At noon on the 13th, CATL issued a solemn statement on its official WeChat account "CATL NINGDE Era".
The statement said that recently, a series of malicious rumors about the Ningde era being sanctioned by the United States, being excluded from the ChiNext weight index, and negotiating with Tesla have appeared on the network platform, which has triggered market misunderstandings and distortions and affected the reputation of enterprises. Rumors are unfounded and bad in nature. In order to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises, on February 12, 2022, CATL has officially reported the case to the public security organs, and will pursue legal responsibility for rumor-mongers in accordance with the law.
Tesla also debunked the rumors
According to the Shanghai Securities News, the relevant person in charge of Tesla responded at noon on February 13: "(Ningde times) and Tesla talk about collapse, it is indeed not true." ”
According to public information, the main customers of catheter era include Tesla, Weilai, Xiaopeng, SAIC, FAW and other major car companies. Among them, in the total orders of the CATL era in 2021, Tesla's total installed capacity reached 13.91GWh, accounting for 20% of the total orders of the CATL era last year.
Rumors "wreak havoc"
According to the Shanghai Securities News, some securities dealers analyzed that the "King of Ning" was forced to call the police, mainly because the content of the rumors and the choice of timing were very sensitive, and the "impact was extremely bad."
CATL's stock price has continued to fall recently, falling by about 17% last week. According to the inquiry, in the first week after the Spring Festival, the stock price of the Ningde era went all the way down, and the market value evaporated by nearly 230 billion yuan.
On December 3 last year, CATL created a price of 692 yuan / share. From the high point of 692 yuan / share, until the close of trading on February 11 this year, the retracement of the CATL era in more than 2 months has been nearly 30%.
Judging from the institutional shareholding situation, the decline in the holdings of funds and securities companies in the NINGDE era has begun since the second half of last year. According to Wind statistics, at the end of June last year, the fund's shareholding in NINGDE times reached a peak, totaling about 284 million shares, as of the end of the third quarter of last year and the end of last year, the number of shares held by the fund in NINGDE times was 265 million shares and 259 million shares, respectively; the securities company's shareholding in NINGDE times also fell from 0.05 billion shares to 0.04 billion shares in the fourth quarter of last year.
As the stock price adjusted, some rumors began to appear in the market. Especially this weekend, rumors about "C (Ningde) and T (Tesla) price talks" began to spread.
"Ningde era is the largest company in the chinext board market value, but also the stock with the highest attention in the A-share market at present, the continuous decline has caused general concern among investors, and the destructive power of rumors at this time is huge!" The brokerage source said.
"The business negotiations themselves are highly confidential, neither company will leak secrets, and the rumor-mongers are purely ulterior motives." There are brokers who analyze.
Some brokers said that the performance growth of the Ningde era does not support "shorting". According to the performance forecast released by CATL on January 27, the company expects the net profit attributable to shareholders of listed companies in 2021 to be 14 billion yuan to 16.5 billion yuan, an increase of 150.75% to 195.52% year-on-year. A number of brokerage research reports pointed out that in the face of the pressure of a sharp rise in upstream material prices, the performance of "Ning Wang" greatly exceeded expectations.
"Support King Ning to call the police!" Some senior investors said that although they did not hold positions in the Ningde era, they also noticed that the securities companies were bearish on the report of the Ningde era, "It is okay to be bearish!" But rumor-mongering doesn't work! ”
Some investors have proposed that they hope that CATL will strengthen exchanges and interactions with investors. It is reported that on the interactive platform, the last time CATL replied to investor questions was on January 10, and there are now more than 30 questions to be answered.
Capital Securities Singing Empty Ningde Era "Encounter"
The Ningde era has not been peaceful recently.
On February 10, Wei Zhichao, chief economist of Capital Securities, released an article titled "How long can the Ningde era fall?" A Quantitative Analysis Perspective" bearish research report is out of the circle.
With the CATL era plunging 5.43% on February 11, the bearish research report of Capital Securities was also hotly discussed by market investors. After all, after the Return of the Spring Festival, the main force of new energy, the Ningde era, began to fall continuously, and the mood of market investors was quite anxious.
In this research report, a clear point of view put forward by Wei Zhichao is that from the perspective of short-term market sentiment, the future rise and fall of the Ningde era can be analyzed, and the stock price trend of Guizhou Moutai in 2021 can be referred to. Through fitting, the team judged that the adjustment of the Ningde era may not be over, and there may still be 20% room for decline in the future.
After this research report was issued, it can be said that it attracted "a lot of scolding", and public opinion paid much attention to it.
So by the evening of the 11th, Wei Zhichao's research report had been "urgently removed" from various research platforms.
In addition, at 20:00 on the evening of the 11th, Wei Zhichao was going to hold a conference call on the "Door Finance" platform to talk about his "bearish" Ningde era, but later the call was also temporarily cancelled. Wei Zhichao himself told the media: "For some reason, tonight's phone call was cancelled first. ”