Chapter 702 [Good guy, Im not joking, I really want to acquire it!
Fang Hong caused a stir in the gaming industry with just one Weibo post. Many media quoted the report as soon as possible. Even major market software pushed this news, which also attracted the attention of the capital market.
After all, with his status as the big boss of Qunxing Capital, the weight of what he said is completely incomparable to ordinary people.
The outside world began to speculate on the possibility of Star Capital entering the gaming field.
Everyone doesn’t know whether Fang Hong’s Weibo post was a joke or serious.
However, Qunxing Capital purchased the ICM company and vigorously promoted the development of the e-sports industry. The budget for next year's wcg2014 will allocate 3 billion yuan to host the Super League and the National Cup.
Judging from these actions of Star Capital, it is indeed gradually expanding in the gaming field.
Fang Hong said on Weibo that he wanted to buy Blizzard. Maybe it was not a joke, but maybe he really wanted to buy it.
The most important thing is that everyone knows that he has this strength.
Stimulated by this news, the gaming sector surged at the opening of trading this morning, and many gaming stocks in the A-share market surged rapidly.
Fang Hong's Weibo also triggered speculation in the capital market. Maybe domestic game companies will also be bought by the wealthy Qunxing Capital. With such an expectation, funds quickly found a direction for today's speculation.
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Just when the outside world was speculating whether Fang Hongfa's Weibo claim to buy Blizzard was a joke or whether he really had this idea, around 12 noon, a blockbuster news released by Qunxing Capital caused a stir in the domestic and foreign gaming circles.
Huge earthquake.
Directly refresh the entire network.
According to the announcement, Stellar Capital plans to acquire Activision Blizzard with an all-cash offer of US$50 billion!
Good guy!
Onlookers from all walks of life called him "good guy!"
What Daqing K God said on Weibo was not a joke, but he actually meant it?
I really need to buy Activision Blizzard!
If this transaction is really completed, it will become the largest acquisition in the company's history, an all-cash acquisition of US$50 billion, which is equivalent to more than 300 billion yuan excluding exchange rate changes.
This exaggerated figure is jaw-dropping. The emergence of this news is definitely a big earthquake in the gaming industry.
Activision Blizzard has a rich game library. As the world's first third-party game provider for home consoles, it has a history of more than 30 years.
Although Activision Blizzard has gone through many reincarnations, it still has an outstanding historical heritage and industry influence.
Among most domestic players, the games that are familiar with the company are mainly games such as Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo. However, these are games from the Blizzard Entertainment division of Activision Blizzard, which previously owned masterpieces such as "Call of Duty"
Activision Blizzard merged with Blizzard to become Activision Blizzard.
Relatively speaking, Activision's popularity and influence among domestic player groups is not as good as that of Blizzard, but the opposite is true abroad.
At this current point in time, Blizzard is still the world's top game company in the eyes of domestic gamers that "Blizzard products must be high-quality", and it is not as notorious as it was ten years later.
What shocked the outside world was that the premium offered by Stellar Capital was very high. Activision Blizzard's current total market value is US$28.9 billion, which is a premium of more than US$20 billion!
It is difficult to sway the shareholders behind Activision Blizzard without giving a sufficient premium. Moreover, if Fang Hong wants to acquire Activision Blizzard, he may not succeed just by giving a premium, because of the resistance from the FTC agency of the beautiful country.
ignore.
But Fang Hong has his own coping strategy.
When the A-share market opened in the afternoon, the game sector rose strongly again, and funds poured in crazily. Many game stocks were directly pushed to the daily limit by funds.
The market expects that Qunxing Capital may buy these companies, and this expectation has been strengthened again.
And as Stars Capital released the news, it not only became popular and front-page headlines domestically, but the news also quickly spread abroad and became international headlines. The astronomical acquisition invitation of US$50 billion was an unprecedented figure.
This incident quickly caused a stir among foreign players, and the capital market was also shocked.
