(Bloomberg) -- Internet investing firm Prosus NV has sold its entire stake in online travel agency Trip.com in a $743 million block trade, according to people familiar with the matter, becoming the latest international investor to exit a Chinese tech company.

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Prosus sold 14.5 million shares in Trip.com at $51.40 each in a block trade launched on Tuesday night in the US, terms of the deal showed. Prosus had been gradually selling shares over the summer, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information isn’t public.

A representative for Prosus confirmed the sale and said it reflects the company’s “active approach to portfolio management.” Trip.com didn’t immediately respond to a request seeking comment.

The exit comes about a month after Walmart Inc. unwound its eight-year partnership with Chinese e-commerce company JD.com Inc., selling its entire holding for $3.6 billion. The country’s stock market has been hit by deflationary pressures, an entrenched real estate crisis and international investors’ loss of confidence in Beijing. Chinese and Hong Kong stocks rallied on Tuesday after a wide-ranging stimulus package from China to revive growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

Prosus and affiliate Naspers Ltd. have also been selling down their stake in Chinese games giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. Naspers, which began more than a century ago as a South African newspaper business, invested $34 million for nearly half of Tencent in 2001, in what became one of the most successful investments ever.

--With assistance from Loni Prinsloo.

(Update with Prosus comment in third paragraph)

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