Gus Fring net worth? (Breaking Bad spoilers)

MistorToker

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anybody want to weigh in on the below post i made on the breaking bad subreddit. any ideas on this fuckers nw

My thinking is that he was worth $800mm+ at the least, probably even worth over 1 billion.

He was supposed to have netted $96 million from 3 months worth of Walt's cooking at a 99% purity, on gross revenues of $300 million for those 3 months (run rate of $3 million a day). Before Gus started working with Walt, Gale was the primary manufacturer and could manage a 96% pure product. Let's say Gale's product used to sell for 75% the price of Walt's. That's still roughly a $900mm gross for the previous year, and a net of about $295mm for Fring. Assuming he worked with Gale for only 5-7 years before meeting Walt, he had easily made over 1 billion lifetime from his meth operation.

Now let's also consider Los Pollos Hermanos, Fring's fast food chain that had been active for 20-25 years. LPH has 14 locations in the southwest. Make a quite conservative assumption that each restaurant does about 800k a year in revenue. 800k x 14 = 11.2mm/year in revenue. Let's apply a 2x multiple to yearly gross and say the LPH business is worth $20-$25mm. Madrigal has a controlling stake in LPH, but Fring as a co-founder of the chain should still have about 20-30% equity. 0.3 x 25mm = $7.5mm worth of Madrigal shares. Not bad for a restaurant chain that doubles as a meth distribution network.

Fring worth anywhere from $1-2 billion usd. For some perspective, that would mean if Fring existed in real life, he would probably have a drug empire as big as Joaquin Guzman, leader of the Sinaloa cartel and the most-wanted criminal in the world.

Compare this to Walter White who has a cash pile of $100mm (at the most) in the storage unit at the end of S5. Walt has made jack shit in comparison.

I would love to see a movie or show on Fring's backstory, how he built his meth empire and restaurant chain in tandem from the 1980s onward.
 


I would love to see a movie or show on Fring's backstory, how he built his meth empire and restaurant chain in tandem from the 1980s onward.

i can't wait for the documentary to get released on how jack managed to score that sweet pad with janet & chrissy despite all the meddlings of that crazy curmudgeon mr roper.
 
A documentary... on a fictional character on a TV show...

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Carry on...​
 
Your assumption a purity decrease of 3% causing a 25% decrease in market price is incorrect. The average addict or even dealer does not care about such minute differences, the 3% difference would only matter for bulk sales to distributors who would want to know the purity to know how much they can cut the product. Fring's operation appears to deal directly to customers, in which case, the purity is unimportant. The customers know that the product is much better than the rest of the product on the street and that is all that matters. The customer is not going to take his or her's meth to a lab and test how pure it is. At worst, Gale's product would not sell for 25% less than White's, assuming that much of a discount due to such a small detail is absurd.
 
Your assumption a purity decrease of 3% causing a 25% decrease in market price is incorrect. The average addict or even dealer does not care about such minute differences, the 3% difference would only matter for bulk sales to distributors who would want to know the purity to know how much they can cut the product. Fring's operation appears to deal directly to customers, in which case, the purity is unimportant. The customers know that the product is much better than the rest of the product on the street and that is all that matters. The customer is not going to take his or her's meth to a lab and test how pure it is. At worst, Gale's product would not sell for 25% less than White's, assuming that much of a discount due to such a small detail is absurd.

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OH FUCK IT I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE I'VE GOTTA SHARE MY REBUTTAL VIEWS REGARDING A MINOR CHARACTER IN BREAKING BAD.
 
Your assumption a purity decrease of 3% causing a 25% decrease in market price is incorrect. The average addict or even dealer does not care about such minute differences, the 3% difference would only matter for bulk sales to distributors who would want to know the purity to know how much they can cut the product. Fring's operation appears to deal directly to customers, in which case, the purity is unimportant. The customers know that the product is much better than the rest of the product on the street and that is all that matters. The customer is not going to take his or her's meth to a lab and test how pure it is. At worst, Gale's product would not sell for 25% less than White's, assuming that much of a discount due to such a small detail is absurd.

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