Tencent Holdings trades under ticker 0700 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The four-digit code is the company’s primary Hong Kong listing identifier.
Tencent was founded in 1998 by Ma Huateng and several co-founders. Its early success came from QQ, an instant-messaging service, and it later built major businesses in online games, social networking, digital payments, cloud computing, and entertainment.
WeChat, known in China as Weixin, became one of Tencent’s most important products. Tencent also owns or invests in game studios and has held stakes in businesses around the global technology and entertainment industries.
The code 0700 is easily confused with Tencent’s U.S. over-the-counter symbol, TCEHY. Those symbols refer to different trading venues and should not be treated as interchangeable exchange listings. Market capitalization calculations also depend on the listing, currency, and share count used.