Who Owns WWE?
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Ownership Chain
WWE
WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion and global sports entertainment company known for its televised programming, live events, and related consumer products.
TKO Group Holdings, Inc.
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded premium sports and entertainment company that owns and operates major combat sports and live event brands including UFC, WWE, and related properties worldwide.
Endeavor
Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company that owns and operates talent agencies, sports properties, marketing, licensing, and related media businesses.
Silver Lake
Silver Lake is a global private equity firm focused on large-scale technology and technology-enabled investments.
WWE
WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion and global sports entertainment company known for its televised programming, live events, and related consumer products.
TKO Group Holdings, Inc.
TKO Group Holdings, Inc. is a publicly traded premium sports and entertainment company that owns and operates major combat sports and live event brands including UFC, WWE, and related properties worldwide.
Endeavor
Endeavor is a global sports and entertainment company that owns and operates talent agencies, sports properties, marketing, licensing, and related media businesses.
Silver Lake
Silver Lake is a global private equity firm focused on large-scale technology and technology-enabled investments.
Major Shareholders
WWE
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. (now privately held, WME Group) Controlling corporate parent of TKO Group Holdings (the NYSE-listed parent of WWE). Endeavor initially received a 51% controlling interest in TKO when UFC and WWE were combined in September 2023, later disclosed as holding about 53.6% of TKO’s total voting power before TKO’s October 2024 all‑stock acquisition of additional sports assets from Endeavor, which was expected to raise its stake to roughly 59%. Subsequent SEC filings and June 2025 coverage of Endeavor’s purchase of 1.579 million TKO shares from Vince McMahon report that Endeavor/WME Group then owned about 61.7% of TKO’s outstanding stock, leaving it with clear majority economic and voting control of WWE’s parent company. | Corporate | 61.7% | Jun 2025 |
The Vanguard Group, Inc. (and affiliated funds) Largest public institutional shareholder in TKO. Q3 2025 institutional‑holdings data show Vanguard funds owning about 7.76 million TKO shares; using roughly 195.1 million total shares outstanding for TKO in late 2025 implies an economic stake of just under 4% of the company. | Institutional | 4.0% | Sep 2025 |
Vincent K. McMahon Co‑founder and long‑time controller of WWE, now a minority shareholder in TKO. SEC‑filing based press reports in June 2025 show McMahon selling 1.579 million TKO Class A shares (about $250 million worth) directly to Endeavor/WME Group, after which he was estimated to hold about 6.44 million TKO shares—roughly 3% of the company’s equity—down from an economic stake near 10% earlier in 2025. | Founder | 3.3% | Jun 2025 |
Morgan Stanley (including Eaton Vance investment management) Major institutional owner via its asset‑management arms. Q3 2025 13F‑based data attribute approximately 6.18 million TKO shares to Morgan Stanley–related funds; against about 195.1 million shares outstanding, this corresponds to an economic interest of roughly 3.2% of TKO. | Institutional | 3.2% | Sep 2025 |
State Street Corporation Index‑fund and ETF provider that is one of the larger outside shareholders in TKO. Q3 2025 institutional‑ownership data show State Street holding about 5.25 million TKO shares, implying an economic stake of roughly 2.7% using late‑2025 total shares outstanding. | Institutional | 2.7% | Sep 2025 |
TKO Group Holdings, Inc.
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
Endeavor Group Holdings, Inc. Controlling shareholder of TKO Group Holdings. A joint Schedule 13D filed for Endeavor and Silver Lake West entities reports ownership of 122,142,162 TKO shares, representing approximately 61.7% of the company’s outstanding equity as of June 3, 2025. Endeavor was taken private by Silver Lake in March 2025, making Silver Lake the ultimate controlling owner of this stake.
