{"id":5813,"date":"2025-01-08T11:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/?p=5813"},"modified":"2025-01-08T11:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:40:27","slug":"tencent-executes-largest-share-buyback-since-2006-amid-us-blacklist-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/tencent-executes-largest-share-buyback-since-2006-amid-us-blacklist-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Executes Largest Share Buyback Since 2006 Amid US Blacklist Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tencent Holdings Ltd., China\u2019s most valuable technology firm, conducted its biggest share repurchase in almost two decades following a sharp stock decline. The selloff occurred after Tencent was added to a US blacklist for alleged ties to the Chinese military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday alone, the company bought back 3.93 million Hong Kong-listed shares worth HK$1.5 billion ($193 million), according to Bloomberg data. It was Tencent&#8217;s largest buyback since April 2006. Even with that, the stock lost 7.3% the same day. Tencent denied the claims and said that it would work with the US Department of Defense to rectify the misunderstandings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The buyback underlined Tencent&#8217;s eagerness to firm up its share price and to assure investors. Aside from the company&#8217;s moves, Tencent shares were also snapped up by mainland Chinese investors through the Stock Connect programs, worth a total of HK$14 billion and became the most active purchased stock for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Market analysts said the move reflects Tencent&#8217;s confidence in valuation amid geopolitical risks emanating from the blacklist. &#8220;The share price response seems irrational. Tencent&#8217;s significant buyback underlines the company&#8217;s disagreement with the US decision,&#8221; said Vey-Sern Ling, managing director at Union Bancaire Priv\u00e9e. &#8220;However, heightened geopolitical risks could deter some investors.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have a news tip for Lakshmishree reporters? Please email us at <a>media@lakshmishree.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup><sub>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/world\/tencent-makes-biggest-buyback-since-2006-after-us-blacklist-12905446.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.moneycontrol.com\/news\/world\/tencent-makes-biggest-buyback-since-2006-after-us-blacklist-12905446.html\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Moneycontrol<\/a><\/sub><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tencent Holdings Ltd., China\u2019s most valuable technology firm, conducted its biggest share repurchase in almost two decades following a sharp stock decline. The selloff occurred after Tencent was added to a US blacklist for alleged ties to the Chinese military. On Tuesday alone, the company bought back 3.93 million Hong Kong-listed shares worth HK$1.5 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[891],"class_list":["post-5813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-market","tag-tencent-buyback"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5813\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakshmishree.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}