Rebirth of the Strongest Tycoon

Xia Yu first opened the first folder and browsed.

In addition to the basic situation of Polaris Capital, it is the operating situation of the company it invests in.

Genentech, Amgen, Home Depot, Abbott... all companies have the same situation. Each company has its first quarter and second quarter financial reports, and its operating conditions are clear at a glance.

It's just that because most companies are in the early stages of development, the financial reports are not eye-catching, and even have been input and output, but Xia Yu doesn't care, as long as he sees the money is spent on the ground.

After browsing, the situation of Polaris Capital was updated in his mind, and overall no problems were found.

Xia Yu, who was relieved, closed the first folder and put it aside, and turned over the second folder.

I took a closer look and found that the first four pages were all directories. Looking at the serial number, there were 87 banks listed. No wonder I opened the folder and found that the files inside were so thick.

If you think about it, it has been less than two days since Xia Yu called Peter Lynch when he was about to come to San Francisco in New York to do this work. This efficiency is too efficient.

If you do well, you must praise, Xia Yu couldn't help but admire: "Peter, your work is very efficient and you did a good job!"

Peter Lynch smiled and said: "Boss, I have been paying attention to the banking industry before. Especially in the first half of this year, the interest rate fluctuation of the banking industry reached the highest in the past ten years, so I have long been asking people to collect information about the banking industry. Whether there is an investment opportunity, after you ordered me, I just found out that these 87 banks are selected targets that have acquisition value in the western United States."

Xia Yu suddenly understood that because of the fluctuations in the exchange rate of the U.S. dollar and the impact of inflation, the history of the United States did indeed have a banking crisis in the early 1980s. Thousands of banks failed, and the core banks of the top ten consortia all failed. The total number of banks in the U.S. dropped sharply from more than 70,000 to more than 50,000, and it took more than a decade to reach more than 70,000 again.

This time the work of collecting intelligence seemed accidental, but it was inevitable.

Xia Yu smiled and said, "Anyway, you did a good job."

Peter Lynch smiled and nodded slightly to Xia Yu and said nothing.

Lowering his head again, Xia Yu first browsed the catalog carefully, looking for banks that are still well-known in later generations. According to the historical trajectory, banks that can survive and grow after more than 30 years are definitely the best acquisition targets among these banks. .

Not to mention, when Xia Yu turned to the third page, he saw the name of the bank in the first line and couldn't help his eyes.

WELLSFARGO!

Translated, it's Wells Fargo!

In the later generations, the only AAA-rated bank in the United States, Wells Fargo, once known as the First Bank of the Universe, has alternated with China ICBC on the throne of the First Bank of the Universe four times!

Although it was surpassed later, it is still one of the four major U.S. banks, with a market value of around 200 billion U.S. dollars, and even close to 300 billion U.S. dollars at high times!

The four major American banks in later generations were the Bank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Citibank Group.

Of course the bank is. Morgan and Chase Manhattan Bank merged in 2000. Before the merger, the two were the financial cores of the Morgan Consortium and the Rockefeller Consortium, respectively.

The later Bank of America did not change its name at this time. It was also called Bank of America. It was the largest bank in the United States and the second largest in the world, and the financial core of the California consortium.

Not to mention the Citibank Group, the core of the first Citibank Consortium, the second largest bank in the United States and the third largest bank in the world.

Therefore, the only opportunity among the four major US banks is Wells Fargo.

Although there are still dozens of bank names in the catalog, but Xia Yu didn't even bother to read it at this time. No matter how brilliant the future is, can it be more brilliant than Wells Fargo?

Since Peter Lynch included the information, it proves that Wells Fargo has a relatively large acquisition possibility. Even if Xia Yu knew that Wells Fargo should belong to a California consortium, there was a sense of expectation in his heart.

With expectations, Xia Yu turned to the location of Wells Fargo Bank according to the page number and read it carefully.

Wells Fargo Bank, founded in 1852, is headquartered in San Francisco...

Because he cared, Xia Yu watched it very carefully. There were ten aspects of the content. After watching it for nearly twenty minutes, he had a clear idea of ​​the Wells Fargo Bank at this time.

At this time, Wells Fargo was indeed only a medium-sized bank, and its activities were basically in California, and 60% were in southern California.

Moreover, Wells Fargo’s main business is very distinctive. It is a community bank. It can be said that it is dedicated to retail. The business of community banks accounts for more than 80% of Wells Fargo Bank. Most of Wells Fargo’s savings come from community retail accounts. The cooperation of large enterprises is more based on loans.

