Chapter 917 Oligarch

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Simon left New York on Tuesday, stayed in San Francisco until Wednesday, mainly for interviews with FusionTimes and SolarCity, returned to Los Angeles that afternoon, stayed for a day, and came to New York again.

It's Friday, April 19th.

Inside the New York Stock Exchange at 11 Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, at 9:30 a.m., Sophia Fisher led Melisandre's management core and several other special guests to press the trade button, announcing Melisandre Shares officially begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

Unlike the crazy 151% surge in the stock price on the day of Tinkbell's listing, Melisandre's stock price increase on the first day of listing will be much flatter.

Of course, only in relative terms.

At 10:30, after three rounds of inquiries, Melisandre's stock officially opened. Compared with the issue price of $15, the opening price was $19.25, an increase of 28.3%.

After all, the U.S. stock market is in a bull market cycle. Although Melisandre is not lost to the popular technology stock category, it is still a Westeros concept stock. After the inquiry, the opening price rose 28.3%, which has actually exceeded the average level. The industry expects the share price of Melisandre to rise by about 50% on the first day of listing, which is also an internal judgment of the Westeros system.

Judging from the opening rally, this is basically the case.

In the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel near the New York Stock Exchange, there is a celebratory reception at noon as usual.

In fact, the celebration reception is more suitable for the evening. In order to match Simon's schedule, it was changed to noon. Simon will return to Los Angeles in the afternoon.

Compared with the celebration reception for the listing of technology stocks, the biggest feature of the Melisandre reception is that it is eye-catching. The world's largest luxury giant was listed, and all the supermodels in the industry who could come to express their congratulations were there.

Dressed in a white OL suit, Sophia, who became a strong woman, stood with Simon with a glass of red wine, and was chatting about Melisandre's next plan: "Next, I plan to get involved in the luxury home furnishing field, and the marketing department has already Some investigations have been carried out. The global economy is recovering rapidly, and the new technology industry has brought a lot of wealth to the upstarts. The development of the luxury housing market will be very strong for at least the next ten years, which will also drive the demand for top home products. Moreover, Mei Li Sandra's global resources and channels are available."

Simon took a sip of the champagne in his hand and said, "I don't know anything about this, you operate it yourself. However, your thinking is definitely right. Moreover, not only in the next ten years, maybe twenty or thirty years, although the economy Cycles of ups and downs are inevitable, but demand has definitely been increasing in the cutting-edge consumer segment.”

Sophia was puzzled: "Why are you so sure?"

Simon said: "Judging from the overall situation. First of all, we can be sure that with the advent of the era of globalization, the probability of a world war like half a century ago will be greatly reduced. As long as there is no devastating war, the overall wealth of society will be reduced. It will definitely keep increasing. Then, there is the 28th society. Because of the imbalance of social resources, the poor will inevitably become poorer and the rich will become richer. As this differentiation intensifies, the top group of rich people is actually getting more and more Many."

Sophia nodded: "It makes sense, but I think there must be something else?"

"Yeah, in the end, it will still return to the repeated reincarnation of mankind in the past thousands of years, and there is no escape."

"Can't you try to change?"

"If it can be changed, there will be no reincarnation."

Sophia frowned slightly and thought for a moment, then looked up at Simon: "It seems that it is really necessary for you to buy land on that island in South Australia."

"I also think it's more important to leave a way for our children to immigrate to Mars, which has already started."

"Heh," Sophia smiled, remembering one thing, and said, "I had a video call with Jenny the day before yesterday, and Snow and Green would both call Dad, and then I just taught a few words, and the kids could call my mom on camera. .I didn't expect it."

The day before yesterday was Wednesday, and Simon didn't return to Los Angeles until the evening. Due to the time difference between the east and west coasts, Sophia and there must be noon on the call, but they didn't meet. However, Simon knew of the fact that the two youngest children would call their father, and laughed at this time: "My child, of course, is very smart."

The two little guys are just eight months old now.

Most children at this age have just learned some simple syllables. Although they are not as outstanding as Seattle, they can learn to call Mom and Dad at this time. They are indeed much smarter than ordinary children.

