Prosus is Tencent's major shareholder: owns 2.36 billion Tencent shares, with a market value of US$84.7 billion.

According to news from this site on January 11, Prosus, the major shareholder of Tencent and the Dutch subsidiary of the South African Naspers Group, disclosed that it holds 2.3635 billion shares of Tencent, 257.5 million shares of Meituan, and 7960 shares of the European food delivery giant Delivery Hero. million shares, Ctrip shares are 30 million shares, etc.

As of January 10, local time, the market value of Tencent held by the company was US$84.7 billion (Note from this site: currently approximately 608.146 billion US dollars) yuan), the market value of Meituan held is US$2.4 billion (currently approximately RMB 17.232 billion), and the market value of Ctrip held is US$1.12 billion (currently approximately RMB 8.042 billion).

In 2001, Naspers acquired 46.5% of Tencent's shares for US$33 million (currently about 237 million yuan). Since then, due to factors such as additional equity issuance, the proportion has declined, but it is still Tencent's number one Major shareholder.

In 2019, Prosus was spun off from South African investment company Naspers as a holding company to hold Naspers’ international Internet assets. After the spin-off, all of Naspers’ 31% stake in Tencent Holdings was taken over by Prosus.

On November 29, 2023, Prosus disclosed that it had sold approximately 1% of Tencent shares in the first half of last year (April to September), reducing its shareholding from 26.2% to approximately 25%, and obtained 40 billion US dollars (currently approximately 28.72 billion yuan) in proceeds, and the relevant cash proceeds will be used to repurchase its own company's shares. Between October and November 24 last year, Prosus further sold approximately 26.22 million Tencent shares, with proceeds reaching US$1 billion. (Current approximately RMB 7.18 billion).

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal in July 2023, Prosus expects its proportion of Tencent shares to decrease by 2 to 3 percentage points each year, and plans to reduce it to about 24%-25% by the end of 2023.

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