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The sale lowered Berkshire’s holdings in BYD’s issued H-shares to 12.9% on Jan. 27, down from 13.04%, the filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange showed on Thursday.
Berkshire, which started selling the BYD shares in late August, has accumulatively reduced its holding by more than a third.
Buffett’s company acquired 225 million BYD shares in 2008, giving it a 7.73% stake, equal to the 20.49% stake in H shares, according to BYD’s annual report.
BYD was the world’s largest plug-in hybrids and pure electric vehicles maker in 2022, with a total of 1.86 million cars sold, growing faster than Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) .
($1 = 7.8434 Hong Kong dollars)
