Chapter 499: Shocking first-day stock price

"Hello everyone!"

At the scene at the entrance of the Smith Building, Abel was giving a speech:

"At this moment, this situation, my heart is surging, and I am inexplicably excited!"

"Three years ago, when I registered my first company. My ideal is for everyone who believes in me to live well. Let all those who believe in me live happily. ”

"Since then, everything I've done has never deviated from that purpose."

"My Smith Capital, which has been established for just three years now, has already generated more than 100 billion dollars in revenue for its clients!"

"My energy company has delivered a steady supply of cheap energy to more than 50 million Americans on the West Coast and Texas."

"I also plan to set up a supermarket and a farm to provide everything from food, clothing, to housing and transportation to every American who believes in me with stable quality and cheap prices."

"My Smith Bank will protect the deposit of every customer who believes in me. We are not afraid of runs, and we welcome runs. Just put the money in my bank and you're good to go. The gold I store in the vault will provide protection for every American who believes in me! ”

"And today is the day my Smith Media goes public. Smith Media is a company that brings laughter and knowledge to Americans. I hope that in the future, children in the United States can grow up watching the textbooks published by Smith Media. American women can watch TV series and boutique variety shows produced by Smith Media and live a wonderful life. American men, you can enjoy your favorite movies. The elderly in the United States can enjoy the spiritual food provided by Smith Media......"

"Thank you to the 226 colleagues at Smith Media who are here today. Yes, I call them colleagues, not employees. Because in my opinion, they are colleagues who share the same common cause, the great cause of dedicating great media content to everyone. ”

"Of course, there are also the 88,435 employees of Smith Media they represent, and everyone has worked together to make it possible to realize their dreams, and it has also created the glory of Smith Media's listing today!"

The employee representatives in the audience were clapping their hands with their hands, accompanied by bursts of screams.

"We will continue to work hard!" The representative of the cleaner employee is a black aunt with a ZZZQ complexion and an obese body, and at this time she is pulling her throat and shouting frantically.

"We have almost 90,000 colleagues?"

In the audience, Amanda Hirst, one of the employees of Smith Media, whispered in amazement.

She and her cousin, Lydia, are now full-time employees of Smith Media.

Yes, neither of them has graduated from college yet.

But they have been working at Smith Media for half a year.

This is a relatively common thing among the children of the wealthy in the United States.

Many of them have been able to work for some of the world's leading companies since they were teenagers, while still being able to earn a degree from one of the best schools in the world.

Amanda works in the content production department of the TV group, while Lydia works in the finance department of the group's headquarters.

"There are more than 1,000 people in the entire finance department." Lydia explained to her.

"Well, it's still Abel who is the best! I remember that our Hearst Group has been growing for more than 100 years and now has just over 40,000 employees. ”

Amanda said proudly.

Lydia also doesn't know if she's proud of the Hearst Group or proud of Smith Media.

"Thank you, boss, too!" This is the current CEO Michael Incoming is shouting.

He genuinely doesn't mind that he is now the No. 1 person in Smith Media Group, and it would be unstable to do so.

He should also be sincere.

Because if there is no Abel, no matter how good the ability is. Michael is now at most one of the key partners of CAA.

In parallel time and space, he will have to work hard for more than ten years before he becomes the CEO of CAA.

Unlike now, Michael Communications is already one of the country's leading media elders.

The status and influence of a CAA CEO and the CEO of a huge media group are completely incompatible.

It can be said that because of Abel's existence and attention, Michael Communication has completed the class change.

Many people next to him saw Michael Communication's "unsteady" yelling.

A good friend of the communication's time at CAA, now the CEO of CAA, and one of the spokespersons for Smith Media, Derek Wright couldn't help but feel a fak in his heart.

At the same time, he was also very envious.

Derek Wrett thinks that when it comes to praising the boss, he pats the boss on the back.

The whole world is left with no Michael communication.

This occasion, that status. Who would have thought that Michael would be the first executive to stand up like this?

With this kind of consciousness and sensitivity, it is no wonder that he is the boss's number one henchman.

Thinking like this, Derek Wright and other Smith Media executives, including Robert, Richard Pleppler, and others who came to their senses, also shouted.

This is actually very understandable, Abel's prestige in his various companies is infinite.

He is not only a boss himself, but also a star and idol, a living American dream.

