Alibaba (BABA)

• Market cap: $284B
• 1 day: 0.43%
• 5 days: -0.59%
• 1 month: -10.10%
• 3 months: 22.91%
• 6 months: 19.08%
• Year to date: 39.94%
• 1 year: 55.58%
• 5 years: -42.49%
• 10 years: 44.18%
• Sector: Consumer Discretionary
• Industry: Internet Retail

About: Alibaba is the world's largest online and mobile commerce company as measured by gross merchandise volume. It operates China's online marketplaces, including Taobao (consumer-to-consumer) and Tmall (business-to-consumer). The China commerce retail division is the most valuable cash flow-generating business at Alibaba. Additional revenue sources include China commerce wholesale, international commerce retail/wholesale, local consumer services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment platforms, Cainiao logistics services, and innovation initiatives/other.

Employees: 204,891

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

72% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $10.4B | Put options by funds: $6.04B

0.13% less ownership

Funds ownership: 1.83% [Q3] → 1.7% (-0.13%) [Q4]

7% less first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 195 | Existing positions closed: 210

3% less funds holding

Funds holding: 1,214 [Q3] → 1,173 (-41) [Q4]

11% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 376 | Existing positions reduced: 421

24% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 82 [Q3] → 62 (-20) [Q4]

27% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $37.5B [Q3] → $27.5B (-$9.98B) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

10 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $125 5% upside
• Avg. target: $166 40% upside
• High target: $190 60% upside

10 analyst ratings

• positive: 9 90%
• neutral: 1 10%
• negative: 0 0%

Citigroup Alicia Yap 47% 1-year accuracy 14 / 30 met price target	42% upside $169	Buy Maintained	8 Apr 2025
Mizuho James Lee 48% 1-year accuracy 14 / 29 met price target	43% upside $170	Outperform Maintained	28 Mar 2025
Benchmark Fawne Jiang 52% 1-year accuracy 29 / 56 met price target	60% upside $190	Buy Reiterated	26 Feb 2025
Bernstein Robin Zhu 25% 1-year accuracy 1 / 4 met price target	39% upside $165	Outperform Upgraded	25 Feb 2025
Morgan Stanley Gary Yu 0% 1-year accuracy 0 / 1 met price target	51% upside $180	Overweight Upgraded	24 Feb 2025