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2021-06-14

My take : Alibaba will be the King!

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2021-06-23

That’s a good step to work w the China govt. Maythe IPO be out soon and let Alibaba start to go up to fair value !

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2021-06-04

Huge growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!

Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500? If You Got Time, Yes

2021-04-11

Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba

NEWSMAKER-Record penalty for Ma's Alibaba marks tumultuous stretch for its founder

2022-01-05

$Alibaba(BABA)$The Charlie Munger Effect!!! To The Moon!

2021-05-10

Looking forward to the full year Alibaba results coming outsoon!

Jack Ma makes rare visit to Alibaba headquarters in Hangzhou

2021-06-03

Good start!

Ant Gets Go-Ahead for Consumer Lending Unit in Sign of Thaw

2021-05-14

So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!

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2021-06-11

I agree. BABA is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD

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2021-06-03

Too the moon!

Is Alibaba's Stock About To Rally?

2021-05-19

I agree

Regulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential

2021-05-06

Fingers crossed!! Hope that will signal the beginning on a great news!

Ant In Talks With Chinese Authorities About Turning Its ‘Mutual-Aid’ Service Into A Regulated Business - WSJ

2023-03-15

$Bank of America(BAC)$

2022-07-05

I dunno but I think long term, this stock should be good

2021-12-22

$Alibaba(BABA)$My Baba… how long must we wait…

2021-06-01

Waiting for the uptrend!

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2021-05-13

Great performance!!

Alibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations

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BABA&nbsp;is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","listText":"I agree. BABA&nbsp;is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","text":"I agree. BABA is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/188364054","repostId":"1195128984","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1195128984","pubTimestamp":1623416618,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1195128984?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-11 21:03","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Alibaba Vs. 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On top of that, Chinese consumers use e-commerce solutions widely, which naturally means that there is a very large, and growing, market opportunity for online shopping c","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Alibaba Group and JD.com Inc. are high-growth players that benefit from digitalization and growing consumer spending in China.</li>\n <li>BABA and JD operate with different business models, which is why BABA generates significantly higher margins.</li>\n <li>The growth outlook is very strong for both companies, but investors should consider valuation differences between the two companies.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b>Article Thesis</b></p>\n<p>The Chinese middle class is growing quickly, which results in strong consumer spending growth. On top of that, Chinese consumers use e-commerce solutions widely, which naturally means that there is a very large, and growing, market opportunity for online shopping companies such as Alibaba Group (BABA) and JD.com Inc. (JD). In this article, we will take a look at these two companies, how they compare, their similarities and differences, and try to find out which company is the better pick at current prices.</p>\n<p><b>Alibaba Stock Price</b></p>\n<p>BABA is one of the largest Chinese tech companies, being valued at $590 billion. Its shares are up by triple digits since the IPO a couple of years ago, but over the more recent past, BABA has not been a strong performer. At $214 today, shares are down around one-third from the peak that was hit last fall. This underperformance was, in part, driven by thefailed Ant Financial IPOand by increased scrutiny by Chinese regulators.</p>\n<p>These factors have, however, not negatively impacted BABA's results. Instead, the company kept generating strong growth rates in recent quarters, which indicates that the recent share price underperformance was likely driven by weak sentiment and reluctance to invest in Chinese companies to a significant degree.</p>\n<p>Based on current earnings forecasts for this year, BABA shares are trading for just 21x this year's earnings. This seems like a very inexpensive valuation -- especially when one considers that the company is still growing at a rapid pace, with revenue growthranging from 36% to 81%during the last four quarters.</p>\n<p><b>JD.com Stock Price</b></p>\n<p>JD is, like BABA, a company that has seen its shares rise strongly over the last couple of years. It shares another similarity with its larger peer, however, as its shares have also underperformed in the recent past. JD's shares peaked in February and are down by 33% from the high today, dropping from $108 to $72 in a couple of months. As stated above, growing reluctance when it comes to investing in Chinese equities, coupled with some worries about a regulatory crackdown, play a role in JD's weak share price performance.</p>\n<p>The company has, at the same time, seen its shares peak at a similar time to those of other high-growth, high-valuation stocks such as Tesla (TSLA). The share price underperformance in recent months may thus also be driven by a shift fromgrowth stocks to value stocks, and by the so-called reopening trade. At its current share price, JD.com is valued at around $110 billion, which is around one-fifth of Alibaba's valuation.</p>\n<p>Unlike BABA, JD is not trading at a discount to the broad market, as shares are currently valued at 45x this year's earnings per share, using current consensus estimates for adjusted EPS, which back out some one-time items. JD thus trades at a 100%+ premium compared to BABA, although it should be mentioned that other e-commerce players from different countries, such as US-based Amazon (AMZN), trade at similar or even higher valuations. Amazon trades at 59x this year's expected EPS, for example, while South America-focused MercadoLibre (MELI) trades at more than 2000x this year's expected net profits. JD thus is clearly way more expensive than BABA, but in comparison to international peers, its valuation is not at all outrageously high.</p>\n<p><b>Are JD.com and Alibaba Competitors?</b></p>\n<p>JD.com Inc. and Alibaba Group both operate in the e-commerce space, although their business models are not exactly the same. Alibaba is primarily a platform provider, where third-party sellers offer their merchandise while Alibaba receives a platform fee without handling packaging, logistics, etc. themselves. JD.com, on the other hand, sells, like Amazon, products themselves, which includes handling, transportation, packaging, etc. JD does offer a marketplace for third-party sellers as well, but this is not their primary business, which differentiates them from BABA to some degree. JD, due to handling logistics themselves, has invested heavily in tech in this area, which includes using drones and robots to deliver products to customers.</p>\n<p>Both companies do, on top of operating e-commerce operations, also invest in a wide range of other projects and businesses. This includes, for example, BABA's<i>Alibaba Cloud</i>and JD's autonomous vehicles venture.