Саудын Арабын ханхүү Аль-Валид бин Талал Аль Сауд цахилгаан автомашин үйлдвэрлэгч Lucid Motors компанийн 5 хувийн хувьцааг эзэмших болсноор тус улсын оролцоог нэмэгдүүллээ.
АНУ-ын Үнэт цаас, биржийн хороонд ирүүлсэн мэдээллээс үзэхэд ханхүү 19 сая гаруй хувьцааг худалдан авсан байна. Тэрээр Lucid компанийн зах зээлийн үнэлгээ 2 тэрбум ам.доллароос доош буусан үед уг хөрөнгө оруулалтыг хийснээ өөрийн цахим хуудсаараа дамжуулан мэдэгджээ. Энэхүү худалдан авалт нь тус компанийг дампуурч болзошгүй гэсэн таамаглал бүхий мэдээлэл цацагдсаны дараа хийгдсэн бөгөөд Lucid Motors уг мэдээллийг эрс үгүйсгэсэн юм.
Компанийн шинэ гүйцэтгэх захирал Силвио Наполи үйл ажиллагааг хялбарчлах хүрээнд зургадугаар сард ажилтнуудынхаа 18 хувийг цомхотгосон томоохон бүтцийн өөрчлөлтийг эхлүүлээд байна. Lucid Motors нь 2018 оноос хойш Саудын Арабын төрийн өмчит хөрөнгө оруулалтын сан болох Public Investment Fund-ийн (PIF) дэмжлэгтэйгээр үйл ажиллагаагаа явуулж ирсэн бөгөөд 2021 онд олон нийтийн зах зээлд гарснаас хойш тус сан компанийн 60 орчим хувийг эзэмшиж байгаа юм.
Ханхүү Аль-Валид бин Талал нь өмнө нь Twitter компанийн томоохон хувьцаа эзэмшигч байсан бөгөөд одоо Snap болон Deezer зэрэг технологийн компаниудад хөрөнгө оруулалт хийсэн туршлагатай хөрөнгө оруулагч юм. Lucid Motors-ийн зүгээс ханхүүгийн энэхүү хөрөнгө оруулалтыг компанийн ирээдүйд итгэл үзүүлсэн үйлдэл хэмээн үнэлж байгаагаа илэрхийлжээ.
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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, a member of the Saudi royal family, has purchased a 5% stake in Lucid Motors, increasing the Kingdom’s overall ownership of the electric vehicle company.
A new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission published Tuesday shows that the billionaire prince recently purchased a little more than 19 million shares. In a post on X, he wrote that his investment office made the purchase when Lucid’s market cap was below $2 billion.
That happened on July 14, when an electric vehicle blog published a report claiming that Lucid was considering either filing for bankruptcy protection or being taken private by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund. Lucid strenuously denied the reports, and the company’s stock price has since rebounded.
“We don’t comment on individual investments, but we are awareand appreciate the independent vote of confidence,” Lucid Motors’ Chief Communications Officer Nick Twork said in a statement to TechCrunch.
The share purchase comes in the middle of a major restructuring effort kicked off by Lucid’s newly-appointed CEO, Silvio Napoli, who cut 18% of the workforce in June in an effort to “simplify the company.” That followed a similarly large layoff earlier this year before Napoli took over.
Lucid Motors has been majority-owned by the wealth fund — known as the Public Investment Fund, or PIF — since its initial investment in 2018. That investment came after Saudi Arabia considered, but ultimately abandoned, plans to take Tesla private. The PIF has owned roughly 60% of Lucid Motors since the EV maker merged with a special purpose acquisition company in 2021, a transaction that brought it to public markets and raised $4 billion.
The Saudis have remained a major source of financial support for Lucid Motors since it went public, buying up shares and lending billions of dollars as the company has struggled to reach a mass market of EV buyers in the U.S. and abroad.
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has a history with investing in U.S. tech. Through his holding company, he was a major shareholder of Twitter when it was still public. In 2022, he initially balked at Elon Musk’s attempt to buy the social media company. But he quickly reversed course and cozied up to Musk, and became the second-largest shareholder of Twitter after Musk took it private. (It’s unclear whether he has retained that stake through the company’s evolution into X and its subsequent merger with xAI, and now into SpaceX.)
He also owns stakes in Snap and Deezer and is often referred to as the “Arabian Warren Buffet,” according to his website.
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