Hollywood Hunter

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The situation of public opinion is coming, but there is no trembling in the outside world within the Westero system.

At the beginning of March, Daenerys Entertainment Group officially launched an internal employee stock subscription plan. Depending on the job level and the number of years of employment, Daenerys Entertainment employees will be able to subscribe at the price of 30%, 50% or 30% of the estimated IPO issue price. The amount of stock.

Amy Pascal and other management's equity awards also began to cash out.

After the stock subscription and rewards are redeemed, employees of Daenerys Entertainment will hold a total of about 8% of the group's stocks. The planned IPO is about 12% of the new shares. By then, Simon will still hold Daenerys About 80% of the shares of the entertainment group.

Not only that, Daenerys Entertainment will also adopt a dual shareholding structure this time.

Whether it is this employee subscription or the next IPO, the outside world can get Class A shares with only one-tenth of the voting rights of ordinary stocks. Correspondingly, Westeros under Simon’s name will hold ten times Class B shares with voting rights.

Calculated, after the IPO, Simon's shareholding decreased to 80%, and Simon will still retain more than 97% of the voting rights.Even after many expansions in the future, the Westeros family’s shareholding in the Daenerys Entertainment Group has fallen to less than 50%, and absolute control will remain unchanged.

The Daenerys Entertainment Group’s 1993 financial report was also officially released in mid-March, ignoring the ups and downs of the outside world. In order to build momentum for the upcoming IPO, the company continued to announce the specifics on the Igrid portal on March 15. data.

Throughout 1993, compared with 1992's 12.7 billion US dollars, Daenerys Entertainment Group's total revenue increased by 35% to 17.1 billion US dollars, and its annual net profit was 2.27 billion US dollars, an increase of 219% year-on-year.

The film business is still the core of Daenerys Entertainment Group, contributing more than half of the profits.

Driven by a strong film business, Daenerys Entertainment’s cinema line, theme parks, consumer peripherals and other businesses have achieved excellent growth.

The television business in charge of Robert Iger also performed well. Both the reality TV show and the TV series of the public television network have taken the same path. Programs such as "Survivor" and "Song Fei Zheng Zhuan" have long been among the best in TV network ratings.TV, a professional fashion television station that was broadcast last year, has been launched in many countries around the world. At the same time, it has successfully won all the equity of the basic cable network in USA, further completing the layout of Daenerys Entertainment in the cable TV business.

In addition, the total debt of Daenerys Entertainment Group increased slightly from last year’s US$7.1 billion to US$7.9 billion.However, even according to the IPO valuation of 40 billion US dollars, the debt of 7.9 billion US dollars is only equivalent to a debt ratio of 19%. This data is far below the average level of the industry.

Even if it had been expected, Daenerys Entertainment Group's 1993 financial report still exceeded many people's expectations.

Especially profit.

The annual net profit scale of 2.27 billion US dollars is almost equal to the total profit of the other six Hollywood studios.

Of course there are doubts.

Many professional media and Wall Street analysts believe that Daenerys Entertainment’s financial report is specifically tailored for this year’s IPO, and may not be able to achieve such excellent profits after the listing.

It's just that there is not much market for similar questions.

2.27 billion US dollars in net profit, compared to Daenerys Entertainment's revenue of 17.1 billion US dollars, the net profit rate is actually only 13.2%, this figure is not high in the Hollywood entertainment industry's general 10% to 15% net profit range .As long as Daenerys Entertainment’s future revenue scale will not shrink significantly, it is not difficult to maintain the profit level of 1993.

Will Daenerys Entertainment Group's revenue performance shrink?

Just look at the DC movie universe series, Pixar animation studio, "Jurassic Park" series and other popular projects in the hands of this company,

However, another argument also began to emerge. Some Wall Street analysts believe that Daenerys Entertainment’s performance has peaked. Although it will not decline in the short term, it is not easy to increase it too much, so it is not Optimistic about the long-term development prospects of this entertainment industry giant after its listing.

After similar opinions are published, it is inevitable to gain a lot of recognition.