Sophia's expression was a little narrow and playful: "But I don't think Mel and Nick seem to be very smart. Instead, Seale, Snow and Green are more like you. You say, in the future, will Jenny be crazy? You might have a headache too."

Of course I understand what Sophia means.

While all five children will be heirs to the Westeros, any big family needs someone to talk to. As Janet's biological sons, Melbourne and Nicholas should be the core of the next generation, but if a group of younger siblings are better than them, it will be a bit difficult in the future.

Simon looked at the proud expression of the woman in front of him, and shrugged: "Jenny won't be crazy, she likes Searle the most on weekdays."

Sophia still looked over with a smile at the corner of her mouth: "Then will you be mad?"

"No, it really won't work in the future. Drive all the extra little lions out to grab their own territory and leave one to inherit the family business. That's what they do on the grasslands."

Sophia rolled her eyes at Simon.

Knowing that men will really do this, but not too worried.

After all, the Westeros system is too huge. No matter how much your children can get in the future, it is destined to be a huge amount of wealth in the eyes of outsiders. Even if you really don't get anything, don't you still have yourself? Although the man said at the beginning that she could leave Melisandre to Daniel and Gemma, as a mother, she did not intend to ignore the other two children.

I just wanted to embarrass him, but I didn't plan to chase after him, Sophia said another thing: "The Chinese girl next to you, Chen Qing, sent me some information about Chinese jade materials some time ago, it's amazing As for one of the girls, she put forward a whole set of operation plans in the email. Chinese jade was only used by nobles in ancient times. You can hype the value of jade through Christie's auction house, and at the same time operate this concept more widely, and then sell it in the auction house. It is a very good idea to add jade jewelry to our jewelry brands, and the Bulgari team has already started to study this plan.”

When it comes to jade jewelry, Westerners prefer colored gemstones, such as jadeite, which are used more in Western luxury jewelry brands. All kinds of jade produced in China have always received little attention.

Mainly because of the lack of cultural accumulation.

Simon listened to Sophia talking about this, and smiled: "She must have thought about doing it herself, but she probably thought she couldn't do it, so she gave it to you as a favor."

"Do you think it's possible too?"

Simon thought for a moment and said, "The output of some jade in China is very large, so you need to choose a jade with a smaller output first, so as to facilitate the operation. I happen to know one, um..."

Simon didn't know how to translate it for a while, so he could only use the Chinese name and continued: "This kind of jade is called 'Hetian Jade Seed Material', and you can continue to ask for specific information from Chen. In short, this kind of jade is Because it can only be collected from the riverbed washed by flowing water, the output is very small. Other jades are collected directly from the mountains. Calculated by ton, this kind of jade can only be mined in blocks, and it is difficult to have large pieces of material, so relatively speaking It is more expensive. If you really plan to operate here, you can start purchasing first, stock up a batch, and then stir up the concept and ship it slowly, and the profit will be very rich.”

In fact, the information about the Hetian jade seed material was only learned by Simon some time ago, and it was also introduced to Simon by Chen Qing when he was in charge of making jade nameplates for the girls of the Guofeng Art Troupe.

However, the concept of hype comes from the memory of Simon's previous life.

Whether it is fried porcelain, fried Pu'er, fried chicken blood stone, fried Hetian jade seed material, etc., it is this kind of discussion.

Thinking of this, Simon asked Sophia: "The idea I just said should be commonly used in the auction industry."

Sophia nodded: "Yes, in the 1980s, Impressionism was hyped, Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro, etc., and then sold to the Japanese. At that time, 40% of the Impressionist works in the international market were taken away by Japanese buyers. The auction industry has targeted publicity. In recent years, the Japanese have stopped buying it, and even some of Van Gogh's works have suffered a serious price drop. However, you reminded me that outside the auction industry, this set of Operation is also available.”

now it's right.

There's never anything new, it's all routines.

In the 1980s, it was Japanese, and in ten years, it will be Chinese. Then the Chinese also learned this routine and started all kinds of hype, even sautéing garlic.

Garlic never thought that there would be a day when he was hyped.

While chatting, they saw Bill Spoulte and Grace Spoulte walking together, the two stopped talking and greeted each other.

Because he wants to sign China Telecom's IPO underwriting agreement, although he is not the number one leader in First Boston, because of his key role in this business, Bill Spoulte will also go to China with Simon tomorrow.

