Hollywood Hunter

Simon got the data of the 1990 US 400 richest list the day before the new issue of Forbes magazine was released on September 2.

The next day was September 3, Monday. When the new issue of Forbes magazine was officially released, a large number of North American media that had been paying close attention to this year’s Forbes rich list published related reports almost simultaneously. Obviously, these media also got the Relevant information.

21 billion dollars!

This is the personal net worth figure of Simon published on the 1990 US 400 Rich List by Forbes magazine.

The first place without any suspense.

Moreover, Simon has also become the first super-rich on the list of 400 richest Americans with a personal net worth of more than US$10 billion. Sam Walton, who was expected to win this title, has already dispersed Wal-Mart’s shares to his children.

In addition to Simon, the second place on this year's list is still last year's runner-up John Kruger, but his personal net worth has fallen directly to US$5.6 billion, which is a huge difference from Simon.

Further on.

Third place, Warren Buffett, $3.3 billion.

Fourth place, Ronald Perelman, 2.87 billion US dollars.

Fifth place, Henry Hillman, 2.65 billion US dollars.

In addition to the top five, from sixth to ninth, Barbara Cox-Anthony and Anne Cox-Chambers sisters and Samuel Newhouse and Donald Newhouse brothers tied , The figures of personal net assets are both US$2.6 billion.

From tenth to seventeenth, there is also a long series of juxtapositions, namely Sam Walton, who controls the Walton Group, and his four children, and Pritz, who controls the famous Hyatt Hotel Group. The two brothers of the K family, and the last Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the wealth of these eight rich people is 2.5 billion US dollars.

Affected by the economic recession triggered by the US debt crisis, the rankings on this year’s list have changed drastically. The assets of many rich people have shrunk sharply. The three Luo directly fell out of the top ten on the list.

The economic recession has caused the wealth of the rich to shrink significantly. This should have been a very important focus of this year’s list. However, when the new issue of the list was released, almost all the media’s eyes were on the list by a certain name that was outstanding. attract.

Simon’s $21 billion in personal net worth has more than tripled from last year’s $6 billion.

However, after a detailed enumeration and analysis of Simon's personal assets by Forbes magazine, the US$21 billion in personal net assets caused much less controversy than last year.

Among a series of assets under Simon's name, the one that has attracted the most attention this year should be his continuous large sums of cash earned through Cersei Capital in the Japanese financial market and the crude oil futures market.

The amount of cash assets exposed at the beginning of the year has reached US$4.5 billion. After the crude oil futures market in the first half of the year, Forbes magazine estimated that Simon’s overseas cash assets should be around US$8 billion. It exceeds Simon's total personal net worth of $6 billion last year.

Subsequently, "Forbes" magazine gave Daenerys Entertainment asset valuation figures of 8 billion to 10 billion US dollars.

According to "Forbes" magazine, in order to avoid the controversy caused by the valuation last year, "Forbes" invited multiple Wall Street finance and accounting teams to participate in the valuation this time, and finally reached a valuation range of 8 billion to 10 billion US dollars. .

Is Daenerys Entertainment worth so much?

In response to this doubt, "Forbes" magazine gave a Daenerys Entertainment company's financial report for the first half of 1990, but the net profit after tax of US$573 million in two quarters surpassed any of the top seven in Hollywood. .

Moreover, relying on the follow-up video tapes, televisions, derivatives and other channels of its super-gross films, as long as there are no serious project losses in the next few years, Daenerys Entertainment will be able to maintain the whole year in the next two to three years. Net profit scale of 1 billion US dollars.

Comparing the Fortune magazine’s list of the top 400 US companies in the first half of the year, in the previous fiscal year, Boeing, the company with the lowest market capitalization, had the lowest market capitalization among companies with a net profit of 1 billion US dollars. Johnson & Johnson's two daily necessities giants with a net profit of US$1 billion have a market value of US$21.8 billion and the other US$18.6 billion.

Therefore, based on the scale of profit, Daenerys Entertainment’s valuation of US$8 billion to US$10 billion is absolutely low.

At the same time, Daenerys Entertainment's three film studios that have a large number of blockbuster projects, Daenerys Television, 35% of Blockbuster, Blizzard Studios, 35% of EA, and potential gold mines. Marvel Entertainment and DC Cinema Universe rights, etc., these tangible assets are enough to support Daenerys Entertainment’s huge valuation.

