Recently, according to the disclosure of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, due to the withdrawal of the issuance and listing application of SVOLT Energy and the sponsor CITIC **, the Shanghai Stock Exchange terminated its issuance and listing review in accordance with relevant regulations.
SVOLT's listing application was accepted on November 18, 2022, raising up to RMB15 billion, the largest number of projects under review on the STAR Market.
Regarding the termination of the IPO, SVOLT responded that the company decided to withdraw the A-share application and consider launching other financing plans based on various factors and the best interests of the company and the company's shareholders.
Founded in 2018 and born out of the Power Battery Division of Great Wall Motors, SVOLT is mainly engaged in the R&D, production and sales of power batteries and energy storage battery systems for new energy vehicles.
From 2020 to 2022, SVOLT Energy's operating income was 173.6 billion yuan, 447.4 billion and 99700 million yuan, the compound growth rate of operating income in the past three years is as high as 13962%。
According to the data of the China Automotive Power Battery Industry Innovation Alliance, the installed volume of SVOLT in 2022 will be 610GWh, accounting for 207%, ranking seventh in the domestic market.
Independence Q&A.
At the beginning of its birth, Honeycomb Energy had a clear Great Wall background.
In October 2018, Great Wall Motor transferred SVOLT Energy to Baoding Ruimao, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Great Wall Holdings (Great Wall Motor Holding Group Company), for a consideration of RMB 1 billion. Since then, the relationship between Great Wall Motors and SVOLT Energy has turned father and son into brothers.
According to the prospectus, the controlling shareholder of SVOLT Energy is still Baoding Ruimao, the actual controller Wei Jianjun, and Baoding Ruimao enjoys special voting rights to ensure the control of the company after listing.
In 2019, SVOLT only had two customers, namely Great Wall Motors and Beijing Huatelecom, of which Great Wall Motors and its subsidiaries accounted for 99 percent of revenue86%, the product is a battery pack.
From 2020 to 2022, Great Wall Motors accounted for the trading proportion of SVOLT power battery products01% and 5089% and decreased to 29 in the fourth quarter of 202255%。
In three years, SVOLT Energy's battery pack loading models have gradually expanded from Great Wall's Tank, Haval, Big Dog and other series to Geely's Galaxy L6, Galaxy L7, Lynk & Co 08, as well as Ideal L7 Air, VOYAH Free, Nezha S, etc.
In March this year, SVOLT provided a detailed explanation of independence in its response to the first round of audit inquiries.
In terms of upstream resources, since January 2021, SVOLT has successively purchased and operated its own systems, and since July 2022, its assets, procurement and sales channels, employees, and financial systems have been fully independent, and it has established stable cooperative relations with a number of upstream enterprises in the new energy industry chain.
In terms of downstream sales, the proportion of related party sales in the main business showed a significant downward trend, of which the quarterly compound growth rate of non-related parties in the main business reached 163 in the second quarter of 202237%, much higher than the compound growth rate of related parties of 016% and overall sales CAGR of 1389%。
In addition, according to the estimation in the reply letter, by 2025, SVOLT's "revenue to Great Wall Motors and related enterprises as a proportion of total revenue" will drop significantly to 24%.
In addition, SVOLT emphasized in the reply letter that the relationship between the company and Great Wall Motors is a mutually beneficial and win-win relationship, rather than a one-way dependence relationship, and the related party transactions between the two are reasonable.
The production capacity is hot and dry. Geely, Leap, Dongfeng, VOYAH, Xiaopeng, Ideal, Celis, Hezhong New Energy and other vehicle companies have built a circle of friends of Honeycomb Energy, and in addition, the capital circle is also quite favored by Honeycomb Energy.
At present, SVOLT has completed five rounds of financing, with a cumulative financing amount of more than 20 billion yuan and a post-investment valuation of 46 billion yuan.
Among them, in February 2021, the company's Series A financing was 3.5 billion yuan, and investors include SDIC China Merchants, Bank of China Investment, IDG, etc.;In July, it was once again awarded 102800 million yuan Series B financing;In December, it received 6 billion yuan of B+ round financing from Taikang Investment.
Under the agitation of capital, ambition will always swell rapidly.
