Tencent’s common stock trades on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under ticker 0700.
Tencent Holdings is a Chinese technology and entertainment company headquartered in Shenzhen. Its businesses include WeChat, QQ, online games, digital payments, cloud services, advertising, and media investments. The breadth of these businesses has helped make Tencent one of Asia’s most valuable publicly traded companies by market capitalization.
Tencent was founded in 1998 by Ma Huateng, Zhang Zhidong, Xu Cheney, Chen Yidan, and Zeng Liqing. Its early success came from QQ, an instant-messaging service that became widely used in China. WeChat later developed into a broad mobile platform combining messaging, payments, commerce, and other services.
The ticker 0700 is often written as 700 in financial databases. It is not the same as an American depositary receipt symbol, and Tencent’s listing is not on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s official English name is Tencent Holdings Limited.