Detailed breakdown of WWE Ownership

Lithium93_

Found this on Whatculture WWE [Original work by Brandon Howard of Voices of Wrestling], shows who exactly has control of the WWE, as of May 2016, with Vince owning exactly 48.09% of the company, and the rest broken down between various other people in the company.

Guess Vince doesn't completely fully own his own company.

https://twitter.com/adecorativedrop/status/733351849554743296

DM_7

Vince has pretty much all the voting rights though.

PTH2009

Lithium93_ wrote: »

Found this on Whatculture WWE, shows who exactly has control of the WWE, as of May 2016, with Vince owning exactly 48.09% of the company, and the rest broken down between various other people in the company.

Guess Vince doesn't completely fully own his own company.

when vince kicks the bucket will his share go to Shane and Steph or his all his grankids ??

Lithium93_

PTH2009 wrote: »

when vince kicks the bucket will his share go to Shane and Steph or his all his grankids ??

Would imagine Vince's shares would be split evenly.

KingJamsie

DM_7 wrote: »

Vince has pretty much all the voting rights though.

Add Vince with shared by Vince & Linda & you have your >50% to control

PTH2009

how much would 0.01% of the company cost roughly ???

sky88

always thought shane and steph would have owned more shares

Mr.Nice Guy

I didn't realise Kevin Dunn owned shares in the company.

Lithium93_

Mr.Nice Guy wrote: »

I didn't realise Kevin Dunn owned shares in the company.

I find it weird that Kevin Dunn has more shares in the company than Triple H.. But that's just me..

sky88

Lithium93_ wrote: »

I find it weird that Kevin Dunn has more shares in the company than Triple H.. But that's just me..

Executive longer then trips would be my guess as to why

Itssoeasy

sky88 wrote: »

Executive longer then trips would be my guess as to why

It's amazing what his dad saving tapes would inflict on us all these years later. Longer being one of vince's yes men is profitable it seems.

I knew kevin dunn had some shares as jim cornette said he did.

jaykhunter

Mod edit: Updated the original post with proper accreditation

Worth noting Stephanie sold a ton of stock to buy her new house a few years ago. Interesting that Dunn has much more stock than Triple H, and that when Dunn is removed from WWE TV production, he'll still have a large slice of the pie.

Mick Murdock

Also the CFO has more stock than Kevin Dunn. I thought he was a relatively new addition?

sky88

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It's amazing what his dad saving tapes would inflict on us all these years later. Longer being one of vince's yes men is profitable it seems.

I knew kevin dunn had some shares as jim cornette said he did.

Wait is that how he got his job??

briany

Some of those names sound like faceless corporate entities, the kind of people who are only interested in a return on their investment. Wonder if that's a mindset that encourages risk-taking.

DM_7

http://www.voicesofwrestling.com/2016/05/19/a-beginners-guide-to-wwe-business/

Until the company went public, Vince McMahon was the 100% owner. Today he solely owns about 46%. However, almost all the shares owned by Vince, Linda, Stephanie and Shane (class B family stock) hold ten times the voting power of the rest of the shares (class A common stock), so Vince is still firmly in control of his company.

The prospectus in 1999 stated that:

The holders of Class A common stock have voting rights identical to holders of Class B common stock, except that holders of Class A common stock are entitled to one vote per share and holders of Class B common stock are entitled to ten votes per share.

http://www.wrestlinginc.com/wi/news/2016/0517/611815/vince-mcmahon-sells-nearly-40-million-of-wwe-stock-for-estate/

Mr. McMahon beneficially owns 37,080,747 shares of the Company's Class B common stock, which represents approximately 86% of the Company's total voting power and approximately 48.8% of the Company's total outstanding shares of common stock.

the groutch

PTH2009 wrote: »

how much would 0.01% of the company cost roughly ???

approx €135,000

that puts Hunter's shares at about a million, and Dunn's about 2.5m.

rossie1977

Just to add to dm's post. The stock the McMahon family own is class b whereas all the other stock is class a

When a McMahon sells some stock it automatically converts to class a thus 1/10th the value or voting power it previously held

Vince could sell all but 7 million shares (meaning he owned less than 10%) but would still hold more voting power than all the other shareholders combined