"Sun Jian...hehehe...what should we do next?"
In the early morning of September 6, Xiang Dongping, president of Mulan Investment Company, called Sun Jian to tell him the good news. The market value of the 5 million Apple shares held by Mulan Investment Company soared by 30% in one day. It was like a dream. Although he was optimistic about Steve Jobs' entry into the company, The future development prospects of Apple are bound to plummet if they rise sharply! This is Sun Jian’s advice to traders. They are worried that the cooked duck will fly and they hope to get advice from Sun Jian.
On September 5, Apple Computer's interim CEO Steve Jobs announced the cooperation agreement with Microsoft President Steve Gates, who appeared on a large computer screen at the company's annual meeting in Boston.
According to the agreement, Microsoft will purchase US$150 million in non-voting shares of Apple and hold them for at least three years. Microsoft also guarantees to develop a Macintosh version of Microsoft Offiet Explorer for five consecutive years and update it at least as frequently as indos. .
In addition, Microsoft agreed to pay Apple a fee of US$100 million to resolve Apple's long-standing dispute that Microsoft's indos operating system infringed its patents.
In return, Apple dropped its patent lawsuit against Microsoft; Apple agreed to use IE as the default web browser for the Macintosh computer operating system.
In 1996, Apple was a mess that no big company was willing to acquire. Otherwise, Chairman Markkula and CEO Amelio would not have brought back Jobs, who was driven out by the Apple board of directors headed by Markkula. Apple has continued to Seven quarters of losses totaled US$2.3 billion. Apple Computer's share of the U.S. personal computer market dropped from 14% in 1993 to 6% in 1996. It had no R&D funds to develop a new generation of MacCPU and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
Apple had to spend US$377.5 million, plus 1.5 million shares of Apple stock, to acquire Jobs' computer company. As a special adviser to Apple, Jobs returned to Apple after 10 years of absence and carried out a series of drastic reforms. Apple The company's operating performance has improved, and the capital market has taken the lead in reacting. Apple's stock price has risen from US$2.15 to US$2.75 in less than a year, an increase of more than 25%, far exceeding the Nasdaq Index during the same period. With the increase, some institutional investors are paying attention to Apple's business development again.
Microsoft's first application software was Eel and ord developed for MOS. Microsoft imitated the M operating system desktop developed by Apple and successfully developed the indos operating system and promoted its operating system in other computer companies, making a lot of money. The bowl is full.
Apple complained to the court that Microsoft's indos operating system infringed on Apple's MOS patent rights, but Microsoft believed that it was just a reference, and the lawsuit between the two parties has been going on for more than ten years with no results.
Jobs believed that if the lawsuit with Microsoft continued, Apple could win a fine of US$1 billion in a few years, but at this time Apple could not support that time, and considering that Apple needed Microsoft to help develop MOS-based Application software, Jobs weighed the pros and cons and decided to reconcile with Microsoft.
Jobs successfully persuaded Gates to continue developing MOS-based applications for Apple and invest in Apple's non-voting preferred stock.
When the news of Microsoft's cooperation with Apple came out, institutional investors on Wall Street rushed to buy Apple's shares, causing Apple's stock price to soar from $2.75 to $3.58 that day, an increase of $0.83, or 30%, a massive surge!
Mulan Investment Company is a joint-stock limited liability company registered in the Cayman Islands on March 8, 1995 with a capital of US$5 million by Liu Yue, Xiang Dongping and Bi Xiaoyun.
Xiang Dongping has investment talent and courage, Liu Yue and Bi Xiaoyun are good at management, and three women have a drama. In order to allow the three women who love themselves deeply to achieve personal wealth freedom, and also to cultivate their investment and financial management abilities, Sun Jian gave The three women paid US$5 million and also donated the overseas copyright fees of "The Road to Excellence" to Mulan Investment Company.
Liu Yue invested US$2 million, holding 40% of the shares, and served as chairman; Xiang Dongping invested US$1.5 million, holding 30% of the shares, and served as president; Bi Xiaoyun invested 150
million, holds 30% of the shares, and serves as general manager.
Under the careful management of Xiang Dongping, "The Road to Excellence" has been published and distributed in 27 countries in Europe and the United States. In 1995, 1996 and the first half of 1997, it brought more than 11 million US dollars, more than 19 million US dollars and more to Mulan Investment Company respectively. More than $13 million in royalties.
Xiang Dongping has followed Sun Jian for so many years and has long served as the Minister of ATIC's European Department. Now he serves as the Deputy General Manager of ATIC (Deputy Minister Guo Yuchen takes over as the Minister of European Department). She knows that Sun Jian has long-term investment in blue chip stocks and network technology in the Dow Jones and Nasdaq markets. Stocks, make a lot of money, imitating ATIC's investment targets, Mulan Investment Company will invest all the royalties received in the stocks of GCA, Cisco, Qualcomm, AOL, PENG and Microsoft, making huge profits, and don't worry about it in a hurry.
Xiang Dongping does not have a personal account for stocks or futures in the United States.
"Dong Ping, you are lucky. I didn't expect Microsoft to cooperate with Apple. Investing in a company's stock means investing in the head of the company. Since you are optimistic about Jobs, you don't have to worry about the short-term rise or fall of Apple's stock price. Are you paying attention to the other party's speed of developing new products and the sales of its flagship products? Wait for the opportunity!"
Sun Jian did not know about the cooperation between Apple and Microsoft in his previous life, but he knew that with the return of Steve Jobs and the advent of the Apple iPad and Apple IPhone, the stock price of Apple has been rising for a long time. If you hold it for more than ten years, you can make ten times the profit. It shouldn’t be a big problem!
After the emergence of Dawn Communications Group, it will be difficult for Apple to regain the glory of its previous life.
On August 16, 1996, Sun Jian heard that Lenovo's stock price had dropped to HK$0.29, and he instructed Wang Dongming to take the opportunity to buy 30 million shares at around HK$0.35, and cashed out all of them at HK$2.7 at the end of July. If Guozhi computers had not been born, If you hold Lenovo's shares for a long time, it's only a matter of time before you earn dozens of times.
On April 9, at the 32nd World Conference of the Shanghai International Chamber of Commerce, Sun Jian saw Jobs attending the event as a special advisor and Apple CEO Amelio. The King is Back! Sooner or later, Amelio was replaced, and with a premonition that Apple's stock price would soar, Xiang Dongping was instructed to pay out the copyright fees for the first half of 1997. Mulan Investment Company purchased 5 million shares of Apple stock at an average price of US$2.35 per share.
Don’t underestimate these 5 million shares. The shares held by Mulan Investment Company account for 4% of Apple’s total share capital (more than 123 million shares), ranking it the seventh largest shareholder.
According to U.S. securities investment laws, shareholders holding 5% of the company's shares need to announce in advance.
ATIC holds 11.3 million shares, accounting for 9% of Apple's total share capital, and is the second largest shareholder. Over the past three years, the number and proportion of shares held have not changed.
