Chapter 847 (1/2)
At 4:30 p.m. on October 6, the New York stock market closed.
On the first day of listing, igrit's share price peaked at US $56.75 and ended at US $53.125 because many investors failed to resist selling. Even so, igrit's share price rose as high as 51.7% on the first day of listing, with a closing market value of $229.8 billion.
From the IPO valuation of US $150 billion to the closing of US $229.8 billion on the first day, in just one day, the market value of this high-profile new technology giant has increased by nearly US $80 billion, surpassing Cisco, which originally ranked first in the market value of North American stock market.
At the close of the day, Cisco's market value was $223.7 billion.
On October 6, the whole technology stock market was on the rise.
At the beginning of this year, the NASDAQ index, which broke through 2000 points, hit a new high on October 6, reaching a high of 2618 points with a single day's 3.5% increase. As a result, the total market value of Listed Companies in the whole Nasdaq market reached $3.1 trillion.
Before the listing, many media valued igritt's equity at $100 billion when they counted Simon's personal assets, and some people criticized it as too overvalued.
Now, igritte is officially listed. After the IPO, Simon's shareholding in igritte in the name of westero company has dropped sharply to 59.2%. According to the closing market value of 229.8 billion US dollars on the first day, the total value of his 2.561 billion shares has also reached 136.1 billion US dollars.
Let's look at the big three Internet companies controlled by igritte.
Cisco's closing market value on October 6 was $223.7 billion, with Westeros holding 46.3% of its shares worth $103.5 billion.
AOL's closing market value on October 6 was $179.1 billion, with westero holding 65.5% of its shares worth $117.3 billion.
The three giants alone have contributed $356.9 billion to Simon.
If we take into account danielis entertainment group, which had a market value of $176.1 billion when it suspended trading on September 29, westero's 81.9% stake in danielis entertainment, which contributed $144.3 billion to Simon's wealth. Including the big three, the total is $501.2 billion.
Four companies have brought Simon more than $500 billion.
There is no doubt that Simon's personal wealth in the new year's Forbes 400 rich list, which will be released at the end of this month, will increase again compared with the $620 billion estimated by fortune a few months ago.
Ordinary people are more and more numb to this number, but many institutions have begun to study the impact of westero system on the global economy more carefully.
We need to know that even if we calculate in 1995, which is not over yet, there will not be more than 10 countries in the world whose GDP has reached 600 billion US dollars. The social wealth that the whole westero system can control and even influence has surpassed most of the world's economies.
In the face of the stock price miracle on the first day of igritte's listing, now no one will doubt that the information industry is the future of the world.
Simon westero, almost in control of the future.
At least the future of America.
October 6 is followed by the weekend.
This time, there was no special hot spot to divert the attention of the media and the public. What everyone saw this weekend was the news about the listing of igrit.
In addition to the IPO once again from the stock book to determine Simon's one hundred billion dollar level of personal wealth, igritte four also become the focus of media attention.
According to the closing price of US $53.125 on the first day, the personal wealth of Tim Berners Lee, Jeff Bezos and Carol Bartz, the founding three giants of igritte, who obtained 151 million shares, reached US $8 billion. The personal wealth of a former westero housekeeper who obtained 76 million shares from Amazon online mall also reached US $4 billion.
In the past few years, in addition to Simon's top ranking on the Forbes 400 list of the rich in the United States, one of the highlights of the list is the spectacle of the Walton family.
This time, Simon is still on top of the world. However, Tim Berners Lee, who has gained $8 billion in personal wealth through the listing of igritte company, is sure to be in the top 10. There is no doubt that Alice Ferguson's $4 billion will be in the top 20.
Amy Pascal, CEO of danielis entertainment, who won a large number of equity awards in the IPO process last year, has been listed on the stock market for a year. Recently, the estimated personal wealth of the media has reached about $3.5 billion, which can also easily squeeze into the top 20.
In addition, there is a family of leibulde who has been hiding behind westrow.
Simon didn't treat James Leibold and his wife who worked hard to take care of the Westeros company, let alone Jennifer.
Just like this IPO of igritte, relying on Mr. and Mrs. leibulde's positions as consultants in igritte in recent years, Simon gave the couple a total of 8 million igritte shares through rewards and subscription, which may be far less than the big four, but the price of 12 million shares, calculated according to the closing stock price on the first day, also exceeds US $420 million.In recent years, in addition to the stock subscription and awards of the important subsidiaries of Westeros, such as danielis, Cisco and AOL, the rebolds also made many investments under Simon's suggestion. Among them, they only bought 1% of Microsoft's shares at the beginning. According to the market value of Microsoft's closing price of $134.6 billion on October 6, the current value is more than $1.3 billion.
All in all, the total assets of the James Leibold couple have actually reached the level of $3 billion.
In the past few years, because of deliberately keeping a low profile, the family name of leibulde has always been at the bottom of the wealth list, because the amount of shares generally does not need to be declared. Last year, Forbes magazine's appraisal of the assets of the leibulde family was only US $500 million, far lower than the actual value.
Steve Forbes, the head of Forbes group, also talked about it with Simon at the reception at noon on the day of igritte's listing. He thought James was definitely a missing fish in the Forbes list. However, James still has no intention of disclosing the family's wealth, and intends to continue to hide it, and Forbes does not intend to expose it.
In any case, on this year's ”Forbes” list of the 400 richest people in the United States, not only the richest people at the top of the list will have a large number of new rich people from the Westeros system, but also a group of senior executives from the Westeros system.
You know, according to the closing price on October 6, among the senior executives of igritte, not counting Tim Berners Lee and other big four, 26 of them are directly worth more than 100 million, seven more than the 19 originally defined by the $30 issue price. This year's ”Forbes” US 400 rich list entry threshold is about $350 million, and the number of qualified igritte executives has reached 11.
In addition to the group spawned by the listing of igritte, there will also be many core companies on the list, such as danielis entertainment, AOL, Cisco, cersei capital and other listed companies, as well as tincobail, instagram and other non listed companies.
According to the preliminary statistics, the core of the westrow system will take no less than 35 places in the list of 400 rich people and the threshold of 350 million US dollars. Although many people are ranked lower, they are also 400 of the 260 million people in the United States, which is the top of the real pyramid.
And, globally, there will only be more.
The most typical is the Johnston family in Australia. Relying on Simon's unremitting support, the Johnston family, whose total assets are no less than 10 billion US dollars, has now entered the ranks of the world's top plutocrats.
It is a law that almost any enterprise, group or even country can not escape from the boom and decline.
The westero system is not very prosperous, but Simon has been thinking about it intentionally or unintentionally, and taking corresponding measures to delay this law.
Igritte's IPO is undoubtedly very successful.