There have been many real estate company owners who have sat on the throne of China's richest man, one is the notorious Evergrande Xu Jiayin, and the other is Wang Sicong's father, Wang Jianlin.
On December 6, Wanda broke the big news that Wang Jianlin will transfer his 51% stake in Beijing Wanda Investment, with an amount of 226.2 billion yuan. Upon completion of the transfer, Wanda Film's controlling stake will be changed.
Wanda Movie is the "golden egg" in Wang Jianlin's hands, but now he is in a hurry. And this is not the first time that Wang Jianlin has sold Wanda Film's equity. In July, Wang Jianlin put Wanda Movie 826% of the shares were transferred to the wife of the owner of Oriental Wealth, and the transfer ** was 217.3 billion yuan.
Watching Evergrande, Sunac, Country Garden and even Vanke encounter a real estate crisis, many people say that Wang Jianlin was really prescient and avoided the crisis by reducing the debt ratio ahead of schedule. Recently, Wang Jianlin was photographed going out to participate in activities and was emaciated.
Combined with the sale of Wanda Pictures' equity and the listing of Wanda Shopping Malls in first- and second-tier cities to recoup funds, this shows that although Wang Jianlin is not as miserable as Xu Jiayin, his life is not easy. The glorious era of real estate is completely gone. The companies involved are struggling in pain.
Wang Jianlin continued to sell assets, and he must be very short of money. This once said in an interview that he would let his son get 500 million yuan.
The Internet celebrity father, who practiced his hands and earned 100 million yuan as a small goal, has climbed out of the quagmire of residential real estate in advance, why is he short of money again?
This is because Wang Jianlin has moved around, divested the residential real estate business, and transformed into a commercial management company, Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management Co., Ltd., an entity that reached a VAM agreement with investors: if the listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange cannot be completed on December 31, 2023, it will be necessary to repurchase the investor's 30 billion yuan of shares in full and pay 12% interest.
Up to now, Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management has submitted 4 prospectuses to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. On October 21, 2021, Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management submitted its prospectus for the first time; The prospectus was submitted for the second time on April 22, 2022; The prospectus was submitted for the third time on October 25, 2022. All three attempts, however, were unsuccessful.
On June 28 this year, Zhuhai Wanda Commercial Management submitted an IPO prospectus to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange for the fourth time.
Now that there are more than 20 days before the deadline for listing, Wang Jianlin must be prepared for two things: successful listing and listing failure. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare funds in advance for the failure of the VAM agreement and the repurchase of shares.
However, due to the fact that the entire market is very sensitive to real estate risks, a large part of Wanda Commercial Management's income comes from property income, which is closely related to real estate. At the same time, Wanda shopping mall, as a physical shopping mall, is the focus of e-commerce impact. In particular, in the context of the continuous decline in the Chinese population and the slowdown in consumption, the rental income growth prospects of the shopping malls operated by Wanda are not optimistic.
At the same time, Wanda Commercial Management's current liabilities totaled 109.4 billion yuan, higher than its current capital of 108 billion yuan, and the cash and cash equivalents at the end of the period were 1277.3 billion yuan, a decrease of 6.9 billion yuan from the end of 2022.
Therefore, although Wanda Commercial Management does not have the terrible debt of real estate developers such as Evergrande, Country Garden, and Sunac, its debt ratio is still high. In the era when the capital market is cold, funds tend to buy high dividends and steady growth, and this risk aversion is not conducive to the listing of Wanda Commercial Management.
However, we still have to admire Wang Jianlin's courage and luck to survive with a broken arm. In 2017, Wanda suffered an epidemic crisis, three years earlier than Evergrande's accident. It was precisely because of the earlier problem that Wang Jianlin took 637At a price of 500 million yuan, 91% of the equity of Wanda Commercial's 13 cultural tourism projects and all the equity of 77 city hotels were given to Sunac and R&F respectively, and a number of Wanda Plazas were also sold to Pearl River Life.
Now, R&F and Sunac, who bought Wang Jianlin's assets, have been thundered, and Wang Jianlin can be regarded as stepping on their backs and climbing up from the edge of the cliff.
So, this time, can Wang Jianlin rely on luck to tide over the difficulties? Seeing this, do you also understand why Wang Sicong is reluctant to take over his father's class?
Wanda Commercial, which is related to real estate, is really not an easy deal to take over, because it has not been able to get rid of the problem of high debt. Wang Sicong appeared in Tai'an, Shandong Province in casual clothes not long ago, and signed a Taishan Cultural Tourism and Fitness Center project with the local area, which sparked heated discussions.
Wang Sicong, the national husband, playing games and investing, engaging in cultural tourism and fitness, is indeed easier than Wang Jianlin's business, and it is also Wang Sicong's own hobby. Therefore, Wang Sicong, as a rich second generation, seems to spend a lot of time drinking and changing girlfriends every day, but in fact, he is really a very hard-working and undefeated rich second generation.