📢Last Friday after market, BYD announced a steeper-than-expected decline of 38% in fourth-quarter (4Q) earnings to 9.3 billion yuan 📉The company saw its first annual profit drop in four years, down 19% to 32.6 billion yuan, and a revenue growth of 3.5% - its smallest in six years, despite outselling Tesla globally in 2025 🔻Its closely watched gross margin shrank to a three-year low of 17.7%, down from 19.4% in 2024 🚫🥇Sales have slumped in the first two months of this year, and after dominating the Chinese market for years, BYD has now ceded the top spot to Geely (Bloomberg) 🔃The shares gapped down 5.3% yesterday morning, before ending just 0.9% lower for the day at HKD 105.60 after its analyst briefing yesterday 🌐In yesterday's analyst briefing, BYD said that exports this year will probabl