</p>\n<p>Despite the fact that the two companies do operate somewhat different business models, they are, of course, still competitors. Both serve the Chinese online shopping/e-commerce consumer market, and both seek to maximize their platforms' share of dollars that are spent online in the country. Luckily, the Chinese e-commerce market islarge and grows rapidly, which means that both companies can grow their top lines at the same time - there is enough room for both to grow profitably.</p>\n<p><b>What Is The Difference Between Alibaba And JD?</b></p>\n<p>The aforementioned fact that both companies have somewhat different business models is one key difference between the two, and it has implications for the fundamentals these companies are operating with:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/c26f2ff289114ca6ac216d075961f252\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"515\"></p>\n<p>Data byYCharts</p>\n<p>Since BABA does operate asset-light, and without having to handle a lot of logistics, BABA generates significantly higher margins than JD, no matter whether one takes a look at gross margins, EBITDA margins, or operating margins. JD's margins look more like those of Amazon, i.e. significantly lower, which isn't a large surprise -- like Amazon, JD has high expenses for packaging, handling, storage, and so on.</p>\n<p>Another big difference is the respective size of the two companies. BABA, being valued at 5x JD's market cap, and generating net profits that are about 10x higher than those of JD, is a significantly larger company. The two don't differ too much in terms of revenue generation, however, which can be explained by the different business models -- JD has high revenue per product, at a low margin, whereas BABA's business model that focuses on platform fees generates lower revenue per product at much higher margins.</p>\n<p>Overall, I'd rate BABA's business model more attractive. In a downturn, BABA's way higher margins will allow the company to stomach some margin pressure more easily, and its fee-based operations are lean and do result in low capital expenditure requirements. This, in turn, allows BABA to put a lot of free cash towards other business units, such as its cloud computing unit, while BABA has also been highly active in M&amp;A as well.</p>\n<p><b>Alibaba Vs. JD.com: Which Is The Best Chinese Stock To Buy?</b></p>\n<p>Several things should be considered here, including fundamentals, growth, valuation, and risk factors. As stated above, BABA's business model allows for better fundamentals, and I believe that this will not change in the foreseeable future, as the much higher margins seem to be inherent for a company utilizing this platform approach.</p>\n<p>Looking at growth, we see that both have grown rapidly in recent years, including during pandemic-impacted 2020. Current analyst consensus estimates for the coming years look like this:</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dd91edeaa64807108941f40b4570b3e8\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"535\"></p>\n<p>Data byYCharts</p>\n<p>Alibaba is forecasted to grow its revenue by 21% in 2022, and by 18% in 2023. JD.com, meanwhile, is forecasted to grow its top line by 21% in 2022, and by 19% in 2023 -- these are very similar growth rates. Long-term earnings per share growth estimates are not too far from each other, either, as BABA is seen growing its EPS by 27% a year, whereas JD is seen growing its EPS by 32% a year.</p>\n<p>It makes, I believe, sense to expect that JD will grow its net profits faster, due to the fact that its margins have more upside potential, and that operating leverage should be more beneficial for a company like JD with its high fixed costs. Nevertheless, the growth outlook is relatively similar for these two companies. Since both operate in a similar market with their core businesses and will benefit from ongoing consumer spending growth and digitalization, it makes sense that there are no ultra-large discrepancies here.</p>\n<p>Looking at risk factors for both companies, we can say that both are heavily exposed to the Chinese economy, with all potential risks this entails. If economic growth slows down in China, both will be impacted. Similarly, if regulators crack down on e-commerce, both would be impacted. If a new strong competitor enters the Chinese e-commerce market, both companies could lose market share.</p>\n<p>Since Alibaba is a larger company, and since its founder Jack Ma seems to be more politically exposed compared to key execs at JD.com, one could argue that political/regulatory risks are more pronounced at Alibaba compared to JD.com. I personally do not see this as a very large risk factor, however, as it would not seem logical for Chinese politicians to hurt either of these two high-growth tech companies.</p>\n<p>To sum this section up, I'd say that Alibaba trades at a massive discount compared to JD.com, which is the key argument here. Growth may be a little better at JD, while fundamentals are a little better at BABA. But these differences pale compared to the ultra-large difference in the valuations of both companies: BABA, at 21x this year's earnings, seems like a better pick than JD, at 45x this year's earnings.</p>\n<p>BABA's valuation is also significantly lower when we look at other metrics such as EV to EBITDA, which accounts for different debt levels. Here BABA is also way cheaper than JD, trading at 17x forward EBITDA (according to YCharts), compared to a 30x forward EBITDA valuation for its smaller peer.</p>\n<p>BABA is my favorite among these two right now, with valuation being the key factor. If JD were to trade at a similarly low valuation as BABA, the story might be a different one. But I don't think JD is a better pick than BABA when having an almost identical growth outlook while trading at a 100%+ premium. I welcome you to share your opinion on this question and your reasoning for preferring one of these over the other in the comment section!</p>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alibaba Vs. 