Immediately, the target also pointed to Daenerys Entertainment's expected IPO price-earnings ratio of about 20 times, thinking that this number was significantly higher.Considering that Daenerys Entertainment Group's future performance growth may slow significantly, the true IPO price-earnings ratio is probably between 10 and 15 times.

Simon's stock underwriting of Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs is at least 20 times the IPO price-earnings ratio.

After the official financial report is released, according to the calculation of the net profit scale of 2.27 billion US dollars, the revised bottom line of accurate IPO valuation should be 45.4 billion US dollars.

For this high valuation, which has exceeded the total size of most of the world's corporate giants and entered the US$50 billion market value club after a slight increase in listing, Simons has no intention of making a concession, which will inevitably allow interested parties to subscribe for capital. Feeling unhappy, after all, the subscriber must hope that the stock price of Daenerys Entertainment is as low as possible, so as to maximize profits.

The corresponding sing-song theory was born.

Simon is not worried about this.

Most companies conduct IPOs to raise funds for the company's next development, so they are generally worried about failure, but Daenerys Entertainment does not have such concerns.If it is not for the next expansion, Simon does not need to list Daenerys Entertainment at all.

Therefore, even if the worst happens, the failure of the IPO will not cause much damage to Daenerys Entertainment. At most, it will only cost an investment bank service fee.

What's more, it is said that the valuation is relatively high, but people with a clear eye know that in the past few years, there are not many companies that can have better quality than Daenerys Entertainment stocks in the IPO in recent years. If there are, it is basically West. New technology companies such as Cisco and AOL in the Los Angeles system.

Moreover, even Cisco and AOL are still in the growth stage of a company with variable development prospects, and Daenerys Entertainment has been very solid in terms of revenue and profit.

Malibu, Daenerys Studios.

The time is Friday, March 18.

For the more sensitive employees within the Westeros system, the outside world is disturbing, and the surroundings are not unchanged.

Daenerys Studios has recently upgraded its security efforts again. Security personnel and monitoring facilities in the park have increased significantly.Similar to the terraced layout of the three-story studio, the lowermost floor is also the busiest studio area on weekdays. There is no change. Going upward, the access control process has been strengthened in the office area on the second floor and the administrative area on the third floor without reservation. Of visitors are not allowed to enter.

As for the reason, most people who feel this think it is the instinctive reaction of their boss under the pressure of outside public opinion.

Only the very few know the truth.

A week ago, a white young man in his twenties suddenly drove into the Dumei Cape manor area, but just after entering the building area around the manor, he was found by security and stopped. The young man found that he could not get through the customs and used the automatic rifle in the car directly. Security shooting.

Fortunately, the security team at Dumei Point Estate is not an ordinary security guard. Basically, they have a background of special forces or secret service police. After entering the office, they must also conduct at least two intensive security trainings every year to ensure that they will not slack off.

Therefore, when the two security guards failed to catch all the shots, one of them still quickly took a counter-attack. Two spot shots accurately hit the young man’s head and heart through the car door. The other security guards who found the situation arrived within 1 minute. In the dead young car, two rifles, a large number of magazines and five grenades were found.

And a suicide note.

The youth stated in his suicide note that he wanted to kill all Westeros, so that all the wealth of the evil Westero family would return to society.

The gunfire led to alarms from surrounding residents and subsequent police interrogation.

The incident was completely covered by Dumei Cape Manor, but it was claimed that the family bodyguard was practicing the marksmanship. The two injured security guards were also secretly sent to the private hospital of the Westeros family for treatment.

The identity of the youth was ascertained within an hour.

Simon personally led the family's intelligence team to search each other's dwellings, and for the time being did not gain, but did not give up.

Although he was not a conspiracy theorist, Simon never believed that something would happen for no reason, so two teams were specially arranged to investigate the matter carefully.

As for the assassin youth, including the Chevrolet sedan that the other party broke into Dumei Point Estate, all of them evaporated.

All insiders were issued the strictest passwords.

The top rich politicians have been kidnapped and assassinated much more than the public imagined, but there are very few cases exposed, which is not without reason.Because this kind of thing is exposed, it is easy to attract imitators, and the world has never lacked extreme people.

After the incident, the security level of the Westeros family was raised across the board, including the common areas where everyone in the family might appear.

