Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd Class AQ2 net profit beat estimates and revenue growth accelerated, plus announced share buyback of 20-40 billion yuan.

CATL, China's leading automotive battery maker, reported second-quarter net profit of 22.5 billion yuan, up 36.5 percent from a year earlier, beating analyst estimates for a 29.7 percent increase. Revenue rose 56.9 percent to 147.8 billion yuan, accelerating from 52.5 percent growth in the previous quarter. Amid softening demand in the electric vehicle market, robust growth in the energy storage business underpinned results, with first-quarter shipments of energy storage lithium-ion batteries nearly doubling year-on-year and global market share rising to 29.9 percent. However, gross margins for energy storage batteries in the first half fell to 24.0 percent and for EV batteries to 20.6 percent, both down from a year earlier. CATL also announced plans for a share buyback of its yuan-denominated A-shares worth between 20 billion and 40 billion yuan.
Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd Class AQ2 net profit beat estimates and revenue growth accelerated, plus announced share buyback of 20-40 billion yuan.