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CX Daily: Chinese Battery Makers Gird For Price War In Competition To Supply EV Producers

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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>We summarize the Aug 2023 price discounts at dealers for major automakers in this report.</li><li>Note that such discounts for each automaker are calculated based on weighted average of Jul 2023 retail sales volume for each model, as Aug retail sales volume data have not been released yet.</li><li>Discounts at dealers for most brands widened mildly MoM in Aug 2023, as the price war persists with more and more competitive product rollouts and raw-material price decline.</li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

We summarize the Aug 2023 price discounts at dealers for major automakers in this report.Note that such discounts for each automaker are calculated based on weighted average of Jul 2023 retail sales volume for each model, as Aug retail sales volume data have not been released yet.Discounts at dealers for most brands widened mildly MoM in Aug 2023, as the price war persists with more and more competitive product rollouts and raw-material price decline.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – Aug discounts widened slightly MoM

<ul><li>Eleven Chinese automakers including BYD, Great Wall Motor, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Zeekr, Aion, Deepal, Aito, Neta and Leap reported their Aug 2023 sales volumes on 1 Sep 2023.</li><li>Sales volume of the 11 automakers combined rose 68% YoY (ranged from -50% to +1,218%) and 5% MoM (ranged from -9% to +24%) in Aug 2023.</li><li>NEV trio largely in line. Li Auto’s recorded a sales volume of almost 35,000 units in Aug 2023, with all three models surpassing 10,000 units. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Eleven Chinese automakers including BYD, Great Wall Motor, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Zeekr, Aion, Deepal, Aito, Neta and Leap reported their Aug 2023 sales volumes on 1 Sep 2023.Sales volume of the 11 automakers combined rose 68% YoY (ranged from -50% to +1,218%) and 5% MoM (ranged from -9% to +24%) in Aug 2023.NEV trio largely in line. Li Auto’s recorded a sales volume of almost 35,000 units in Aug 2023, with all three models surpassing 10,000 units. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – In-line Aug NEV retail sales volume

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<ul><li>Maintain HOLD. BYD’s 2Q23 net profit beat our prior forecast on GPM, forex gains and government grants.</li><li>We view its earnings quality as solid given its accounting policies.</li><li>We believe going upmarket could be key to its sales growth and margins, although it appears that sales volume for BYD’s three premium brands may not be large enough to help BYD outperform the NEV market in 2024. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Maintain HOLD. BYD’s 2Q23 net profit beat our prior forecast on GPM, forex gains and government grants.We view its earnings quality as solid given its accounting policies.We believe going upmarket could be key to its sales growth and margins, although it appears that sales volume for BYD’s three premium brands may not be large enough to help BYD outperform the NEV market in 2024. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

BYD Company (1211 HK) – Solid 2Q23 Earnings Quality; Eyes on Upmarket

<ul><li>China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 0.4% YoY and 10% MoM in Jul 2023 amid high base, 2% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>YTD retail sales volume rose 4% YoY. Wholesale volume fell 3% YoY and 7% MoM to 2.10mn units in Jul 2023, the second highest Jul in history, and 2% higher than our prior forecast.</li><li>Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +0.84mn units YoY) YTD, aided by 78% YoY growth (or +0.92mn units YoY) of exports. </li></ul>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 0.4% YoY and 10% MoM in Jul 2023 amid high base, 2% higher than our prior forecast.YTD retail sales volume rose 4% YoY. Wholesale volume fell 3% YoY and 7% MoM to 2.10mn units in Jul 2023, the second highest Jul in history, and 2% higher than our prior forecast.Wholesale volume rose 7% YoY (or +0.84mn units YoY) YTD, aided by 78% YoY growth (or +0.92mn units YoY) of exports. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

China Auto Sector – 2H23 Auto Sales Could Beat Amid Resilient Jul, Aug

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BYD Company Limited manufactures automotive products. The Company produces ordinary passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and other products. BYD also operates battery making, rail transportation construction, and other businesses.

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China Auto Sector – Aug discounts widened slightly MoM

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CMB International

China Auto Sector – In-line Aug NEV retail sales volume

Eleven Chinese automakers including BYD, Great Wall Motor, NIO, Xpeng, Li Auto, Zeekr, Aion, Deepal, Aito, Neta and Leap reported their Aug 2023...

CMB International

BYD Company (1211 HK) – Solid 2Q23 Earnings Quality; Eyes on Upmarket

Maintain HOLD. BYD’s 2Q23 net profit beat our prior forecast on GPM, forex gains and government grants. We view its earnings quality as solid given...

CMB International

China Auto Sector – 2H23 Auto Sales Could Beat Amid Resilient Jul, Aug

China’s passenger-vehicle (PV) retail sales volume fell 0.4% YoY and 10% MoM in Jul 2023 amid high base, 2% higher than our prior forecast.

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