Chapter 862

After the statistical review in October, the annual financial report of fy1995 of Denise entertainment before its merger with metropolitan ABC Group was officially released on November 6, and the new shares of Denise entertainment group were reopened on the same day.

The purpose is self-evident.

During the four quarters from October 1994 to September 1995, the total annual revenue of danielis entertainment group was US $27.617 billion, and the net profit of the company was US $3.723 billion, with a net profit margin of 13.5%.

because daniresi entertainment adjusted the fiscal year plan after last year's IPO, adjusted the original natural year's statistical cycle to October each year as a starting point, and wanted to carry out a year-on-year comparison. It could only push forward four quarters, that is, from October 1993 to September 1994, the same four quarters, total revenue amounted to 20 billion 561 million dollars, and net profit was 2 billion 319 million dollars.

Based on this reference, the revenue of Denise Entertainment Group in fiscal year 1995 increased by 34.3% year on year, and the net profit increased by 60.5%.

Even though many people understand that this financial report of Denise entertainment is "tailor-made" for expansion operations such as the merger of metropolitan ABC Group in the year after the IPO, it is undeniable that Denise entertainment group itself does have a very strong profitability, with an annual net profit of $3.723 billion. There may be some financial tactics such as delaying the payment of accounts payable, The actual moisture is not too much.

After all, Denise Entertainment's popularity in movies, TV and games is obvious to all.

Therefore, it is not that the net profit of danielis entertainment this year is too high, but that the company has been deliberately suppressing its own profits in the past and putting more funds into expansion.

This is a demonstration of profitability.

3.723 billion US dollars. In simple terms, the profit seems not so eye-catching. By comparison, we can see how powerful Denise Entertainment's earning power is.

According to the financial reports of American enterprises up to September this year, it can be roughly estimated that only six of the domestic enterprises in the United States in 1995 had net profits that could exceed that of Denise entertainment, namely general motors, Ford Motor, ExxonMobil, general electric, Philip Morris and at & amp; t.

None of these six companies is an old business oligarchy that has been handed down for decades and hundreds of years. Among them, Ford Motor, which is expected to make the highest profit, has a net profit of only US $5.3 billion in the whole year, which is not a big gap with Denise entertainment.

Denise Entertainment Group is not only the seventh largest enterprise in the United States in 1995, with a revenue of 27.617 billion US dollars, but also has entered the top 30 ranks.

All this took only nine years.

Not only that, such as general motors, Ford and other old giants, have basically lost their long-term growth.

In particular, under the impact of Japanese automobiles, the automobile industry has a very obvious downward trend. Otherwise, the US government will not start automobile trade negotiations with Japan in the first half of the year. Unfortunately, this time, it did not succeed like the semiconductor war in the 1980s. Therefore, the rapid decline of the US automobile industry is inevitable.

In contrast, danelis entertainment, which has been the best in the media and entertainment industry, is still full of vitality. Its film, TV, game, music and other businesses go hand in hand. After entering the $10 billion club, its revenue growth has not slowed down, and it still maintains a continuous and strong growth rate of 30% over the previous year.

and, after leaving many competitors, danireis entertainment has not stopped but has been acting frequently. Recently, the acquisition of ABC group has just completed. In a flash, it announced the Rome Universal Studios project with an investment scale of 2 billion dollars.

universal studios have gradually changed the pessimism of Rome Universal Studios due to the failure of Paris's Disneyland to follow the fast track of entertainment and the rapid development of Osaka Universal Studios.

As a result, on November 6, even if the opening market value has reached $216.6 billion, the new danilisi entertainment stock price is still strongly sought after by the capital market.

On the first day of reopening, the share price of Denise entertainment soared to $93.25 from $83.375 before the suspension last month, up 11.8% in a single day.

This is not 11.8% of some small enterprises with a market value of only tens of millions of dollars, but 11.8% of a giant enterprise with a market value of more than 200 billion dollars. At the close of the day, the market value of dannilis entertainment jumped to US $242.1 billion. In one day, the overall book income of dannilis entertainment shareholders reached US $25.5 billion.

In the New York Times on Tuesday, the front page headline used only one word to describe Denise's one-day increase in entertainment's reopening: crazy!

