BYD Rides Export Records to €9.58, Yet Home-Market Bleeding Tests the Rally's Staying Power
Published on 07/06/2026 at 09:02 | Redaktion boerse-global.de
BYD shares have clawed back nearly 17% over the past seven trading sessions, climbing from a 52-week low of €8.03 in late June to close at €9.58 on Friday. The catalyst was straightforward: the company reported a second consecutive month of year-on-year growth in new-energy vehicle sales for June, sending the stock up roughly 9% in a single session. But behind the headline numbers lies a split-screen reality that investors are still weighing.
The growth is genuine overseas. June saw a record 175,349 vehicles sold abroad, a 94.73% leap from a year earlier, pushing international sales to 43.46% of the month's total. That followed May's overseas record of 160,644 units, which snapped an eight-month streak of declining year-on-year comparisons. For the first half, exports reached 792,256 units, up 70.65%, even as global NEV sales slipped 15.72% to 1,808,511 units. The export engine is clearly revving, but it has yet to pull the domestic business out of the ditch.
At home, the picture is starkly different. June domestic sales fell to 228,123 units, a 22.02% slide from last year, and the half-year cumulative total remains down by the same 15.72% margin. The source of the pain is a brutal price war stoked by rivals such as Xiaomi and Geely, which has forced BYD into four consecutive quarters of declining profit. Discounts hit a two-year high in March. In July, the company recorded its first year-on-year production drop in 16 months and cut shifts at some factories, a sign that the domestic fight shows no sign of easing.
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Europe has become a key battleground for offsetting that weakness. Registrations of BYD vehicles on the continent surged 158% in May, and the company is now accelerating local production to lock in market access. Bus shipments are a tangible symbol: 22 electric double-deckers left the port of Yantai on Sunday bound for London. More importantly, BYD's first European car plant in Hungary will begin production in the fourth quarter, and management is weighing a second site, with Spain and France as the leading candidates. The factories are designed to comply with the European Union's looming "Made in Europe" rules and sidestep potential import tariffs.
The profit question, however, remains unresolved. While export volumes are climbing fast — June's 175,349 units marking a 94.73% jump — margins on overseas sales need to be high enough to compensate for the domestic bloodletting. The market has shown willingness to look past the home-market slump for now, as the strong rebound from the June low indicates. Yet the stock still sits 3.83% below its 50-day moving average of €9.96 and 10.96% below the 200-day average of €10.76. The relative strength index of 56.6 suggests the oversold condition has cleared without tipping into overbought territory. Year-to-date, the shares are still 12.55% in the red, and at 35.27% off their 52-week high of €14.80, the recovery has a long way to go.
The bull case rests on export momentum continuing to accelerate through new model launches overseas and better margins abroad. The bear case warns that four quarters of falling earnings and an entrenched price war at home may overwhelm any export-driven gains, especially if domestic volumes remain in double-digit decline. The next concrete signals will come from BYD's monthly sales releases and the upcoming quarterly report, which will clarify whether the export rally is finally lifting profits or merely masking a deeper structural squeeze.
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