In the first 25 days of the new year, the stock price of Leapmotor was cut in half, and it has lost more than 13 billion yuan
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Leapmotor, a new car-making force, has recently had a big incident.
According to public reports, on January 25, Wu Baojun, the former president of Leapmotor, posted on social platforms that due to the expiration of the labor contract, the company proposed not to renew the contract, and the labor contract was terminated on January 8, 2024, and on January 19, the board of directors decided by communication that he would no longer serve as the president of Leapmotor Technology, and he still serves as a director.
After Wu Baojun's resignation, Leaprun will no longer have the position of president.
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According to public information, Wu Baojun was born in 1970 and graduated from Jilin University of Technology with a bachelor's degree. Prior to joining Leaprun, he had extensive experience in the automotive industry.
In 1993, at the age of 23, Wu Baojun joined the sales department of Guangzhou Peugeot Automobile Co., Ltd., and later served as the Northeast Regional Manager.
Five years later, in 1998, Wu Baojun was appointed to Guangqi Honda Automobile Co., Ltd. Wu Baojun worked in Guangqi Honda for a long time, which lasted until 2012, and successively served as the head of the management department of the sales department, the director of sales, and the director of planning and marketing of the company.
In 2012, Wu Baojun's newly established insurance company, Zhongcheng Auto Insurance Co., Ltd., successively served as vice president, director, president, and chairman of the company until he left in 2020.
After leaving in 2020, Wu Baojun joined Leaprun as co-founder and president. Although in a high position, Wu Baojun is an outsider in the founding team of Leaprun, that is, a professional manager.
Zhu Jiangming, the suspected actual controller of Leapmotor, is the main founder of the company. Zhu Jiangming graduated from Zhejiang University with a major in radio, born in 1967.
Prior to founding Leaprun, Zhu Jiangming was one of the main founders of Dahua Co., Ltd., a video-centric smart IoT solution provider and operation service provider, which was listed on the A-share market in 2008.
In 1993, Zhu Jiangming, together with Fu Liquan, the current chairman of Dahua Co., Ltd., founded Dahua Co., Ltd. from scratch for 5,000 yuan and concurrently served as CTO of Dahua Co., Ltd.
In 2015, Zhu Jiangming entered the smart car industry and founded Leapmotor. According to the enterprise early warning communication, the current major shareholder of Leapmotor is Zhu Jiangming, accounting for 8.1%, the second shareholder is Fu Liquan, accounting for 7.98%, and the third largest shareholder is Dahua shares, accounting for 7.88%.
In the senior management team of Leapmotor, there is also a significant "Dahua" color.
In addition to Zhu Jiangming himself, Cao Li, executive director and senior vice president, used to work in Dahua, and after joining Leapmotor, he was mainly the person in charge of the vehicle, leading the research and development of the vehicle and battery.
Zhou Hongtao also came out of Dahua and was responsible for software-related work. He joined Leapmotor in 2016 and is responsible for the R&D and manufacturing of autonomous driving and automotive electronics.
Other executives with automotive backgrounds mainly include Wu Cun and Shu Chuncheng.
Wu Cun served as a chief engineer at Bosch Automotive Products (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. from 2014 to 2015 and joined Leapmotor in February 2016, while Shu Chuncheng served as a senior purchasing manager at Chery Automobile Co., Ltd. from 2005 to 2016 and joined Leapmotor in May 2016.
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Wu Baojun regretted this resignation, as he said in the circle of friends: "It's a pity that I had to leave the Leapmotor that I participated in the founding, I love the Leapmotor business very much, but due to the expiration of the labor contract, the company proposed not to renew the ......."
Regarding the next stop of his career, Wu Baojun does not seem to have given a clear answer to the media. "For the time being, it cannot be disclosed to the public, because there are still some matters in the process of communication with the company, such as the final announcement and equity cashing." ”
For Wu Baojun, this period of Leap's career is temporarily over. For Leapmotor, although it has been making progress, it still needs to refuel before it can become the head brand of a new car-making force.
Chart source: Passenger Federation (Thank you!)
According to the data disclosed by the Passenger Association, the retail sales of Leapmotor in 2023 will be 144,200 units, an increase of 1.9% year-on-year, and it is difficult to maintain the tenth place in the ranking of new energy passenger vehicles, but the year-on-year growth rate is the slowest among other brands.
In addition, Mimei noted that according to the latest financial report, the total delivery volume of Leapmotor in the third quarter was 44,325 units, an increase of 24.5% from 35,608 units in the same period in 2022 - this growth rate also underperformed the market.
Leapmotor's 2023 annual performance forecast has not yet been released, and the situation is not optimistic from the previous third quarter of 2023.
In the third quarter of 2023, Leapmotor's revenue was 5.66 billion yuan, an increase of 31.9% year-on-year and 29.4% quarter-on-quarter, and the operating loss was about 1.025 billion yuan, compared with 1.361 billion yuan in the same period of 2022 and 1.174 billion yuan in the second quarter of 2023.
Cumulatively, in the first three quarters of 2023, Leapmotor's operating loss has reached 3.359 billion yuan. From 2019 to 2022, its losses were 730 million yuan, 870 million yuan, 2.87 billion yuan, and 5.23 billion yuan respectively, with a cumulative operating loss of more than 13 billion yuan in the past four years.
Soochow Securities predicts that Leapmotor's revenue from 2023 to 2025 will be 18.9 billion yuan, 40.1 billion yuan, and 72 billion yuan, and the net profit attributable to the parent company is forecast to be -4.27 billion yuan, -3.35 billion yuan, and 480 million yuan. According to the loss of -4.27 billion yuan and the annual sales of 144,000 units, Leap lost nearly 30,000 yuan per car sold.
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However, Leapmotor should not be short of money for the time being.
As of the third quarter of 2023, Leapmotor's free cash flow was 1.018 billion yuan, compared to -510 million yuan in the same period of 2022 and 2.503 billion yuan in the second quarter of 2023.
Recently, Leapmotor has made another war investment. According to the company's disclosure, on January 19, Leapmotor entered into a subscription agreement with Jinhua Industrial Fund and Wuyi County Jintou.
Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, Leapmotor entered into an H-share subscription agreement with Jinhua Industrial Fund, and conditionally agreed to allocate, issue and issue the relevant number of H shares available for subscription in an aggregate amount not exceeding $200 million at a subscription price of HK$43.8 per H-share subscription share (excluding relevant levies and transaction fees).
At the same time, Leapmotor also entered into a domestic share subscription agreement with Wuyi County Financial Investment. The former has conditionally agreed to issue 10,035,000 domestic shares to the latter at a subscription price of RMB39.86 per share (equivalent to HK$43.8 based on the latest exchange rate).
This subscription price is nearly double the current share price of Leapmotor. You must know that the price of Leapmotor's Hong Kong stock has been hovering in the range of 20 Hong Kong dollars for about 10 days.
After the disclosure of the subscription, the news of the resignation of President Wu Baojun has caused the share price of Leapmotor to drop sharply, and the price per share once fell below HK$20.
As of the close of Hong Kong stocks on January 25, 2024, Leapmotor has rebounded slightly, rising to HK$21.65. But this price has been halved from the end of last year......
The data not indicated in this article are all from the financial reports of listed companies, and the article is only for discussion and analysis, and does not constitute investment advice.
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