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Berkshire Hathaway, holding 56000 shares!
"The stocks listed here are all invested by our Artair family and have nothing to do with the DHL Group. If Mr. Lin is interested, we can exchange them with Mr. Lin. For example, this ATT company is a famous French listed retail company, and this Sanan Electric Co., Ltd. is a famous Japanese electrical appliance research and development and production company. Both have very good future prospects..." Artair briefly introduced them to Lin Haoran one by one.

He took out the shares of these listed companies, and it was obvious that they were all investments that he looked down upon.

"I've taken a look at the stocks here, and I'm a little interested in this company. If Mr. Artair wants to exchange, you can exchange this stock with me. It's just that you hold a few stocks, so you can't exchange them for many shares. Besides, we haven't yet agreed on the transaction price for Spiri Company." Lin Haoran said with a smile.

Lin Haoran did not expect that the Squid Group boss named Artair actually held 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway.

That doesn’t seem like a lot of stock, right?
But it cannot be underestimated, because up to now, the total issued shares of Berkshire Hathaway are only nearly 50 shares. Holding 5.6 shares is already very impressive, equivalent to more than 10% of the shares!

You know, Berkshire Hathaway is a listed company that does not issue new shares easily. In addition, with the investment of the stock god Buffett, its annual investment profits are extremely substantial.

Even after forty years, the total number of shares of Berkshire Hathaway is only 163.45 million shares, and the new shares added over the past few decades have only tripled.

It is also because of this that decades later, the share price of Berkshire Hathaway was ridiculously high, with one share costing as much as more than $700,000.

And the total market value exceeds one trillion US dollars!

Therefore, these 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway are simply scarce resources!

Lin Haoran once read the development history of Berkshire Hathaway.

In 1964, Berkshire Hathaway's stock price was $19. That year, Buffett took over the bankrupt company and became its major shareholder.

In December 1980, Berkshire's stock price was $12.

In December 1990, Berkshire's stock price closed at $12.

In December 2000, Berkshire's stock price closed at $12.

On April 2016, 4, Berkshire's stock price closed at $29.

By December 2024, Berkshire's stock price had risen to $12.

5.6 shares, if held until 2024, these shares will be worth more than $ billion.

But now, according to the market value, it is only about 24 million US dollars.

The most important thing is that Berkshire Hathaway shares are too scarce, so it is not easy to acquire 5.6 shares.

And this Altaïr actually wanted to sell it?

"We can discuss these gradually. If Mr. Lin is really interested in Berkshire Hathaway's stock, we can directly exchange it with Mr. Lin at the current market value. If our Altair family had not invested a lot recently, resulting in a slightly tight cash flow, I would not consider exchanging shares with you."

After the previous negotiation, Artair had realized that it was basically impossible to purchase the shares of the young man in front of him at a price lower than the market price.

If the shares held by Lin Haoran were to be acquired in the name of DHL Group, it was obvious that DHL Group did not have sufficient funds to complete the transaction.

Therefore, Artair's current plan is to first acquire part of the shares as a family, and then acquire another part in the name of DHL Group.

In this way, neither the Altaïr family nor the DHL Group would have to bear too much financial pressure, while at the same time being able to smoothly control the Shipley company.

However, the Altaïr family has been relatively short of funds recently, and it is difficult to quickly convert large amounts of money into stocks, but they are eager to acquire Lin Haoran's shares in Shipley.

Therefore, the most direct way is to ask Lin Haoran whether he has any stocks that he is interested in and can exchange them, which can both reduce financial pressure.

Although loans are an option, those stocks will have to be dealt with sooner or later, and the loan interest is high. Moreover, selling the stocks quickly may also bring down the stock price. In contrast, stock swaps do not have such risks.

"Mr. Artel, I'm quite curious about this stock. When I was in the United States before, someone mentioned it and said that this was the company of the stock god Buffett. Why do you want to sell it?" Lin Haoran asked with a hint of curiosity.

"Mr. Lin, it's okay to tell you that although this company is owned by Warren Buffett, and its share price has increased significantly over the years, from more than a dozen dollars per share more than a decade ago to more than 400 dollars per share today, it has a shortcoming, which is that it never pays dividends.

Our Altaïr family has held this stock for more than ten years, but has never received any dividends. Although the stock price has been rising, for our Altaïr family, without cash, it is just a pile of data and has no meaning at all.

