Chapter 235: Holding Huasheng's Dad's Thigh [30/100]
What followed was that capital smelled the smell of small money. The stocks of game developers such as Ubisoft and Blizzard ushered in a big surge, which several developers did not expect. When they learned the news, they immediately regarded Huasheng Technology as Vivendi's second place, and they must have been here to ruin the game company.
The market value of several major game developers has increased sharply, and the company's senior executives know that this is the effect of the support of Huasheng Technology. Obviously, the data shows that the capital market is optimistic, and of course it is not optimistic about game companies, but about Huasheng Technology. After all, it has never disappointed so far.
As long as Huasheng Technology becomes the largest shareholder, the value of this company will inevitably rise. There is no way. The so-called famous tree of people and the influence of Huasheng Technology is there. The capital market believes that Huasheng Technology's next new actions will definitely drive these game developers. Even if they cannot eat meat, it is still expensive to follow and drink soup.
Time passes day by day, and several world-renowned game developers are living like a year during this period, because this may be the turning point at the intersection of fate, and this decision may determine the company's future destiny.
Especially the four developers, Blizzard, Ubisoft, R Star and Square, they know that Huasheng Technology has not given them much time. If they refuse to acquire the other party, they will launch a malicious acquisition plan, because Huasheng is determined to win without any concealment. This is the confidence of a US$370 billion cash reserve.
Everyone is paying attention to the acquisition plan of Huasheng Technology, which is also widely regarded by the outside world as a link in the strategic layout of Huasheng Technology's new big move. Many analysts have boldly judged that the game industry may usher in a huge change due to the intervention of Huasheng Technology. The only thing that is unclear is that this huge change is a difference between good and bad.
In the end, Activision Blizzard was the first to announce the news, and in the following week, it officially announced that Huasheng Technology completed the merger and acquisition at a premium of 35%, that is, US$38.556 billion. Huasheng Technology became Activision Blizzard's largest shareholder with a 51% stake and was absolutely holding.
After completing the merger and acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Huasheng Technology only intervened in one thing, which was to invite the resigned former Activision CEO Eric Hesenberg back to continue to serve as Activision CEO. Blizzard Entertainment CEO is still Mike Mohan.
Some people may wonder why Activision Blizzard has two CEOs. It is because Activision Blizzard merged on July 9, 2008 by Blizzard Entertainment, a subsidiary of the United States Activision and Vivendi Games, to form the same group, but both parties play their own games, and maintain the unchanged games of the previous ones and do not interfere with each other's operations.
Needless to say, Blizzard's representative work may be "World of Warcraft", and Activision's representative work is also very famous. The most influential shooting game "Call of Duty" series in the world is automatic video.
Activision Blizzard is currently the world's largest game developer and publisher, and it is also the world's first third-party game publisher. The reason why Activision and Blizzard merged is to compete with EA.
But now, Activision Blizzard has embraced Huasheng's father's thigh and has a super backstage presence.
The news suddenly caused a shock in the game industry. Has Huasheng Technology finally taken action?
After learning this news, domestic players kept talking. There were many supporters, and there were many people who opposed the squirting. Blizzard Game has accumulated a lot of players in China. Whether it is World of Warcraft, Warcraft, or Starcraft, they are all the feelings of the post-1980s generation, especially those born in the 1980s. The years of fighting in the continent of Azeroth that year have become a memory of youth that never returns. Looking back, my friends have gone their separate ways for life.
But it's almost time to enter the Azeroth continent. This is the biggest purpose of Lichuan's desire to attract many high-quality IPs around the world - love killing, memory killing, and many IPs labeled as death will be replaced for the second spring.
There are so many IPs, whether it is a movie or a game, there is always a movie or game that can hit a player or user's G-spot, and thus willingly take out your pockets.
Let’s talk about the acquisition, after Activision Blizzard announced its merger with Huasheng Technology, as soon as the news was announced, the stock showed a strong upward trend on the same day. The speed of the response of the capital market surprised Blizzard CEO Mike Mohan.
On the same day, the stock market closed with a stock price soaring 29%, with a market value of US$72.24 billion, becoming the listed company of the world's highest market value independent game developer.
For Huasheng, in addition to meeting its own secret strategic layout, it obviously won’t lose money in business. The current profitability of these game developers is pretty good, and they will only be better in the future. They will make sure to make a profit if they acquire them.
Of course, the gaming industry is not as profitable as the Penguin Empire in the world.
In the next three days, Activision Blizzard's stock has been rising blindly one after another, breaking through the $90 billion mark unprecedentedly, and is launching a sprint towards the fantastic 100 billion US dollars level. Activision Blizzard's price-to-earnings ratio once soared to more than 300. Currently, Activision Blizzard's operating conditions are definitely less than US$90 billion.
But the capital market seems to be very fanatical. Just because Activision Blizzard is now holding Huasheng Technology's thigh, the capital market is optimistic about Activision Blizzard's future prospects. There is no way, Huasheng Technology has created too many miracles.
What makes capital hate is that if Huasheng Group does not choose to go public, it will not be able to share the pie. Of course, such a good opportunity cannot be missed now.
Huasheng Technology's merger and acquisition suddenly made Activision Blizzard's cash reserves more than tens of billions of dollars. There is no doubt that this is a huge sum of money. Huasheng Technology can't take out anything but use it as much cash as you want. Naturally, you can choose to cross-hold shares, but that is impossible, that is Huasheng's shares.
Huasheng lacks nothing but money.
Now the cash flow of tens of billions of dollars was transferred to the company's accounts one after another. Blizzard, who tasted the sweetness, finally got rid of the shadow of Vivendi. It turned out that it felt so sour and so good that it felt like a father. I didn't know how to spend the huge cash flow of tens of billions of dollars. It was so annoying that so much money was spent.
Not long after, Activision Blizzard announced the restart of the Titans plan, which was still alive. Blizzard players all know that Blizzard's famous shooting game "Overwatch" was derived from the "Titan Project". When Blizzard started this project, it was found that it could not be eaten at all. This regret was too great, and Blizzard was always worried about it.
Now that I have hugged Huasheng’s father’s thigh, my father gave you a dozen of “pocket money” to make you mess around casually. Not to mention a Titan project, even ten are fine.
Now Ubisoft, R Star, and Square are already anxious and jealous. Activision Blizzard ate the first crab, and the result is that the market value will exceed 100 billion US dollars, and there is also a lot of cash flow that I don’t know how to spend. If I don’t jealous, it will definitely be fake.
What really makes them anxious is that Activision Blizzard is now rich and its market share in the game industry will definitely be stolen in the future. Not to mention the big pie depicted by Huasheng Technology and its tragic future, the current situation is already imminent.
Chapter completed!