Alibaba Group Holding Limited share price today

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's share price was $105.29 at the close on 4 November 2026. It has been falling for 12 weeks. That is 16.0% below its average price over the last 200 trading days. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $95 and $173, and at that close it sat 13% of the way up from that low.

A share price tends to move through four phases: moving sideways (stage 1), rising (stage 2), stalling near a high (stage 3) and falling (stage 4). Today Alibaba Group Holding Limited is in stage 4. The phase helps read everything below.

Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, and it has been behind for 5 weeks running.

Over the last 10 years the share price moved +33% while the S&P 500 moved +261%, so it is behind the index over that whole period. It was last ahead over 13 weeks in the week of 2 October 2026. The chart above shows the 13-week comparison for every week.

This page treats a rise as over when the price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited declared CNY 7.24 per local share for Mar 2026. It reports in Chinese yuan, and one US-listed share can stand for several local shares, so we do not set this against the dollar price or show a yield.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is not in the Nasdaq 100, the S&P 500 or the Dow Jones 30, and is not on the US tech stocks list.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited earned CNY 10.5 B of net profit in the Jun 2026 quarter, −75.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. Full-year FY26 profit was CNY 106 B. Over 4 years profit has grown 14.3% a year on average. That is 3.9% of the quarter's revenue. The same quarter a year earlier earned CNY 43.1 B.

Net profit is what is left after every cost, interest and tax. Earnings per share, dividends and book value all grow from it.

For the full year, FY26 profit was CNY 106 B (−18.2% on the year before).

Why profit moved: revenue changed +8.6% on a year earlier and the margin moved −6.8 percentage points. Sales did the work while the margin got thinner.

On average over the last four quarters, profit changed −22.2% and revenue +4.5%. Profit is growing slower than sales: rising costs are taking part of the growth.

This company reports in Chinese yuan, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (CNY); nothing is converted.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited reported CNY 269 B of revenue in the Jun 2026 quarter, +8.6% on the same quarter a year earlier. That is the 12th quarter in a row with growth on the year before. Over 4 years it has grown 4.7% a year on average. The last full year, FY26, came in at CNY 1,024 B.

Revenue is everything the company billed its customers in the period.

The last four reported quarters add to CNY 1,045 B.

FY26 revenue was CNY 1,024 B, +2.7% on the year before.

Recent pace: the last four quarters grew +4.5% on average, against 4.7% a year over the longer run, so this year is growing at about the same pace as its own long-run rate.

Is growth speeding up? Revenue over the last 12 months grew +4.4%, against +4.9% a year over the last 8 quarters (stabilising); profit over the last 12 months grew −50.6%, against +2.6% a year (rolling over).

This company reports in Chinese yuan, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (CNY); nothing is converted.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's operating margin was 7.3% in the Jun 2026 quarter, 6.8 percentage points lower than the same quarter a year ago. Across 5 years it has been between 6.2% and 15.2%. The latest quarter is within that range.

Operating margin is what is left from every CNY 100 of sales after the costs of running the business, before interest and tax. It shows pricing power and cost control.

Why the margin moved: operating margin changed −6.8 percentage points on the year while gross margin changed −6.7 points. So the drop came mostly from the gross margin, which means input costs and prices charged.

Over the last 3 years, 134% of Alibaba Group Holding Limited's reported profit came in as cash from its operations, so the profit is backed by cash. In FY26 it brought in CNY 76.2 B of operating cash against CNY 106 B of profit.

The profit and loss account shows what was earned. The cash-flow statement shows the cash that actually came in. Comparing operating cash flow with profit is one of the best checks that a profit is real.

After CNY 126 B of spending on assets, free cash was −CNY 49.9 B: it spent more than its operations brought in.

Cash-flow figures here are yearly, because quarterly cash statements are not published, so this section changes once a year.

Why: the cash figure is clear, but the day counts behind it are not in our data, so we show it without guessing the reason.

What to look at next: the main use of cash is spending on assets. The next section checks what that spending is building.

This company reports in Chinese yuan, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (CNY); nothing is converted.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited does not report the customer, stock and supplier day counts a cash cycle needs, so this section looks at its spending on assets instead. It spent CNY 244 B on assets over the last 3 years. Averaged over those years that is 7.9% of FY26 revenue a year.

Working capital is the cash tied up between paying suppliers and getting paid. Debtor days: how long customers take to pay. Inventory days: how long stock sits. The cash cycle: the whole loop, in days of sales.

Nothing is estimated in place of the missing day counts, so no cash-cycle chart is drawn.

Spending on assets: CNY 244 B over the last 3 years.

In short: the cash is going into new capacity, not getting stuck in the daily cycle. The question is whether the new capacity earns.

This company reports in Chinese yuan, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (CNY); nothing is converted.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's P/E is 24.0×, with too little history to compare. This compares the share price with the company’s own past. It does not say what the business is worth.

P/E is the share price divided by a year's profit per share: how many dollars the market pays for each dollar of yearly profit.