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JD.com: Which Chinese Stock Is The Better Buy\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-11 21:03 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4434233-alibaba-vs-jd-com-better-buy><strong>Seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAlibaba Group and JD.com Inc. are high-growth players that benefit from digitalization and growing consumer spending in China.\nBABA and JD operate with different business models, which is why...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4434233-alibaba-vs-jd-com-better-buy\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09618":"京东集团-SW","BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W","JD":"京东"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4434233-alibaba-vs-jd-com-better-buy","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1195128984","content_text":"Summary\n\nAlibaba Group and JD.com Inc. are high-growth players that benefit from digitalization and growing consumer spending in China.\nBABA and JD operate with different business models, which is why BABA generates significantly higher margins.\nThe growth outlook is very strong for both companies, but investors should consider valuation differences between the two companies.\n\nArticle Thesis\nThe Chinese middle class is growing quickly, which results in strong consumer spending growth. On top of that, Chinese consumers use e-commerce solutions widely, which naturally means that there is a very large, and growing, market opportunity for online shopping companies such as Alibaba Group (BABA) and JD.com Inc. (JD). In this article, we will take a look at these two companies, how they compare, their similarities and differences, and try to find out which company is the better pick at current prices.\nAlibaba Stock Price\nBABA is one of the largest Chinese tech companies, being valued at $590 billion. Its shares are up by triple digits since the IPO a couple of years ago, but over the more recent past, BABA has not been a strong performer. At $214 today, shares are down around one-third from the peak that was hit last fall. This underperformance was, in part, driven by thefailed Ant Financial IPOand by increased scrutiny by Chinese regulators.\nThese factors have, however, not negatively impacted BABA's results. Instead, the company kept generating strong growth rates in recent quarters, which indicates that the recent share price underperformance was likely driven by weak sentiment and reluctance to invest in Chinese companies to a significant degree.\nBased on current earnings forecasts for this year, BABA shares are trading for just 21x this year's earnings. This seems like a very inexpensive valuation -- especially when one considers that the company is still growing at a rapid pace, with revenue growthranging from 36% to 81%during the last four quarters.\nJD.com Stock Price\nJD is, like BABA, a company that has seen its shares rise strongly over the last couple of years. It shares another similarity with its larger peer, however, as its shares have also underperformed in the recent past. JD's shares peaked in February and are down by 33% from the high today, dropping from $108 to $72 in a couple of months. As stated above, growing reluctance when it comes to investing in Chinese equities, coupled with some worries about a regulatory crackdown, play a role in JD's weak share price performance.\nThe company has, at the same time, seen its shares peak at a similar time to those of other high-growth, high-valuation stocks such as Tesla (TSLA). The share price underperformance in recent months may thus also be driven by a shift fromgrowth stocks to value stocks, and by the so-called reopening trade. At its current share price, JD.com is valued at around $110 billion, which is around one-fifth of Alibaba's valuation.\nUnlike BABA, JD is not trading at a discount to the broad market, as shares are currently valued at 45x this year's earnings per share, using current consensus estimates for adjusted EPS, which back out some one-time items. JD thus trades at a 100%+ premium compared to BABA, although it should be mentioned that other e-commerce players from different countries, such as US-based Amazon (AMZN), trade at similar or even higher valuations. Amazon trades at 59x this year's expected EPS, for example, while South America-focused MercadoLibre (MELI) trades at more than 2000x this year's expected net profits. JD thus is clearly way more expensive than BABA, but in comparison to international peers, its valuation is not at all outrageously high.\nAre JD.com and Alibaba Competitors?\nJD.com Inc. and Alibaba Group both operate in the e-commerce space, although their business models are not exactly the same. Alibaba is primarily a platform provider, where third-party sellers offer their merchandise while Alibaba receives a platform fee without handling packaging, logistics, etc. themselves. JD.com, on the other hand, sells, like Amazon, products themselves, which includes handling, transportation, packaging, etc. JD does offer a marketplace for third-party sellers as well, but this is not their primary business, which differentiates them from BABA to some degree. JD, due to handling logistics themselves, has invested heavily in tech in this area, which includes using drones and robots to deliver products to customers.\nBoth companies do, on top of operating e-commerce operations, also invest in a wide range of other projects and businesses. This includes, for example, BABA'sAlibaba Cloudand JD's autonomous vehicles venture.\nDespite the fact that the two companies do operate somewhat different business models, they are, of course, still competitors. Both serve the Chinese online shopping/e-commerce consumer market, and both seek to maximize their platforms' share of dollars that are spent online in the country. Luckily, the Chinese e-commerce market islarge and grows rapidly, which means that both companies can grow their top lines at the same time - there is enough room for both to grow profitably.\nWhat Is The Difference Between Alibaba And JD?