The speech continued, and Abel has been thanking employees, to management, to partners, to shareholders, to guests, to customers and competitors.

Finally, the New York Stock Exchange and the relevant supervisory authorities seem to be extremely humble.

"Words of thanks can never be finished. And I think the best way to thank you is to keep working hard, keep working hard, and repay all the Americans who believe in me. Waiting for Smith Media's stock to start trading, it's a fresh start for us!

Thank you! Thank you! God bless America!

After Abel finished speaking, he took off the script throughout the whole process, his attitude was sincere, and he seemed very convincing.

If you pay attention, you will find that his speech contains at least hundreds of "Americans".

This will make most Americans who see his speech have a very strong sense of substitution and pride.

This speech, of course, was not written by Abel.

This is one of the dozens of speeches prepared for him by the Smith Intelligence Group, which Abel likes and picks out.

So far, the effect is very good, and after the speech, it has come to ring the bell.

"Buzz!"

The bronze bell was suddenly struck, and the noisy scene was quiet for a short time.

After the bell was ringed, Smith Media's stock officially started trading.

After a short silence, everyone frantically started calling and texting, and everyone wanted to know what the opening price of Smith Media was on the exchange.

Soon everyone received the same reply.

Smith Media's listed stock opens at $67.98!

Compared with the issue price of $55, it has increased by 22.79%!

Of course, this is a hot start, noisy and lively scene, I don't know who started to applaud.

Soon, neat and frantic applause broke out very lively.

An increase directly led to the market value of Smith Media crossing the $60 billion mark.

On the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ Exchange, pending orders for Smith Media are extremely active.

At this time, Abel and a group of executives and investors have stopped talking and are closely following the transactions of Smith Media.

No matter how you say it, it is the first company to be officially listed, and the feeling of excitement for the first time is inevitable even for Abel.

Half a day after the market opened, that is, at 11:30, when the stock market closed, Smith Media's stock price was frozen at $71.87.

At the beginning of the afternoon, it ushered in a big rise again, 12.22%, and the stock price broke through the $80 mark, but soon fell back again.

The decline was short-lived, and it didn't take long for it to rise wildly.

When the market was closed all day, on the first day of Smith Media's listing, the final stock price was $91.5, an increase of 81.6% from the issue price, and the performance of the entire market was extremely crazy.

On the first day, Smith Media's market capitalization was $91.5 billion, surpassing Disney, Time Warner, and Viacom to become the No. 1 media group in the United States.

Everyone believes that by tomorrow at the latest, Smith Media will definitely exceed a market value of 100 billion US dollars.

At that time, it was one of the most valuable companies in the United States, standing at the top of the industry.

"Boss, it's time to hold a celebration banquet!" Michael Communications spoke almost unanimously with the executives.

Of course, the celebration banquet has been prepared for a long time, and the banquet has been prepared for a long time.

No one thinks that Smith Media's listing will break, and everyone is optimistic about Smith Media's listing.

What's more, even if the listing is broken, the celebration banquet should be opened.

Otherwise, if investors know that you are listed and don't even have a celebration banquet, then who wants to believe you?

So how can the stock price not continue to fall?

So don't talk about Smith Media, this kind of company is crazy as soon as it goes public.

Even for those companies that have gone public, the celebration banquet should be held, and the press conference should be faced.

The venue for the Smith Media celebration was the Garden Hilton in Midtown Manhattan.

Abel originally wanted to choose the Shilla Hotel in New York.

Who said that the entire Shilla Hotel is now completely the property of his child's mother.

Later, Abel took into account Barron Hilton, with whom the old man had always had a good relationship.

It's so good that even her granddaughter is now going to give birth to her own child.

He also considered that Paris was still going to give birth in two months.

Coupled with the fact that the Shilla Hotel is in New York, its status is not higher than that of Hilton.

And the flagship hotel of Smith Hotel Group, which has not yet appeared.

Therefore, to host the banquet and the location of the press conference after the fall of the city, I still choose to be in Paris and her hotel.

In fact, this garden Hilton in Midtown Manhattan is not of high grade and grade.

In the last year, it has even fallen to the level of a four-star hotel.

It was worse than the first time Abel was here, for his first social party in New York......

But Abel likes it, so it can have such an honor.