Because Wells Fargo has not yet been listed, the information is not easy to collect. The most representative of the data is Wells Fargo’s 1979 financial report.

The annual report shows that as of December 1979, Wells Fargo’s total assets were 21.4 billion U.S. dollars, and the total loan amount was 15.6 billion U.S. dollars, of which personal housing mortgage loans were 4 billion U.S. dollars.

Although Wells Fargo has total assets of US$21.4 billion, it is an out-and-out medium-sized bank in the United States, where the financial industry is developed. The equity of Wells Fargo Bank is only US$830 million.

Owner’s equity can be considered as net assets, because in accounting, owner’s equity refers to the ownership of the company’s net assets by corporate investors. This includes the capital invested by corporate investors, as well as the capital reserve, surplus reserve and undistributed profits formed in the business activities of the company. It is the source of corporate assets, and the relationship is expressed by the formula: assets = liabilities + owner's equity.

So don’t look at Wells Fargo’s total assets of 21.4 billion U.S. dollars, but that money belongs to the depositors, and Wells Fargo is only escrow.

For the entire year of 1979, Wells Fargo’s net profit was 130 million U.S. dollars.

The U.S. financial industry is currently in a recession. None of the top ten companies in the U.S. is a financial company. The current general P/E ratio of the banking industry is around five, which is still less than the P/E ratio of about ten times that of later generations.

According to the universal price-earnings ratio of five times, the market value of the unlisted Wells Fargo Bank should be 650 million US dollars, which is lower than the net assets of Wells Fargo Bank.

This sounds undoubtedly outrageous, but it is true now, whether it is Bank of America or Citibank, it is almost the same, and the market value is just over 10 billion US dollars.

The financial downturn has been dragged down by the overall environment and has a certain relationship with the global oil crisis. Currently, five of the top ten companies in the United States are oil companies.

Having said that, this year because of the overall environment, inflation in the United States has been quite serious, which has caused drastic fluctuations in the federal funds rate, which has caused a series of bad results.

Last year, Wells Fargo’s spread was around 4.47%, but the research team of Polaris Capital, based on market conditions, calculated that Wells Fargo’s spread this year would be less than 4%, which means that this year’s net profit will be lower than last year.

Not only that, because of the violent fluctuations in the federal funds rate, Wells Fargo has to spend more to absorb reserves from the outside world, but in response to market fluctuations, Wells Fargo's benchmark interest rate has to be adjusted accordingly.

For example, according to the data, the preferential interest rate announced by Wells Fargo Bank was 15%, which rose to 20% in April, but fell to 11% at the end of July, but at the end of September, with the start of the Iran-Iraq War, the interest rate rose to twenty one%!

This interest rate fluctuates in real time, but the previous interest rates for loans and bonds are fixed.

Wells Fargo’s financial report last year disclosed that the average lending rate for a total of 15.6 billion loans was 12.7%, of which the lowest interest rate for bonds was $1.67 billion and only 9.3% for personal housing mortgage loans. The second lowest interest rate of ten thousand US dollars is 10.3%, and there are real estate development loans and so on.

Now with the increase in the federal funds rate, the market bond prices have fallen, and the decline has exceeded 10%. If these bonds are cleaned up now, Wells Fargo will have a loss of 160 million US dollars.

After zero and zero, there are about 9.5 billion U.S. dollars in assets with maturity in more than one year. If all are calculated based on the 10% loss of the bond, these assets will be cleaned up at this time. The loss of 100 million US dollars will reach 950 million US dollars, which is more than the net assets of Wells Fargo Bank of 830 million US dollars, and Wells Fargo will go bankrupt.

Fortunately, the maturity date of these assets is more than one year. As long as the federal funds rate is lower than 10% before the maturity date of the asset comes, Wells Fargo will not be unlucky.

Even in this case, the analysis also evaluated Wells Fargo as a rather conservative bank and a potential stock.

From this, one can imagine how much pressure other banks with aggressive investments face such a harsh environment.

It is no wonder that over the past few years, more than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 banking institutions will close down. Even among the top ten consortia, consortia cannot save their core major banks, and they watched it fail.

At the end of the data, an analysis was made on the difficulty of the acquisition of Wells Fargo Bank.

Although Wells Fargo belongs to the California consortium, the California consortium does not value it. After all, it is only a medium-sized bank that has not yet exited the state of California. The shareholding ratio of the California consortium is about 43%, which has not reached a relative control.

