How Investors Are Reacting To Tencent Holdings (SEHK:700) Esports Record And MiniMax AI IPO Plans

• Tencent recently co-hosted the KPL 2025 Grand Finals in Beijing’s National Stadium with Hero Esports, setting a Guinness World Record for single-event esports attendance with 62,196 fans, while another Tencent-backed company, AI start-up MiniMax, has moved ahead with plans to use its proposed Hong Kong IPO proceeds to fund research and development.
• Together, these developments highlight Tencent’s broad reach across competitive AI and mobile gaming, reinforcing its influence in both global technology investment and esports ecosystems.
• We’ll now examine how Tencent’s record-breaking esports event, alongside heightened visibility from MiniMax’s planned AI IPO, might reshape its investment narrative.

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Tencent Holdings Investment Narrative Recap

Tencent’s investment case still rests on its ability to turn its vast user base and ecosystems in games, social, and fintech into durable cash generation, while scaling AI profitably. The record-breaking KPL 2025 Grand Finals and MiniMax’s planned Hong Kong IPO slightly reinforce Tencent’s visibility in esports and AI, but do not materially change near term catalysts or the key risk of heavier AI spending squeezing margins if monetization lags.

Against this backdrop, Tencent’s sizable ongoing buyback program, with authorization to repurchase up to 918,901,866 shares, looks especially relevant. For many shareholders, consistent repurchases and the HK$4.50 per share 2024 final cash dividend are becoming important near term supports for the investment case as Tencent balances capital returns with funding AI, gaming, and cloud initiatives.

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Tencent Holdings' narrative projects CN¥949.8 billion revenue and CN¥300.0 billion earnings by 2028. This requires 10.5% yearly revenue growth and about a CN¥92.0 billion earnings increase from CN¥208.0 billion today.

Uncover how Tencent Holdings' forecasts yield a HK$742.75 fair value, a 21% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

Twelve members of the Simply Wall St Community currently see Tencent’s fair value between HK$508.40 and HK$887.62, with views spread across that full range. When you compare this dispersion with the risk that rising AI related CapEx could pressure margins if new AI products scale more slowly than hoped, it underlines why many investors are seeking out multiple viewpoints on Tencent’s long term earnings power.

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