Chapter 832 Tesla goes public

On December 5, 2011, Tesla went public on the NASDAQ IPO.

In the original space and time, Tesla went public in July 2010 and became the only independent pure electric vehicle manufacturer listed in the United States.

However, due to the impact of the subprime mortgage crisis at that time, the American economy had not yet recovered from the collapse of the crisis, so Tesla went public at a price of $17, with a market value of less than $1.6 billion.

At that time, Tesla had already prepared for the listing due to lack of funds, but it had been delayed due to the subprime mortgage crisis.

But because there was really no other way and funds were urgently needed, it chose to go public in 2010 in the original space and time - this was the only choice Tesla had at that time.

In this space and time, Tesla has the financial support of Barron, and he does not want Tesla to be in a hurry to go public, which will affect the company's stock price and market value, so it has been delayed until now, and finally decided to go public.

This time, Tesla's IPO was listed at an issue price of $27.5. It will issue 13.3 million shares to the public, with a total share capital of 93 million shares after the issuance. The IPO price corresponds to a market value of more than $2.55 billion.

Tesla's IPO was listed just after they launched the Model S - the Model S is the first model of Tesla's truly large-scale production of electric vehicles (the previous Roadster was a modified model, not a large-scale production). Tesla has received orders for about 4,600 vehicles and will start formal delivery next year.

According to Tesla's design, the cruising range of Model S on a single charge will reach 480km, support 45 minutes of fast charging, support battery replacement mode, and 0-100km/h acceleration time of less than 6 seconds.

On the first day of Tesla's listing, its stock opened at $29, rose to $32.77 during the session, and finally closed at $30.65.

At this price, Tesla's market value reached $2.85 billion.

British Motor Group holds 15.94 million shares of Tesla, accounting for about 17.14% of the proportion after the listing, and is currently worth $488 million - they invested $150 million to obtain these shares, and now their investment has earned more than 225% of the profit.

Of course, compared with this, the most important thing is that through cooperation with Tesla, British Motor Group has obtained many key technologies related to electric vehicles.

And with the future development of Tesla, the value of their current shares will increase by a hundred times.

This IPO listing, Tesla raised $365.75 million through public offering of stocks.

In addition to continuing to expand the scale of their Fremont factory in California, these funds will also be used for the research and development of Tesla's third model - the electric crossover Model X.

Yes, although the Model S has not yet started delivery, Tesla has already planned the development of a new model, which will be a pure electric CUV model.

It is worth mentioning that when Tesla went public, DS Capital and Standard Chartered-Merrill Lynch's funds also actively subscribed. They purchased a total of about 5 million Tesla shares, accounting for about 5% of the current total share capital.

Although the world's electric vehicle landscape will change with the addition of the British Motor Group, Tesla is still one of the most promising electric vehicle companies.

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At the same time, after being acquired by IC Capital and GII Fund, Motorola Mobility stopped launching subsequent models of GOS system phones.

So far, two Android-supported smartphones have been launched. With Motorola's still existing brand influence, the sales of these two phones are still good. Although they are not commendable smartphone models, at least in terms of revenue, Motorola Mobility has alleviated the decline in its mobile phone business. In the fourth quarter of this year, it finally turned losses into profits.

And these two phones, after all, are mainly launched to enable Motorola Mobility to maintain its mobile phone business.

At present, their mobile phone R\u0026D department has put all its energy on the new series of mobile phones to be launched in the second quarter of next year. The DEFY series of mobile phones currently under design will continue Motorola's classic detail design, and will strengthen the "three-proof" functions, that is, "dustproof, waterproof, and scratch-proof", and will reach the IP68 dustproof and waterproof level.

This will be Motorola Mobile's flagship mobile phone next year, and Motorola Mobile also has high hopes for this phone.

At present, Google has basically given up the mobile operating system department, and Microsoft's Windows system does not pose a threat to the Android system.

Therefore, after Ivanta gave birth to a child and returned to work, her main energy was placed on the transformation of Motorola Mobile.

The TV set-top box department of Motorola Mobile has always been profitable. After merging with Puma Electronics, it has performed well not only in the North American market, but also in the European market.

So for Motorola Mobile, the most important thing is to reverse the decline of their mobile phone department.

After discussing with Barron, his suggestion to Ivanta was to let Motorola Mobile learn from Samsung's route in the mobile phone field in the past life, so that Motorola Mobile could once again enter the mainstream mobile phone brands.

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"This is a detailed investigation of the G4S Group. We hired several security assessment and corporate auditing agencies and it took three months to come up with it..."

After returning to London, Barron received this heavy document from Wang Wanting and heard her say:

"It seems that G4S has a big problem now..."

Before this, Umbrella Security Company (England), which belongs to the Cavendish Trust Fund, was incorporated into the G4S Group. In addition, through acquisitions, the Cavendish Trust Fund currently holds more than 45% of the shares of the G4S Group and is the controlling shareholder of the world's largest private security company.

Through Wang Wanting's introduction, Barron learned that the most serious problem facing the G4S Group at present is that they are slow to act and may not be able to complete the security work of the London Olympics.

Last year, G4S Group signed an Olympic security agreement with the London government worth more than $440 million.

According to the agreement, G4S Group will be responsible for the security of the London Olympics to be held next summer, and needs to deploy at least 10,000 security personnel during the Olympics.

However, according to the investigation, the training of relevant personnel of G4S Group is seriously lagging behind. So far, only one-tenth, or one thousand security personnel, have received relevant training, and the quality of the training is worrying.

If this progress is followed, the personnel deployment stipulated in the agreement will definitely not be completed before the Olympics.