Recently, it has been reported in the market that IDG Capital is considering buying up to 7 billion yuan of shares of Chery Holding Group from existing shareholders.
In addition, Chery Automobile Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Chery Holdings, is considering applying for an initial public offering in 2024, with a valuation of 150 billion yuan. According to the Financial Associated Press, an internal executive of Chery Automobile replied that Chery Automobile is actively preparing for listing, and the rest of the information is inaccurate.
According to public information, Chery Automobile, founded in 1997, is the first domestic independent automobile brand to exceed one million sales, and is also the head automobile manufacturer of one of the few non-listed companies, with a number of automobile brands such as Chery, Jietu, Xingtu, and ICAR.
As early as 2004, Chery Automobile was preparing to go public, but due to the fact that the equity relationship with SAIC had not yet been clarified, it finally failed. In the past 20 years, Chery Automobile has not stopped in the capital industry, has completed the shareholding system transformation, and also promoted the listing of a number of parts companies under the Chery system.
In 2019, Chery Automobile launched the mixed-use reform and introduced Qingdao Wudaokou as a leading enterprise in the new energy industry, and Qingdao Wudaokou became the largest shareholder of Chery Holdings and Chery Automobile. After that, Lixun Precision took 1005.4 billion yuan to purchase part of the equity of Chery held by Qingdao Wudaokou, becoming a new strategic investor of Chery.
At the time of the mixed reform, Chery Automobile had planned to have five listed companies in the next five years, including Chery Automobile, Chery Huiyin, and Chery New Energy. Among them, Chery Automobile plans to be listed on the main board of A-shares, and Chery Huiyin plans to list in Hong Kong. From this dimension, the listing of Chery Automobile can be called expected.
After receiving the "blood transfusion" of the external capital chain, Chery Automobile, which has no worries for the time being, has also entered a period of steady and increasing sales. In 2022, Chery Automobile sold 1.23 million vehicles, with more than 450,000 vehicles. Up to now, Chery has accumulated 12 million users worldwide, ranking first in the export of Chinese brand passenger cars for 20 consecutive years.
In the first 11 months of 2023, Chery Automobile sold a total of 166 vehicles560,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 478%, which has exceeded the whole of last year. Among them, Chery sold 21 cars in November210,000 units, up 111% year-on-year and 5% month-on-month87%, achieving "eleventh consecutive increases" in sales, and monthly sales exceeded 210,000 units for the first time, setting a new record high.
At present, the growth rate data of the automotive industry from January to November has not yet been released, but judging from the data of the first ten months, Chery Automobile will be 41 in the first ten months of 2023The sales growth rate of 6% has far exceeded the industry 9The average growth rate of 1% builds a brand "moat" with sales "acceleration".
It is worth mentioning that Chery Automobile is also accelerating the layout of new energy tracks on the basis of deep cultivation of traditional fuel vehicle tracks. In April this year, Chery launched its new energy strategy, planning to invest more than 100 billion yuan in the next five years for the research and development of technologies such as electric vehicles, intelligent driving, and ecology.
Relying on the "Yaoguang 2025" science and technology strategy, Chery has an all-round layout in fuel, hybrid, electric and other tracks, which not only strongly supports the explosive growth of current sales, but also accumulates strong potential energy for the "all-round attack" of new energy and intelligent products.
In the hybrid track, Chery and Jietu respectively released the Chery Fengyun sequence and the Jietu Shanhai sequence in November, and plan to launch a total of 19 new hybrid products within two yearsIn the mid-to-high-end pure electric vehicle market, the Xingtu Star Era ES, which is based on Chery's E0X electric platform, started pre-sale in November and will be launched in mid-to-late December.
In addition, Chery and Huawei's first cooperation model, the Zhijie S7, was also officially launched in November this year, positioning itself as a high-energy and large-space smart sedan, equipped with Harmony OS 4 intelligent cockpit and Huawei ADS 20 high-end intelligent driving system, a total of 4 configurations, pre-sale price 25From 80,000 yuan.
Yin Tongyue, chairman of Chery Automobile, has publicly stated that Chery will definitely enter the top of the country in the new energy industry ranking in 2024. In addition, Yin Tongyue also said at the Yaoguang strategy conference in 2022 that the company will complete the IPO by 2025.
Although there is no more information about Chery Automobile's sprint to IPO**, the market is optimistic about Chery's listing in terms of its operating conditions and market performance. Whether the landing in the capital market can give wings to the development of new energy vehicles is worth looking forward to.