This week, SoftBank said it plans to sell its early-stage venture capital arm SoftBank Ventures Asia Corp. after losing billions on startup investing. SoftBank aims to sell majority of its stake in Alibaba, FT says.
英国《金融时报》说，软银的目标是出售其在阿里巴巴的大部分股份。
SoftBank has sold more than $7 billion in Alibaba shares this year through prepaid forward contracts, after selling $29 billion last year, according to the newspaper. The contracts give SoftBank the option to buy the shares back, but the group has settled previous deals by handing over the stock, the Financial Times reported.
据该报报道，软银在去年出售了290亿美元之后，今年已通过预付远期合约出售了超过70亿美元的阿里巴巴股票。据《金融时报》报道，这些合同使软银可以选择回购股票，但该集团已通过交出股票来结清先前的交易。
The sales will reduce the Japanese conglomerate’s ownership of Alibaba to less than 4%, the paper said, citing its analysis of regulatory filings. SoftBank once owned about a third of the company, an investment that performed spectacularly well — until it didn’t.
该报援引其对监管文件的分析称，此次出售将使这家日本企业集团对阿里巴巴的所有权减少到4％以下。软银曾经拥有该公司约三分之一的股份，这项投资的表现非常出色，直到情况并非如此。
This week, SoftBank said it plans to sell its early-stage venture capital arm SoftBank Ventures Asia Corp. after losing billions on startup investing.
软银本周表示，在创业投资损失数十亿美元后，计划出售其早期风险投资部门软银风险投资亚洲公司。
Over the past 14 months, SoftBank brought in an average of $92 a share from the forward sales of 389 million Alibaba shares, the Financial Times said. That value is much less than the company’s all-time high of $317 a share, it said.
《金融时报》称，在过去的14个月中，软银从3.89亿股阿里巴巴股票的远期销售中平均每股带来92美元的收入。它说，这一价值远低于该公司每股317美元的历史最高水平。
