American Scandal King

Chapter 241 Epilogue - Year-End Review
Beverly Hills, early morning.

Scarlett opened her eyes and saw Kate sleeping next to her, but Ian was gone.

She sat up and looked, and saw a light on in the study.

So Scarlett covered herself with a white veil and walked barefoot towards the study.

In the study, Ian was looking at the computer.

She snuggled up, put her arms around Ian's neck, and gave him a long, passionate kiss: "What are you looking at, baby?"

"Company reports," Ian replied.

"Let me see." Scarlett came over and looked around but didn't understand.

Ian smiled and explained to him: "This is the annual income of Carl Media's own industry, and this is the investment income."

After one year of development, Carl Media has grown into a behemoth.

Today, Carl Media mainly has its own income and investment income, among which investment income accounts for the largest share.

(Not taking into account self-consumption, Godwin Manor, etc.; in addition, unlisted companies do not have a clear market value, only valuations based on assets and profits, which are generally recognized values, but are only reference numbers).

Investment income includes:

CBS's 25% stake, due to a series of exclusive blockbuster news from the Russian Theater, finally increased its market value to 182 billion. This part of the shares is worth about 45 billion, with annual income of nearly 10 billion, dividends of 2.5 billion, and Cal Media's income of million.

A 40% stake in Fox Entertainment Group generated $30 billion in profits, $18 billion in dividends, and $3.78 million in revenue for Carl Media.

UTA's size skyrocketed because of Ian, with annual revenue of nearly 2 million, dividends of 1.5 million, and income of 77 million from 1.155% of the shares.

Gannett Group's net income is $2 million, with a $1.5 million dividend. A 5% stake means three quarters of $0.05 million in earnings... How dare you call yourself a member of the First Newspaper Group? My agency makes more money than you do, and you might as well have distributed it all in dividends.

Lockbridge Pictures' Spider-Man and Shengda Greek Wedding box office revenues have already been collected and spent. This year's merchandise revenue is only $3 million, which even covered Marvel's shortfall. Therefore, their actual assets are around $67 billion. They own Pirates of the Caribbean (0.67 million for the final film), a 25% stake in Marvel (2 million), Pixar ( billion), Blue Sky Studios ( million), and the copyrights for Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, Men in Black, X-Men, Resident Evil, Star Wars, and Jurassic Park, among other major assets. However, they receive no share of the original development proceeds, and the subsequent productions haven't even aired yet, resulting in virtually no returns. Furthermore, they still have to pay staff, resulting in no profit at this point. As for other film and television investment income, it is used to expand LANN and has nothing to do with Lockbridge.

Samsung Group distributed dividends of 18 billion, and 10% of the five-month profit is about 0.7 million (this dividend is a bit small).

Russian natural gas dividends in the fourth quarter were 60 billion, 5% of which was 3 million (still Russian natural gas atmosphere).

Delta United is already operating, but it is not profitable yet and cannot distribute dividends.

He bought 15% of Apple shares, but Jobs asked for no dividends, and Ian agreed. As for Google, it also does not pay dividends now.

In addition, there is the Black Deer Distillery. Because of the Natalie Portman incident, it made a profit of more than 3 million in the second half of the year. Ian will sell it next year and expects to make a net profit of million, but now it can only be calculated at million.

Meihe Construction's revenue was 4 million, making it Ian's most profitable company. Otherwise, how could they say government deals were profitable? A company with 3 million in revenue was making 4 million in profit a year, and that's after deducting the various commissions. Who could compare?
Davis Prison won't be full until the end of the year, so we're finally making some money—Americans, why don't you just go for it? Why are you so reserved? But next year should bring Ian at least $50 million in profits. Low assets, huge profits.

After a series of dazzling accounting, after deducting some unavoidable taxes, the final total profit was about 12.38 billion.

There is only one LANN at the headquarters of Carl Media.

Without this, Carl Media would have become a pure investment company.

LANN finally started to make a profit in the fourth quarter.

Over the past year or so, Ian has been developing LANN, but LANN has always been in a state of soaring size and difficulty in making profits... Who told you not to give us the big news?

Now LANN's size has reached about 25 billion, with a profit of million in the fourth quarter - the valuable assets he bought have begun to play a role, especially Oprah's talk show, which is quite popular.

According to Deer Chandler, even without Ian's blockbuster news, LANN can still achieve a profit of more than 2 million next year.

But this year the headquarters is essentially unprofitable.

With this calculation, if we don’t consider the growth in scale, the annual profit will only be around 12.7 billion, which is not enough to pay the interest.

Although they are obviously making money, they appear to be losing money. The main reason is that Ian turned a large amount of profits into assets, part of which is the expansion of Lock Bridge Pictures and part of which is the expansion of LANN.

LANN is the biological son of Carl Media. Without it, Carl Media is just a pure investment company and has no face to call itself a media group.

Fortunately, there was help from the Afghans.

The Afghans gave Ian 50 billion, of which 20 billion was embezzled by Ian, and 30 billion was used to build a facade for Redstone. Under Galbraith's operation, it attracted Madoff's investment of 10 billion. Together with the loan from Lino Bank, its asset size reached 90 billion US dollars. It seemed to be a large-scale enterprise, but in fact it did not engage in production and was only a speculator. It was purely superficial and secretly transferred profits.

After deducting various costs, Red Stone's book profit was 9 million. This is why Madoff was willing to invest. The profit was indeed impressive, especially since the 9 million was made with an asset value of 30 billion.