The general managers of the luxury hotels in New York, such as Waldorf Astoria, Raffles, and Four Seasons, are useless even if they beat their chests on the situation.

The press conference was held in the lobby of the Hilton Midtown Garden, which was vacated today, before the party began.

"Mr. Smith, are you satisfied with the first day of listing at Smith Media?"

"Very satisfied!" Abel personally presided over and said with a smile.

"The market's appetite for Smith Media stock has led to a rise in the stock price, which shows that investors have confidence in me, my team and my staff."

"What kind of arrangements will you make regarding the financing of this listing, Mr. Smith?" A reporter from the Wall Street Journal asked.

"As introduced in the prospectus, a large part of the financing will be used by Smith Media Group to develop markets outside the United States."

"What does that mean?" This is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times.

Angelenos like to report New York scandals more than good New York news.

But who is Abel Smith in New York now, and Angelenos love to watch his news?

Then the "Los Angeles Times" can only pinch its nose and report good news from New York.

"Europe, as well as Asia. The most important thing is Europe, which has a vast market and a developed economy. Asia is also not bad, and we will have a complete layout there. Smith Media wants to make it possible for Asians, including Chinese people, to get the best media content. ”

When Abel said the latter sentence, the European and American reporters present all showed expressions of "we all understand" on their faces.

Anglo-Saxon's layout in Europe and Asia has long been known to all.

Seeing the expressions of these people, Abel remembered the influence of Soros in Europe more than twenty years later in parallel time and space.

Through a large number of NGO organizations, as well as a controlling stake in countless media outlets, or those media that have been bought off with a lot of dollars.

Soros was in many European countries at that time, like an invisible emperor.

The United States has relied on overseas bases and controlled the European media to completely turn old Europe, which once led the world, into a lackey and a minion of the United States.

France, the second country on the planet with a complete industrial system, also joined NATO and became one of the pawns of the United States.

The media, under the new seed oil system dominated by Anza, is one of the most terrifying weapons

Now, a large part of this most terrifying weapon is in his hands.

Abel believes that he doesn't need to play any tricks, he just needs to continue like this.

At most, more than ten years later, he is destined to become one of the invisible emperors of Europe!

The press conference was brief, and Abel only lasted half an hour.

This is completely different from those listed companies, which often have two or three hours of press conferences.

Those listed companies made the media conference so long, mainly to promote the rise of stock prices.

It is to please the media, let the media report the good side of their company, and let the shareholders see their good side.

And Abel doesn't need to, because as long as he exists, he can make Smith Media's stock keep rising.

What's more, no matter what the point of view, Smith Media stock is worth holding.

The press conference was particularly short.

When Abel took the elevator and entered the banquet hall, the guests, executives, and employee representatives all gathered at the door to greet him, and everyone gave him applause and long-lasting warm cheers.

This is the honor Abel deserves.

In the eyes of his subordinates, he is the most competent and generous boss in the United States and even in the world, the helmsman who is most worthy of following and loyalty, and the employer who has won the most trust and respect.

$91.5 billion market cap!

This is the most beautiful, brilliant, incredible, and earth-shattering listing of a media company! Tomorrow, the miracle they have created together will shake the world!

And the reason for the birth of this miracle, all of them admit that Abel has to take at least eighty percent of the credit, and Abel's personal global influence can cause the stock price to rise by 60 percent.

In the eyes of investors, the current Abel Smith has surpassed Warren Buffett. It has become the most dazzling golden sign on Wall Street and even the global financial market.

Abel Smith, the name of these two words, now almost symbolizes crazy profits.

As long as you follow the name, a lot of money will be automatically transferred to their account and become their balance!

In the eyes of the guests, this young and handsome man is already one of the top figures in the kingdom.

He is one of the masters of the Federal Reserve; He is the army. one of the giants of the industrial complex; He is a giant in the field of media; He is the leader of the Texas consortium; He is the central figure of a vast complex of interests.

Such a person, whether it is cooperation or confrontation, must be taken infinitely seriously.

"Gentlemen, ladies, gentlemen, ladies! Let's start our happy party! ”

Hilton's Golden Ballroom.

Able laughed and shouted, letting everyone have a good drink.

People kept coming up to congratulate him and curry favor with him.

His Hollywood girlfriends were shocked to find that they couldn't find any sense of existence.

