From New Low to Rally: BMW's Day of Extremes as China Sales Tumble and E-Fuel Pilot Begins
Veröffentlicht: 15.07.2026 um 19:43 Uhr, Redaktion boerse-global.de
BMW shares staged a dramatic intraday reversal on Wednesday, recovering from a fresh 52-week low to close sharply higher, as investors weighed a deepening sales crisis in China against the launch of a pilot project for fully renewable petrol. The stock hit 56.72 euros in the session – its weakest since mid-2024 – before rallying 2.23 percent to end at 58.80 euros. That left the shares still down nearly 39 percent from the start of 2026 and more than 40 percent below the December 2025 peak of 97.90 euros.
The rebound came on a day of heavy news flow. Earlier, the Center Automotive Management published a study showing that BMW’s global deliveries fell 4.2 percent in the first half of 2026, to around 1.15 million vehicles. The headline figure masks an even starker divide: sales in China plunged 20.4 percent year-on-year, far worse than the 2.8 percent industry-wide decline across 20 major manufacturers. The Chinese market as a whole contracted by roughly 20 percent in the period, with German premium rivals Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz suffering even steeper drops of 25.9 percent and 28.3 percent respectively.
The Chinese slowdown is being driven by a weak macro environment: second-quarter GDP growth slipped to 4.3 percent – the worst since late 2022 – while property investment collapsed 18 percent. For BMW, the pain is concentrated in its most important single market, even as Europe and the United States showed resilience, with first-half gains of 5.4 percent and 3.9 percent, respectively. Sales of fully electric vehicles in Europe jumped 38 percent in the second quarter, and BMW’s iX3 model is approaching 100,000 orders. Still, the overall EBIT margin for the automotive segment has been slashed to a forecast range of 1-3 percent, a far cry from earlier targets, and the company has already lowered its full-year delivery outlook.
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Technical indicators painted a picture of deep distress before the recovery. At the session low, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) stood at 31.1, firmly in oversold territory. But as buying interest emerged, the RSI climbed to 36.5 by the close, still below the overbought threshold. The 30-day annualized volatility of 32.35 percent underscores the heightened uncertainty around the stock, which now carries a market capitalization of 35.3 billion euros.
Amid the gloom, BMW announced a six-month pilot project in Spain alongside Toyota, Bosch and Repsol. Twenty vehicles will run exclusively on Nexa 95, a petrol made entirely from biomass and waste. Bosch has developed a digital twin to track carbon savings in real time. The goal is to prove the fuel works with existing engines and refueling infrastructure – a signal that BMW is keeping a second technological path open for its legacy fleet, even as it pushes ahead with its electric Neue Klasse lineup. The pilot may do little to arrest the stock’s slide in the near term, but it suggests the company is actively seeking options beyond battery power as it navigates its worst market setback in years.
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