In addition to Wells Fargo Bank, the California Consortium has more than a dozen financial institutions, including Bank of America, Western Bank, Safe Pacific Bank, Wells Fargo Bank, and Crocker National Bank. Which one is not bigger than Wells Fargo Bank?

Not to mention multinational banks such as Bank of America and interstate regional banks such as Western Banks, but in the San Francisco area, Wells Fargo Bank is inferior to Wells Fargo Bank and Crocker National Bank.

Therefore, the analysis stated that the California consortium does not value Wells Fargo. In the face of the current sluggish banking industry and the huge risk of interest rate fluctuations, the California consortium is definitely worried about adding more information to the bank to resist risks.

But there are too many banks under the California Consortium, and because of their strength, there is also huge pressure.

Therefore, as long as the bid is right, the California consortium will not refuse to sell Wells Fargo's equity.

However, the analysis also said that although Wells Fargo is a medium-sized bank, its investment is conservative and its ability to withstand pressure is relatively stronger. The California consortium also knows a certain potential. If it wants to acquire, it does not rule out the suspicion of the Lions of the Wells Fargo Board of Directors. A conservative estimate , The purchase price must be more than one billion US dollars.

The number of billion dollars not only didn't make Xia Yu entangled, but he was relieved, and he was very happy.

There is no doubt that the analysis department of Polaris Capital underestimated the potential of Wells Fargo. Had Xia Yu been a rebirth, he would have made similar judgments.

In his thoughts, the California consortium’s assessment of Wells Fargo would be similar to that in the current information. This is an excellent opportunity.

According to the situation of later generations, it is undoubtedly quite wise for Wells Fargo to focus on the development of community banks at this time, and the development model is excellent.

As long as we can stick to this model to develop, we will still become the top big bank in the United States.

If it is acquired at this time, then the Polaris consortium will establish Optimus Prime, which is based in the United States, and it will not be afraid to head-to-head with the Bank of America of the California consortium, not to mention that he will add a gold finger halo to Wells Fargo. It will be quite amazing.

Therefore, Xia Yu did not hesitate and stopped reading the information of other banks. He directly handed the information to Peter Lynch. When the latter looked at the information, Xia Yu solemnly said: "Peter, it is most important to hand you one. The mission of this Wells Fargo Bank, you must do your best to acquire it."

"Don't say it's a billion dollars, even if it's 1.5 billion or even 2 billion dollars, it doesn't matter, I only have one to complete, and I will acquire it wholly!"

"Polaris Capital and all companies under it need it!"

Peter Lynch flashed a flash of lightning in his mind, and at the same time he understood the purpose of the boss Xia Yu instantly.

The boss is planning to take Wells Fargo as the center and attract all the companies under Polaris Capital to form a consortium!

He only felt the blood flow accelerating, and couldn't help but look at Xia Yu and asked, "Boss, do you want to build a consortium?"

Peter Lynch could see through his own purpose at once, but Xia Yu was not surprised.

Peter Lynch has been on Wall Street where there are many consortiums for many years. He must have done a lot of research on consortia, and it is normal to see it.

In the United States, where consortia are in full swing, it is normal and common for large and small companies and family newspapers to form consortia, so Xia Yu did not hide it, nodded and said: "Yes, I have this idea, so you understand the acquisition. Is Wells Fargo important?"

Although I don’t know why the boss gave Wells Fargo a glance, Peter Lynch didn’t ask. He was uplifted and nodded openly and said: “I understand, boss, don’t worry, I will definitely buy Wells Fargo.”

Xia Yu nodded ~www.readwn.com~Because he cared, he reassured Peter Lynch again and said: "Peter, now that the oil crisis is breaking out, it will have a great impact on the financial industry. We must seize the opportunity. Try to acquire Wells Fargo Bank before the end of this year. It doesn't matter if the price is high. Of course, if you can keep the price down, I won't be stingy with bonuses at the end of the year."

Peter Lynch solemnly responded: "Boss, I won't let you down."

After that, Peter Lynch hurriedly left the office to build the Wells Fargo acquisition team.

Xia Yu stayed at the company until about 11:10, and received a notice from the employee. He immediately called Li Wuming downstairs to go back.

The person he was waiting for had already arrived, and it was time to go back.

PS: Due to work reasons, I can only code words late at night, please forgive me, this chapter is 4200 words

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