According to the annual report of JD.COM Group on 20 18, as of February 28th, 20 19, the shareholding structure of JD.COM COM was Tencent 17.8%, and it became the largest shareholder with 4.5% voting rights. Liu holds 65,438+05.4% of the shares and is the second largest shareholder with 79% of the voting rights. Wal-Mart holds 9.9% of the shares, making it the third largest shareholder with a voting right of 6. 1%.
As Ma Yun's opponent, Ma, the founder of Tencent, has been looking for very promising e-commerce cooperation, which makes Ma Yun's Alibaba Tmall and Taobao unable to develop unscrupulously.
So Ma took a fancy to Liu, who thought it was the most promising e-commerce company. So Tencent's horse began to invest in Liu, and obtained 15% of the shares and became a shareholder of Liu. With the support of Ma, JD Liu. COM's performance began to soar.
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Although Tencent's shareholding is the largest shareholder, its voting rights are not high, so this increase will not affect Liu's actual control. "The document was submitted by Tencent in accordance with the requirements of the SEC, and the stock was also bought from the open market. This is just an investment, and it has no impact on JD.COM Mall, "said the insider. Due to the special shareholding system, Liu still holds the actual control right.
Liu once said when recording the dialogue column of CCTV, "If I can't control this enterprise, I'd rather sell it." This is considered by the outside world to be a direct manifestation of its strong style. So, how much control does Liu have? There is no official statement in JD.COM, but some clues can be found from previous reports.
According to IPO data, Liu holds 65,438+08.4% of the common stock through MaxSmartLimited, a company located in the British Virgin Islands. At the same time,
FortuneRisingHoldingsLimited holds 5.3% of the shares with Wei Liu as the sole shareholder, which means that Liu himself holds at least 23.7% of the shares. Through the difference of voting rights of A/B shares, the voting rights of senior executives in Liu and Hong Kong are about 86%, so as to maintain the control position and the continuity of strategic operation.
According to the documents submitted to the SEC, as of February 29th, 20 16, the group CEO Liu directly held 449,444,989 shares through MaxSmartLimited, accounting for 16.2%. Among them, MaxSmartLimited holds 7 1.5% of the voting rights;
Fuxing Holdings Limited holds 2% of Liu's shares and about 9.3% of the voting rights. This gives Liu 80.9% of the voting rights. At that time, Tencent held 498,850,435 shares in JD.COM, accounting for 65,438+08%, but only 4.2% of the voting rights.
That is to say, if JD's voting rights. COM's A/B shares remain unchanged, even if Tencent's share in the shares rises to 265,438+0.25%, surpassing Liu's, it will have little impact on voting rights.
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