A BYD Seal U car displayed at a dealership near Barcelona, Spain. The Chinese automaker's domestic sales fell for a fourth straight month in August.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway BRK-B-N has fully exited Chinese automaker BYD BYDDY , a filing showed, ending a 17-year investment that grew over 20-fold in value in that period.

The filing by Berkshire’s energy subsidiary recorded the value of its BYD investment as zero as of the end of March, down from US$415-million at the end of 2024.

Buffett’s company began investing in Shenzhen-based BYD in 2008, when it paid US$230-million for about 225 million shares, equivalent to a 10-per-cent stake at the time.

It began selling those shares in 2022 after BYD’s share price had risen more than twentyfold.

Berkshire did not immediately re

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