The only thing that is more profitable than government business is illegal business!
Especially selling out national-level business!

All in all, Carl Media Group's annual profit was 21.7 billion.

The total assets of Cal Media are approximately: CBS shares are worth $45 billion;
Fox Entertainment shares are valued at $128 billion (purchased for $130 billion. Although Fox's size has increased, the premium hasn't kept pace, especially since Ian also bought the copyrights of Blue Sky Studios and X-Men, so the company is still losing $2 million on the surface).

UTA shares are valued at $14 billion (this represents a doubling of assets, primarily due to the acquisition of small businesses and the expansion of peripheral businesses. However, the agency itself is not asset-heavy, so there is little room for further growth if calculated based on assets).

Gannett Group shares are worth 0.8 million (Gannett is crap; it hasn't appreciated at all. The fact that it hasn't depreciated is a credit to Ian's experience. Don't expect it to make money; it'll be good if it doesn't lose money later).

Suoqiao Pictures is valued at 35 billion (pure assets, lagging behind Marvel, but with huge potential for appreciation. The key is that it can control the major Hollywood film companies. Who says I can only control them by using negative information?);

Samsung Group's shares have grown to 52 billion (not to mention the low dividends, but the asset growth rate is also so low? This is not in line with Samsung's normal development speed. I seriously suspect that you have falsified your financial reports. Koreans can do such a thing. Wait until I deal with you. Besides, there are a few girls in South Korea who are almost grown up);

Gazprom shares are worth 44 billion (their assets only increased by million, as Gazprom pays high dividends, so asset growth is limited. However, they are still more generous than the Koreans, which is not surprising. Until the Ukrainian war, they hoped to follow the US and did not dare to argue too much with their American bosses on this issue);
Delta United shares are valued at 4 million, with an investment of 2 million (however, because the investment was made under a cooperative agreement, the investor must first return the investment, so the investment can only be calculated based on the investment, which is 2 million in assets);

RCA $2.5 million (no need to say much about this. Britney's new song has been released and her value is increasing, but it won't be much. It is estimated that she can earn $1.5 million.)
The total investment from China and Actoz is US$3 million (this part is produced and sold in China, with no outstanding debt or repayment);

Black Deer Winery is worth 3 million, Meihe Construction Company is worth 3 million, Davis Prison is worth 3 million, Lino Bank shares are worth 48 billion, Apple shares are worth 7.5 million, LANN is worth 25 billion, other assets including Google are worth 1 million, and there is 6 million in cash.

Finn Company is ignored.

The group's assets are approximately 422 billion (excluding the value of redstone).

债务则是315亿，包括韩国50亿、安康保险公司53亿、都邦集团30亿，力诺银行182亿，（不算阿富汗那20亿）。

Ankang’s interest is divided into two parts, with total debt of 53 billion and interest of less than 2.38 million.

Dubang has a debt of 30 billion yuan and interest of 1.35 million yuan.

South Korea has a debt of 50 billion and interest of 1.1 million.

Lino has a debt of 182 billion yuan and interest of 8.19 million yuan.

All interest payments add up to 13 billion.

Gaskell paid him 1 million using bank dividends, and Ian needed to pay 12 billion.

Debt accounts for about 74.6%, and net assets are around 109 billion.

But most of these 109 billion assets were not obtained through good means.

Afghanistan's 20 billion, World Cup gambling profits of 12 billion, Black Deer's hype value of 3 million, Meihechi's government profits of 4 million, and Red Stone's illegal business profits of 9 million. The same is true for Russia and South Korea. If we remove all these, and then remove the assets generated by last year's asset and stock price increases, it can be basically understood that all the legitimate business profits went to interest and taxes.

Dry!
Otherwise, why do we all work for banks?
It turns out that windfall is the way to go!

In 02, they made nearly 90 billion, almost all of it from selling things with a clear conscience!!!
Also normal.

Everything Ian does is to pursue influence, hidden profits, and corporate scale. Since you yourself aren't pursuing legitimate profits, isn't this the normal outcome?
Once Madoff is scammed next year, he can make tens of billions more... Ian has already given Galbraith an order, requiring him to make Madoff increase his investment to 50 billion. Then it will be time to close the net.

To do this, he was willing to pay Madoff some benefits first.

At this moment, Scarlett was lying on Ian's back, staring at the data in a daze.

She couldn't understand the complicated accounting calculations, but at least she could understand the results.

Surprised!

In just over two years, Ian Karl's personal assets have reached over 10 billion? He controls a 40 billion media and investment group?

But Ian wasn't satisfied yet.

"Without cash, Lino Bank still needs to continue to develop...it's a long way to go!" Ian sighed.

Scarlett was shocked: "You are still not satisfied?"

Ian smiled: "How can you ever be content in life? I'm still young, I'm only 26 years old, I can still fight for at least another years!"

A life full of cheats, without trillion-level assets, without global influence, without a beauty that surpasses Chamberlain... Do you have the nerve to call yourself a man?

Well, Chamberlain pursues quantity over quality, so I won’t compete with you in terms of quantity.

He pulled Scarlett into his arms and sniffed her fragrance. "Linuo Bank will eventually become a trillion-dollar bank, and it will only be a component of the Karl Media Group!"

As he spoke, he buried his head in the fragrance.

The powerful ambition and undisguised desire for expansion made Scarlett addicted to it.

(End of this chapter)