Sources: SEC Schedule 13D/13G history for TKO; Endeavor–Silver Lake go‑private announcement in March 2025. | Corporate | 61.7% | Jun 2025 |
The Vanguard Group, Inc. Large index and mutual fund manager and the biggest public‑float institutional holder. A Schedule 13G filed April 30, 2025 reports Vanguard beneficially owning 7,976,904 TKO shares, or about 9.78% of the class as of March 31, 2025. MarketScreener’s late‑2025 shareholder table shows a very similar stake (~9.8%). | Institutional | 9.8% | Mar 2025 |
Vincent K. McMahon Company founder and former executive chairman. A Schedule 13G/A filed June 30, 2025 discloses that McMahon beneficially owns 6,442,325 TKO Class A shares, representing approximately 7.88% of that class. News coverage of his June 2025 secondary sale to Endeavor notes that this stake reflects substantial divestments since the TKO merger but still makes him one of the largest individual shareholders. | Founder | 7.9% | Jun 2025 |
Eaton Vance Management Asset‑management firm (part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management). MarketScreener’s TKO shareholder breakdown, updated around December 18, 2025, lists Eaton Vance Management holding approximately 6,178,087 TKO shares, or about 7.828% of the company, making it one of the largest institutional owners outside Endeavor and Vanguard. | Institutional | 7.8% | Dec 2025 |
State Street Corporation Global custodian bank and asset manager. A Schedule 13G filed May 13, 2025 reports that State Street beneficially owns 5,031,515 TKO shares, or about 6.2% of the class as of March 31, 2025. MarketScreener’s year‑end 2025 data shows a similar but slightly higher figure (~6.65%), confirming State Street as a top‑five institutional holder. | Institutional | 6.2% | Mar 2025 |
Endeavor
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | Voting | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Silver Lake Lead private equity sponsor that took Endeavor private in a roughly $25 billion transaction completed on March 24, 2025; after closing it controls about 87% of Endeavor’s voting securities and is listed as the company’s parent. | Institutional | — | 87.0% | Mar 2025 |
Mubadala Investment Company Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund; identified as an anchor equity co‑investor alongside Silver Lake in the Endeavor take‑private, holding an undisclosed minority stake through the Silver Lake–led consortium. | Government | — | — | Mar 2025 |
CPP Investments (Canada Pension Plan Investment Board) Canadian public pension fund; disclosed as a significant equity co‑investor in Silver Lake’s acquisition vehicle for Endeavor, implying a minority beneficial ownership interest in the now‑private company. | Government | — | — | Mar 2025 |
DFO Management (Dell family office) Investment firm associated with Michael Dell’s family office; named as a co‑investor providing equity capital for the Silver Lake–led buyout of Endeavor, with the size of its minority stake not publicly disclosed. | Family | — | — | Mar 2025 |
Ari Emanuel Co‑founder and longtime chief executive of Endeavor; rolled part of his existing equity into the private company as part of the Silver Lake transaction and remains a meaningful minority owner, though his exact percentage is undisclosed. | Founder | — | — | Mar 2025 |
Silver Lake
Major Shareholders
| Name | Type | Ownership | Voting | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Senior management members of Silver Lake Technology Management, L.L.C. Silver Lake’s latest Form ADV (as summarized by third-party filings data) states that the adviser is indirectly owned by its senior management members together with minority stakes held by Dyal Capital Partners Fund III and subsidiaries of Mubadala Investment Company, implying that partner-level senior management collectively holds a substantial majority of the equity and essentially all voting control, though exact percentages are not publicly disclosed. Public reports also indicate that earlier outside stakes held by CalPERS were sold down prior to the later GP‑stakes transactions, and CalPERS no longer appears as an owner in recent regulatory disclosures. | Other | — | — | Mar 2025 |
Mubadala Investment Company (via subsidiaries) Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Company acquired a 5% equity stake in Silver Lake in 2020 for about $2 billion, purchasing the interest from Dyal Capital Partners and becoming a long‑term strategic minority owner alongside its $2 billion commitment to a 25‑year investment partnership with the firm. Subsequent Form ADV disclosures continue to list subsidiaries of Mubadala as indirect owners, with no public indication that this stake has been reduced. | Government | 5.0% | — | Sep 2020 |
Dyal Capital Partners Fund III (Neuberger Berman) Dyal Capital Partners, a GP‑stakes business within Neuberger Berman, acquired a passive, non‑voting equity interest of less than 10% in Silver Lake in 2016. In 2020, Mubadala bought roughly half of Dyal’s stake, leaving Dyal with about half of its original investment (commonly inferred to be on the order of ~5% of Silver Lake’s equity), though the precise remaining percentage has not been publicly disclosed. Recent Form ADV summaries still list Dyal Capital Partners Fund III as an indirect minority owner, and its interest remains described as passive and non‑voting. | Institutional | — | 0.0% | Sep 2020 |
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