Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)

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Key Metrics & Ratings

  • symbol BABA
  • Rev/Share 431.1557
  • Book/Share 471.7287
  • PB 1.9327
  • Debt/Equity 0.2459
  • CurrentRatio 1.5483
  • ROIC 0.079

 

  • MktCap 2014294070387.6848
  • FreeCF/Share 28.3196
  • PFCF 30.7794
  • PE 15.0009
  • Debt/Assets 0.1376
  • DivYield 0.0169
  • ROE 0.1333

 

  • Rating A-
  • Score 4
  • Recommendation Buy
  • P/E Score 3
  • DCF Score 3
  • P/B Score 3
  • D/E Score 3

Recent Analyst Ratings

Type Ticker Analyst Firm Previous Rating Current Rating Previous Price Target Current Price Target Date
Downgrade BABA Arete Buy Neutral -- $153 June 24, 2025
Upgrade BABA Bernstein Market Perform Outperform -- -- Feb. 25, 2025
Upgrade BABA Morgan Stanley Equal Weight Overweight $100 $180 Feb. 24, 2025
Upgrade BABA Macquarie Neutral Outperform -- $145 Oct. 7, 2024

News

Should You Invest in Alibaba (BABA) Based on Bullish Wall Street Views?
BABA
Published: July 31, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

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Alibaba (BABA) Registers a Bigger Fall Than the Market: Important Facts to Note
BABA
Published: July 29, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

Alibaba (BABA) concluded the recent trading session at $119.36, signifying a -2.28% move from its prior day's close.

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China's AI Powerhouse Goes Wearable
BABA
Published: July 29, 2025 by: Benzinga
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA BABAF is strapping on its comeback story—literally. The Hangzhou, China-based tech giant has unveiled its first-ever AI-powered smart glasses, betting $52.4 billion on AI and cloud growth to reboot its image and revenues.

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Alibaba unveils AI-powered smart glasses to rival Meta in wearable tech push
BABA, META
Published: July 28, 2025 by: Proactive Investors
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) has unveiled its first smart glasses, marking the e-commerce giant's entry into the growing wearable technology market and stepping up competition with rivals like Meta and Xiaomi. The Quark AI Glasses, introduced at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, are powered by Alibaba's proprietary Qwen large language model and Quark AI assistant.

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Investors Heavily Search Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA): Here is What You Need to Know
BABA
Published: July 28, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Zacks.com users have recently been watching Alibaba (BABA) quite a bit. Thus, it is worth knowing the facts that could determine the stock's prospects.

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China's economy is in trouble right now, Gordon Chang says
BABA, BIDU, FXI, JD, KWEB, MCHI, PDD, XPEV
Published: July 25, 2025 by: Fox Business
Sentiment: Negative

Gatestone Institute senior fellow Gordon Chang discusses China purchasing Russian oil and the impact of President Donald Trump withdrawing the U.S. from UNESCO.

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3 Reasons Why Investors Should Stay Away From Alibaba Stock Right Now
BABA
Published: July 22, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Negative

Deteriorating cash flow generation, slowing growth momentum and persistent valuation premiums make BABA a stock worth avoiding right now.

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Is Alibaba Cloud's Growing Partner Base a Catalyst for Future Returns?
BABA
Published: July 22, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

BABA expands Alibaba Cloud's global partner base, fueling AI adoption and revenue growth amid fierce tech competition.

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Alibaba Stock Analysis: Buy or Sell?
BABA
Published: July 19, 2025 by: The Motley Fool
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba (BABA 2.46%) is reporting massive increases in its artificial intelligence business, leading to overall accelerating revenue growth.

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Alibaba Stock Retakes Key Level After Gains From Nvidia News
BABA
Published: July 18, 2025 by: Investors Business Daily
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba stock rallied back above its 50-day moving average following news Nvidia can sell some AI chips in China.