On the first battery day in 2020, SVOLT revealed that it would ship 40GWh in 2025Subsequently, Hive proposed plans for 200GWh and 320GWh production capacity in 2025. On December 8, 2021, SVOLT held its second Battery Day in Changzhou, and Yang Hongxin, Chairman and CEO, released the "Lingbee 600" strategy - challenging 600GWh production capacity and shipping 450GWh in 2025.
It needs more than a dozen factories, needs globalization, needs more than 200 billion investment, and needs an organization of nearly 80,000 people, how can it support such a big strategy?Yang Hongxin's PPT at that time contained the "capital co-creation strategy".
But in fact, SVOLT has not been saturated with capacity utilization in recent years. From 2020 to 2021 and the first half of 2022, the capacity utilization rate of the company's own battery cell module production line was .50% and 6099%。
Overcapacity is almost a common problem for new energy battery companies. According to the calculation of Gaogong Lithium Battery, the power battery shipments from 2022 to 2024 will be 490GWh, 850GWh and 1010GWh respectively, and the completed production capacity of battery manufacturers in the past three years will be 1000GWh, 1550GWh and 2200GWh respectively, of which the effective production capacity will be 800GWh, 1200GWh and 1600GWh respectively, which will significantly exceed the shipments.
According to the analysis of industry insiders, the expansion of overcapacity is a common method used by monopoly enterprises to prevent new enterprises from entering in microeconomics, but for enterprises such as honeycomb energy, which may not be in a monopoly position, it still needs to be comprehensively considered. Especially when the next generation of battery technology matures, the excess capacity of the previous generation will be more tricky.
On December 12, Yang Hongxin said at the 4th Honeycomb Energy Battery Day: "In 2024, the structural contradiction between supply and demand in the entire industry is still very prominent, and the industry will begin to enter a reshuffle period." He predicts that in 2024, the capacity utilization rate of lithium batteries will only be 46%, and the capacity utilization rate of the four main materials will be 60%.
The largest IPO under review on the Science and Technology Innovation Board may be able to cool down these overheated batteries.
The battery battle. On November 9, during the Wuzhen Summit of the 2023 World Internet Conference, Wei Jianjun asked rhetorically when talking about the topic of "high-quality development": "Is high-quality development a dead one?".”
If the definition of high-quality development is counted as one, and the bloody one is called high quality, then don't talk about it today. Wei Jianjun believes that the high-quality development of the automobile industry requires bottom-line thinking, long-term thinking, and fair competition.
It is not known where the words are directed. From Great Wall Motors to Honeycomb Energy, Wei Jianjun has had many friends, and naturally has many opponents.
Between 2018 and 2019, nine CATL employees joined Baoding Yixin and Wuxi Tianhong respectively to provide services to SVOLT, and two of them are also inventors of SVOLT patents.
In this regard, CATL resorted to the court and demanded that the nine "job-hopping" employees each pay 1 million yuan in liquidated damages.
It wasn't until July 18 last year that SVOLT reached a settlement with CATL's lawsuit at the cost of Hive paying 5 million yuan to "Ningwang".
From employee poaching to order cut-offs, the confrontation between new energy giants is everywhere.
At the beginning of this year, the BMW Group tendered an order for about 160GWh of batteries, which is equivalent to the battery capacity required for about 4 million BEVs. If you follow 0. per watt hourAt 6 yuan, the total value will reach 96 billion yuan.
In October, the results landed, SVOLT monopolized BMW's production capacity of nearly 90GWh in Europe, which will be fully supplied by SVOLT's two battery factories in Europe, and CATL and EVE will share about 70GWh of domestic orders.
Back in 2012, Zeng Yuqun poured the power of Ningde into the whole company and became the leading BMW electric vehicle business, and has developed rapidly since then, accounting for half of the power battery in 2020, but the market does not have a permanent oligopoly.
Technically, SVOLT's second-generation short knife battery is named L600 battery, which is similar to BYD's blade battery structure, but the cell length is less than 600mm, while BYD's blade length can reach 960mm. Therefore, the industry is accustomed to refer to the blade battery of SVOLT as the short knife battery.
In the first three quarters of 2023, CATL's power battery market share fell to 4275%, and BYD increased to 2894%, China Innovation Airlines, EVE Lithium Energy, Guoxuan Hi-Tech and Honeycomb Energy also occupy a place, competing with LG New Energy, SK On, Samsung SDI, and Japanese company Panasonic.
This article is from: Viewpoint.com.