321: This Lin Chen is too insidious!

Under these circumstances, although people didn't know the exact profit per mobile phone, the sheer, terrifying turnover alone was enough to make people fall into silence and frenzy!

After all, it was said that Boeing's annual turnover this year was only around 50 billion USD; Shuguang Technology's turnover of 55 billion USD could be considered a solid surpassing of Boeing.

However, following the silence and frenzy came people's bold conjectures, based on the data of easily breaking through 55 billion USD in turnover in the coming year.

They boldly speculated that Shuguang Technology should be able to earn 20 billion USD in the coming year, and even in the worst case, it should be around 10 billion USD!

Of course, it was impossible for people to know the exact profit, as Shuguang Technology had only released some simple performance reports, and more detailed financial statements and mobile phone profits, etc., had not been officially announced.

But even so, this completely slapped the faces of those who looked down on Shuguang Technology.

It used facts to tell them that although Shuguang Technology seemed to be just a shell company, it was the strongest shell company in the world!

Under these circumstances, as Shuguang Technology successively released data such as sales and turnover, news about Shuguang Technology successfully caused a sensation around the Global.

In the following days, news related to Shuguang Technology's listing became the focus of attention for Global investors.

They were truly eagerly looking forward to Shuguang Technology's listing, all holding their cash ready to buy Shuguang Technology's stock and take the opportunity to make a fortune!

After all, Shuguang Technology was just too fierce; it had only been established for two years, yet it achieved an annual turnover of 55 billion USD. This growth momentum was truly too fierce.

Although they didn't know the specific profit of Shuguang Technology.

But buying Shuguang Technology's stock would definitely be profitable, and the annual stock dividends alone would certainly allow them to make a fortune after purchasing the stock.

Regarding this, if Lin Chen knew their thoughts, he would certainly smile and say they were overthinking it; if they wanted to make a fortune relying on stock dividends, they would have to wait a lifetime.

Because Lin Chen, who held absolute controlling rights, could naturally decide whether the company would pay dividends, what the dividend amount would be, etc. Under these circumstances, Shuguang Technology would naturally pay as little in dividends as possible.

Apart from taking a small portion of the profits earned by Shuguang Technology to pay dividends and win over shareholders and investors.

The vast majority of the profits would certainly be used for "joint R&D investment" or "other forms" to establish R&D institutions in Daxia, invest in the R&D of corresponding core technologies, and solve the issue of domestic substitution!

Therefore, if Lin Chen knew the thoughts of those investors who were preparing to buy Shuguang Technology stock and hoping to make a fortune on dividends, he would definitely smile without saying a word.

However, the investors outside didn't know these things, nor did they know the twists and turns in Lin Chen's mind.

They were very expectant of Shuguang Technology, this super potential stock, and couldn't wait for Shuguang Technology to go public as soon as possible so they could buy its stock early.

However, no matter how anxious they were, they could only wait. As time passed day by day, news about Shuguang Technology continued to be disclosed.

On June 20, 2004, the Securities and Exchange Commission of United States officially approved Shuguang Technology's listing application!

And when this news was disclosed by the media, Global investors naturally became excited and further focused on news about Shuguang Technology.

Shortly after the listing application was approved, Shuguang Technology also officially announced that it would officially ring the bell and list on the Nasdaq on June 23, 2004.

Ringing the bell to go public is a unique culture of the Nasdaq, or rather the Global stock market, symbolizing the glorious moment of a company's achievement.

However, it was a pity that the person responsible for going to the Nasdaq to ring the bell for the listing this time was not Lin Chen, but Lei Bu Si.

After all, Lin Chen knew what kind of nature those people across the ocean had, and he was afraid they would frame him for sexual assault or accuse him of murder or criminal offenses.

Even if he hadn't done it, or even seen those people, if you want to condemn someone, you can always find a pretext.

Given his current situation, if he went to United States, whether he could return to his home country would be a real unknown; after all, it would be one thing if he were just an ordinary businessman.

But the talent Lin Chen had displayed was truly terrifying. Although it hadn't reached the level of Einstein—after all, Lin Chen indeed had no achievements in basic theory.

But at least in the field of applied technology, calling Lin Chen the Tesla of the East was not an exaggeration at all, and how could they let a talent of Tesla's caliber leave United States?

Therefore, what awaited Lin Chen would either be life imprisonment or an exit ban, never to leave United States!

Under these circumstances, Lin Chen did not participate in the commemorative event of ringing the bell for the Nasdaq listing, continuing his R&D work as planned.

It is worth mentioning that before Shuguang Technology's listing, the valuation given by those securities firms and investment banks was 130 billion USD.

Of course, the premise for such a high valuation of 130 billion USD was that Shuguang Technology had obtained a 5-year sole exclusive licensing contract for the most cutting-edge mobile phone core technologies from Shuguang R&D Center.

During these 5 years, all the most cutting-edge mobile phone core technologies currently possessed by Shuguang R&D Center, including those to be developed within the next 5 years, were exclusively licensed to Shuguang Technology.

Therefore, only after 5 years could Shuguang R&D Center license corresponding core technologies to other companies, with no restrictions from then on.

Under these circumstances, Lin Chen received 39 billion USD in pre-tax funds from United States securities firms and investment banks, but the price was that Lin Chen gave up 30% of Shuguang Technology's shares for the listing!

Of this, Lin Chen retained only 69% of the shares, and the remaining 1% was split into countless small and large portions as stock options to reward the contributors of Shuguang Technology.

Among those rewarded were Ni Guangnan, Lei Bu Si, Chen Dong, Huang Hua, Li Qianqiang, and even other R&D backbone members of Shuguang R&D Center.

After obtaining the stock options, they could purchase a certain number of shares at pre-determined prices and conditions, which was almost a guaranteed profitable deal!

After all, everyone knew that the share price before listing would definitely be very low, and the share price after listing would certainly inflate several times over.

Therefore, Lin Chen's act of rewarding them with stock options was truly giving them money!

Although this also required them to pay real cash to purchase the stocks at the pre-determined price, which was the stock option.

But even if they didn't have a penny, relying on their right to the stock options, banks would certainly be happy to lend them money, earning a guaranteed profit from the interest.

And after they borrowed enough funds from the bank, they could use the borrowed money to purchase the stocks represented by the options, and finally, when they sold them upon listing, they could obtain several times the profit!

Of course, as smart people, they certainly wouldn't sell them all; instead, they would sell a portion to pay off the bank loans and keep the rest.