Today, the A-share listed company iFlytek (002230), which is at the forefront of public opinion, has experienced its second daily limit-down in recent times. Only two trading days have passed since its previous limit-down.
Against this background, today evening iFlytek Chairman and President Liu Qingfeng announced that he plans to use 12 million yuan of self-raised funds to increase his holdings of the company's shares.
is plagued by negatives: " simultaneous interpretation fraud", "AI exchange of places"
On September 20, 2018, the simultaneous interpreters at the first branch of the "2018 International Conference on Innovation and Emerging Industry Development" spoke on "Zhihu" "The article "Iflytek, Can Your AI Simultaneous Interpretation (qi) Operation (zha) Be More Stylish" was published on the online platform because it misunderstood the transliteration function of " iFlytek Hearing " as " "Machine Simultaneous Interpretation", it was believed that iFlytek used the manuscripts translated by simultaneous interpreters to pass off as AI results.
html On September 29, iFlytek issued a clarification announcement on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, stating that (1) iFlytek did not commit fraud; (2) iFlytek did not infringe on the intellectual property rights of others; (3) iFlytek’s machines Automatic translation has been widely used; (4) iFlytek has always adopted a pragmatic attitude towards technological development.Blessings come in pairs, and misfortunes never come alone. Just after the turmoil in which its main business was questioned, iFlytek has recently fallen into the public opinion of "AI exchange of land" again.
Media reports show that on October 12, CCTV's " Oriental Time and Space " column reported that the Alligator National Nature Reserve in Xuancheng City, Anhui Province had been illegally occupied. Among them, iFlytek's Guantang training base is located in the nature reserve. Within the protected area.
According to CCTV reports, iFlytek’s Guantang training base is a training base in name, but in fact it is an external business industry. Even after the inspection by the Central Environmental Protection Inspection Team, the construction of villas and halls continued, and hotel rooms were so popular that it was hard to get a ticket.
At 23:52 on the evening of October 14, iFlytek’s official Weibo responded to this matter. It said that Guantang Science and Technology Island is an IT industry research and development center established by iFlytek's subsidiary in the Jingxian Economic Development Zone, and is not a real estate project. It did not know that the economic development zone is located in the Alligator National Nature Reserve. The construction process of the center is standardized and the approval procedures are complete. After learning that the center is located in a protected area, the operation of the center was immediately stopped.
Screenshot of iFlytek’s official Weibo (pictured by wabei.cn)
In fact, since the announcement of iFlytek’s statement, the public opinion that iFlytek “uses land to build villas in the name of AI” has not retreated. Today, It has appeared in Baidu search hotspots for a long time.
stock price fell to the limit. The chairman announced the increase in holdings of
. Affected by public opinion, iFlytek's stock hit its second limit in the near future on October 16. Only two trading days have passed since its previous limit.
The market opened this afternoon, and iFlytek's stock fell all the way down to the limit. As of the close of trading, the stock price was reported at 20.3 yuan/share, a decrease of 10%. Data shows that iFlytek's stock price at the beginning of the year was around 41 yuan per share. So far, the stock price has fallen by 48.4%, close to "cut in half."
At the same time, the trading volume of iFlytek's stock increased significantly today, with 66.84 million shares traded as of the close, an increase of more than 100% from the previous trading day.
iFlytek stock price trend chart on October 16 (pictured by wabei.cn)
Against this background, Liu Qingfeng, chairman and president of iFlytek, announced today evening that he plans to use 12 million yuan of self-raised funds to increase his holdings Company stock.
iFlytek said that the chairman's increase in holdings is based on his confidence in the company's sustained and stable development in the future and his recognition of the company's value. At the same time, in order to maintain the stability of the capital market and promote the company's sustained, stable and healthy development, and effectively safeguard the company's Taking the interests of all shareholders into consideration, we take practical actions to participate in maintaining the stability of the company's stock price.
According to reports, Liu Qingfeng plans to use no less than 12 million yuan of self-raised funds to increase his holdings of iFlytek shares. The price of the increase will be based on the actual price of the company’s shares when the increase plan was implemented on October 25, 2018. The holding method is to conduct centralized bidding transactions in the secondary market through the securities trading system of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
As of now, Mr. Liu Qingfeng holds 157 million shares of iFlytek, with a shareholding ratio of 7.53%, ranking as its second largest shareholder.
has been increased by its chairman, and there is still uncertainty about whether iFlytek can reverse its decline.