Tencent was sold out by 1.12 million shares by major shareholders, and the shareholding ratio dropped to 27.99%.

According to the Red Star Capital Bureau, on September 8th, PROSUS, a subsidiary of Tencent Holdings (00700.HK )'s largest shareholder NASEERS (South Africa Newspaper Group), issued an announcement saying that in order to cooperate with the continuous implementation of the company's repurchase plan, it sold 1.15 million Tencent ordinary. The shareholding ratio of shares dropped to 27.99%.

According to the latest documents in September, NASPERS and its Internet investment company PROSUS has reduced its holdings over 3.9 million shares in the first half of the year.

It is understood that Naspers ranks the largest shareholder of Tencent through the Holding PROSUS subsidiary Mih TC Holdings Limited. As early as 2001, Naspers's subsidiary South Africa NIH purchased Tencent's 46.5%equity, the price was only $ 32 million. In the past 20 years, Tencent's stock price has risen from HK $ 3.7/share listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2004 to the current over 300 Hong Kong dollars/share.

PROSUS said that as part of the repurchase plan, the company has taken administrative measures to deposit the additional 192 million shares of Tencent's shares in the form of a Hong Kong central settlement and settlement system in the form of vouchers. HK $ 100 million.

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The Red Star Capital Bureau has noticed that this is the second time that this is the second time that PROSUS reduces the holdings of Tencent.

On June 27 this year, Tencent Holdings announced that the company's main shareholder Naspers Group will sell the company's shares to raise the funds required by its repurchase plan. It is expected that the average daily transaction volume of the company's shares is expected to be sold every day. %-5%. After the news was announced, Tencent's stock price dived in the afternoon of the day, and followed the "overcast", which once fell below 300 Hong Kong dollars/share.

In addition, PROSUS also reduced its holdings on April 7, 2021, with a scale of 190 million shares, which is equivalent to 2%of Tencent's issued share capital, cash more than 100 billion yuan.

It is worth noting that on the day of being reduced, Tencent issued an announcement that the company repurchased 1.16 million shares on September 8, with the repurchase price of HK $ 300.2-309, costing about HK $ 352 million.

Since June 27 this year, Tencent's South African shareholder Naspers and its PROSUS announced that it has reduced its holdings of Tencent, Tencent has invested approximately HK $ 8.881 billion to repurchase 26.99 million shares. If it is included in the repurchase of January, Tencent has repurchased a total of approximately HK $ 15.276 billion this year.

In the first half of 2022, Tencent's total revenue was 269.5 billion yuan, a year -on -year decrease of 1%; the company's equity holders should account for 42.032 billion yuan, a year -on -year decrease of 53%; according to non -international financial reporting standards, the company's equity holders should account for profitability. It was 53.7 billion yuan, a year -on -year decrease of 20%.

Red Star News reporter Xie Yutong

Edit Yu Dongmei Wang He

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