CATL's October-December profit totalled 12.98 billion yuan($1.80 billion), down 1.2% from a year earlier.

That compared with growth of 10.7% in the third quarter and 43.6% for the whole of 2023.

Still, the EV battery specialist said it had regained market share in the opening months of the year.

($1 = 7.1959 Chinese yuan renminbi)

(Reporting by Qiaoyi Li, Zhang Yan and Sarah Wu; editing by Brenda Goh and Christopher Cushing)