\nThe aforementioned fact that both companies have somewhat different business models is one key difference between the two, and it has implications for the fundamentals these companies are operating with:\n\nData byYCharts\nSince BABA does operate asset-light, and without having to handle a lot of logistics, BABA generates significantly higher margins than JD, no matter whether one takes a look at gross margins, EBITDA margins, or operating margins. JD's margins look more like those of Amazon, i.e. significantly lower, which isn't a large surprise -- like Amazon, JD has high expenses for packaging, handling, storage, and so on.\nAnother big difference is the respective size of the two companies. BABA, being valued at 5x JD's market cap, and generating net profits that are about 10x higher than those of JD, is a significantly larger company. The two don't differ too much in terms of revenue generation, however, which can be explained by the different business models -- JD has high revenue per product, at a low margin, whereas BABA's business model that focuses on platform fees generates lower revenue per product at much higher margins.\nOverall, I'd rate BABA's business model more attractive. In a downturn, BABA's way higher margins will allow the company to stomach some margin pressure more easily, and its fee-based operations are lean and do result in low capital expenditure requirements. This, in turn, allows BABA to put a lot of free cash towards other business units, such as its cloud computing unit, while BABA has also been highly active in M&A as well.\nAlibaba Vs. JD.com: Which Is The Best Chinese Stock To Buy?\nSeveral things should be considered here, including fundamentals, growth, valuation, and risk factors. As stated above, BABA's business model allows for better fundamentals, and I believe that this will not change in the foreseeable future, as the much higher margins seem to be inherent for a company utilizing this platform approach.\nLooking at growth, we see that both have grown rapidly in recent years, including during pandemic-impacted 2020. Current analyst consensus estimates for the coming years look like this:\n\nData byYCharts\nAlibaba is forecasted to grow its revenue by 21% in 2022, and by 18% in 2023. JD.com, meanwhile, is forecasted to grow its top line by 21% in 2022, and by 19% in 2023 -- these are very similar growth rates. Long-term earnings per share growth estimates are not too far from each other, either, as BABA is seen growing its EPS by 27% a year, whereas JD is seen growing its EPS by 32% a year.\nIt makes, I believe, sense to expect that JD will grow its net profits faster, due to the fact that its margins have more upside potential, and that operating leverage should be more beneficial for a company like JD with its high fixed costs. Nevertheless, the growth outlook is relatively similar for these two companies. Since both operate in a similar market with their core businesses and will benefit from ongoing consumer spending growth and digitalization, it makes sense that there are no ultra-large discrepancies here.\nLooking at risk factors for both companies, we can say that both are heavily exposed to the Chinese economy, with all potential risks this entails. If economic growth slows down in China, both will be impacted. Similarly, if regulators crack down on e-commerce, both would be impacted. If a new strong competitor enters the Chinese e-commerce market, both companies could lose market share.\nSince Alibaba is a larger company, and since its founder Jack Ma seems to be more politically exposed compared to key execs at JD.com, one could argue that political/regulatory risks are more pronounced at Alibaba compared to JD.com. I personally do not see this as a very large risk factor, however, as it would not seem logical for Chinese politicians to hurt either of these two high-growth tech companies.\nTo sum this section up, I'd say that Alibaba trades at a massive discount compared to JD.com, which is the key argument here. Growth may be a little better at JD, while fundamentals are a little better at BABA. But these differences pale compared to the ultra-large difference in the valuations of both companies: BABA, at 21x this year's earnings, seems like a better pick than JD, at 45x this year's earnings.\nBABA's valuation is also significantly lower when we look at other metrics such as EV to EBITDA, which accounts for different debt levels. Here BABA is also way cheaper than JD, trading at 17x forward EBITDA (according to YCharts), compared to a 30x forward EBITDA valuation for its smaller peer.\nBABA is my favorite among these two right now, with valuation being the key factor. If JD were to trade at a similarly low valuation as BABA, the story might be a different one. But I don't think JD is a better pick than BABA when having an almost identical growth outlook while trading at a 100%+ premium. I welcome you to share your opinion on this question and your reasoning for preferring one of these over the other in the comment section!","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":267,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":116734847,"gmtCreate":1622818572489,"gmtModify":1704191887847,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Huge&nbsp;growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. &nbsp;there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","listText":"Huge&nbsp;growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. &nbsp;there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","text":"Huge growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/116734847","repostId":"1154529120","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1154529120","pubTimestamp":1622810459,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1154529120?