It can only be described as crazy.

Ford, which is expected to rank first in net profit in the United States, has a market value of only $38.1 billion at the close of November 6. The auto giant, with annual revenue of $120 billion and net profit of more than $5 billion, has a market value of only one sixth of that of danielis entertainment group, and a P / E ratio of only seven times.However, even Warren Buffett, who pays attention to value investment and likes bottom hunting, will not buy Ford's shares at this time, because the American automobile industry is doomed to be replaced like the semiconductor industry after the failure of Washington government's pressure on Japan.

The price earnings ratio of only 7 times shows that the U.S. auto industry has basically lost the value of long-term investment.

In contrast, even if the P / E ratio has reached 65 times, Denise entertainment is still highly sought after by the market. Even though many capital operation tendencies have changed from investment to speculation, it can be confirmed that Denise entertainment definitely has long-term holding value.

Simon returned to Los Angeles on November 5.

Started a stable rhythm of work again, went to work in the morning, went home in the evening, and occasionally attended some cocktail parties that could not be pushed.

In fact, the work has been continuously decentralized.

If not for the unanimous opposition of Denise Entertainment's board of directors and senior management of the group, Simon would like to remove Denise Entertainment's position as chairman after the completion of the merger and acquisition of metropolitan ABC Group and rely on more than 90% of the voting rights. Even if he retired from the background, he would still be the absolute controller of Denise entertainment.

Unfortunately, no one agrees.

Simon's symbolic significance to danielis entertainment is too important, even if other affairs of the westero system are always absent from the board of directors of danielis entertainment. As long as he still holds this title, both the insiders and investors of danielis entertainment will have full confidence in this company.

On the contrary, once Simon abruptly leaves office, it is likely to bring unnecessary risks to the company.

No matter how to explain it, the stock price has fallen a lot.

If cersei capital wants to short its own company, it can use this move.

Authorities, the result is more likely to be a sec gain.

What a fine.

Back in Los Angeles, Simon spent most of his time back in a series of film projects owned by Denise entertainment.

After Hallowmas' evocation 2, the 3D animated film beauty and the beast, which is the main feature of Thanksgiving on November 17, will soon be released, followed by Batman vs Superman: Dawn of justice, which is widely watched on December 22. In addition to these blockbusters, Catherine Bigelow's Detroit and other award winning works will also be released at the end of the year.

These are already done.

There are more films in the production stage.

The number of annual productions produced by the three danilisi entertainment brands is more than 40. Although each project has to be approved by Simon himself, because of limited energy, Simon can focus on a few.

With the end of 1995, according to the production progress of a series of films, the main films of danielis entertainment in 1996 have been basically scheduled.

Starting from the beginning of next year, the earliest major project is Jack Cheng's rush hour, which is scheduled for February 9, Valentine's day.

This Kung Fu Comedy, which Simon remembers as a great success, actually qualifies for the summer season.

However, Simon can't tell the new world film team how successful "rush hour" will be. Moreover, the summer holidays in 1996 are already overcrowded, and some key projects and even blockbusters have been transferred to various unpopular schedules. This is also the basic strategy that Denise entertainment has been promoting in recent years. Last year's "broken arrow" has proved the feasibility of this strategy It's not easy.

Then, in the Easter season, there are two key films, both sequels, which are the comedy "detective plane 2" starring Kim Carey and the fourth work of the evocative movie universe "morgue haunted event 2".

After Easter, entering the summer season, there are only three blockbusters related to danielis entertainment, mission impossible 2, mummy and guillotine.

Among them, mission impossible 2 and mummy are foreign cooperation films released by Paramount and fox respectively. "Guillotine," directed by Tim Burton, is a completely independent project of danielis entertainment.

In addition, there is the latest version of MGM's 007 series, 007 ghost party.

This is the 18th in the 007 series.

The project is not invested by danielis entertainment, but is part of the MGM spy movie universe planned by Simon. Although the name is 007's ghost party, and the story also adopts some frames in Simon's memory, Simon has made considerable changes to match the MGM secret agent movie universe.

