Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)

CN — Consumer Cyclical Sector
Peers: PDD  MELI  JD  SE  VIPS  JMIA  GLBE  ETSY 

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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

Calls of the Day: Caterpillar, United Rentals, Cummins, Vulcan Materials, Alibaba and T-Mobile
BABA, CAT, CMI, TMUS, URI, VMC
Published: April 16, 2025 by: CNBC Television
Sentiment: Neutral

The Investment Committee debate the latest Calls of the Day.

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Why Are US-Listed Chinese Stocks Falling On Wednesday?
BABA, BIDU, FXI, JD, KWEB, MCHI, PDD
Published: April 16, 2025 by: Benzinga
Sentiment: Negative

U.S.-listed Chinese companies Alibaba Group Holding BABA, PDD Holdings Inc PDD, Baidu, Inc BIDU, NIO Inc NIO, Li Auto Inc LI, and XPeng Inc XPEV are trading lower Wednesday.

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Buy These 5 Internet-Commerce Stocks to Enhance Your Portfolio Returns
BABA, CHWY, CVNA, EBAY, TRIP
Published: April 16, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Five E-commerce stocks have strong potential for 2025. These are: CVNA, EBAY, CHWY, BABA, TRIP.

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4 Top-Ranked High Earnings Yield Value Stocks to Buy Right Away
BABA, FMS, HLX, HRTG
Published: April 15, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Unlock your portfolio value with value stocks like Alibaba, Fresenius Medical, Helix Energy and Heritage Insurance. All these stocks boast high earnings yield.

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Wall Street Analysts Think Alibaba (BABA) Is a Good Investment: Is It?
BABA
Published: April 15, 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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Alibaba: Why It's My Preferred Bet Amid The U.S.-China Trade War (Upgrade)
BABA
Published: April 11, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

Despite the US-China trade war, Alibaba's minimal exposure to the US market positions it to outperform peers like PDD if tensions worsen. Alibaba's primary China commerce segment and resilient cloud computing business anchor the company's growth prospects. Alibaba could gain share, while its more US-exposed rivals face greater risks, especially the fast fashion behemoths.

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BABA vs. CPNG: Which Stock Is the Better Value Option?
BABA, CPNG
Published: April 09, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

Investors looking for stocks in the Internet - Commerce sector might want to consider either Alibaba (BABA) or Coupang, Inc. (CPNG). But which of these two companies is the best option for those looking for undervalued stocks?

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Best Momentum Stock to Buy for April 9th
BABA, CME, HSNGY
Published: April 09, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

HSNGY, BABA and CME made it to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) momentum stocks list on April 9, 2025.

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Best Value Stocks to Buy for April 9th
BABA, ELUXY, SAN
Published: April 09, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

ELUXY, SAN and BABA made it to the Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) value stocks list on April 9, 2025.

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Tariff Fallout: Chinese Tech Stocks Plunge on Wall Street
BABA, JD, PDD
Published: April 07, 2025 by: Schaeffers Research
Sentiment: Negative

U.S.-listed shares of Chinese companies are tumbling as investor anxiety over the new tariffs mounts -- especially after President Donald Trump threatened additional levies if Beijing doesn't roll back its retaliatory duties.

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Why Alibaba Stock Is Tanking Today
BABA
Published: April 04, 2025 by: The Motley Fool
Sentiment: Negative

Shares of Alibaba (BABA -11.69%) are tumbling on Friday. The company's stock lost 11% as of 1:50 p.m.

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Chinese stocks sink as trade tensions escalate
BABA, BIDU, FXI, JD, KWEB, MCHI, PDD
Published: April 04, 2025 by: Proactive Investors
Sentiment: Negative

Chinese stocks experienced significant declines on Friday as trade tensions between the US and China escalated. The downturn was triggered by China's move to impose retailiatory tariffs on the US.

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Michael Burry's biggest stock holding is crashing like crazy
BABA
Published: April 04, 2025 by: Finbold
Sentiment: Neutral

Michael Burry made a name for himself by correctly predicting and profiting from the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, as immortalized in the blockbuster motion picture ‘ The Big Short '.

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Bull of the Day: Alibaba (BABA)
BABA
Published: April 04, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

Liberation Day gave way to Armageddon as markets sold off considerably Thursday. Large retaliatory tariffs against nearly every US trading partner caused the dramatic dump.

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Alibaba Could Be a No-Brainer Buy in April
BABA
Published: April 03, 2025 by: The Motley Fool
Sentiment: Neutral

Stocks opened sharply lower on Thursday, following the official rollout of higher-than-expected U.S. tariffs on imports. There's no shortage of companies and consumers that will suffer from the inflationary pressures or rising input costs.

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Alibaba Is In A Prime Position To Capitalize On Significant AI Growth In China
BABA
Published: April 03, 2025 by: Seeking Alpha
Sentiment: Positive

AI is projected to add $15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030, with China expected to see a 26.1% GDP growth from AI. Alibaba, benefiting from China's AI initiatives, has seen a 60.7% stock increase, driven by growth in its Cloud Intelligence Group and ecommerce operations. Despite concerns of overbuilding in AI data centers, Alibaba plans to invest $52 billion in AI and data centers over the next three years.

