Chapter 665

Mark talked nonsense on the Time Warner board of directors and promised an annual growth of 7%. He successfully won the support of the board of directors and the control and leadership of the management.

For this giant company, who dares to make such an amazing promise? If you can't do it, you must be cleaned up and rectified by the people on the board of directors, and you will lose a layer of skin if you don't die.

Mark dares. Why is he so arrogant? Just because he has golden fingers, and it won't be too difficult.

In the original version of the United States, there was a guy named Warren Buffett. The Wall Street Journal reported that the market value of Pingguo company exceeded US $1 trillion, which benefited the billionaires and ordinary investors who invested in the company. At the same time, it also made Warren Buffett among the biggest winners and become the top billionaire.

Apple's share price once hit an all-time high of $207.05, and the market successfully exceeded $trillion, becoming the world's first company with a single market exceeding $trillion. Apple's third quarter data showed that the company's sales increased by 17% to $53.3 billion; Profits soared 32% to $11.52 billion. Both exceeded Wall Street expectations.

Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is Apple's second largest shareholder, holding about 5% of the shares, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Berkshire Hathaway bought Apple shares for the first time in the first quarter of 2016. According to data released by FactSet, an American research company, the company bought $1 billion worth of Apple shares at $99.02 per share, which is less than half the current level.

According to the data, Berkshire Hathaway has steadily increased its stake in Apple since then, investing more than $30 billion from the first quarter of 2016 to the first quarter of 2018. As of March 31 this year, apple is still a heavy position stock of Berkshire Hathaway. According to the closing price on August 2, its apple stock is worth nearly $50 billion.

"Buffett has always been reluctant to invest in technology companies, but he is optimistic about apple because it is a retail enterprise with a strong brand," the report said.

Buffett said in an interview that he was one of Apple's fans. "It is an incredible enterprise. We like the economic benefits of their activities very much, as well as the management of the company and their way of thinking," Buffett said.

Since Buffett made this comment, Pingguo's share price has risen by 19% and 34% this year. Over the same period, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 2.5% and 15% respectively. Pingguo is currently one of the constituent stocks of the Dow Jones industrial average.

Considering that apple is widely held by mutual funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs), many other investors also benefited from the rise of Apple's share price.

Morningstar data show that American mutual funds and ETFs hold about 1.1 billion Apple shares, accounting for about 21% of Apple's total shares. These holdings are now worth about $220 billion.

According to the Wall Street Journal, a fund owned by State Street bank holds 55.8 million Pingguo shares, the largest of all funds.

Meanwhile, index fund giants such as American pioneer group, BlackRock and State Street, the world's second-largest fund management company, are among Apple's largest shareholders. According to FactSet, American pioneer group is the largest shareholder of Pingguo, holding more than 342 million shares. The three together hold nearly 16% of Apple's equity, scattered among dozens of mutual funds and ETFs.

Buffett has become a regular guest of Forbes's top ten richest people by virtue of upside down and reselling. However, it is Pingguo company's stock that really makes him reach the top three. It only started to build positions and hold shares in 2016, which makes him earn tens of billions. Now there is mark, and there is nothing to do with them.

Now mark is so crazy that he really scares many people. The board of directors is full of talents and countless great gods, but only mark dares to blow this cow, which makes mark look like a bastard and intimidate the board of directors. Any slight opposition is ruthlessly crushed by him.

Senior director Turner sighed: "young hero! We may have done the right thing this time."

As the founder of Turner TV network, the veteran fox is willing to cooperate with the devil even if the devil dares to guarantee that his wealth will increase by 10% every year.

Mark is quite dignified when he is serious. As a super rich, media tycoon and well-known director, he is no longer filming and is responsible for the reform of the behemoth Time Warner. His office can bird the times square, condescending and has a great sense of achievement.

In this era, Warner is full of talents, but no one raised any objection. This kind of prestige and evil spirit did not even exist in Richard, the chairman and CEO. This is not a personality charm, but his ferocious character and invincible miracle in the past, which made him erect a tall and mountainous image in Time Warner.

But when he answered the phone, the image disappeared. It was Martin. At the beginning, it was a sweet and crisp child voice: "Dad, I love you!"

Ma Kemei smiled and imitated Martin's child voice: "Martin baby, I love you too. Is the cartoon good today? What are you doing?"

