Rebirth of England.

Chapter 832 Tesla Goes Public

On December 2011, 12, Tesla went public on the Nasdaq.

In the original time and space, Tesla went public through its IPO in July 2010, becoming the only independent manufacturer of pure electric vehicles listed in the United States.

However, due to the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis at that time, the American economy had not yet recovered from the collapse of the crisis. Therefore, Tesla was listed at a price of US$17, and its market value was less than US$16 billion.

Tesla had been preparing to go public at the time due to a lack of funds, but it encountered the subprime mortgage crisis and had been delayed.

But because there was really no other choice and funds were urgently needed, Tesla chose to go public in 2010 in the original time and space - this was a choice Tesla had no choice but to make at the time.

At this time and space, Tesla has Barron's financial support, and he does not want Tesla to rush to go public, which will affect the company's stock price and market value. Therefore, it has been delayed until now before finally deciding to go public.

This time, Tesla's IPO price is set at US$27.5. It will issue 1330 million shares to the public, with a total share capital of 9300 million shares after the issuance. The IPO price corresponds to a market value of more than US$25.5 billion.

Tesla's IPO came just after they launched the Model S - the Model S is Tesla's first model of electric vehicles to truly achieve large-scale production (the previous Roadster was a modified model, not a large-scale production). Tesla has currently received orders for approximately 4600 vehicles and will begin formal deliveries next year.

按照特斯拉公司的设计，Model S一次充电的巡航里程将达到480km、支持45分钟快速充电、支持更换电池模式、0-100km/h加速时间低于6秒。

On Tesla's first day of listing, its stock opened at $29, rose as high as $32.77 during the day, and finally closed at $30.65.

At this price, Tesla's market value reached US$28.5 billion.

British Motor Group holds 1594 million shares of Tesla, accounting for approximately 17.14% of the shares after listing, currently worth US$4.88 million - they initially invested US$1.5 million to acquire these shares, and now their investment has made a profit of more than 225%.

Of course, compared with this, the most important thing is that through cooperation with Tesla, the British Automobile Group has obtained many key technologies related to electric vehicles.

And with the future development of Tesla, the value of the shares they currently hold will increase a hundredfold.

In this IPO, Tesla raised US$36575 million through public offering of shares.

In addition to continuing to expand their Fremont, California, factory, these funds will also be used for the development of Tesla's third model, the electric crossover Model X.

Yes, although the Model S has not yet started delivery, Tesla already has plans to develop a new model, which will be a pure electric CUV model.

It is worth mentioning that when Tesla went public, funds under DS Capital and Standard Chartered Merrill Lynch also actively subscribed. They purchased a total of approximately 500 million Tesla shares, accounting for about 5% of the current total share capital.

Although the world's electric vehicle landscape will change with the addition of the British Motor Group, Tesla will always be one of the most promising electric vehicle companies.

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At the same time, after being acquired by IC Capital and GII Fund, Motorola Mobility stopped launching subsequent models of GOS system phones. So far, it has launched two Android-based smartphones. With Motorola's still existing brand influence, the sales of these two phones are quite good. Although they are not commendable smartphone models, at least in terms of revenue, they have alleviated the decline of Motorola Mobility in the mobile phone business. In the fourth quarter of this year, it finally turned losses into profits.

And these two mobile phones, after all, are mainly launched to enable Motorola Mobility to maintain its mobile phone business.

At present, their mobile phone research and development department has focused all its energy on the new series of mobile phones to be launched in the second quarter of next year. The DEFY series of mobile phones currently under design will continue Motorola's classic detail design, and will strengthen the "three protections", namely "dustproof, waterproof, and scratch-proof" functions, and will reach the IP68 dustproof and waterproof level.

This will be Motorola Mobility's flagship phone next year, and Motorola Mobility has high hopes for this phone.

At present, Google has basically given up its mobile operating system department, and Microsoft's Windows system does not pose a threat to the Android system.

Therefore, after Ivanta gave birth to her child and returned to work, she focused her main energy on transforming Motorola Mobility.

Motorola Mobility's TV set-top box division has always been profitable. After the merger with Puma Electronics, it has performed well not only in the North American market but also in the European market.

So the most important thing for Motorola Mobility is to reverse the decline of its mobile phone division.

After discussing with Barron, his advice to Ivanta was to let Motorola Mobility learn from Samsung's previous path in the mobile phone field, so that Motorola Mobility could once again become a mainstream mobile phone brand.

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"This is a detailed investigation of the G4S Group which we have undertaken over a three-month period, using a number of security assessment and corporate audit firms..."

After returning to London, Barron received this thick document from Wang Wanting and heard her say:

"It seems that G4S has a big problem at the moment..."

Prior to this, Umbrella Security (UK), which belonged to the Cavendish Trust, was merged into the G4S Group. In addition, through acquisitions, the Cavendish Trust now holds more than 4% of the shares of the G45S Group and is the controlling shareholder of the world's largest private security company.

Through Wang Wanting's introduction, Barron learned that the most serious problem currently facing the G4S Group is their slow action and they may not be able to complete the security work of the London Olympics.

Last year, G4S Group signed an Olympic security agreement with the London government worth more than US$4.4 million.

According to the agreement, G4S Group will be responsible for the security of the London Olympics to be held next summer, and will need to deploy at least 1 security personnel during the Olympics.

However, according to investigations, the training of relevant personnel of the G4S Group is seriously lagging behind. So far, only one-tenth, or one thousand security personnel, have received relevant training, and the quality of the training is worrying.

If we continue at this pace, we will definitely not be able to complete the personnel deployment required by the agreement before the Olympics.

(End of this chapter)