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Privacy group files complaint against AliExpress, TikTok, WeChat
BABA
Published: July 17, 2025 by: Reuters
Sentiment: Negative

Austrian advocacy group noyb on Thursday filed data privacy complaints against China's AliExpress, TikTok and WeChat, saying they failed to comply with European Union laws on providing users a full copy of their data.

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Alibaba: The Calm Before The AI Storm
BABA
Published: July 16, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

I think the market is blind to Alibaba's AI potential, where cloud revenue is seeing triple-digit growth, creating an opportunity similar to Amazon's early internet days. Trading at a cheap 12.7x forward P/E, my model suggests a $136 price target, offering ~19% upside, with more potential if analysts are wrong. Wall Street analysts may be mistakenly cutting earnings estimates, creating a low bar, and ignoring the massive, long-term monetization potential of Alibaba's AI ecosystem.

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) is Attracting Investor Attention: Here is What You Should Know
BABA
Published: July 16, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Zacks.com users have recently been watching Alibaba (BABA) quite a bit. Thus, it is worth knowing the facts that could determine the stock's prospects.

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Is It Worth Investing in Alibaba (BABA) Based on Wall Street's Bullish Views?
BABA
Published: July 15, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?

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Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases new Kimi AI model that beats ChatGPT, Claude in coding — and it costs less
BABA
Published: July 14, 2025 by: CNBC
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba-backed startup Moonshot released late Friday night its Kimi K2 model as a low-cost, open source large language model, with a focus on coding capabilities. Moonshot claimed Kimi K2 surpassed Claude Opus 4 on two benchmarks, and had better overall performance than OpenAI's coding-focused GPT-4.1 model, according to several industry metrics.

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Alibaba vs. JD.com: Which Chinese E-Commerce Stock Has Better Upside?
BABA, JD
Published: July 11, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

BABA's AI transformation, cloud leadership create superior investment potential over JD's capital-heavy approach. Hold BABA for long-term upside in China's digital evolution.

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Can Alibaba's Data Center Expansion Capture the Growing AI Market?
BABA
Published: July 10, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

BABA ramps up global cloud investments with new data centers and aims to power AI growth across Southeast Asia and beyond.

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Alibaba: The Market Is Not Giving Enough Respect
BABA
Published: July 10, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba has arguably not gotten the respect it deserves as China's most significant e-commerce platform. While competition has intensified, Alibaba is still highly profitable. Alibaba is also making rapid gains in AI through its open-source model leadership.

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2 International Tech Stocks That Look Like Buys
BABA, TSM
Published: July 08, 2025 by: 24/7 Wall Street
Sentiment: Positive

Without the leadership of the red-hot U.S. tech sector, the S&P probably wouldn't be making new highs right about now, especially as the tariff deadline looms while new tariff threats are made.

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Alibaba Stock Could Bounce Despite Trade Tensions
BABA
Published: July 07, 2025 by: Schaeffers Research
Sentiment: Neutral

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) shares are 2% lower to trade at $106.55 at last glance, sliding alongside the broader market amid tariff uncertainty.

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Alibaba Remains Heavily Discounted
BABA
Published: July 04, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba remains undervalued after strong year-over-year revenue and profit growth across most business segments, especially e-commerce and cloud computing. AI-driven innovation and expanding cloud services are fueling rapid growth, with AI product revenue seeing triple-digit increases for seven consecutive quarters. The company's balance sheet is robust, with significant net cash and investments, and shares trade at a steep discount to US tech peers like Amazon and Alphabet.

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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) Is a Trending Stock: Facts to Know Before Betting on It
BABA
Published: July 04, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba (BABA) has received quite a bit of attention from Zacks.com users lately. Therefore, it is wise to be aware of the facts that can impact the stock's prospects.

