About Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It operates through the Alibaba China E-Commerce Group, Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, Cloud Intelligence Group, and All Others segments. The Alibaba China E-commerce Group segment operates Taobao and Tmall, which are digital retail platforms; Taobao Instant Commerce, a local services and on-demand delivery platform; 1688.com, a domestic wholesale marketplace; and Xianyu, a consumer-to-consumer community and marketplace for idle goods. Its Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group segment includes AliExpress, a global e-commerce platform; Trendyol, an e-commerce platform in Turkey; Lazada, an e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia; Daraz, an e-commerce platform in South Asia, primarily in Pakistan and Bangladesh; and Alibaba.com, an integrated international online wholesale marketplace. The Cloud Intelligence Group segment offers a suite of cloud services based on infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and model-as-a-service. Its All Others segment comprises Amap, a provider of mobile digital maps, navigation, and real-time traffic information in China; Cainiao, which provides logistics solutions; Youku, an online long-form video platform in China; Freshippo, a retail platform for groceries and fresh goods; and Alibaba Health, a pharmaceutical and healthcare services platform. Alibaba Group Holding Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Hangzhou, China.
Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) is a Consumer Cyclical company in the Internet Retail industry with a market capitalisation of $271.7B. The stock trades at 24.56x trailing earnings and yields 0.97%.
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Internet Retail
- Market cap
- $271.7B
- P/E ratio
- 24.56
- Forward P/E
- 11.77
- EPS (TTM)
- $4.45
- Revenue (TTM)
- $1T
- Free cash flow
- -$82.6B
- Profit margin
- 7.0%
- Dividend yield
- 0.97%
- Beta
- 0.50
- Shares outstanding
- 2.5B
Financial health: Fair5/10
2 strengths, 2 concerns. Weakest points: return on equity, earnings growth.
- Return on equity: 6.4% (Concern, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 6.4% on shareholder equity, well short of the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 38.2% (Watch, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 38.2% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, short of the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 7.0% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 7.0% of revenue into profit, short of the > 10% mark.
- Revenue growth: 8.6% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 8.6% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: -79.4% (Concern, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed -79.4% year on year, well short of the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 0.50 (Strong, benchmark < 1) — At 0.50, the price looks cheap relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 24.0% (Strong, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 24.0% of earnings as dividends, leaving room to keep paying.