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After the statistical review in October, Daenerys Entertainment’s full-year financial report for the fiscal year 1995 before the merger with the Metropolitan ABC Group was officially released on November 6th, and the brand-new Daenerys Entertainment Group’s stock was also renewed on the same day. opening.

The purpose is self-evident.

From October 1994 to September 1995, in the four quarters, the total annual revenue of Daenerys Entertainment Group was 27.617 billion US dollars, corporate net profit was 3.723 billion US dollars, and the net profit rate reached 13.5%.

Since Daenerys Entertainment adjusted its fiscal year plan after the IPO last year, the original natural year statistical cycle was adjusted to October each year as a starting point. If you want to compare the year-on-year comparison, you can only push forward four quarters. From October 1993 to September 1994, in the same four quarters, the total revenue was 20.561 billion US dollars, and the net profit was 2.319 billion US dollars.

With this reference, Daenerys Entertainment Group's revenue in fiscal year 1995 increased by 34.3% year-on-year, and net profit growth was as high as 60.5%.

Even though many people understand that Daenerys Entertainment’s financial report is'tailor-made' for the expansion of the Met ABC Group and other expansion operations in the year after the IPO, it is undeniable that Daenerys Entertainment Group itself does have The very strong profitability, the annual net profit of $3.723 billion, there may be some financial tactics such as delaying the payment of accounts payable, but the actual moisture will not be too much.

After all, the popularity of Daenerys Entertainment's movies, TV or games is obvious to all.

Therefore, it is not that Daenerys Entertainment's net profit this year is too high, but that the company has deliberately suppressed the profits of the company itself and invested more money in expansion.

This is a demonstration of profitability.

$3.723 billion, purely, this profit seems to be less eye-catching. By comparison, you can see how powerful Daenerys Entertainment’s ability to make money is.

According to the financial reports of various U.S. companies as of September this year, it can be roughly speculated that among the domestic U.S. companies in 1995, there were only six companies whose annual net profit could surpass Daenerys Entertainment, namely GM, Ford, and Exxon. Mobil, General Electric, Philip Morris and AT&T.

These six companies are all veterans of veteran companies that have been inherited for dozens of centuries. Among them, Ford Motor Co., Ltd., which is expected to be the most profitable, has a net profit of only about 5.3 billion US dollars a year.

Daenerys Entertainment Group is not only the seventh-largest corporate giant in the United States in terms of profitability in 1995, but its revenue of US$27.617 billion has also broken into the top 30 ranks.

All of this took only 9 years.

Not only that, veteran giants such as General Motors and Ford have basically lost their long-term growth.

Especially in the automotive industry, under the impact of Japanese cars, the downward trend is very obvious. Otherwise, the US government will not start auto trade negotiations with Japan in the first half of the year. Unfortunately, this time it did not succeed like the semiconductor war in the 1980s. Therefore, the rapid decline of the US automotive industry is inevitable.

In comparison, Daenerys Entertainment, which has already excelled in the media and entertainment industry, is still alive and well. Movies, TV, games, music and other businesses go hand in hand. Revenue growth has not slowed down after entering the tens of billions of dollars of clubs. Maintain a continuous and strong annual growth rate of over 30%.

Moreover, after far away from all competitors in the same industry, Daenerys Entertainment not only did not stand still, but also continued to move frequently. Recently, it has just completed the merger and acquisition of the Metropolitan ABC Group, and immediately announced the scale of investment 20 The 100 million dollar project of Universal Studios in Rome.

Due to the continued momentum of Daenerys Entertainment, coupled with the rapid opening of Universal Studios Osaka, most media have gradually changed their pessimistic attitude towards Universal Studios Rome due to the failure of Disneyland Paris.

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On the first day of re-opening, Daenerys Entertainment's stock price soared from $83.375 before the suspension last month to $93.25, a single-day increase of 11.8%.

This is not 11.8% of some small businesses with a market value of only tens of billions of dollars, but 11.8% of a Big Mac with a market value of more than 200 billion dollars.At the close of the day, the market value of Daenerys Entertainment leaped to $242.1 billion. In one day, the overall book income of Daenerys Entertainment shareholders reached $25.5 billion.