Knowing that the two men might have something to talk about, Sophia said to Simon after a few words of greeting: "I still have some things to do in the afternoon, Simon, I won't give it away when you leave, and remember to give it to Danny and Jay from China. Ma came back with a present."

After saying that, he motioned for Grace to go away together.

Grace only occasionally flashed some special soft light when she greeted Simon, but there was no flaw on the surface, she talked to Sophia and walked to him with a smile.

The relationship between Simon and Grace has always been very low-key, but Sophia also noticed it out of her keen sixth sense between women, and got confirmation from Simon. Even so, the woman did not show hostility to Grace. After all, it was only in this banquet hall at the moment. If she wanted to be hostile, she might not be able to care.

When Sophia and the others left, the remaining two men chatted about the next itinerary without any ill will at all, and occasionally socialized with the guests who came to chat.

So until one o'clock in the afternoon, when the reception was over, Simon came out of the Marriott Hotel in the downtown area and drove directly to JFK International Airport to fly back to Los Angeles.

New York here.

The last trading day of the week ended quickly. As of the close of the afternoon that day, Melisandre’s share price on the first day of listing finally increased by 54.1%, and the closing share price was $23.125. According to the total share capital of 2.265 billion shares after listing, the closing market value is as high as 52.3 billion US dollars.

Among the “women” such as Daenerys, Igreit, and Tinkerbell who have been listed in the Westeros system, Melisandre with a market value of $52.3 billion is undoubtedly the lowest.

This is still only relative.

For example, there is still a poor Boeing in a certain corner. In February, Tinkerbell went public, and Boeing’s market value was only 37 billion US dollars. Recently, it still failed to cross the 40 billion market value threshold.

However, Melisandre's market value is actually very high.

According to the net profit scale of US$1.51 billion last year, even if the market value reaches US$52.3 billion, Melisandre's price-earnings ratio is only 34 times, which is also a relatively low level in the New York Stock Exchange, which is in a bull market state at this time, because the global Under the background of economic recovery, the demand for luxury goods continues to increase, coupled with its own aggressive development strategy, Melisandre has grown very rapidly.

After the market closed that afternoon, many analysts on Wall Street sharply raised their growth expectations for Melisandre’s stock price in the future, believing that the company’s price-earnings ratio should be around 50 times, which means a market value of $75 billion.

In any case, according to the Westeros company's 53.1% stake in Melisandre after the listing, after the close of the day, the total value of Melisandre's shares held by Simon reached $27.7 billion.

Another fortune worth tens of billions of dollars.

Most importantly, through this IPO, Melisandre also received a one-time $4.5 billion in cash, which is a very large amount of cash even in the luxury industry, which has always been very profitable. In the next few years, whether it is the continued expansion of the two original "aircraft carrier battle groups" or the luxury home furnishing industry that Sofia intends to test the waters, with sufficient capital as the backing, Melisandre will be unstoppable in the next few years.

According to the information in my memory, the luxury industry is actually like the entertainment, telecommunications, medicine and other industries in the United States. The last few years of the 1990s were also the last period when the pattern of the luxury industry in the original space and time was finalized. The LVMH Group, Richemont Group and PPR Group in the original time and space have all completed the final division of a series of brands in the luxury goods industry in recent years.

Then again, the industry structure is basically unbreakable.

Now, because of the birth of Melisandre, not only LVMH, once the world's largest luxury goods giant, has been thrown off by Melisandre, but the other two, Richemont Group, which specializes in jewelry and watches, and Everest The PPR group, centered on Gucci, simply did not take shape. The Richemont group has only one Jaeger-LeCoultre brand that it can handle, and PPR is still mainly engaged in the department store business.

It can be said that from now on, the luxury industry is dominated by the Melisandre family. As long as the prey that Melisandre likes, other brands can't compete with it at all. Even if the competitors forcefully compete for some of the targets that Melisandre likes, their strength is barely enough. Completely crushed by Melisandre.

This is the oligarch.

A true industry oligarch.

Moreover, what makes the people in the game even more oppressive is that such an industry oligarch, the Westeros system also has a series of large and small such as Daenerys and Igret.

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