo Sheng can only be added.

On Friday, April 27, 2018, PureLiFi was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock code LIFI.

With an initial offering price of $67 and 317 million shares, the IPO raised a total of $21.2 billion, making it the largest IPO of the year after Alibaba in the past five years.

The lead underwriters of the initial offering were Hengxin International Investment Bank, Citigroup Global Markets, Credit Suisse Securities, Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan Securities.

PureLiFi soared 48% on its first day of listing, with a market capitalization of more than $260 billion, making it the 10th largest listed company in the U.S. stock market, second only to Magnesium Country Bank.

As a result, the founder Hyland Haas's nominal worth reached $46.8 billion, ranking 19th on the Forbes list of the world's richest people.

The New York Stock Exchange is very decisive that PureLiFi is included in the "BANG+" index concept, the companies in this basket of stocks are all world-renowned multinational technology giants, the entry threshold for scale is $200 billion market capitalization, and any company in it is in its industry, whether in terms of scale or influence, it is an absolute leading existence.

Since the launch of the "BANG+" index, it has been deeply loved by value investors, and excellent technology companies are already profitable and have high growth potential, especially after PureLiFi joined this club, the company's growth can be said to be the highest so far, and the "BANG+" index also has more upside potential.

The vast majority of investors agree that PureLiFi's future must be a $500 billion tech giant, which means it won't have to wait long for its stock price to double.

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While the media and capital markets are focused on PureLiFi, Lyle Binary has produced the first batch of 1,244 swarm drones, which were delivered to the Woods this month.

"BOSS, a company called Horizon Security, came to visit, and they wanted to purchase a batch of swarm drones and wanted to place an order as soon as possible."

Menlo Park, Calif., Marcus Lele's aides came into his office to report the incident.

In fact, he had known about this for a long time, and he also knew that the head of the Horizon Security Company also worked for the same master, after all, they were all networked, and they assisted the owner Luo Sheng to operate the Earth OL.

Marcus Lyle pretended not to know and asked, "How much do they want?" ”

The assistant replied: "$122 million." ”

Marcus Lyle asked again: "Have you checked the information of this company?" Is it in line with the procurement requirements? ”

The assistant replied: "It has been investigated clearly, and it meets the legal requirements." ”

Marcus Lyle: "No problem, then find someone to sign with them, and supply them at the end of the year." ”

The purchase volume of more than 100 million US dollars, which is more than 2,000 UAVs, is completely enough for the current Horizon Security Company, and it has to purchase ammunition, which will cost about 300 million US dollars overall.

There is no threshold for procurement, as long as Horizon Security is not a company from China, and there is competition, and the military enterprises on the American side do not want Horizon to run to buy Luo Sheng's drones and related facilities.

The seven new androids have joined Horizon Security and are serving in the C-suite, laying a solid foundation for further expansion.

However, it is far from enough to solve the personnel problem of the senior management, and what follows is the expansion of the front-line "thug" members, and the corresponding weapons and equipment have to be purchased, and these all lead to one problem - money.

Counting on Horizon Security's own current business income, if it wants to grow to the current Blackwater company and even beyond, it is almost far away, and it must accelerate expansion and growth through the injection of external funds.

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Science and Technology Complex Building, Underground Laboratory.

"How can I send the money to the horizon reasonably......" Luo Sheng muttered to himself as he sat on a chair, he was worrying about this matter for the past few days. When it comes to these unknown layouts, Luo Sheng will ponder it alone in the underground laboratory.

It's good not to let anyone know about these things, but at the moment the beautiful No. 2 tool man sister paper is pounding his master's back and massaging.

Horizon Security's current asset size is only about $3.6 billion, which is not enough for the expansion scale that Luo Sheng wants, and the funds will bottom out soon.

Luo Sheng is not short of money, he is super rich, with his current worth, even if the annual budget investment for the horizon is on par with the Russians' annual military expenditure of about 50 billion US dollars, he can easily support it for nearly half a century, and the current asset scale of the family fund alone has reached 2 trillion US dollars, and Qin Weimu is still using this money to make money.

How to send money over reasonably is the biggest problem, direct large-scale capital injection is definitely not possible, purely from the perspective of capital profit-seeking, such investment behavior is obviously contrary to common sense, throwing tens of billions of dollars on such a large-scale investment in a security company, the return cycle is almost far away, it is better to buy shares of Bluestar Technology.

Obviously, no normal investor would do that, and it doesn't make sense.

If this is really done, there must be other schemes, and some well-intentioned people in the outside world are not stupid, and they will definitely investigate this, especially the intelligence agencies of Lao Mei.

"I can only do this with a windfall from heaven......" Luo Sheng thought for a long time that only this one strategy was feasible, and then gently patted the small hand of the tool man sister paper on his right shoulder, asked him to stop and said, "Bring the tablet." ”

"Yes, master."

After a while, the tool man handed over the tablet, Luo Sheng opened the global map and swept around the land of Africa, and finally fixed on the North African generation, to be precise, the country of Libia.

After the country hung up, it is currently in chaos.

Luo Sheng's strategy is very simple, Horizon Security has a local business, and has been operating here for a long time, undertaking small-scale proxy war services, private security consulting services and other businesses.

That's easy, I was very lucky to get unexpected information, and found the treasure of Kadasa's small vault in the local area, which contained hundreds of tons of gold and was all transported by the Horizon Company.

As for the question that Lipia will ask Horizon to pay back, I'm sorry, I don't give it, you have the ability to beat me.

The local warlords are all counted in hundreds, not to mention that they are scattered now, even when Ka Dazuo is there, as long as he is out of Libia, there is no way to take the Horizon Security Company.

"That's it."

Luo Sheng made a decision very decisively, everyone knows that Ka Dazuo was very rich during his lifetime, and the legend of Ka Dazuo's gold treasure has been circulating in Libia, and there are many people looking for treasures, and for Ka Dazuo, who has long been cold, he will not jump out to clarify this problem.

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