In short: there is too little history to say whether the multiple is high or low for this company, so the earnings trend underneath matters more than the multiple.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited's business is giving mixed signals. There is no clear direction across the growth lines, with ROCE falling at 3.4%; each line tells part of the story. This is based on 12 quarters of 3 measures, with some gaps.

Every business is somewhere on a path of getting better or worse, and this section names where. The last 12 quarters of growth in revenue, profit and earnings per share, plus the return the business earns on its capital, are read as lines. Getting worse: the lines are falling. Turning around: a low point has just formed and the last few quarters are rising from it. Getting better: the rise from the low has lasted. Growing steadily: steady growth with healthy returns. Slowing from a peak: still high, but slowing. When the lines disagree the result is mixed; too little history means no reading. CAGR (compound annual growth rate) is the steady yearly rate that would turn the starting value into the latest one. It is the fairest way to compare growth over different periods. If the 1-year figure is much bigger than the 10-year one, recent growth is running faster than the long-run trend. A dash means there is no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss, where a growth rate means nothing.

Why it matters: when the lines disagree, each line above matters more than any single label.

This reading has some gaps: at least one line is short, or the return line is not the quarterly series, so treat it with a little more caution.

Compound annual growth rate (%)

Compound annual growth rate over each period, %. Revenue, profit and EPS come from yearly figures; the stock price row is price growth over the same periods. A dash means no figure for that period, or the starting year was a loss.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited earned a ROE of 9% in FY26. That is up from a low of 6% in FY22. Its return on capital used (ROIC) is 3.1 percentage points below its cost of capital, so growth here does not yet pay for the capital it uses.

Return on equity (ROE) is the profit the business earns on its shareholders’ money. We do not have the full capital split, so ROE is the longest history we can draw here.

It comes from a 10.3% net margin and 0.54× asset turnover (sales divided by assets).

Why the return is what it is (FY26): a 10.3% net margin × 0.54× asset turnover × 1.70× leverage (assets divided by equity) ≈ 9.5% on equity. The margin does its share; borrowing is a big part of it.

The key test, return on capital used minus the cost of capital: 3.1% − 6.2% = −3.1 percentage points. The 6.2% is an estimate of this company's own cost of capital. Read the sign and size of the gap, not the decimals. Negative: growth at these returns loses value until returns improve.

The 3.1% ROIC above is the latest reading, as reported. The yearly chart below shows FY26 at 4.9%, and the quarterly chart works out each 12-month window from the quarterly figures, so the readings differ by date, not by method.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited has total debt of CNY 267 B against shareholder equity of CNY 1,114 B as of Jun 2026, so its debt is 0.24× its equity, which is very little. Year by year, that ratio went from 0.16 in FY22 to 0.25 in FY26.

Debt-to-equity shows how much of the business is paid for with borrowed money. Lower is safer, and the direction matters as much as the level.

So the returns on this page come from the business, not from borrowed money.

This company reports in Chinese yuan, not US dollars, so the money charts are left out here. The figures in the text are in that currency (CNY); nothing is converted.

We have no ownership or short-position figures for Alibaba Group Holding Limited, so this section says so rather than fill the gap. At normal trading volumes, closing those positions would take about 4.3 days. US companies do not publish a quarter-by-quarter list of owners, so this page uses short interest instead.

There is no quarter-by-quarter list of owners here, so we look at short interest: the share of tradable shares held in short positions, which gain if the price falls.

For Alibaba Group Holding Limited, the Z-score is 2.88. A Z-score above about 3 is safe and below about 1.8 signals danger, so this is in the grey area between the two. It estimates how far the balance sheet is from trouble; it is not a forecast of failure.

The Z-score estimates how far a company is from balance-sheet trouble. Above about 3 is safe; below about 1.8 is the danger zone. It was built for manufacturers, so it is not used for banks and lenders.

Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.88 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble.

There is no score against its industry: Alibaba Group Holding Limited is not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison for Internet Retail.

The score ranks a company within its industry: each measure is scored against the other members. Without that group there is no score, so none is shown.

No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is the 2nd largest of 24 Internet Retail companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 4 November 2026). Just above it: Amazon.com, Inc. Just below it: PDD Holdings Inc., MercadoLibre, Inc., DoorDash, Inc., eBay Inc. and Sea.

Internet Retail companies close in size

1. Amazon.com, Inc. $2.88 trillion
2. Alibaba Group Holding Limited $261.7 billion
3. PDD Holdings Inc. $116.9 billion
4. MercadoLibre, Inc. $88.6 billion
5. DoorDash, Inc. $86.7 billion
6. eBay Inc. $55 billion
7. Sea Limited $49.1 billion

All 24 Internet Retail companies, largest first

Companies close in size in other industries

51. Wells Fargo & Company $262.5 billion · Banks - Diversified
52. Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. $261.7 billion · Diagnostics & Research
53. Alibaba Group Holding Limited $261.7 billion
54. Amgen Inc. $258.6 billion · Drug Manufacturers - General
55. CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. $247.3 billion · Software - Infrastructure

Sector Alpha, written by code from the published numbers. Data as of 4 November 2026.

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