Little Martin said, "my mother and I are cooking. We have cooked a lot of dishes. You should come back early!"

Mark said with a smile, "OK! OK! OK! I will come back early and kiss one!"

He turned to the phone, kissed the mobile phone, then let the phone stick to his face and kissed one side a few times. Looking at mark who was still majestic just now, he now changed his voice to make his son talk. No one expected that the recognized hero King Mark also had such a humanized side. Many people smiled at each other, which also diluted the cold and murderous spirit on mark.

Now mark is an independent director, who can provide guiding opinions to the management of Time Warner and has the power of life and death, which puts great pressure on other directors and managers.

For example, Barry looked embarrassed after the meeting: "I know that drawing a big cake is the only way to seize power, but when the promise can't be fulfilled, the consequences will be very serious."

Mark said, "if we succeed, we are geniuses."

Barry said, "tell me, what should we do now?" he asked himself that he was unable to make Time Warner's wealth grow at a rate of 7% a year. All this can only rely on mark.

Mark was also responsible and said, "as soon as we set up a stock company, we began to build positions and fully hold the shares of Pingguo company."

Barry said, "how much is better?"

Mark said, "the more, the better! It should not be less than $300 million this year."

Barry said, "we are a media company. Is it appropriate to switch to stocks? Where does the capital come from?"

Mark said, "a company that can make money is a good company. You don't care what he does. As for capital, we will cancel two A-level productions, and the empty capital will be used to invest in the stock market."

Mark's money comes from this. He stops making a few bad films. As the person in charge of Time Warner, he will not allow him to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to make a bad film. Almost every film company will make one or two hundreds of millions of bad films every year. This is inevitable. No one can guarantee that the film will not lose money.

Among the six giants, only mm doesn't have hundreds of millions of money losing films. This is because Mark's excellent film selection vision. Once mm makes a big film, it will make a profit. This is the reason why MM's share price remains high. This is because investors believe in MM's profitability.

In addition, Mark's strong entry into Time Warner is followed by a series of storms and scandals, such as the antitrust investigation of the Ministry of justice, such as Mark's divorce scandal, but Warner's share price does not fall but rises, because investors believe in Mark's earning ability.

Now the American public has the impression that mark is lecherous, hypocritical and ambitious. He is not a good man, but no one has ever denied that he has outstanding talent and strong ability to make money. After the hand of God, there is another nickname called star pirate, which means that his ability to make money is like robbing money. This nickname has a higher status than the Silicon Valley Pirates of Bill Gates and Joe gang leader.

Barry said: "cut the Warner Brothers' budget, Kevin will blow up." now Warner Brothers are proud of HA 6? Money is uncle. Now they are rich and famous. Of course, they are full of confidence.

Mark said: "tell Kevin that this is my bad project, and tell him that in the 24 films released by Warner Brothers, it is enough to ensure his market share and profit."

Barry said, "OK!"

Mark said: "in addition, if the company's game department wants to expand, we must increase the company's game R & D capacity and act as an agent for more games. I'm very optimistic about several models. You send someone to win the agency right."

Barry said, "OK!"

Mark said: "mainland China is the fastest growing region on the planet. We should increase investment in them. They are very strict in the cultural industry, but we can work hard in cinema and real estate."

Barry coughed twice and looked at mark bitterly.

Warner is also optimistic about the real estate market in mainland China, and has launched in-depth cooperation with Wanda to prepare for the development of national cinemas, but it was forcibly squeezed out by mm. Mark also remembered this. He said: "this is a big cake. Mm can't finish it. Warner can have one. Barry, this is a big fat meat. You must support me."

Barry said angrily: "if mm didn't hinder us, we would have been the largest shareholder of Wanda. I would follow up on it."

Mark said: "at the same time, I am very optimistic about the shares of Huaxia aribaba in Yahoo's hands. Is there any way to get them?"

Barry said, "how optimistic are you?"

Mark said, "if they sell, I'll sell my underwear to hold it."

Barry exclaimed, "so optimistic?"

Mark said, "yes."

Barry said: "I haven't calculated the cost, but these investments are nearly more than 8 billion. We go there to finance so much money."

"It is imperative to sell some non core industries to get funds," Mark said

Barry was silent, which was his most worried part.