Chapter 619: 225 billion

Jiuding Building, Chairman's Office.

After spending several days and a lot of manpower, Fok Kin-ning finally collected detailed information on Sega Corporation and American Overseas and Industrial Corporation in the shortest time.

At this time, this information is being held by Xia Yu, who is checking it.

Fok Kin-ning sat quietly waiting, with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation.

Sega consisted of two parts: Sega of America and Sega of the Islands.

Sega of America had been acquired eleven years previously, and had made full use of the resources and background of American Overseas and Western Industries. At the time, its business was very diverse, with a focus on sales. It had deep business ties with the military, and did not engage in the production of video game consoles in the United States.

This American company would be a difficult acquisition for Xia Yu, and coupled with the lack of a core, it is just a company in the lower reaches of the industry chain with high substitutability and low value potential, and is not within Xia Yu's scope of consideration for acquisition.

The Sega Island branch, on the other hand, is in the upper reaches of the video game industry. Because it is not listed, the equity relationship is very simple, and although there are thirteen management and shareholders, only four have influence.

They are: the parent company Sega of America, with a 70% stake; the founder David Rosen, with 10%; the hardware partner Sharp Corporation, with 12%; and Hayabusa Nakamura, with 4.5%.

In addition, the other nine members of the senior management team have a combined stake of 3.5%.

If the company is to remain viable and function normally after the acquisition, both Hayabusa Nakamura and the management team must remain, so it is best not to touch their shares.

Xia Yu's goal was therefore to acquire a combined 92% stake in Sega of America, David Rosen and Sharp Corporation.

As for American Overseas and Western Industries, according to the information, it is essentially an overseas investment company with American capital, which uses American capital to acquire or invest in overseas companies with potential in the industrial sector.

If the invested company makes money, it will continue to hold it, withdrawing most of the profits each year, and if it loses money, it will withdraw.

Of course, even if the company makes money, it can be sold if someone is willing to pay for it.

For American Overseas and Western Industries, there is no company that cannot be sold, the key is profit!

Therefore, according to Fok Kin-ning's analysis, the equity of the island country's Sega branch belongs to 70% of the American Sega parent company, and the decision to sell lies with American Overseas and Western Industries, so it will not be too difficult to acquire.

After all, Sega Island is having a hard time under the pressure of Taito, and Sega USA does not rely on the games created by Sega Island. The entire sales channel will also sell Taito's game consoles.

Even if Sega Island is sold, the arcade games produced can still be distributed by Sega USA.

After reading this information, Xia Yu was relieved. He knew that it would not be too difficult to acquire Sega.

'Knock, knock...'

Xia Yu tapped his middle finger lightly on the table, his eyes fixed, pondering the angle of attack.

'Of the three parties, it shouldn't be too difficult to acquire the 80% stake held by American Overseas and Western Industries and David Rosen. The difficult part should be the 12% stake held by Sharp Corporation.'

'But I remember that Sharp Corporation is the core company of the Sanwa Consortium, so it should be easier to get Kazuya Fukuhara to step in.'

Upon thinking of this, Xia Yu deliberated for a moment and felt more and more that it was feasible.

The Fukuhara family is one of the top families in the Sanwa consortium, with great power and prestige. As the heir to the Fukuhara family, Kazuya Fukuhara is also one of the deputy managers of Sanwa Bank, which is a major creditor of Sharp Corporation. Sharp Corporation will definitely give Kazuya Fukuhara face.

In addition, Fukuhara Kazuya has cooperated with Jiuding Securities to establish a Jiuding Yonghe Fund Company, with each party owning 50% of the equity. The acquisition business will be handed over to Jiuding Yonghe Fund Company, and I believe Fukuhara Kazuya will definitely work very hard. Not only will he be able to show Xia Yu his energy, he will also make a profit.

Thinking about this, Xia Yu suddenly wanted to know the investment situation of Jiuding Yonghe Fund Company. This joint venture company was related to his calculations for the Sanhe Consortium. If it was not managed well, the impact could be huge.

After encouraging Fok Kin-ning, Xia Yu set off for Jiuding Securities.

It was also time to inform Wang Qi to let Jiuding Securities step in and acquire the equity of Island Sega.

In a short while, Xia Yu arrived at Jiuding Securities.

At this time, although the headquarters of Jiuding Securities was located next to the Kowloon Stock Exchange, it had also established branches in three other exchanges to facilitate business.

'Wang Qi, how is the company doing?'

Xia Yu asked Wang Qi and inspected the various departments of the company with him.

'Chairman, the company's overall operations are very good. Although there were occasional fluctuations in the stock market in the first half of the year, in the long term, it has been rising. Investment is growing rapidly and its influence is growing. Now, aside from its own funds, the original capital managed by the company has reached 4.2 billion Hong Kong dollars.'

'Add in leveraged funds and the own funds you have granted, and the capital the company now controls has reached 22.5 billion Hong Kong dollars.'

Wang Qi calmly introduced the figures as if they were family treasures.

Two hundred and twenty-five billion Hong Kong dollars in capital is enough to make waves in the Hong Kong stock market today. It has become very easy to manipulate the market, and you don't need any insider information. You can accomplish a lot just by using capital.

Using large amounts of capital, Jiuding Securities has secretly made a lot of deals and reaped very generous returns.

Furthermore, if you just sit back and let the stock market rise, you can make a lot of money even without doing anything.

Jiuding Securities Company has so much capital, thanks to the 3 billion US dollars that Xia Yu handed over to Wang Qi to operate temporarily. This money is equivalent to nearly 14 billion Hong Kong dollars.

Just such a large amount of capital flowing into the stock market is enough to push the market up a notch.

'You see, this is a table showing the operating status of all the funds that the company counted last week.'

Just then, a subordinate who had been instructed by Wang Qi came over and handed a table to Wang Qi. Wang Qi glanced at it and immediately presented it to Xia Yu and introduced it.

Xia Yu took it casually and read it carefully.

There were now 15 funds, each of which was profitable, the only difference being the capital size and profitability of the fund.

'Very good!'

Xia Yu praised with a smile after reading it, because he did not know which companies each fund had invested in, he did not give too many comments. He was very relieved that there were such good results under Wang Qi's management.

'What is the situation with the island branch and Jiuding Yonghe Fund Company?'

Xia Yu asked again when he returned to the office.

'We invested in some company stocks as you instructed, and both companies are doing well now.'

'That's right!'

'Yesterday, the manager of the island branch reported a list of investments for approval. Here, take a look.'

Wang Qi thought of something as he said this, pulled open the drawer on the left, took out a pre-investment report for approval and handed it to Xia Yu.

It contained a list of medium- and long-term holdings of island companies recommended by the island branch and the reasons for the recommendations.

For example, companies in the energy sector such as Asia Oil, Toyota Motors, and Fujitsu are all core companies under the six major consortia in the island country and are all listed. The analysis shows that they have good development prospects and can be held for a long time in a small amount.

When he saw one of the names, Xia Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and remembered something he almost overlooked.