Obviously, only the cash and Daenerys Entertainment assets held under Simon's personal name are already close to the figure of Simon's personal net assets given by Forbes magazine.

In addition, Westeros has a large number of listed or unlisted company assets under its name.

Of the batch of listed technology companies that were purchased during the stock market crash in 1987, there are still 19 companies left at this time, with a total market value of more than $26 billion.

Among them, Microsoft and Intel, which are heavily invested in Westeros, have current market capitalizations of 6.3 billion US dollars and 7.6 billion US dollars, respectively. Only 20% and 15% of the holdings of these two companies have brought more than 2.5 billion US dollars of wealth to Simon. .

For other companies such as SUN, Oracle, AMD, Silicon Graphics, Adobe, Autodesk, etc., the value of Westeros’ holdings also reached US$1 billion.

Taken together, the 19 listed technology companies have brought Simon a total of US$3.5 billion in personal wealth.

In addition, non-listed Cisco, AOL, Igreat, etc., as well as overseas Nokia and non-tech companies like Melisandre, even if only the Westeros holdings are counted, the total value of these assets It should be between 1.5 billion and 2 billion US dollars.

Moreover, in Simon's personal assets, another Cersei Capital will be added this year.

At the beginning of this year, this large-scale private equity fund officially set up its headquarters in New York. Only two consecutive operations in the Japanese financial market and the crude oil futures market were enough to make the industry wonder. Even if it is conservative, the value will not be less than $1 billion.

Finally, the large number of real estate and land assets under Simon's name are also included, with a valuation of 500 million US dollars.

Adding all these together, minus the liabilities of the entire Westeros system of less than $1.5 billion, Simon's personal assets are roughly between $21 billion and $23.5 billion. What "Forbes" magazine takes is only the lowest value of this valuation range.

However, even this conservative figure of 21 billion US dollars has created a series of unprecedented.

Not only is the United States the first super-rich with a personal net worth of more than 10 billion U.S. dollars, Simon is also destined to surpass the Japanese real estate tycoon Yoshiaki Tsutomu in the 1990 global rich list released by Forbes. Richest man.

The general public can only admire, admire and question the personal net worth of Simon on the "Forbes" list, or imagine what the 21 billion US dollars means and how much things can be bought. The US capital market is in the "Forbes" list. After the announcement of the list, very direct feedback was given.

The stock prices of listed companies related to the Westeros system, whether it is technology stocks such as Microsoft and Intel, or other industries such as Blockbuster or EA, have seen their stock prices rise significantly in the following week.

The ‘Westero Combination’ of the year was frequently mentioned again by the media.

Immediately afterwards, in order to take the "Forbes" list of Simon's personal net worth to a new high, Oracle hurriedly announced the previous quarter's financial report on September 6.

In the fiscal quarter from June to August 1990, Oracle's revenue was US$207 million and the loss reached US$36 million.

In the quarterly financial report, Oracle very frankly admitted that the aggressive expansion strategy and wrong sales practices adopted in the past two years were the main reasons for this loss, and said that it would make substantial adjustments to the company. Several senior Oracle sales executives will In the subsequent resignation, at the same time, a large-scale layoff of about 400 people will be carried out to reduce the operating cost of the company.

Not only that, in the personal letter to shareholders attached to the financial report, Larry Ellison confidently stated that everything in the company is under control, and specifically pointed out Westeros’ previous increase in Oracle’s holdings.

If it weren’t for the increase in Westeros’ holdings, the huge loss of $36 million in a single quarter, and the company’s business strategy mistakes that Oracle did not finally admit until then, it would definitely make countless angry shareholders want to put Larry Ellison Press and rub on the ground.

However, the fact is that after Oracle’s quarterly earnings report was released on Thursday, September 6, the company’s share price did not plummet as Wall Street analysts expected, although it did not rise sharply, but on the following Thursday and Friday. The single-day transaction volume has dropped by 80% compared to before the quarterly earnings report.

Obviously, many shareholders no longer sell Oracle shares rashly, but start to wait and see.