It is now late at night in the Western Hemisphere, and the U.S. stock market has not opened. However, stimulated by this news, Activision Blizzard's stock price soared 52% before the market opened, and its market value directly increased from US$28.9 billion to US$43.9 billion.
A piece of news sent Activision Blizzard's market value soaring by $15 billion.
People from all walks of life at home and abroad lamented that Star Capital is really rich and arrogant, so arrogant that it has no friends.
However, even in this bustling state, some people realized that it might not be that easy to complete this deal.
The concubine has to be willing for the man to be affectionate.
There is a question whether Activision Blizzard itself is willing to "sell out" again, and it is also a question whether the FTC organization will intervene to obstruct it.
This point can be seen from the stock price trend of Activision Blizzard after the US stock market opens tonight.
Activision Blizzard's stock price opened 52% higher at the opening, and the market value soared by US$15 billion. However, it fell back after the opening, and finally closed up 17.89%, with the market value locked at US$34 billion.
This news is still quite shocking in the gaming industry, and the domestic gaming circle is the most agitated, including Blizzard's agent in Greater China, Zhuchang Wangxiang, who also paid close attention to the news at the first time, and also started discussions on the matter internally.
Once the acquisition by Qunxing Capital is successful, Pig Factory is likely to lose the agency rights of Blizzard Games. At least there will be a question mark whether it can be renewed after the current contract expires.
And this matter has also been reflected in the stock price of Wangzheng.
The news came out today, and Activision Blizzard's market value soared by 17.89%. However, the share price of NetEase, which is also listed on the US stock market, fell by -18% today, and its market value dropped to only about US$8 billion.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In Fang Hong's previous life, NetXin "broke up" with Blizzard ten years later. At that time, NetXin's stock price even rose when the news came out.
But it's different now.
Cyberspace is not that powerful yet. If it loses its agency rights to Blizzard, it will have a huge impact on the company. It will not only mean a significant drop in revenue, but also mean the loss of a huge domestic Blizzard user base.
Stellar Capital offers an all-cash acquisition of Activision Blizzard for US$50 billion. The total market value of the six current Internet companies is still less than US$50 billion. This is shocking in both the gaming industry and the capital market.
The most important thing is that Qunxing Capital still needs all cash to buy it, and it can still afford it. How rich is this?
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The next day, stay quietly.
Tian Jiayi returned to the villa and was reporting to Fang Hong: "Our acquisition negotiation team in North America sent back news today that there is great resistance to the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. Even if we offer an offer of US$50 billion, the probability of success is
It’s also very slim.”
It is worth mentioning that before Fang Hong posted on Weibo yesterday, the company’s acquisition team had already arrived a week ago.
The biggest obstacle is not the employer. Vivendi wants to sell. After all, it has offered a price of US$50 billion. The key is the all-cash acquisition, which is very attractive to the Vivendi Group.
But North American FTC institutions are the biggest resistance.
The reason is that the acquirer is from a big Eastern country. Not only that, it is also Stars Capital. The beautiful country is not interested in Stars Capital.
Hearing this, Fang Hong said bluntly: "Tell the person in charge of the acquisition team to find out who the FTC organization in North America can decide on the acquisition direction. Once you find out, stuff the money and settle the situation for me."
Tian Jiayi couldn't help being slightly stunned: "Push money?"
Fang Hong nodded and said calmly: "After all, it's not a chip. No matter how great the resistance is, it will definitely be incomparable to the acquisition of a leading semiconductor company in North America."
At this point, Fang Hong glanced at the beautiful assistant, looked at her for a moment, then looked away, and sighed with a half-smile: "We have moles and self-interested people here, and there must be some over there.
Yes. Money can make all the difference. After you figure it out, you can sort it out for me. I don’t believe that you can’t open this hole. You can give me enough green paper tickets. They often use this method, so why can’t I use it?”
Fang Hong is not a pedantic person like "Song Xianggong". If you are too upright in transnational games, you will suffer losses, and you will lose.
As long as you can achieve your own strategic goals, you should not hesitate to use unconventional means.
