Currently, the largest shareholder of Jardine Matheson is the Keswick family. According to data, the Keswick family may hold the equity of Jardine Matheson through multiple accounts.
So even Brother Wu has not investigated how much equity the Keswick family actually owns in Jardine Matheson. He can only roughly understand that the Keswick family holds roughly 10% of the shares in Jardine Matheson. ——between 15%.
The Keswick family is also the most powerful shareholder of Jardine. Even if the Keswick family is dissatisfied, they can remove it through a board meeting.
In addition, many other British-funded consortiums, large and small, also control a lot of shares of Jardine Matheson. Basically, the British-funded consortium on the surface controls the shares of Jardine Matheson. Already close to 50%.
If it were anyone else, seeing the share ratio of Jardine Matheson, they would definitely extinguish their desire to covet Jardine Matheson.
But Su Cheng didn't. Instead, he laughed at Jardine Matheson's current shareholder information.
Don't look at the fact that Jardine Matheson is now absolutely controlled by British-owned enterprises.
Wait a few more years and see again?
The British-funded consortium behind Jardine Matheson, like most British-funded consortia, is worried about the uncertainty of the future of Hong Kong.
So, in the world of Sioux City's previous life, in the late 1980s, Jardine Matheson Group moved its company registration location from Xiangjiang to Bermuda, and in the early 1990s, the company and many of its subsidiaries were listed. The location is moved from Hong Kong to Singapore or London.
Although Jardine Matheson's headquarters has always been in Xiangjiang, it can also be seen from these aspects how worried Jardine Matheson's shareholders are about the future of Xiangjiang.
So, even though the British consortium controls so many shares now, sooner or later their stance will be different.
At that time, there will definitely be some timid people who will think of ways to sell the stocks.
Although Jardine can withdraw many industries from Xiangjiang, Jardine's main business still relies on Xiangjiang, and the profits they make in Xiangjiang are also the largest. It is simply impossible to completely evacuate.
Of course, Sioux City’s current focus is not on Jardine, because even in the future, Jardine will be difficult to control.
His current focus is entirely on Land Real Estate Group.
The shareholding structure of Land Real Estate Group is completely different from that of Land.
Except for the 26% stake controlled by Jardine Matheson & Co., there are still many shareholders who own the equity of Land & Co., but they do not hold many shares.
The second largest shareholder is a British female named Guna Bustamante, who holds only 2.26% of the shares.
The subsequent shareholders, even if they only hold 0.82%, will become the fifth largest shareholder of Land & Investment.
It’s no wonder that Jardine Matheson has always had absolute control over Land Real Estate Group. This 26% stake can indeed exert absolute control over Land Real Estate Group.
It can be seen from the survey data that the total number of shares controlled by Real Estate is only about 40%.
If there were no hidden shareholders, like Su Cheng, it would be equivalent to nearly 60% of Land's shares on the market.
With so many shares in the hands of retail investors or in the hands of hidden investors, if Sioux City starts planning now, it is really possible to secretly control Land in the future.
So, after reading this information, Su Cheng had an idea again.
Originally, Landmark wanted to poach Wen Yu. He just wanted to see what Landmark's current shortcomings were and teach him a lesson.
But now, seeing the secret between Jardine and Land, Su Cheng has plans to control Land.
Su Cheng read an article in his previous life. In the late 1980s, Li Chaoren also had the idea of taking over the Land and Real Estate Group, and then he teamed up with many Chinese real estate tycoons to secretly think of ways to annex the Land and Real Estate Group. .
It is a pity that at this time, Land and Jardine had been in action for many years due to the mutual control plan. In the end, the Chinese-funded consortium headed by Li Chaoren ended in failure.
After this incident, Jardine’s control over Land became more solid. The real estate acquisition war that had been turbulent for several years came to an end with this result. This was one of the few acquisition setbacks for Li Chaoren.
Li Chaoren's failure does not mean that Su Cheng will fail.
Because it is 9 years earlier than 1988.
At this time, Jardine Matheson and Land Group have just made plans for mutual control. It can even be said that they have not yet taken formal action.
So, Su City’s chances are very high.
Moreover, Sioux City's advantage is also very obvious, that is, it has a very large cash flow.
Give him enough time, he will be able to slowly absorb Land shares through the stock market.
Even, he can absorb some of Jardine's shares at the same time to use it as a trump card in the future.
"It seems that Tianyuan Investment Company will be busy again." Su Cheng said to himself.
Currently, Tianyuan Investment Company has many businesses. They are constantly acquiring international stocks with great future potential. At the same time, the most important business is the secret acquisition of Huifeng Group's shares.
But now, Sioux City has planned to let them add another land.
Everyone knows how awesome Land’s plan to create a financial and business district in Central will be in the future.
Landmark Plaza, Landmark Alexander, Landmark Prince, Landmark Chater, etc., that area is all owned by Landmark.
Mastering real estate is equivalent to becoming the biggest rent collector in Central. This is much better than slowly acquiring properties.
So, instead of relying on Tianqi Property Company to slowly control the properties in Hong Kong, it is better to directly annex Land and acquire many properties in Central, the most prosperous area in Hong Kong.
Of course, Tianqi Property Company's property acquisitions cannot stop. Controlling land does not mean that it cannot control more properties.
Rubbing his forehead, Su Cheng put the information aside.
I watched it for two hours straight. I was very energetic at first, but now I feel a little sleepy.
It looks like we have to look for Zhang Qizheng again tomorrow.
The acquisition of the car brand has not been completely settled yet, and he has to be busy with other things. Su Cheng feels a little guilty.
However, since the idea of annexing land has been proposed, the sooner this happens, the better.
He knew that in 1982, there would be a real estate downturn in Hong Kong.
However, with the year 1982, it was impossible to completely acquire Land.
A special enterprise like Land, under Jardine Holdings, needs a long time to lay out.
From now on to 1982, I secretly acquire a part of the stock. By 1982, taking advantage of the trough of real estate and the sharp fall in the stock price of real estate companies, I might be able to easily acquire the land for my own use.
As someone who traveled back in time from Su City decades later, he naturally knows that even if the real estate industry in Xiangjiang encountered a trough in the past ten or twenty years, it soon began to rebound and then continued to rise.
Looking at the time, it was already past twelve o'clock at night, so Su Cheng got up and prepared to take a shower.
It’s so late, it’s time to rest. (End of this chapter)