Some Oracle shareholders who are able to connect with the Westeros system have also tried their best to find out what Simon's attitude towards Oracle is.

On the following Saturday, Oracle made another announcement. In addition to Westeros President James Rebold, Westeros’s Igreat President Carol Bartz will also join Oracle. Board of Directors. Westeros subsequently officially issued a statement supporting Oracle’s current chairman and CEO Larry Ellison to continue to manage the company. At the same time, Westeros will continue to hold Oracle’s stock for a long time.

The official statement of Westeros has temporarily calmed down those shareholders who had lost patience with the current management because Oracle shares fell by 70% in the past year. Even if some shareholders were still dissatisfied with Larry Ellison, It is also understood that under the combination of Westeros and Larry Ellison, it is unlikely that other shareholders want to replace the current management.

However, there is not no antiphonal voice.

"The Wall Street Journal" thinks that Simon continued to increase his holdings of Oracle stocks and support the current management who has committed serious business errors is very stupid. If Westeros sold its shares at the highest point of Oracle’s stock price last year, Simon could obtain a return of more than 500% compared to the investment in recent years.

Moreover, even if you still insist on owning the company, it is necessary to replace the current management.

The Wall Street Journal also cited Apple as an example.

After ousting the founder Steve Jobs, who once caused huge losses to the company due to the unrealistic Macintosh project, Apple’s revenue and profits have continued to grow in recent years, even though the federal stock market has recently been due to the war. Because of the decline across the board, Apple's market value has exceeded $6 billion.

Simon can roughly understand that the purpose of this article is not so simple.

The rumors of Oracle's internal problems have not been a day or two. Many Wall Street shorts have recently shorted the company's stock before the release of Oracle's new quarterly earnings.

Now, because of Simon’s support, Oracle’s stock price did not fall as expected after the release of the new quarter’s earnings report, and even rebounded to a certain extent. Those short-selling Oracle stocks will naturally not be reconciled.

In addition to the Oracle affairs, since the release of Forbes magazine on September 3, various invitations flooded Simon, and countless media's eyes were refocused on Simon, and his every move began to prepare again. Be concerned.

In order to prevent the planned two-line operation plan from leaking in advance, Simon had to temporarily throw off a large number of reporters who were chasing and blocking him and flew from New York to Chicago. "Home Alone" has been completed. Although people can send the samples to Los Angeles, Simon still flew to Chicago to watch it in person, hiding quietly by the way.

After watching the "Home Alone" sample, and John Hughes discussed some details of the modification, Simon once again turned away from the reporter who heard the news, flew from the northern United States to the southern New Mexico "Terminator 2" crew to explore the crew.

Although there were more chapters in advance, Cameron only stopped for a while after the filming of "Terminator 2" officially started. These days, it has been solidified.

After checking the filming progress of the film, Simon did not hold any expectations for Cameron to complete "Terminator 2" within the budget. Fortunately, after just experiencing the failure of "Abyss", Cameron converged in the end. According to estimates given by the filmmaker in private, the project should be completed within $70 million.

Taking into account the box office potential of "Terminator 2", 70 million US dollars, although it exceeds the budget of 20 million US dollars, it is actually within Simon's tolerance. After finishing the exploration of "Terminator 2", Simon simply went to the crew of "Death End" in North Carolina on the east coast of the United States.

After traveling around the United States in this way, he probably realized that the cost of tracking Simon Westero was too high, and he finally calmed down.

On Saturday, September 8, Simon quietly returned to New York again.

Although Simon himself cannot be tracked, the news about him has not stopped.

This week, not only Oracle, but also topics such as Simon’s personal wealth and what he was doing and what he was doing and what he was going to do appeared in the media. On the day of returning to New York, in addition to the change of Oracle’s board of directors, the West Coast's "Hollywood Reporter" suddenly exploded. The news that Daenerys Entertainment is planning to acquire MCA.

Because it is Saturday, the impact of this news cannot be directly reflected in the MCA stock price, but it is impossible not to face it.

Moreover, this week, media controversy over Simon's $21 billion worth of net worth also arose.

In any case, the 22-year-old young man has far surpassed countless deep-rooted old rich families with just a few years of accumulation. Even in Western countries that are very open to private wealth, this incident is really shocking. .