In the New York Times on Tuesday, the front page headline aimed at the single-day increase in the reopening of Daenerys Entertainment, using only one word to describe: Crazy!

It can only be described as crazy.

It is estimated that Ford Motor Co., Ltd., which ranks first in the United States in net profit for the year, will have a market value of only $38.1 billion at the close on November 6.This auto giant with annual revenues of up to US$120 billion and a net profit of more than US$5 billion has a market value equivalent to one-sixth that of the Daenerys Entertainment Group, and its price-earnings ratio is only a pitiful 7 times.

However, even Warren Buffett, who focuses on value investment and likes to bargain-hunting, won’t buy Ford’s stock at this time, because the U.S. auto industry is destined to fall like the semiconductor industry after the Washington government failed to pressure Japan. The point of being replaced.

The 7 times price-earnings ratio shows that the US auto industry has basically lost the value of long-term investment.

In comparison, even if the price-earnings ratio has reached 65 times, Daenerys Entertainment is still highly sought after by the market. Even if the operating tendency of many capitals has changed from investment to speculation, it can be confirmed that Daenerys Entertainment has absolutely long-term support. Valuable.

Simon returned to Los Angeles on November 5.

Restarted a stable work rhythm, went to work in the morning, returned home in the evening, and occasionally attended some incapable cocktail parties.

In fact, the work has been continuously decentralized.

If it were not for the unanimous opposition of Daenerys Entertainment’s board of directors and group executives, Simon would like to remove the title of Daenerys Entertainment chairman after the completion of the merger and acquisition of the metropolitan ABC Group, relying on more than 90% of the voting rights, even if he retires Behind the scenes, he is still the absolute controller of Daenerys Entertainment.

Unfortunately, everyone disagrees.

Simon is too important for the symbolic meaning of Daenerys Entertainment, even if other matters of the Westeros system are always absent from the Daenerys Entertainment Board, as long as he still holds this title, whether it is within Daenerys Entertainment Or most investors will have full confidence in this company.

On the contrary, once Simon abruptly resigns, it is likely to bring unnecessary risks to the company.

Even if no matter how to explain, the stock price plunged, it did not run.

If Cersei Capital wants to short its own company, it can use this trick.

Authorities, the result is more likely to be SEC profits.

A big fine.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spent most of his time on a series of movie projects under Daenerys Entertainment.

After Halloween's "Soul 2", the 3D animated film "Beauty and the Beast" featuring the Thanksgiving schedule on November 17 will soon be released, followed by the highly anticipated "Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice" on December 22. In addition to these blockbuster bombs, a number of award-winning works including Catherine Bigelow's "Detroit" will also be released at the end of the year.

These are already done.

There are more films in the production stage.

The number of annual productions of the three brands of Daenerys Entertainment exceeds 40. Although each project must be approved by Simon in person, because of limited energy, Simon can focus on a few.

As 1995 came to an end, according to the production progress of a series of films, Daenerys Entertainment's main films in 1996 have basically been finalized.

Starting from the beginning of next year, the earliest key project is Jack Cheng's "Peak Hour", which is scheduled for February 9th, Valentine's Day.

This highly successful Kung Fu comedy from Simon's memory is actually eligible to squeeze into the summer.

However, Simon can’t tell the New World Films team how successful “Peak Moment” will be, and the summer gear in 1996 is already too crowded, and some key projects and even blockbusters have been transferred to various unpopular gears, which is also Danny. The basic strategy that Lisi Entertainment has started to promote in recent years, last year's "Broken Arrow" has proved the feasibility of this strategy.

Then in the Easter period, there are a total of two key films, both of which are sequels. They are the comedy "Detective Aircraft Head 2" starring Kim Carey, and the fourth work in the movie universe "Haunted Haunted Morgue 2".

After Easter, entering the summer season, only the blockbuster related to Daenerys Entertainment has three, "Mission Impossible 2," "Mummy" and "Broken Valley".

Among them, "Mission Impossible 2" and "Mummy" are foreign cooperation films, released by Paramount and Fox respectively.Tim Burton's "Broken Head Valley" is a completely independent project released by Daenerys Entertainment.

In the summer, there is another MGM's 007 series, the latest "007 Ghost Party".

This is the 18th part of the 007 series.