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Alibaba seen as a better AI stock than Nvidia and a hedge against tariff risks
BABA
Published: April 02, 2025 by: Invezz
Sentiment: Neutral

Nvidia may have been the AI darling in recent years, but Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is currently a better pick to bet on a continued momentum in artificial intelligence, says EMJ Capital founder Eric Jackson.

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Report: Alibaba to Release Upgraded Qwen 3 AI Model in Late April
BABA
Published: April 01, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba Group Holding reportedly plans to release an upgraded version of its flagship AI model, Qwen 3, later this month. The timing of the release could change, Bloomberg reported Tuesday (April 1), citing an unnamed source.

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Alibaba prepares for flagship AI model release as soon as April, Bloomberg News reports
BABA
Published: April 01, 2025 by: Reuters
Sentiment: Positive

China's Alibaba Group is planning to release Qwen 3, an upgraded version of its flagship AI model, as soon as this month, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

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Here is What to Know Beyond Why Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) is a Trending Stock
BABA
Published: March 31, 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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Top ETF Stories of Q1 2025
ACWI, AI, BABA, CARZ, EPOL, FXI, FXY, GDX, GLD, KWEB, SLV, SLVP, SLX, UUP
Published: March 31, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

Wall Street experienced massive volatility in the first quarter of 2025, largely due to trade uncertainty. International economies and gold outperformed.

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Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP Secures Record-Setting $433.5 Million Recovery in Alibaba Investor Lawsuit
BABA
Published: March 28, 2025 by: Business Wire
Sentiment: Neutral

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glancy Prongay & Murray has secured final approval of an historic $433.5 million settlement in the Alibaba Group Holding Limited securities class action. The settlement resolves investors' claims that Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) violated the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 by allegedly misrepresenting its regulatory compliance and its use of monopolistic business practices during the period November 13, 2019 through December 23, 2020. The settlement is the largest sec.

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What's behind Alibaba's $100 billion rally this year?
BABA
Published: March 28, 2025 by: CNBC International TV
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba's shares have seen a big rally in 2025 after a difficult few years that saw its co-founder Jack Ma's empire come under scrutiny from the Chinese government. CNBC's Arjun Kharpal discusses how Alibaba's recent fortunes have improved.

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Alibaba Deepens Partnership With BMW in China: Time to Buy the Stock?
BABA
Published: March 28, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Positive

BABA's BMW deal showcases its AI edge. Triple-digit AI growth and smart investments position it for dominance.

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Forget the Mag 7. The ‘Terrific 10' Are the Tech Bet for 2025.
BABA, BIDU, BYD, GELYF, JD, MPNGF, NTES, SMICY, TCEHY, XIACF
Published: March 27, 2025 by: Market Watch
Sentiment: Positive

Nvidia NVDA-5.74%, Tesla TSLA-5.58%, and the rest of Big Tech are having a rough go of it, while China's Terrific 10— Alibaba 9988+0.46%, Tencent 700+0.49%, Meituan 3690+1.81%, Xiaomi 1810-4.17%, JD.com JD+0.75%, NetEase NTES+1.05%, Baidu BIDU+2.22%, BYD 002594+2.79%, Geely 175-1.05%, and SMIC 981+4.24%—are not. That raises the question: Are the Mag Seven yesterday's news and is it time to focus on their Chinese counterparts instead?

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Alibaba launches new open-source AI model for 'cost-effective AI agents'
BABA
Published: March 26, 2025 by: CNBC
Sentiment: Positive

The company says the new "Qwen2.5-Omni-7B" is a multimodal model that can process text, images, audio, and videos, while generating real-time text and natural speech responses. Amid China's AI fervor accelerated by DeepSeek, Alibaba and other generative AI competitors have been releasing new, cost-effective models and products at an unprecedented pace.

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Alibaba Cloud Launches Compact, Multimodal AI Model
BABA
Published: March 26, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Positive

Alibaba Cloud has launched a multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) model that can process inputs in the form of text, images, audio and video, and can generate real-time responses in the form of text and natural speech. The new Qwen2.

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Seeking Exposure to China Tech Stocks? Use This Tool
BABA
Published: March 25, 2025 by: Zacks Investment Research
Sentiment: Neutral

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How Alibaba is killing Nvidia stock
BABA, NVDA
Published: March 25, 2025 by: Finbold
Sentiment: Neutral

In late January, a sudden deluge of competition from China triggered a massive Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock sell-off when the release of DeepSeek's R1 and Alibaba's (NYSE: BABA) Qwen 2.1 threatened to collapse NVDA below $100.

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Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai Cautions Against US AI Industry ‘Bubble'
BABA
Published: March 25, 2025 by: PYMNTS
Sentiment: Neutral

Like many technology firms, China's Alibaba has been investing in artificial intelligence. However, Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai said he was “astounded” by the level of AI being planned by the technology sector in the United States, Reuters reported Tuesday (March 25).

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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.