By Loni Prinsloo
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Naspers will retain a 73% majority stake in the new company, known as Prosus NV, which will also have investments in internet firms from Germany and the US to India and Brazil. The move is intended to ease the company’s dominance of Johannesburg’s stock exchange and close a valuation gap between the Tencent stake and Naspers as a whole, which is worth $98bn.
“This listing won’t fix everything,” Chief Financial Officer Basil Sgourdos said at the investor meeting, in reference to the discount. “We have a lot more work to do.”
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Naspers shares declined 0.9% to R3,399.25 as of 2:38pm in Johannesburg. Shareholders were expected to support the listing, analysts said earlier this week.