The elders of the kingdom, including prominent figures from Wall Street and outside of New York, went over to speak to Abel. Let them want to say goodbye, but they can't find a place.

Fortunately, everyone knows that Abel has a hobby and attitude in a certain way.

This made all the guests in the audience respect them very much, and no one dared to offend them.

It is also very comfortable for them, who are public figures who were originally in the kingdom and whose status is actually very low.

Especially in the case of Abel, who did not have a female companion on the surface today-

Kayla originally wanted to come, but Abel refused.

Abel said to her directly, "Laura is also in New York and pregnant. I'm sorry to take into account her feelings, dear ......."

Kayla Wilson was angry, but she couldn't do anything about it.

Because no matter whether it is public or private, she doesn't dare to mess with Abel now.

Yu Gong, Abel has many companies under his umbrella and has interests with Wells Fargo.

As the general manager of the New York branch, she couldn't keep Abel away from Wells Fargo, which was a serious dereliction of her duty.

She hasn't been in office for long.

Yu privately, her father is still alive and well, and she has not yet received much inheritance of the family property.

Until she fulfills her ambitions, Kayla will never fall out with Abel.

In addition, little Laura didn't go, so she relieved herself, at least her status was the same as that of little Laura.

Well, it's her own deception.

Little Laura and Kayla didn't come, Paris was raising a baby in California, and Yin Kana was there to wait for Paris to come back after giving birth.

The Hearst sisters are with their parents tonight, and they can't be considered female companions.

Abel, these high-status, well-born women did not appear.

He didn't bring a female companion at all, and his Hollywood girls became his female companions in the de facto sense of the word tonight.

And the good ladies who are Abel's female companions, many of the guests' wives have come up tonight to make friends with them.

The identities of some ladies made them feel flattered.

Like in circles, it is "rumored" that Charlize Theron, who gave birth to Abel's first child.

Now I am a little flattered to chat softly with Sirani, one of the former wives of the American Commander-in-Chief, who is very famous in the United States.

"Ah, Charlize, I like the "Diver of the Angry Sea" you filmed two years ago! I even watched its premiere at the time, and it was a really good movie. Your performance in it makes me love it even more! ”

Sirani took Charlize's hand very kindly and said with a smile.

If it had been before, being treated like this by such a big man, Charlize would have been ecstatic.

But after following Abel, only two years have passed, and Charlize's vision and experience have been raised to a certain extent like crazy.

Like now, she's just a little flattered.

At the same time, she was laughing at Silani in her heart, thinking that it was obvious that Sirani had never watched her "Angry Sea Diver" at all.

First of all, "The Diver of the Angry Sea" is a man's play. It's about the U.S. ...... The legend of Carl Brashir, the first black deep-sea diver in military history.

Compared with Z's correct men's play, her role in it is not very important.

Secondly, the premiere of "Diver of the Furious Sea" was in Canada.

The U.S. went live with a two-day delay.

What did Sirani think of the premiere of this movie?

At that time, she was still the wife of the commander, did she make a special trip to Linguo to watch a movie.

So Charlize knew that Sirani was so close to him.

It's not that she really likes herself and likes to watch the movies she makes.

It will only be for a purpose.

And the purpose......

Charlize's gaze looked not far away, Abel who was surrounded by the elders of the kingdom, the father of his own children, and his own man.

Charlize knew that the reason why Sirani was close to him would only be because of him.

Charlize didn't know what Sirani was doing this. But now Charlize is extremely glad for the bold decision he made more than a year ago.

Without the madness of that time, I would not have the scenery I have now.

The mother of the first child, even if she was just an illegitimate daughter, also had a special position in Abel's heart.

So much so that now, even people like Sirani have to curry favor, and even find topics to get close to their own scenery.

Thinking of this, Charlize knew he couldn't let Abel down again.

Once is enough, and if there is a second time, she can't guarantee the existence of little Arya and whether she can continue to stay by his side.

So in the face of the closeness of Sirani, who makes herself feel flattered.

Charlize seemed very decent, acting neither humble nor arrogant, not pandering but not rude.

This kind of performance made Sirani, who actually looked down on them very much in her heart, feel very surprised.

These stupid women in the entertainment industry actually have such smart guys.

It's a surprise.

Sirani thought to herself.