BYD’s Overseas Breakout Faces Headwinds from Domestic Drag and Delayed European Production
Published on 07/14/2026 at 21:13 | Redaktion boerse-global.de
BYD is running two races at once — and the pace could hardly be more different. While its home market in China bleeds margins under a brutal price war, the company’s export business is smashing records, with overseas sales more than doubling year-on-year in June. That divergence is the central story behind a stock that has clawed back roughly 20 percent from its 52-week low but remains deep in the red for the year.
On Tuesday, BYD shares rose 2.96 percent to 9.61 euros, extending a recovery that first gathered steam after a materials partnership with German chemical group Covestro was announced earlier this month. The stock now sits 35 percent below its 52-week high of 14.80 euros from July 22, 2025, and is down 12.29 percent year-to-date. Over the past seven days, it has gained 3.76 percent, while the 30-day return stands at 2.93 percent.
The July 13 memorandum of understanding with Covestro goes beyond a conventional supply arrangement. The two companies plan to jointly develop new material solutions for electric vehicles, energy storage, and public transport, with Covestro pledging dedicated capacity, tailored technical support, and early access to emerging technologies. In exchange, BYD will involve the supplier earlier in vehicle design programs. The deal aligns with a production milestone just days earlier: on July 8, BYD rolled its 17 millionth new-energy vehicle off the line in Xi’an, becoming the first automaker worldwide to hit that number. The sprint from 16 million to 17 million took less than three months — a fresh speed record for the industry.
The manufacturing feat mirrors a broader export push. In the first half of 2026, BYD sold 1.8085 million vehicles, with 789,400 units shipped to overseas passenger and pickup customers — a 68 percent increase from a year earlier. June alone saw 175,349 vehicles delivered abroad, a 94.73 percent surge that represented 43 percent of monthly sales. In Europe, BYD registered 135,307 vehicles in the EU, EFTA and UK during the first five months, capturing a 2.3 percent market share — edging past Tesla’s 2.0 percent. Germany proved especially fertile: 26,264 new registrations in the first half, up 318 percent year-on-year, already exceeding the full-year 2025 tally of 23,306.
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At home, the picture is starkly different. Domestic sales in June fell 22.02 percent year-on-year to 228,123 units, though they inched up 2.39 percent month-on-month. Deeper trouble lurks in the profit column: BYD has now posted four consecutive quarters of declining net income. In the first quarter alone, net profit collapsed 55 percent as discounting hit a two-year peak amid an aggressive price war with rivals such as Xiaomi and Geely. A record backlog of unsold vehicles continues to pressure margins and pricing power.
The export escape route, however, has its own obstacles. EU tariffs imposed in 2024 have already squeezed profitability in Europe, and South Korea cancelled EV subsidies for BYD models in early July, forcing the company to offer its own purchase incentives. The long-term antidote was supposed to be local assembly, but the Hungarian plant in Szeged — originally slated to begin vehicle production in 2026 — has been pushed back to the fourth quarter of that year, a full twelve-month delay. Until then, every vehicle shipped from China remains exposed to the full tariff risk. Meanwhile, plans for a multi-billion-dollar factory in Turkey have been shelved, leaving Hungary as BYD’s only European production site for the foreseeable future.
On the charts, the stock is trading nearly at its 50-day moving average of 9.69 euros, suggesting short-term stabilization, but remains 9.94 percent below the 200-day average of 10.67 euros. The 14-day relative strength index stands at 55.8, indicating a neutral-to-slightly-bullish stance after the oversold conditions of late June were unwound. With annualized volatility hovering near 39 percent, further swings in either direction are likely.
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BYD’s market capitalization of roughly 86.6 billion euros keeps it among the most closely watched bellwethers for the global EV price war. The fundamental challenge is structural, not cyclical: the company must defend its home turf while proving that export volumes can reliably translate into export margins — before Szeged ramps up and before Brussels potentially tightens the tariff screws further.
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