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China’s electric vehicle champion Bidi on Tuesday said it had collected $ 5.6 billion in Hong Kong’s largest share sale in four years and the largest equity follow-on offer in the Global Automotive Sector in a decade.
The Warren Buffett-Backed Company has sold the HK $ 335.20 to 129.8 million shares in the agreement, according to the stock exchanging of the Stock Exchange, representing an 8 percent discount on the closing price on Monday, the share offer was extended from 118 million, according to the Term Sheet details seen by the Financial Times.
Hong Kong-Lalik shares have dropped almost per cent on Tuesday, but this year they have increased by more than 5 percent so far.
Reflect the offer Tesla The Chinese mainland companies listed in Hong Kong-this year, the mainland-list companies of the city that identify the interest of the market for interest and investors’ interests to sell shares by its mainland-list companies and the funds to increase the tendency to increase the shares this year.
“BYD has a lot of free cash flow and net cash in China, but it costs a lot to send [renminbi] In the coins of China, “City analysts wrote in a research note. “[It] There is also a lack of flexibility for regular approval during the perfection of the primary foreign capital expenditure cycle. “
The establishment of this shares has been strengthened by the BYD’s “to further its technical capacity and accelerate its extension of abroad”, the company has filed.
Shenzhen-based Bidi Hungary, Türkiye and Brazil are planning to build a manufacturing line locally in the big markets around the world.
China’s foreign investment carbons has encouraged some tribal companies for H-Share issues abroad with international ambitions. Cattle, the world’s largest EV battery manufacturer, and China’s largest vehicle exporter Cherry filed for the Hong Kong list last month.
Hong Kong BYD’s share sale has been the largest since the food-cost platform became mitwan Raised $ 10 billion In 2021. Goldman was the overall coordinator of the Shutch, UBS and Citic Agreement.
This transaction attracted the long-term funds, sovereign asset funds and the United Arab Emirates-based Al-Futim Family Office as a strategic investor, the order book was covered multiple times, the group said. Al-Futim Group distributes bidi cars in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
According to a person familiar with the transaction, European and Middle East funds were heavily involved in this agreement. Middle East investors are playing an important role in China’s rapid growing vehicle sector. At the end of 2023, New York-List EV Maker Neo Neo Secured $ 2.2bn from the piwonA Abu Dhabi Investment Group, following the beginning of that year, followed $ 1 billion from the same investors. At the same time, a Chinese self-driving start-up pony, listed by Nasdak, has made $ 100 million from Saudi Arabia’s pneumon.
In China, the BYD cars are about a third of all the new EVs sold, including pure battery cars and plug-in hybrids. Last year, the company sold 433,000 vehicles in foreign markets, which is more than 10 percent of its total sales volume.