My father invested one million dollars in it, and now it is worth more than 20 million dollars according to the market value. Although there has never been any dividend, I am still very satisfied with the appreciation, but I don't plan to continue holding it. "Altaïr explained.

All this would be clear once checked, so Altaïr did not hide it from Lin Haoran.

"So that's it!" Lin Haoran suddenly realized.

He really didn't know that Berkshire Hathaway's stock never pays dividends.

No wonder Altaïr wanted to sell it.

I just don't know if Mr. Atel will regret selling his Berkshire Hathaway shares in the future. After all, who would have thought that these 5.6 shares would be worth more than $ billion in the future?

Seeing that they actually held so many Berkshire Hathaway shares, Lin Haoran was tempted.

Take it, must take it!
The potential of Berkshire Hathaway is no less than that of Apple.

Most importantly, Berkshire Hathaway stock is scarce.

Even if Lin Haoran wanted to acquire through the secondary market, he might not be able to acquire much.

Of course, Lin Haoran would not show how urgent he was for these shares.

So the two of them continued to negotiate in this office which was only a dozen square meters in size.

Although Lin Haoran did not bring any capable assistants this time, so there was no one to assist him in the negotiations, Lin Haoran was not panicked at all.

After all, he had ultimately handled many negotiations on his own. As long as he stuck to his bottom line, no matter how ruthless the other party was, they would not be able to convince him.

What's more, this Mr. Altaïr met him alone this time.

Although the other party was a veteran, his purpose was very clear, which was to acquire the shares of Shipli Company that he held.

But he also had his eyes on the other party's Berkshire Hathaway stock.

After a full hour and a half, the two sides finally reached an agreement.

The Altaïr family exchanged 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway for shares of Shipley at today's stock market price. Due to insufficient funds, the DHL Group purchased the shares in cash.

Lin Haoran's shares in Shipley will be sold to the other party for 70 million pounds.

For Artair, what he wanted was a controlling stake in Shipley, so that DHL could even surpass the Royal Mail in the British market.

As for Lin Haoran, he could choose to take or not take the shares of Shipley. After learning that the other party had 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway, he decided to give up his plan for Shipley.

After all, acquiring these 5.6 shares is equivalent to a forward investment with a return of more than 400 billion US dollars!
Converted into Hong Kong dollars, this is two or three hundred billion Hong Kong dollars!
During this period, Artair also tried to persuade Lin Haoran to exchange more other shares. However, it was obvious that Lin Haoran looked down on those companies that would no longer have any international reputation after decades. Perhaps many of these dozen companies would have gone bankrupt by that time. What was the point of him exchanging them?
"Mr. Lin, if possible, I hope to make this deal today." At this moment, Artair couldn't wait to get this done.

Otherwise, Altaïr was afraid that Lin Haoran would go back on his word.

"Of course!" Lin Haoran said with a smile.

So, Artair called the family lawyer and the head of the DHL Group, and Lin Haoran also borrowed a legal advisor from Tang Bo to assist him in signing the contract.

That evening, the deal between Lin Haoran, Artair and DHL Group was concluded through a contract.

After this transaction, Lin Haoran will lose all his shares in Shipli.

However, he will receive 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway.

At the same time, you will also receive 5920 million pounds in cash!

And a dozen days ago, Lin Haoran spent a total of only 2780 million pounds on Shipley Company.

In other words, after deducting the cost from the investment over the past ten days, he not only got 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway, a stock with a future value of more than 3140 billion US dollars, for free, but also made an extra million pounds.

And these more than 3.7 million pounds, converted into Hong Kong dollars, are worth million Hong Kong dollars.

So, this trip to the UK was not in vain.

Although compared to the last time I went to the United States for a month, the money I earned this time was not much, even less than one-tenth.

But those 5.6 shares of Berkshire Hathaway are well worth it.

Therefore, after reaching this deal, Lin Haoran was still very satisfied with this trip to the UK.

However, Mr. Beo Stevens, the former chairman of the Shipley Company, was destined to be cheated by him.

If Lin Haoran still holds the shares, then Beo Stevens can naturally continue to manage Shipley.

But now, after his shares were sold to Artair and DHL Group, it would be impossible for DHL Group to continue to let Beo Stevens manage Spireline.

But what does this have to do with Lin Haoran? He and Beo Stevens were not familiar with each other! (End of this chapter)