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押注比亚迪13年,巴菲特这一单终于大赚

押注比亚迪13年,巴菲特这一单终于大赚

Rey Mashayekhi 2021-03-03
比亚迪几乎是这位年逾90的投资者旗下最大胆的押注之一。

2008年,沃伦·巴菲特的伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司向中国汽车制造商比亚迪投资了2.32亿美元。如今,这部分股权已经增长至约60亿美元。图片来源:STEFEN CHOW—BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES

上周末,伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)发布了2020年收益报告,这为投资界提供了又一个追踪“奥马哈的先知”(Oracle of Omaha)——沃伦·巴菲特业绩的机会。比亚迪几乎是这位年逾90的投资者旗下最大胆的押注之一,尽管新冠疫情让比亚迪的利润不可避免地受到影响,但收益报告揭示,公司仍然产生了巨额效益。

13年前,在巴菲特麾下副手查理·芒格的建议下,巴菲特向一家尚不出名的中国汽车公司——比亚迪投资了2.32亿美元。在2009年的封面报道中,芒格告诉《财富》杂志,他被比亚迪创始人王传福的远见所深深吸引。王传福是一位化工工作者出身的企业家,在进入汽车行业之前,他曾经打造了世界上最大的充电式手机电池制造商之一。

“他简直集托马斯·爱迪生、杰克·韦尔奇于一身——既像爱迪生那样解决技术问题,又像韦尔奇那样完成他该做的事情。我从未见过这样的人。”芒格这样评价王传福。

通过将比亚迪的充电电池技术运用到快速发展的造车业务中,王传福在刚刚起步的电动汽车市场上站稳了脚跟,造出了比美国和日本公司更持久的电池、更便宜的汽车。对于比亚迪,巴菲特和芒格相信,他们找到了一家有朝一日有望在全球汽车市场中排首位的公司。与此同时,向电动汽车的转变也是全球汽车市场发展之必然。

2009年4月27日的《财富》杂志封面。图片来源:Cover by Fortune, photograph by David Yellen

2008年末,伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司斥资2.32亿美元收购了比亚迪约10%的股份。据巴菲特回忆,公司最初试图购买比亚迪25%的股份,但王传福拒绝出售超过10%的股份。“王传福不想卖掉自己的公司。”巴菲特向《财富》杂志说道,“这是个好兆头。”

事实证明,这笔钱花得值。随着中国电动汽车市场的迅猛发展,比亚迪已经跻身为世界上最大的汽车市场——中国市场的主要公司之一。去年,比亚迪的电池驱动电动汽车销量超过13万辆,与五菱、蔚来、特斯拉(Tesla)等竞争对手争夺市场份额。

随着比亚迪的成长,伯克希尔-哈撒韦的股份价值也在增长。到2018年年底,也就是投资2.32亿美元10年之后,伯克希尔在该公司的持股已经增至约16亿美元。此后,中国电动汽车市场的迅速扩张,加之比亚迪在香港上市的股票去年增长了四倍,这一数字呈指数级增长之势——巴菲特在2月27日致伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司股东的信函显示,公司所持比亚迪的8.2%的股份,在2020年年底的市值达到了59亿美元。

这意味着截至去年年底,比亚迪成为巴菲特所持市值排名第8位的股票,对这位“奥马哈的先知”来说,比亚迪的投资价值超过了他在美国汽车制造巨头通用汽车(General Motors)所持的股份。(截至去年12月31日,伯克希尔持有通用汽车3.7%的股份,价值22亿美元。)当然,通用汽车才刚刚起步进军电动汽车领域,而比亚迪已经为电动汽车的未来铺垫了15年——这一长跑努力,现在正为巴菲特、芒格以及伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司的投资者们带来丰厚成果。(财富中文网)

编译:杨二一

上周末,伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司(Berkshire Hathaway)发布了2020年收益报告,这为投资界提供了又一个追踪“奥马哈的先知”(Oracle of Omaha)——沃伦·巴菲特业绩的机会。比亚迪几乎是这位年逾90的投资者旗下最大胆的押注之一,尽管新冠疫情让比亚迪的利润不可避免地受到影响,但收益报告揭示,公司仍然产生了巨额效益。

13年前,在巴菲特麾下副手查理·芒格的建议下,巴菲特向一家尚不出名的中国汽车公司——比亚迪投资了2.32亿美元。在2009年的封面报道中,芒格告诉《财富》杂志,他被比亚迪创始人王传福的远见所深深吸引。王传福是一位化工工作者出身的企业家,在进入汽车行业之前,他曾经打造了世界上最大的充电式手机电池制造商之一。

“他简直集托马斯·爱迪生、杰克·韦尔奇于一身——既像爱迪生那样解决技术问题,又像韦尔奇那样完成他该做的事情。我从未见过这样的人。”芒格这样评价王传福。

通过将比亚迪的充电电池技术运用到快速发展的造车业务中,王传福在刚刚起步的电动汽车市场上站稳了脚跟,造出了比美国和日本公司更持久的电池、更便宜的汽车。对于比亚迪,巴菲特和芒格相信,他们找到了一家有朝一日有望在全球汽车市场中排首位的公司。与此同时,向电动汽车的转变也是全球汽车市场发展之必然。

