What this is
How control of The Pokémon Company splits: Nintendo has 32% of the votes, the other two founders 68% between them, so no single owner has a majority.
How it’s built
- Took Nintendo's filed 32% voting share; the remaining 68% belongs to Creatures and Game Freak.
- Split 68% evenly (34% each) as an assumption, and also tested a vendor's 32/32/32/4 split. Under either, any two owners together have a majority.
What we assumed
- Creatures and Game Freak hold 34% each.Their stakes are not on the company register; equal halves are the research's working assumption, not a filed figure.
- Nintendo's economic share equals its 32% voting share.Every Nintendo document gives only the voting figure; nothing suggests they differ, but it is untested.
- No owners' agreement changes the voting thresholds.No such agreement is in the research, so anything above a simple majority is unknown.
Sanity check
The vendor's 4% 'other' holder looks out of date: the one known outside holder, 4Kids, sold out in 2005. Today the company holds a little of its own stock, which carries no votes.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes:
- FiledNintendo's share of the voting rights in The Pokémon Company32%
- FiledStake in TPC as stated in GO notice, 22 July 2016
- ReportedShareholders, standing
- EstimateA third-party claim that Nintendo, Game Freak and Creatures each own 32% of The Pokémon Company, with 4% held by others, as of 2024~32/32/32/4 owners of TPC
- FiledIn October 2005 4Kids sold its 3% stake in The Pokémon Company to the remaining shareholders for $960,000, booking a $234,000 gain$0.96m
- FiledTreasury stock, year to February 2026−¥51m
Show the working
- Nintendo: 32%
- Founders combined: 68%
- Assumed split: 32/34/34
- Vendor split: 32/32/32/4
- Pairs % vendor: 64
- Largest single holder: 32 to 34%
- 100 − 32 = 68
- 68/2 = 34 (assumed)
- 32+34 = 66
- 34+34 = 68
- vendor 32+32 = 64
Where it’s used
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