Chapter 205 Athena No. 1

If this were an African city, I'm afraid it wouldn't be criticized like this, but as a European capital city, it can be seen to the naked eye that it is more chaotic than some African cities...

But it was too late for them to think too much. As the booking time came, they received news from the surveillance personnel near the other party's residence - confirming that Soslan Tigiyev was still there.

"Set off!"

Following the instructions of the special operations captain, this arrest operation began.

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"Your Highness the Duke, we have captured Soslan Tigiev, the first criminal of the London Star whose alias is William Abagnale. We have taken him out of Albania and are preparing to transport him to Kolo. grid base.”

The Munger Base that Nigel Inkster refers to is the newly built military base belonging to the Protector Military Company near the gold mine after they obtained the gold mine in Africa.

Kolo is a country located in West Africa. Since its independence in 1960, it has experienced several coups. At this time, their government forces only controlled the southern region of Kolo, occupying about three-fifths of the entire Kolo area.

In the north of Colo, there are large and small opposition forces. Munger, where the Protector Military Company is located, is currently within the sphere of influence of one of the opposition forces called the Colo Liberation Front. They are the three largest opposition forces in the north. one.

The three "Raphael" members previously captured by the Special Operations Team have been sent to Munger Base for interrogation and detained there.

If Soslan Digiev is captured this time, he will naturally be sent there.

After all, as the base of the Protector Military Company, with Barron's investment and the gold mine starting to produce, it is constantly being improved. It currently has more than 200 elite armed forces, and more than 100 people recruited and trained from the local area. A soldier, it can be said that it is well-guarded and very safe.

Barron is still looking forward to the capture of Soslan. After all, the three "Raphael" members they captured before are not considered the core members of this organization.

As the first offender of the "London Star", Soslan has been confirmed to be one of the three core members of "Raphael". As long as he pries open his mouth, you can get more information about "Raphael" Information.

"However, Your Highness the Duke, while our special operations team was looking to capture Soslan, they also captured another woman at his residence. She should also be an important person, but her identity has not yet been determined..."

"woman?"

Barron was surprised to hear Nigel's words. As far as they knew, "Raphael" did not have female members, so what was the identity of this female "important person" who was caught together?

"Yes, she was also left behind and taken to the Munger base together..."

"Identify her as soon as possible!"

"We will, Your Highness."

As for the other people in the Albanian residence except Soslan and the woman, it goes without saying that for the sake of confidentiality, they need to remain silent forever.

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"The current valuation of NetArt has exceeded US$60. If we follow this trend, if we eventually sell all 4.3 million shares of NetArt, the funds we will receive will far exceed our previous estimates..."

After returning to London, taking a short rest, Barron came to DS Capital in Devonshire Financial Center.

According to Daisy's introduction, they had sold more than 3 million shares of the 4.3 million shares they initially held in NetArt.

As NetArt's revenue from games and SMS business was further disclosed, especially their profit calculation method for SMS business was different from the other two Chinese portals Sohu and Zhalang, which caused NetArt's share price to rise. Further gains…

Since 2002, China's three major portals have successively announced profits, and have maintained double-digit growth every quarter. Even under the premise that Nasdaq has rebounded by 30% to 40% as a whole, the growth of the three major portals Still rare.

Each increase causes the market to re-evaluate the business value and future prospects of the three major portals, and this increase stimulates market confidence exponentially.

NetArt's stock price performance far exceeds that of the other two portals, especially in the near future. The main reason is--

At present, SMS is the most important profitable business among the three major portals, accounting for almost 60% of their revenue.

According to the calculation methods of Zhalang and Sohu, if a text message charges 0.5 yuan, Zhalang and Sohu will count it as revenue, and the share given to China Mobile will be counted as cost.

However, according to NetArt's accounting calculation method, they only record the actual 30 cents as income.

Based on the current SMS revenue scale, the cost of SMS can account for 20% to 30% of the total costs of Zhalang and Sohu, which is not a small figure.

Therefore, from the perspective of financial statements, NetArt's revenue scale is smaller than Zhalang and Sohu, but its profit scale is not low.

In addition, NetArt's other cost control is also lower than that of Zhalang and Sohu. Although NetArt has always been inferior to the first two in terms of content construction, NetArt's cost investment is also smaller. Looking at the scale of personnel alone, NetArt's The headcount of Art Company may be more than 100 less than that of Zhalang and Sohu.

Taken together, NetArt, which has good cost control and strong profitability, naturally surpasses Zhalang and Sohu in terms of stock price.

Therefore, even though DS Capital has successively sold more than 3 million shares of NetArt shares in the secondary market during this period, because the market's enthusiasm has been aroused at this time, the buying volume is very enthusiastic, resulting in NetArt's valuation not only not falling back, but Instead, it continues to rise.

Next, it is expected that within a week, they will be able to complete the sale of all NetArt shares - of course, the first ones they purchased in the secondary market. NetArt later issued a private placement to DS Capital at a price of US$16.12. Approximately 310,000 new shares are subject to a 12-month lock-up period.

These stocks will be held by DS Capital as long-term investments.

And when they have sufficient funds later, they will also consider increasing their holdings after NetArt's stock price drops.

According to Daisy's estimate, after they completely sell out the 4.3 million NetArt shares, they will be able to withdraw close to US$250 million in funds.

In this way, it only needs to raise approximately US$300 million from Goldman Sachs Group to complete the acquisition of Google shares and complete the exercise purchase of 7.4 million Google shares owned by AOL, ultimately holding approximately 7.7% of Google shares. .

This part of Google's stock will be worth US$2 billion less than a year later, on the day of Google's IPO!

Because in the original time and space, the issuance price of Google's IPO stock was US$85, and the closing price on the day of listing was more than US$100 - after completing the acquisition and exercising the option to purchase Google stock, they will own approximately 20 million shares of Google common stock. .

In addition, Barron also went to the newly established Athena Fund Department to inquire about the preparation progress of this quantitative trading fund.

The experts and talents of the Athena Fund that he hired with high salaries from New York had already arrived in London earlier than him, and are currently building the fund on another floor of the Devonshire Financial Center.

Currently, Eamonn Frankfurter, who once worked in the quantitative fund department of Bridgewater Corporation, is the head of the Athena Fund. He organizes all members to build digital models for their quantitative trading.

At the same time, the floor they are on at this time will also have half a floor of space. DS Capital invested 20 million pounds and cooperated with the University of Cambridge to set up a supercomputer specifically for quantitative trading, named Athena 1.