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Chapter 329 Value Investing

Of course, Toyoko Kobayashi's words were exaggerated. But... this is actually not important. His speech on TV has completely aroused the attention of almost everyone.

Investors noticed the "only type", while politicians were concerned about the "Japanese first". Diabetic patients were concerned about the possibility of completely changing the current situation of their need for lifelong medication, while younger ordinary people were moved by the declaration that "Japan is at the forefront of human technology."

In short, Kobayashi Toyo and Takeda Pharmaceutical became heroes of the entire Japan almost overnight.

The existing artificial organs are basically only artificial hearts and ECMO and hemodialysis machines called "artificial lungs" and "artificial kidneys". However, these machines cannot be implanted into the body and completely replace the function of the original organ. The artificial organ that is closest to this concept is the entire artificial heart. However, this instrument still needs to carry a huge battery pack and is charged every 24 hours.

Moreover, due to the active structure that works 24 hours a day, the lifespan of an artificial heart is difficult to estimate. This therapy can often only be regarded as a transitional therapy for patients before obtaining a heart transplant.

And the revolutionary product proposed by Toyoko Kobayashi has indeed accomplished a difficulty that almost all artificial organs have insurmounted before.

The artificial pancreas is essentially an implantable insulin pump. But with Takeda Pharmaceutical's non-invasive blood sugar monitoring system, this equipment can completely help patients get rid of the daily life of needle-testing blood sugar. With this alone, the artificial pancreas has a very powerful attraction - no one wants to pierce their fingers every day.

Kobayashi also admitted frankly that artificial pancreas still needs to be supplemented with insulin regularly, and this instrument cannot replace the exocrine function of the pancreas. If the patients who have received implantation have completely removed the pancreas, or the retained part cannot secrete enough pancreatic fluid, they still need to take the pancreas orally. With current technical means, it is impossible to reproduce the human function in the machinery and continuously produce insulin and pancreatic fluid...

But this is enough. The world's first artificial organs that can be implanted into the body. This definition is enough to make an unknown small company a star in the global capital market. What's more, this company is still a very powerful old pharmaceutical company?

The broadcast time of the program is 10 pm in Japan local time. It is 8 am in the morning in New York local time. After the program is broadcast, Takeda Pharmaceutical's stock on the New York Stock Exchange suddenly turned to a decline. Less than ten minutes after the opening, Takeda Pharmaceutical's stock price on the New York Stock Exchange has risen by 40%.

At the same time, Takeda Pharmaceutical announced that it would start clinical trials of this brand new product in half a year. This news completely became a death knell for many short sellers. When Takeda Pharmaceutical's stock price rose by more than 75%, almost all the short sellers who had previously hooked up with Shui Yoshida had approached the closing line.

At this time, Takeda Pharmaceutical's short-selling rate reached 95%, and the short positions were quite heavy. This means that if you need to repay the stocks you had shorted before, the shorts would need to buy more than 95% of the outstanding shares to complete the closing operation. And their large-scale closing and escape action actually became another driving force for the rise in stock prices. By 2 p.m. in New York time, Takeda Pharmaceutical's stock price had risen by more than 155%.

Kobayashi Toyoko achieved a complete victory. The price he paid was only the cost of a trans-ocean phone call and the processing fee of 3 million yen paid to the cooperative factory.

Taking advantage of the rise in the stock price, Toyoko Kobayashi even sold part of the company's shares himself. The funds he recovered were "lent" to Takeda Pharmaceutical again to repay loans from European and American banks.

"Every risk is not just danger." In the evening, Toshiko Kobayashi turned down all the banquets. He and his son made a special trip across half of Tokyo and took the tram from Chiyoda District to Nyoma District. Then they called and asked a closed ramen shop to reopen. While eating soy sauce ramen, Toshiko Kobayashi suddenly said, "If you want to manage Takeda in the future, you must have this kind of confidence - as long as you are good at yourself, you don't have to be afraid of other threats."

Knowing that the matter had been solved easily, Kobayashi Kaoru himself relaxed a lot. While eating ramen, he turned his head to look at Kobayashi Feng and said, "You didn't drink before. When Yoshida and his gang suddenly attacked, you also drank a lot of alcohol within three days."

"Yes." Kobayashi Tung sighed, and then said to Kobayashi, "Drinking alcohol to control emotions is a bad habit of me. Don't imitate me." He pointed to the ramen in front of him and said, "Do you know why I specifically want to bring you here to eat ramen?"

"Because the taste is pretty good?" Kobayashi Kaoru tried hard to guess, and he nodded to the boss behind the counter, "It's rare to eat this... traditional soy sauce ramen now."

"Delicious? Traditional? If it's really so good, I won't have to fill the gap for this store every year." Kobayashi Toyoshi squeezed a helpless laugh from his nose. He put down his chopsticks and said, "This ramen restaurant is your mother's favorite restaurant when she was still in school. At that time, she had no income, and your grandparents had to bear the life of the other three children and could not afford much money to support her. So, they could only come here to eat 100 yen per bowl of soy sauce ramen."

He looked at the decoration of the store with some nostalgia, and then said, "That year, the car I drove happened to break down nearby. The weather was very cold and it was snowing. I found this store, ate a bowl of soy sauce ramen... and then I met your mother."

"I... have always wanted to make a reconciliation with myself in the past." Kobayashi Teng picked up the soup bowl in front of him, took two sips of the soy sauce soup with MSG, and sighed. "I used to be... a businessman." He looked at his son and said seriously, "You can see that I am a very amazing businessman."

"Yes." Kobayashi Nobu nodded. Although boasting is an inappropriate move in the entire Greater Chinese cultural circle,... After achieving such a great success, even if Kobayashi Feng humbly calls himself "not worth mentioning", it sounds like he is boasting.

"But this identity makes me unable to be someone I want to be." Kobayashi Tung took a sip of the oolong tea next to him, and then said sincerely, "I can't go on vacation and play with my own ideas, and I can't even end the business talks for your mother and go back to China directly. I've been doing this for thirty years...I'm tired."

"Then what you mean..." Kobayashi Kobayashi was a little surprised, "I...I haven't been in charge of the company's confidence..."

"Then are you willing to live such a life?" Kobayashi Teng patted his son's shoulder helplessly, "I am going to introduce the experience of Western management. From now on, the company will be handed over to special management talents to operate."

Kobayashi Kaoru suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. He was kidnapped by the company and had to live like a doll in his life, so he didn't want to experience it.

"However, I will split the Greater China region of Takeda Pharmaceuticals into operation as a special independent subsidiary." Kobayashi Toshi suddenly said, "You will be responsible for this company in the future. You must remember that the most valuable investment of this company is the Comprehensive Diagnostic Center and... that Dr. Sun."
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