2008年末,伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司斥资2.32亿美元收购了比亚迪约10%的股份。据巴菲特回忆,公司最初试图购买比亚迪25%的股份,但王传福拒绝出售超过10%的股份。“王传福不想卖掉自己的公司。”巴菲特向《财富》杂志说道,“这是个好兆头。”

事实证明,这笔钱花得值。随着中国电动汽车市场的迅猛发展,比亚迪已经跻身为世界上最大的汽车市场——中国市场的主要公司之一。去年,比亚迪的电池驱动电动汽车销量超过13万辆,与五菱、蔚来、特斯拉(Tesla)等竞争对手争夺市场份额。

随着比亚迪的成长,伯克希尔-哈撒韦的股份价值也在增长。到2018年年底,也就是投资2.32亿美元10年之后,伯克希尔在该公司的持股已经增至约16亿美元。此后,中国电动汽车市场的迅速扩张,加之比亚迪在香港上市的股票去年增长了四倍,这一数字呈指数级增长之势——巴菲特在2月27日致伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司股东的信函显示,公司所持比亚迪的8.2%的股份,在2020年年底的市值达到了59亿美元。

这意味着截至去年年底,比亚迪成为巴菲特所持市值排名第8位的股票,对这位“奥马哈的先知”来说,比亚迪的投资价值超过了他在美国汽车制造巨头通用汽车(General Motors)所持的股份。(截至去年12月31日,伯克希尔持有通用汽车3.7%的股份,价值22亿美元。)当然,通用汽车才刚刚起步进军电动汽车领域,而比亚迪已经为电动汽车的未来铺垫了15年——这一长跑努力,现在正为巴菲特、芒格以及伯克希尔-哈撒韦公司的投资者们带来丰厚成果。(财富中文网)

编译:杨二一

Last weekend brought the release of Berkshire Hathaway’s 2020 earnings report, which gave the investing world yet another opportunity to track the performance of the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett. And though the prodigious 90-year-old investor’s holding company predictably felt the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its bottom line, the report shed light on how one of Buffett’s boldest bets to date is paying huge dividends.

Thirteen years ago, on the advice of his famously skeptical lieutenant, Charlie Munger, Buffett made a $232 million investment in a relatively unknown Chinese car company called BYD. As Munger told Fortune in a 2009 cover story, he was enthralled by the vision of BYD’s founder—a chemist-turned-entrepreneur named Wang Chuanfu, who had built one of the world’s largest manufacturers of rechargeable cell phone batteries before pivoting into the automotive sector.

“This guy is a combination of Thomas Edison and Jack Welch—something like Edison in solving technical problems, and something like Welch in getting done what he needs to do,” Munger said of Wang. “I have never seen anything like it.”

By parlaying BYD’s rechargeable battery technology into a fast-growing carmaking operation, Wang had gained a foothold in the fledgling electric vehicle (EV) market—building longer-lasting batteries and cheaper vehicles than American and Japanese manufacturers were managing to do at the time. In BYD, Buffett and Munger believed they had found a company with a shot at one day becoming the largest player in a global automobile market that was inevitably going electric.

In late 2008, Berkshire Hathaway ponied up the aforementioned $232 million for a roughly 10% stake in BYD. As Buffett recalled, Berkshire initially tried to buy 25% of the company, but Wang refused to release more than 10% of BYD’s stock. “This was a man who didn’t want to sell his company,” he told Fortune. “That was a good sign.”

It has proved to be money well spent. As the EV market has exploded in China, BYD has developed into a major player in the world’s largest car market; it sold more than 130,000 battery-powered electric vehicles last year as it competes for market share with rival EV makers like Wuling, NIO, and, of course, Tesla.

As BYD has grown, so has the value of Berkshire Hathaway’s investment. By late 2018, 10 years after cutting that $232 million check, Berkshire’s stake in the company had swollen to roughly $1.6 billion. Since then, that figure has climbed exponentially amid the Chinese EV market’s rapid expansion and a remarkable fourfold increase in BYD’s Hong Kong–traded shares last year: Berkshire Hathaway’s 8.2% stake in the automaker held a market value of $5.9 billion at the end of 2020, per Buffett’s letter to Berkshire shareholders on February 27.

That means that BYD was Buffett’s eighth-largest holding by market value at the end of last year, and makes it a more valuable investment for the Oracle of Omaha than his stake in that grand old name of American carmaking, General Motors. (Berkshire’s 3.7% stake in GM was valued at $2.2 billion as of Dec. 31.) Of course, GM is only just accelerating its push into the realm of electric vehicles, whereas BYD has been bracing for an EV-motored future for the past decade and a half—a vision that is now bearing fruit for Buffett, Munger, and their own investors at Berkshire Hathaway.

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