{"id":84787,"date":"2015-04-13T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=84787"},"modified":"2015-04-13T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T08:22:51","slug":"naspers-eyes-trillion-rand-market-cap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/84787\/naspers-eyes-trillion-rand-market-cap\/","title":{"rendered":"Naspers eyes trillion rand market cap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Media and internet company Naspers broke through R2,000 a share in\u00a0 morning trade on Monday (13 April), boosted by continued growth in Tencent.<\/p>\n<p>By 10h00 am shares in Naspers traded R75, or nearly 4% higher, at R2020,00, giving the group a market cap exceeding R850 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Naspers sits behind only British American Tovbacco, and SAB Miller as the largest companies on the JSE. Both BAT (R1.2 trillion) and SAB Miller&#8217;s\u00a0(R1.04 trillion) market cap exceed a trillion rand.<\/p>\n<p>Naspers\u2019 growth has been closely aligned to Tencent, a Chinese media and entertainment company in which it owns 34%.<\/p>\n<p>Tencent&#8217;s share price has outgrown it&#8217;s rivals\u00a0Alibaba and search portal Baidu in China in the first quarter. The group reported better than anticipated results in 2014 and has seen its stock jump more than 30% in 2015, to $21.05 on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.<\/p>\n<p>In November, Naspers reported a 20% rise in profit for the six months ended September 2014, to R34.4 billion. The group noted that 72% of it&#8217;s revenues were earned offshore.<\/p>\n<p>Naspers&#8217; local assets include MultiChoice, SuperSport, DStv, OLX, and Media24, while globally, its assets include Russian website Mail.Ru, and ndia based e-commerce company Flipkart.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84793\" style=\"width: 609px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Naspers-market-data.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84793\" class=\" wp-image-84793\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Naspers-market-data.png\" alt=\"Naspers market data\" width=\"599\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Naspers market data (Bloomberg)<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Naspers<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers revenue soars on Tencent\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/74352\/naspers-revenue-soars-on-tencent\/\"><strong>Naspers revenue soars on Tencent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Naspers wants R3.4 billion for Swiss online retailer\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/74268\/naspers-wants-r3-4-billion-for-swiss-online-retailer\/\"><strong>Naspers wants R3.4 billion for Swiss online retailer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"ANC doesn\u2019t like free press: Naspers\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/72566\/anc-doesnt-like-free-press-naspers\/\"><strong>ANC doesn\u2019t like free press: Naspers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media and internet company Naspers broke through R2,000 a share in  morning trade on Monday, boosted by continued growth in Tencent of which it own 34%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":15768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[5861,26,107,4914,1977],"class_list":["post-84787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-british-american-tobacco","tag-headline","tag-naspers","tag-sab-miller","tag-tencent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84803,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84787\/revisions\/84803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}