diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
index c2c39edc370b45..bfa6197e58eb35 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/api/ReactAndroid.api
@@ -8279,6 +8279,7 @@ public class com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup : android/view/ViewGro
 	public fun getZIndexMappedChildIndex (I)I
 	public fun hasOverlappingRendering ()Z
 	protected fun onAttachedToWindow ()V
+	public fun onHoverEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	public fun onInterceptTouchEvent (Landroid/view/MotionEvent;)Z
 	protected fun onLayout (ZIIII)V
 	protected fun onMeasure (II)V
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/JSPointerDispatcher.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/JSPointerDispatcher.java
index ef22bd280dd96c..4215eb51b51324 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/JSPointerDispatcher.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/uimanager/JSPointerDispatcher.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ public class JSPointerDispatcher {
   private static final int UNSELECTED_VIEW_TAG = -1;
   private static final int UNSET_POINTER_ID = -1;
   private static final float ONMOVE_EPSILON = 0.1f;
-  private static final String TAG = "POINTER EVENTS";
+  private static final String TAG = "PointerEvents";
 
   private Map<Integer, List<ViewTarget>> mLastHitPathByPointerId;
   private Map<Integer, float[]> mLastEventCoordinatesByPointerId;
diff --git a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
index 5ec379de2d9004..57b1d8eeeae9b2 100644
--- a/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
+++ b/packages/react-native/ReactAndroid/src/main/java/com/facebook/react/views/view/ReactViewGroup.java
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
 import com.facebook.react.bridge.UiThreadUtil;
 import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.UnstableReactNativeAPI;
 import com.facebook.react.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import com.facebook.react.config.ReactFeatureFlags;
 import com.facebook.react.internal.featureflags.ReactNativeFeatureFlags;
 import com.facebook.react.modules.i18nmanager.I18nUtil;
 import com.facebook.react.touch.OnInterceptTouchEventListener;
@@ -309,6 +310,15 @@ public boolean onTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
     return true;
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public boolean onHoverEvent(MotionEvent event) {
+    if (ReactFeatureFlags.dispatchPointerEvents) {
+      // Match the logic from onTouchEvent if pointer events are enabled
+      return PointerEvents.canBeTouchTarget(mPointerEvents);
+    }
+    return super.onHoverEvent(event);
+  }
+
   @Override
   public boolean dispatchGenericMotionEvent(MotionEvent ev) {
     // We do not dispatch the motion event if its children are not supposed to receive it