Baillie Gifford adds 84,739,556 NIO shares, increasing its stake to 12,27%

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Baillie Gifford & Co filed, on May 5, a new 13F form disclosing ownership of 173,597,921 shares of NIO by the end of Q1 2022. The Scottish Mortgage investment trust closed 2021 owning 88,858,365 shares meaning that added a total of 84,739,556 during the first quarter of 2022.

File DateEffective DateSharesShares ChangedOwnership
January 29, 2022December 31, 2021107,907,768—8.35%
February 27, 2022January 31, 202288,858,36519,049,4036.28%
May 5, 2022March 31, 2022173,597,92184,739,55612,27%

As of May 6, NIO has 793 institutional owners and shareholders holding a total of 670,705,982 shares. Largest shareholders include Baillie Gifford & Co, BlackRock, Vanguard Group, State Street Corp, VWIGX, Susquehanna International Group, and Goldman Sachs Group.

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In their latest SEC filings, the Edinburgh-based fund house disclosed 496 total holdings valued at over $225M with top holdings being Tesla, Moderna, Illumina, Amazon, and Nvidia.

Also on May 5, Baillie Gifford reported that increased its position on Tesla adding 6,968,549 shares, owning a total of 17,766,563 by the end of the first quarter. When it comes to the other Chinese EV makers, the firm had no position in XPeng and 23,622,358 shares of LI Auto by the end of the first quarter.

As reported by EV on the last day of March, also BlackRock increased its position on NIO during the last quarter of 2021 via iShares ETFs. The company responsible for iShares ETFs is BlackRock, which acquired the brand and business from Barclays in 2009. Currently, 25 out of the 392 ETFs that iShares has, have a stake on the US-listed Chinese EV maker NIO.

In late April, Reuters reported that BlackRock is planning to launch its first China ETF product in Q4 2022. Blackrock will be the first wholly-owned foreign fund manager to tap the onshore Chinese ETF market, the news agency added. 

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