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If you are wondering whether BYD’s current share price reflects its true worth, this breakdown will help you put the recent moves and the underlying numbers in context.
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BYD’s share price last closed at HK$104.5, with returns of 7.8% over 7 days, 6.9% over 30 days, 5.8% year to date, a 21.0% decline over the past year, and gains of 60.1% over 3 years and 79.3% over 5 years.
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Recent headlines around BYD have continued to focus on its position in the global electric vehicle and battery markets, as well as its role in the broader shift toward electrification. This context helps explain why the stock has attracted attention even as its 1-year return has been negative.
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On Simply Wall St’s valuation checks, BYD scores 2 out of 6 for being considered undervalued, as shown in its valuation score of 2. The sections ahead will walk through the key valuation methods investors tend to watch, before finishing with a way to tie all these methods together more effectively.
BYD scores just 2/6 on our valuation checks. See what other red flags we found in the full valuation breakdown.
A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a company could be worth by projecting its future cash flows and then discounting those back to today using a required rate of return. It is essentially asking what all those future CN¥ cash flows are worth in present terms.
For BYD, Simply Wall St uses a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity model. The latest twelve month free cash flow is a loss of CN¥29,051.48m, so the valuation leans heavily on forecasts rather than recent cash generation. Analyst and extrapolated estimates point to free cash flow of CN¥57,719.78m in 2026 and CN¥96,586m in 2028, with further projections out to 2035 provided by the platform. These future CN¥ figures are then discounted back to today to arrive at an estimated intrinsic value per share.
On this basis, the DCF fair value for BYD is put at HK$186.11 per share, compared with the recent share price of HK$104.50. That implies the stock trades at a 43.8% discount to this intrinsic value, which indicates BYD may be undervalued under this method.
Result: UNDERVALUED
Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests BYD is undervalued by 43.8%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 229 more high quality undervalued stocks.
For profitable companies, the P/E ratio is a useful way to relate what you pay for each share to the earnings that back it. It helps you see how many years of current earnings the market is effectively pricing in.
What counts as a normal or fair P/E depends on how fast earnings are expected to grow and how risky those earnings are. Higher expected growth or lower perceived risk can justify a higher P/E, while slower growth or higher risk usually line up with a lower P/E.
BYD currently trades on a P/E of 21.82x. That sits above the Auto industry average P/E of 18.58x and the peer group average of 8.32x, which suggests investors are willing to pay more per unit of earnings than for many peers.
Simply Wall St also calculates a Fair Ratio for BYD of 15.66x. This is a proprietary estimate of what BYD’s P/E could look like given its earnings growth profile, industry, profit margins, market cap and risk characteristics. Because it factors in these company specific traits, it can be more tailored than a simple comparison to peers or the broad industry.
Comparing the current P/E of 21.82x with the Fair Ratio of 15.66x points to BYD trading above this Fair Ratio, which suggests it screens as overvalued on this metric.
Result: OVERVALUED
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Earlier it was mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. This is where Narratives come in, giving you a clear story that links your view of BYD to a forecast and then to a fair value you can compare with the current share price.
A Narrative is simply your story behind the numbers, where you set your own assumptions for BYD’s future revenue, earnings and profit margins, and the platform translates that story into a financial model and a fair value estimate.
On Simply Wall St’s Community page, Narratives are easy to use and are updated automatically when new information like earnings releases or news arrives. This helps your fair value view stay aligned with what is happening with the company.
Narratives can support your evaluation of BYD by letting you compare your fair value with the market price. For example, some BYD investors on the platform currently see fair value around HK$180 per share, while others set much lower values based on concerns about electric vehicle demand, charging infrastructure and the broader carbon footprint of EVs.
Do you think there’s more to the story for BYD? Head over to our Community to see what others are saying!
This article by Simply Wall St is general in nature. We provide commentary based on historical data and analyst forecasts only using an unbiased methodology and our articles are not intended to be financial advice. It does not constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any stock, and does not take account of your objectives, or your financial situation. We aim to bring you long-term focused analysis driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis may not factor in the latest price-sensitive company announcements or qualitative material. Simply Wall St has no position in any stocks mentioned.
Companies discussed in this article include 1211.HK.
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