Wall Street Legend

  Chapter 258 Huawei is going to be sold?

  Ma Xi temporarily stayed at Ye Dongqing's house to overcome jet lag. She didn't sleep well last night. After nearly a month of vacancy in the high-rise luxury apartment of Puchuan Building, someone finally moved in again.

Even if the renovation of the island next to Long Island is completed, Ye Dongqing does not intend to sell this apartment. It is just above the Tamsui Investment Group, and it is on Fifth Avenue, in the core area of ​​Midtown Manhattan. The island is comfortable, and after all, it is more lively, so you don't have to drive for more than 20 minutes to buy a bottle of soda, so you plan to stay on both sides.

Not going to manage Chad's housework for the time being. He still has business matters to deal with. After coming to Danshui Investment Group, he plunged into piles of documents, and he needed to approve financial reports and tax reports. It is not troublesome to sign, but it is more troublesome to review. You don't need to read carefully one by one, but you still need to know more or less about the general situation.

The time has entered 2004, and the Danshui Investment Group at this moment is not the same as last year. The main business is still various investments, mainly investing in various Internet companies, and the expenses account for half of the total assets under management. Apple has invested nearly two billion US dollars, in addition to corporate bonds and government bonds, set aside some cash, about one billion US dollars, and some money has been invested in the commodity trading market, mainly crude oil futures.

Since Ye Dongqing opened a position, the current profit scale is hovering around 700 million US dollars. After experiencing the last surge, it is necessary to lay the foundation for the next wave of market prices. The fluctuation of oil prices in the past two weeks has not been large in general, and the long-term rising market It can be expected that Ye Dongqing has the patience to wait slowly. A professional team in the company will help him keep an eye on all the movements of the crude oil market 24 hours a day. He has read the information and found no problems for the time being.

Among the piles of documents, he came across an interesting record. He read it carefully with the folder in his hand, and was surprised to find that in January, Motorola actually signed a contract worth seven dollars with the Huawei he knew. In the acquisition contract of US$1.5 billion, Motorola tried to acquire Huawei as a whole. The document only recorded this news and did not describe the later progress.

This surprised Ye Dongqing. In my memory, this company should have no external shareholders. All the shares are concentrated in the hands of Huawei executives and employees. This is one of the reasons why Huawei will be squeezed out in the future. If there is Wall Street capital , or which Silicon Valley company holds a large amount of Huawei shares, the situation will definitely become different, and most of them will not encounter such strong resistance when opening up the global market.

However, the document in his hand clearly records the news that Motorola is about to acquire Huawei as a whole. Ye Dongqing doesn't know whether this has happened in his previous life, but it is indeed possible to happen now. He was surprised by this and hurriedly called Call the secretarial team and ask them to help collect all the information about this acquisition, especially the recent transaction trends. To be honest, he is more interested in this company, but he already owns so many shares of Apple. No investment, if possible, it would probably be a good thing to get some shares through financing.

  In this era, Huawei was indeed almost sold. The price was about 7.5 billion US dollars.

Today’s Huawei is not the future Huawei. The mobile phone business has not yet started. The main competitor is Cisco, and in the lawsuit with Cisco, it is almost out of breath. The business is not tepid, and it is still profitable. It doesn't have much influence, it's just an ordinary technology company.

Ye Dongqing got feedback quickly, and his subordinates told him that in January this year, Mr. Mike Zafirovski, the chief operating officer of Motorola, and Larry Chen, who was in charge of China's business, met with the general manager of Huawei on South China Sea Island. The acquisition was negotiated, but before the transaction was completed, Mike Zafirovski resigned from the position of CEO of Motorola Group, mainly because Motorola's stock price fluctuated sharply due to the failure to release new mobile phones as scheduled during Christmas last year , coupled with the fact that the annual performance growth failed to meet expectations, forced this guy to resign voluntarily to appease the board of directors and the majority of shareholders.

He was not polite to Mr. Bernard Madoff's junior just because the other party was a little beauty, lit a cigar and raised his legs, and said in a slightly impatient tone: "Tell me the key point directly, the progress of this transaction What is the situation now? The new CEO of Motorola still intends to buy it?"

Elizabeth Madoff has successfully come to Danshui Investment Group for an internship through the relationship of old Bernard. Because Ye Dongqing was not in New York for a long time, the two met not many times. Counting the last meeting, this is only the second time .

She paused for a moment, and then said: "No, according to the information I just learned from the consulting company, the senior executives of Motorola Group seem to disagree with this transaction, and the project has been temporarily put on hold. Spending too much cash, and Motorola Group's financial situation doesn't seem to be very good recently, and it plans to focus on the mobile phone business."

   "Ha! This is awesome!"

Ye Dongqing is really happy. Although the process has been changed, he doesn't know whether Huawei will develop into a communication industry giant that can directly compete with Cisco like the Huawei in his memory. On a whim, he tried to cut him off halfway, and tried to contact Huawei's senior management to see if he could get some shares.

When he was inspecting Pengcheng, he subconsciously thought that Huawei would not accept financing from the United States, so he didn't talk to them at all, but now he found that things were not as simple as he imagined. Get a potential stock.

He casually pointed to the small wine cabinet and asked Elizabeth Madoff to bring him a bottle of beer. He continued, "Thank you, go and find Mr. McCord for me, and help me confirm this news from Motorola. , there should be publicly disclosed information, right? Motorola is a listed company, please let me know when it is confirmed."

  Early before Elizabeth came to work, the old Madoff had a deep talk with this Jewish girl. It wasn't that he had any ill intentions towards Ye Dongqing, but the old man hoped that she could successfully win Ye Dongqing.

For the first time in her life, Elizabeth lost confidence in her appearance, because Ye Dongqing didn't pay attention to her at all, just like treating other people in the company. As a woman, she paid more or less attention to this, and replied with a smile: "McCaw Mr. De is on his way back from Washington, you should know, the meeting organized by the Securities and Exchange Commission..."

  (end of this chapter)