Global monopoly of technology

Chapter 262 [M&A [2400 Monthly Ticket Plus]]

It is worth mentioning that in the past first quarter of 2008, Huawei's revenue did not fall but increased. The first quarter sales reached 4.827 billion US dollars, 75% of which came from overseas markets.

The key is that in order to maintain a double-digit rapid growth, according to this momentum, in 2008, the annual sales may exceed 23 billion US dollars.

Some real economies have been severely impacted, but Huawei’s main business, the communications business, remains unaffected. The overall scale of this industry is rising. On the contrary, Huawei’s competitiveness is even greater this year. Because of the arrival of the economic winter, customers are also Not much money.

It is said that in the bidding of an order, the opponent bid 20 billion, and the direct bid is 10 billion. The competitors are stupid on the spot.

Can this be profitable?

But Huawei is just daring to pick up, which means there must be some profit to be made.

Customers must vote with their feet to hand over the order to Huawei. In a sense, the economic winter has helped Huawei because communication infrastructure must be invested in all countries.

However, Bluestar Technology’s life this year is definitely not as good as last year. The company is ready to make losses for the whole year. This year, it will rely on cash to survive this winter.

Unless the cloud computing business can bring surprises.

And Bluestar Technology Group is grateful that the 2008 annual revenue can keep about 20 billion US dollars, 15 billion US dollars is acceptable, but if the annual revenue is less than 15 billion US dollars, it must reduce expenditure.

If you don't cut expenses and continue to expand your business, you need to borrow money to live your life. Luo Sheng doesn't have to worry about this.

Even if he borrows money, he will not go to the bank to borrow money, and the bank does not have so much money to lend him now, because he wants to borrow money from the bank and it is not a small amount of several hundred million.

Therefore, if Bluestar Technology wants to borrow money, Luo Sheng must borrow his own money, because he personally holds more than 40 billion US dollars in cash at any time.

The capital chain crisis brought about by the economic winter is unlikely to happen to him, so the company will not increase revenue and reduce expenditure, but will take this opportunity to expand its business on a global scale.

With the release of the Bluestar Technology Group's first quarterly report this year, the company's stock fell in response, and the market value of after-hours trading fell to 139.5 billion US dollars that day.

Seeing that the company’s stock price continues to plunge, from 207.1 billion US dollars at its peak to less than 140 billion US dollars now, Zhang Bowen can’t help but want to buy back, but fortunately, the big boss Luo Sheng is pressing him. He is better than everyone else. Calm down.

If the market value of Bluestar Technology Group does not fall below the 100 billion yuan mark, Luo Sheng will never make a move.

What's interesting is that this incident has made Marvel Comics anxious, for fear that Bluestar Technology is currently performing poorly and will abandon this merger in order to increase revenue and reduce expenditure.

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On the morning of April 18th, Avi Allard, who hurriedly arrived, finally landed at Hua Guo Shencheng International Airport. On the same day, he reversed the jet lag and went straight to Sioux City to visit the headquarters of Bluestar Technology Group. He even had breakfast. Did not eat.

If it wasn't for too late, he would even want to visit directly after getting off the plane.

What surprised Allard was that he thought the person meeting with him this time would be Zhang Bowen.

The result was Luo Sheng.

Zhang Bowen is the number two person in the group company, and even the person who handles specific facts. He is much busier than Luo Sheng.

The place where the two parties met was not at the headquarters of Bluestar Technology Group, but at the headquarters of the Blue Coast company, because today Luo Sheng is on the Blue Coast.

At this moment, in the company's reception room, Luo Sheng is having an interview with Avi Allard, the head of Marvel Comics.

"1.6 billion US dollars, 67% of the equity, we reluctantly sold, as long as you nod your agreement, we can submit documents to the Federal Ministry of Justice tomorrow." After the meeting, Allard said straightforwardly.

Time is really too late.

Before Luo Sheng could respond, Avi Allard hurriedly added: "But this form of acquisition, we hope to realize it through cross-shareholding, and pay with the shares of Bluestar Technology Group plus some cash."

Hearing this, Luo Sheng smiled in his heart. Unexpectedly, it really matched the hearts of both parties. The senior management of Marvel still seemed to have a bit of foresight. Did they take the initiative to make such a request to see the future potential of Bluestar Technology Group?

"No problem, that's it." Luo Sheng didn't think much, and immediately responded to him.

Using the Bluestar Technology Group’s stock cross mergers and acquisitions, the cash saved can be used to buy bottoms. After several rounds of capital operations, it is equivalent to using a portion of the US$1.6 billion to buy bottoms of the company’s stock.

Then use part of the stock obtained by bargaining to cross-hold Marvel, which can save a lot of money to buy back a part of the stock. A rough calculation is equivalent to that Bluestar Technology only spent about 900 million US dollars on Marvel Comics. The company was acquired.

It is definitely the best solution. The game of capital is so magical, and this method is not a lofty way of playing, on the contrary, it appears simple and unpretentious, but it is just a realm that ordinary people can't do.

And Marvel Comics will not lose. It seems to be a loss now, but in the long run, once Bluestar Technology Group’s stock rises, Luo Sheng will not lose money. Marvel Comics 67% The equity is already owned by him.

But there is still a prerequisite, and that is to be surprised not to sell off the stock in the middle.

Avi Allard did not expect this trip to China to be so smooth. Anyway, it was much smoother than he expected. He originally thought that the other party would lower the price, but the bottom line of Surprise was 1.4 billion US dollars.

But this did not happen, because Luo Sheng was not a god, he could not read minds, and it was not just Marvel Comics eager to settle this matter before the release of "Iron Man," Luo Sheng was the same.

Once "Iron Man" is released, the situation will be reversed in no time. By then, it will not be $1.6 billion. Even if it doubles the Marvel comics, it may not sell itself.

The timing is too important.

Neither party wanted too many changes, and Luo Sheng would not care too much about the hundreds of millions of dollars.

The matter is finalized.

After the matter was negotiated, Avi Allard did not stay too much. The initial agreement was completed and the official contract was signed. All were settled on the same day, and he would fly back to North America the next day.

The merger of Marvel Comics into the Bluestar Technology Group has been confirmed, and the news has also spread, and various media are racing to report.

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[The industry rumored that Bluestar Technology Group spent $1.6 billion to acquire North American comics giant Marvel Comics. The group's global executive vice president claimed that Bluestar Technology might further deepen its layout in the film entertainment industry. BV Video Network will open the era of content creation?]-"Daily Mail"

[The European Union, China, Japan, and North America respectively announced their agreement to this round of mergers and acquisitions between Bluestar Technology Group and Marvel Comics.]--"Bloomberg"

[Big, not bad IT giant Bluestar Technology Group once again invested 109 yuan ($1.6 billion) to acquire Marvel Comics. It is reported that this round of acquisition will be paid in the form of stocks and cash. The specific transaction rules have not No further disclosure.]-"Finance Net"

[In the era of the winter of capital, Bluestar Technology Group continues to buy, buy and buy. After 36.5 billion ($5.2 billion) won the lease agreement for more than 10,000 digital movies, it once again bought 10.9 billion. Under the comics giant Marvel, the streaming media video business of Bluestar Technology Group is really the second pro-son after cloud computing. It has already invested nearly 50 billion yuan to build a web2.0 content ecosystem.]-"Souhuwang"

[The exact news just came out that a number of executives from Marvel, including the head Avi Allard, will visit China again on April 28 and hold a media conference with the parent company Bluestar Technology Group. The premiere of Virgo's "Iron Man" produced by Granville Pictures was also held on the same day in Shencheng.]——"Technology Daily"

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