The reason why 007's ghost party was not released until 2015 is mainly due to the long-term dispute over the copyright of the ghost party series. Under Simon's leadership, MGM has completely solved this problem.

As for the leading actor, after Timothy Dalton leaves office, the new 007 still chooses Pierce Brosnan.

A few years ago, after taking the place of Richard gill in "the beauty of the wind and the moon", Pierce Brosnan had just entered the front line, but he didn't get a firm foothold. When 007 project extended an olive branch to Brosnan again, the male star finally agreed to enter.At Simon's instigation, MGM offered Bruce Nan $5 million for his first major 007 movie, which was higher than Bruce Nan's status after the drop of his coffee position. However, in exchange, the male star signed a one-time contract for five 007s, with a single movie salary increase of no more than 35% and a capped salary of $15 million.

In fact, if the secret agent movie universe is very successful, MGM will give an extra part of the box office bonus as usual in the future.

But these terms are not explicitly written in the contract.

Like the DC movie universe, this belongs to MGM's room for both sides.

After the summer season, Halloween in 1996 will be a new derivative series of the evocation movie universe. Recently, Annabel, which is the foreshadowing of the release of evocation 2, will be released.

At the end of the year, there are still three blockbusters: Wonder Woman 2, baby thunderbolt and game of the brave. According to the original agreement, "wonder woman 2" is independently released by Denise entertainment, while "Thunderbolt baby" and "game of the brave" are cooperative projects with MGM and Warner.

As for projects such as tornado, independence day, Titanic, etc., which danielis entertainment is also focusing on, the schedule will be postponed in turn.

Moreover, most of the films on file are blockbusters with large investment and production. There are more non core or low-cost projects in the three brands of danielis entertainment, among which there will be dark horses, or some films selected by Simon may be added temporarily, such as the one that created a box office miracle with ultra-low cost and creativity at the beginning of this year《 This man is from earth.

For a week back in Los Angeles, Simon basically revolved around these film projects, or participated in the later stage of mummy, or personally rushed to the set of thunderbolt, or spent a morning teleconferencing with the crew of game of the brave, which will be shooting immediately after the Weimi show in Australia.

What's more, the whole westrow system has a lot of distractions for Simon.

Last month's suspension of distribution center in Wisconsin, the Amazon online mall owned by igritte, delayed for more than half a month and was finally solved.

Igritte abandoned three contractors completely and chose other freight companies to undertake the logistics distribution task of Wisconsin distribution center.

At the present stage, although truck freight still accounts for more than 80% of land distribution in the United States, it is far from the serious shortage of truck drivers caused by the rise of e-commerce two decades later. At present, a large number of truck drivers who can not find jobs are in a redundant state.

Therefore, igritte has considerable initiative.

For the three companies and obviously behind the scenes under the control of the truck driver union rebound and even compromise, igritte did not budge.

Moreover, since the truck drivers' Union didn't expose it, igrit didn't pick up some things, and spared no effort to create momentum in the media, insisting that the reason for abandoning the three contractors was not that the workers went on strike in order to seek better treatment, but that the contractor failed to deal with the relationship with its employees, resulting in huge losses and serious damage to igrit The interests of Amazon online mall customers.

The fault lies with the contractor.

Moreover, igritte's claim against the contractor in accordance with the contract was not interrupted after the matter was settled. Faced with huge claims, the three small contractors who could not even afford to file a lawsuit directly declared bankruptcy, resulting in the unemployment of all truck drivers who participated in the strike.

At this point, igritte was no longer in pursuit.

As for the other lawsuits surrounding the Wisconsin distribution center, it's not painful. Since some people are going to tangle, I'd like to accompany them.

In the size of igritte, we can now afford any kind of litigation.

On the other hand, inspired by the strike of truck drivers, Simon specially reminded Alice Ferguson, the person in charge of Amazon, to pay attention to introducing other modes of transportation into the distribution network. It is a must to do thing to avoid being stuck by the truck drivers' Union after the large-scale rise of e-commerce.

As for the further intellectualization and mechanization of many logistics distribution centers, Simon does not need to remind us again and again. It is also the inevitable choice for Amazon to develop and grow by constantly eliminating labor through machinery.