The project does not have Daenerys Entertainment's investment, but is part of the MGM Agent film universe planned by Simon.Although the name is "The Ghost Party of 007", the story also adopts some frames in Simon's memory, but in order to cooperate with the MGM Agent film universe, Simon still made a considerable degree of modification.

The reason why the former "007 Ghost Party" was not released until 2015 is mainly due to the long-term dispute of the ghost party series of copyrights. Under the leadership of Simon, MGM has completely solved this problem.

In terms of actor, after Timothy Dalton resigned, the new 007 still chose Pierce Brosnan.

After replacing Richard Gill in "Wind Moon Beauty" a few years ago and becoming famous, Pierce Brosnan has just entered the front line and has not yet stabilized because of the subsequent film selection failure and some boosts from Simon. When the 007 project once again extended an olive branch to Brosnan, the actor finally agreed to enter the game.

Under Simon’s instruction, MGM provided a $5 million payroll for Brosnan’s first major 007, which was higher than the value of Brosnan’s declining coffee. However, in exchange, the actor signed five at a time. In the contract of Department 007, the increase in remuneration for a single film should not exceed 35%, and the cap salary is 15 million US dollars.

In fact, if the agent movie universe is very successful, MGM will routinely give an additional part of the box office rewards in the future.

But these terms are not clearly written in the contract.

Like the DC movie universe, this belongs to MGM's room for both parties.

After the summer period, Halloween in 1996 will be a brand-new derivative series of the Soul Essence Movie Universe, with "Annabel" buried in the recently released "Soul Evil 2".

At the end of the last two major stages, the blockbuster is still three, namely "Wonder Woman 2", "Thunderbolt" and "Game of the Brave".According to the original agreement, "Wonder Woman 2" was independently released by Daenerys Entertainment. "Thunderbolt" and "Game of the Brave" are cooperative projects with MGM and Warner.

As for Daenerys Entertainment, which is also under key preparation, such as "Tornado", "Independence Day", "Titanic" and other projects, the schedule will be delayed in sequence.

Moreover, most of the films that have been archived are blockbusters with large investments and large productions. There are more non-core or low-cost projects in the three brands of Daenerys Entertainment, and there are also many dark horses, or It is also possible to temporarily add some of Simon's extra picks, such as "This Man From Earth", which created the box office miracle at an ultra-low cost with creativity at the beginning of this year.

A week back in Los Angeles, Simon was basically revolving around these movie projects, or participated in the later stage of "Mummy", or rushed to the studio of "Perky Jiaowa" in person, or spent an morning with Australia in Victoria The film crew of "Game of the Brave" started a conference call immediately after the big show.

Moreover, the entire Westeros system also has a lot of affairs that Simon needs to be distracted.

Last month, the suspension of the Wisconsin distribution center of Amazon's online mall under Igrid was delayed for more than half a month and was finally resolved.

Eaglenet completely abandoned three contractors and re-selected other freight companies to undertake the logistics and distribution tasks of the Wisconsin distribution center.

At present, in the United States, although truck freight still occupies more than 80% of land distribution, it is still far from reaching the state of serious shortage of truck drivers due to the rise of e-commerce two decades later. A large number, the industry labor force is in a redundant state.

Therefore, Igrid has considerable initiative.

For the rebounds and even compromises under the control of the three companies and the apparently behind-the-scenes truck driver union, Igriett was unwilling to make a move.

Moreover, since the Truck Drivers’ Union did not puncture, Igerett did not pick out certain things, and spared no effort to build momentum in the media, insisting that the reason for abandoning the three contractors was not the workers’ strike for better treatment, but It was the contractor’s failure to properly handle the relationship with its employees, which led to huge losses for Igret, while seriously damaging the interests of Amazon’s online store customers.

The fault is with the contractor.

Not only that, Igritt’s claim against the contractor according to the contract was not interrupted after the matter was resolved. In the face of huge claims litigation, the three small contractors who could not afford the lawsuit directly declared bankruptcy and all those involved in the strike The truck drivers were all unemployed.

As for the further intelligentization and mechanization of many logistics distribution centers, this point does not require Simon to repeatedly remind him, and the continuous elimination of labor through machinery is also an inevitable choice for Amazon to develop and grow.