# Alibaba Group Holding Limited share price today (Alibaba Group Holding Limited, BABA)

> Alibaba Group Holding Limited's share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. BABA · Consumer Discretionary · Internet Retail · data as of 3 November 2026. Page: https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/baba

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## Key numbers

- Business trend: Mixed, from fewer quarters than usual
- Price: $100.36 (−41.1% in a year)
- P/E: 22.9×, against its own history
- Revenue (Jun 2026): CNY 269 B (+8.6% on a year ago)
- Profit (Jun 2026): CNY 10.5 B (−75.6% on a year ago)
- Operating margin: 7.3% (−6.8 points on a year ago)
- ROE: 9%, FY26
- ROIC: 3.1%, against a 6.2% cost of capital: −3.1 points

Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. ## What is the Alibaba Group Holding Limited share price today? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's share price was $100.36 at the close on 3 November 2026. It has been falling for 12 weeks. That is 20.1% 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 7% of the way up from that low. 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 +27% while the S&P 500 moved +255%, 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. ## What dividend does Alibaba Group Holding Limited pay? 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. ## Which stock lists is Alibaba Group Holding Limited on? 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. ## Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited profitable? 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. 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. ## How much revenue does Alibaba Group Holding Limited make, and is it growing? 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. 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. ## How much of its sales does Alibaba Group Holding Limited keep? 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. 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. ## Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited's profit turning into cash? 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. 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. ## Where does Alibaba Group Holding Limited's cash go? 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. 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. ## What is Alibaba Group Holding Limited's P/E ratio, and how does it compare with its own history? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's P/E is 22.9×, 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. 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. ## Is the Alibaba Group Holding Limited business getting better or worse? 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. 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. ## How much does Alibaba Group Holding Limited earn on its capital? 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. 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. ## Does Alibaba Group Holding Limited have too much debt? 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. 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. ## What is the Alibaba Group Holding Limited shareholding pattern? 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. ## How far is Alibaba Group Holding Limited from balance-sheet trouble? 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. Why it matters: a Z-score of 2.88 is in the grey area, neither clearly safe nor clearly in trouble. ## How does Alibaba Group Holding Limited rank in its industry? 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. ## Which companies is Alibaba Group Holding Limited compared with? No sector comparison is shown here, not among the largest members shown in this industry comparison. ## Which companies are close to Alibaba Group Holding Limited in size? Alibaba Group Holding Limited is the 2nd largest of 24 Internet Retail companies on Sector Alpha by market value (scores of 3 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.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/amzn) $2.71 trillion
2. Alibaba Group Holding Limited $249.5 billion
3. [PDD Holdings Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/pdd) $114.1 billion
4. [MercadoLibre, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/meli) $84.3 billion
5. [DoorDash, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/dash) $79.9 billion
6. [eBay Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/ebay) $52.1 billion
7. [Sea Limited](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/se) $47 billion

[All 24 Internet Retail companies, largest first](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/sectors/internet-retail#all-companies)

### Companies close in size in other industries

1. [Netflix, Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/nflx) $256 billion · Entertainment
2. [Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/tmo) $252.9 billion · Diagnostics & Research
3. Alibaba Group Holding Limited $252.3 billion
4. [Amgen Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/amgn) $251.6 billion · Drug Manufacturers - General
5. [Dell Technologies Inc.](https://www.sectoralpha.in/us/stocks/dell) $249.7 billion · Computer Hardware

## What else do people ask about Alibaba Group Holding Limited? ### What is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited's stock price today? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's stock price is $100.36, −41.1% over the past year. The whole company is worth $249 B on the market. In the last 52 weeks it traded between $95 to $173; today it is 7% of the way up from the low, 20.1% below its 200-day average (as of 3 November 2026). ### What were Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited's latest quarterly results? Alibaba Group Holding Limited reported revenue of CNY 269 B and net profit of CNY 10.5 B for the Jun 2026 quarter. Revenue rose 8.6% and profit fell 75.6% compared with a year earlier. The operating margin was 7.3%, 6.8 percentage points lower than a year earlier (as of 3 November 2026). ### What is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited's market cap? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's market capitalisation is $249 B at a stock price of $100.36. Market cap is the share price times the number of shares, so it changes whenever the price moves (as of 3 November 2026). ### How is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited performing? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's share price has been falling for 12 weeks. In its latest quarter, revenue rose 8.6% and profit fell 75.6% compared with a year earlier. Over the past 13 weeks it has done worse than the S&P 500, for 5 weeks running (as of 3 November 2026). ### Will Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited's stock price go up? This page does not forecast Alibaba Group Holding Limited's stock price. What it shows instead: the stock price is $100.36, and it has been falling for 12 weeks. Nobody can reliably say which way a price will move, and this site does not try (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited's profit real cash? Yes, over the last 3 years, 134% of Alibaba Group Holding Limited's reported profit came in as cash from operations. The latest year was lower at 72%, so the trend is worth watching. In FY26, operating cash was CNY 76.2 B against reported profit of CNY 106 B. Most of that cash then goes into building new capacity. These are yearly figures (as of 3 November 2026). ### Where is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited in its business cycle? Alibaba Group Holding Limited's FY26 operating margin was 6.2%, against a 5-year range of 6.2% to 15.2%: the low end of its own range, which is often where recoveries start. The latest quarter was 7.3%. Comparing margins with a company's own long history is a good way to see where it is in its cycle (as of 3 November 2026). ### What could break the Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited story? Biggest thing to watch: the price is not yet in a clear uptrend, so timing is the risk more than the business. On price, this page treats a rise as over when the share price closes below its 200-day average on two Fridays in a row (as of 3 November 2026). ### Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited Limited a stock worth studying right now? What the numbers show: Alibaba Group Holding Limited's share price, valuation and earnings point in different directions. The next one or two quarters should make it clearer. The main open question: the next one or two quarters of results. Every number on this page is worked out by code from the published figures, with no forecasts and no price opinions (as of 3 November 2026). This is research, not advice. We’re not SEBI-registered.