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Alibaba Group Prices Offering of HK$12.023 Billion of Zero Coupon Exchangeable Bonds
BABA
Published: July 03, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

HONG KONG--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988 (HKD Counter) and 89988 (RMB Counter), “Alibaba,” “Alibaba Group” or the “Company”) today announced the pricing of its private offering (the “Bond Offering”) of HK$12.023 billion aggregate principal amount of Zero Coupon Exchangeable Bonds due 2032 (the “Bonds”) by reference to the ordinary shares of Alibaba Health Information Technology Limited (“Alibaba Health”) that are listed on The Stock Exchange of Hong K.

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Alibaba Resharpens Focus on AI and eCommerce
BABA
Published: July 03, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Positive

In May 1999, a group of entrepreneurs launched an online B2B website called Alibaba.com, which operated out of a small apartment in Hangzhou, China. Its goal was to connect Chinese manufacturers and trading companies with overseas buyers.

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Alibaba: Apple Intelligence Partnership Is A Plus
AAPL, BABA
Published: July 03, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba's FQ4 results showed strong growth in Ali Cloud and CMR, with AI-related products continuing to drive momentum. The Qwen3 AI model update and Apple partnership are major catalysts, positioning Alibaba as a key player in China's on-device AI space. Despite growth catalysts, profit and revenue missed expectations, and margins remain under pressure.

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Alibaba (BABA) Stock Declines While Market Improves: Some Information for Investors
BABA
Published: July 02, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

Alibaba (BABA) closed the most recent trading day at $110.71, moving 2.86% from the previous trading session.

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What Makes E-Commerce the Biggest Driver of Alibaba's Revenue Growth?
BABA
Published: June 27, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

E-commerce remains BABA's top growth driver, with Taobao, Tmall and global platforms fueling its strategy shift.

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Is Alibaba (BABA) a Buy as Wall Street Analysts Look Optimistic?
BABA
Published: June 25, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Investors often turn to recommendations made by Wall Street analysts before making a Buy, Sell, or Hold decision about a stock. While media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm employed (or sell-side) analysts often affect a stock's price, do they really matter?

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Investors Heavily Search Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA): Here is What You Need to Know
BABA
Published: June 23, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba (BABA) has been one of the stocks most watched by Zacks.com users lately. So, it is worth exploring what lies ahead for the stock.

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Chinese Stocks and American Exchanges Head for a Breakup
BABA, BIDU, FXI, JD, KWEB, MCHI, PDD
Published: June 22, 2025 by: WSJ
Sentiment: Negative

A delisting push is adding to the unraveling of Wall Street's love affair with China Inc.

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About Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)

  • IPO Date 2014-09-19
  • Website https://www.alibabagroup.com
  • Industry Specialty Retail
  • CEO Yongming Wu
  • Employees 124320

Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses to engage with their users and customers in the People's Republic of China and internationally. The company operates through seven segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others. It operates Taobao and Tmall, which are digital retail platforms; Alimama, a proprietary monetization platform; 1688.com and Alibaba.com, which are online wholesale marketplaces; AliExpress, a retail marketplace; Lazada, Trendyol, and Daraz that are e-commerce platforms; Freshippo, a retail platform for groceries and fresh goods; and Tmall Global, an import e-commerce platform. The company also operates Cainiao Network logistic services platform; Ele.me, an on-demand delivery and local services platform; Koubei, a restaurant and local services guide platform; and Fliggy, an online travel platform. In addition, it offers pay-for-performance, in-feed, and display marketing services; and Taobao Ad Network and Exchange, a real-time online bidding marketing exchange. Further, the company provides elastic computing, storage, network, security, database, big data, and IoT services; and hardware, software license, software installation, and application development and maintenance services. Additionally, it operates Youku, an online video platform; Quark, a platform for information search, storage, and consumption; Alibaba Pictures and other content platforms that provide online videos, films, live events, news feeds, literature, music, and others; Amap, a mobile digital map, navigation, and real-time traffic information app; DingTalk, a business efficiency mobile app; Tmall Genie smart speaker; and Qwen, an artificial intelligence chatbot. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Hangzhou, the People's Republic of China.