Jennifer, who was worried, also helped Simon prepare some special body armor, and asked him to wear it in public.Simon joked that if he hit his head, wearing bulletproof vests is useless, and the female assistant cried on the spot.

The two worlds are human, and Simon has never been afraid of death.

Now, I only worry that people around me will be hurt because of myself.Therefore, if he needs to choose, he will preempt without hesitation.

Building No. 1 in the Administrative District of the Studio City.

Larry Ellison and Simon walked out of the office together, and finally promised a few words. Ellison did not forget to nod to the A girl outside, and Ellison turned and left.

During a series of lawsuits against multiple companies in the Westeros system during this time, Oracle's dispute with two other competing database software companies, Informix and Sybase, was quite noticeable.

The response of the Westeros system to the Igritt portal is quite firm, but in fact, if Oracle is really useless at all, it is unlikely that Larry Ellison is always a Businessmen who follow the rules can't do anything to send someone to turn over the Microsoft trash.

Brutal business competition, especially among giants, can't stand the rules.

Simon has no objection to this, the key is that you must be able to deal with the trouble after it appears.Today's meeting is to ask Ellison to explain to himself the inside story of the whole matter and the follow-up plan.

When Ellison left, girl A took some documents and followed her boss into the office.

Simon turned to his desk and sat down. He put away a script that had been spread out and set it aside.

With just a glance, Girl A recognized that this is a new project MGM is brewing, "Broken Arrow."However, the script was delivered three days ago. According to her understanding of the work habits of her boss, under normal circumstances Simon should have finished reading in his spare time, I don't know why I still read it.

"Broken Arrow" is the latest work of the screenwriter Graham Jost.

"Speed ​​of Life and Death" is about to be released in this summer file. The film is currently in the final stage. The MGM team and Simon himself are very satisfied with the film, and Shirley Lansing directly signed Jost's new script.

The name "broken arrow" is actually a military term for the accidental loss of nuclear weapons in the US military.There are actually many similar stories in Hollywood movies. Schwarzenegger also needs to deal with a nuclear explosion crisis in the "Real Lies" to be released in this summer.

Quickly put away some small doubts in her mind, girl A handed some documents in her arms to Simon, said: "Boss, this is Greenwich, who just passed over from the recent US state to the Westero system. In the candidate file, Mr. Schrapp selected a total of 23 people, including 7 Democrats and 16 Republicans. Among them, there are 3 senator candidates, 2 in office, 20 Rep. candidates, and 16 in office."

Simon listened to Alison's briefing and opened the first folder. The first is the list of 23 candidates for parliament.

Behind the scenes in Connecticut is the support of the Hurst family, who has been tit-for-tat against Democrat David Merros, who is always in a prominent position.Wisconsin’s Democratic senator Craig Ames, who proposes to impose an “asset tax,” ranks high.

David Merros, Craig Ames, these are the two most active politicians in the Westeros system recently.

Somewhat ironically, both of them are part of the Democratic Party supported by the Westeros system.

In contrast, most Republicans who target the Westeros system are not as intense as their opinions.

The only thing that makes Simon a little gratified is that on this list, the Republicans are more than twice the Democrats. Finally, the huge political capital investment of the Westeros system in recent years has not been fed to the white-eyed wolf in vain.

The list is accompanied by detailed information of the 23 members, including political resumes and the recent integration of opinions on the Westeros system.

Simon flipped over and gestured to the girl A, and Alison continued: "There is also an archive below, which is information on the 23 major candidates for the MPs, followed by Wisconsin recommended by Mr. Schlap The head of the state sniper team, named Paul Spitz, is 37 years old. He is from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He was originally the head of the political lobbying department of Verizon Telecom and the political action committee affiliated with the enterprise. He was in Milwaukee in his early years. Engaged in various kinds of work related to political lobbying for ten years, very familiar with the local political and economic environment."

Faced with recent media and politician attacks, the Westeros system will certainly not be indifferent.

Simon personally led the development of a "sniping plan", intending to select a part of the Congressional candidates for the Westeros system to "precise strike" in order to achieve the effect of killing chickens and monkeys.