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-04 20:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500? If You Got Time, Yes","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1154529120","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Alibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.I believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.In the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.Since its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:. Alibaba Group'","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Alibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.</li>\n <li>I believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.</li>\n <li>In the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/567d19950e6c8789ce2192b4503f0fa5\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"653\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Photo by efetova/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>Article Thesis</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba Group (BABA) is a leading global high-tech name that continues to generate attractive growth and that offers investors exposure to the high-growth Chinese consumer market. At the same time, through a range of ventures, Alibaba is also active in additional industries, such as cloud computing. Shares have declined considerably over the last couple of months, but I believe that the long-term potential is significant. I would not be surprised to see shares rise towards $500, although that will not happen in the near term.</p>\n<p><b>BABA Stock Price</b></p>\n<p>Since its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8079eeb5384ea003fb3725d3cd1e877f\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>Shares are now basically where they were one year ago, as the gains during summer 2020 have been erased when Ant Financial's IPO plans were stopped. The flat share price performance over the last year is somewhat surprising, though, as Alibaba continued to generate strong results in that time frame. During the last quarter, for example, Alibaba showcased a&nbsp;revenue growth rate of 64%, while revenue growth during the previous quarter was also very strong, at around 50%. This is not the only positive in Alibaba's earnings releases, however. The company also managed to grow its user count by 32 million during the most recent quarter alone, which equates to an annualized user growth rate of around 20%. This bodes well for future quarters, as more users on Alibaba's platform should translate into higher revenues. On top of that, the strong user growth shows that there is still growing demand for the shopping services that Alibaba's platforms offer -- the market is not saturated at all. Alibaba also managed to grow its EBITDA by 25% year over year, which is an attractive growth pace as well, and which was achieved despite growing investments in what management calls key growth areas. Income from operations, meanwhile, grew at an even faster pace, thanks to some operating leverage, rising by 48% year over year when adjusted for the fine that Alibaba had to pay during Q1. It makes, I believe, sense to back out this one-time item to get a clearer picture about Alibaba's underlying, \"core\" profitability during an average quarter.</p>\n<p>Alibaba Group's weak share price performance, relative to the broad market and other tech names, is thus not the result of weak operating performance, but rather a result of multiple compression, driven by weak investor sentiment due to China exposure and&nbsp;fears about regulation.</p>\n<p>At its current price of $220, BABA trades at a quite large discount compared to the current consensus analyst price target of $298. If Alibaba were to hit that, shares would gain 35%. Analyst price targets are usually issued with a 1-year time frame, thus, if the analyst community is correct, Alibaba could be a great investment. From a valuation standpoint, this price target doesn't seem outrageous at all, as $298 would equate to around 29x this year's expected net profits, or 23x next year's net earnings. The latter is likely the more telling one when we talk about a price target for summer 2022, i.e. 1 year from now.</p>\n<p><b>Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500?</b></p>\n<p>The answer to that question, I think, depends on your time frame. If you are looking at a 12-month window, then Alibaba will most likely not be able to hit $500. The ~$300 price target seems achievable, although that is, of course, also not guaranteed. If, however, we take a longer-term view, then $500 seems like a share price that BABA could hit eventually. Let's look at a couple of examples.</p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $20 at some point and traded at an earnings multiple of 25, then shares would trade at $500.</i></p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $25 and traded at a 20x earnings multiple, then shares would trade at $500.</i></p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $17 and traded at 29x its net profits, then shares would trade at (marginally below) $500.</i></p>\n<p>We see that there are many scenarios that could get us to a $500 share price for BABA, some of them more likely than others. Of course, the higher your target multiple, the lower the earnings that would be required. This, in turn, means that the price target can be hit sooner, as less cumulative earnings growth would be required. When we take a look at how Alibaba was valued in the past, we see that the longer-term median earnings multiples for BABA look like this:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dd2d42b7094deb394266d6410287c2e4\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>At 30-40x net earnings, Alibaba was clearly trading at a massive premium relative to how shares are valued today (around 20x this year's earnings). I think that the current valuation is too low, but on the other hand, I do not expect Alibaba to trade at 30, 35, or even 40x net profits in coming years. Due to the growing scale of Alibaba, which makes it a little harder to maintain its excellent growth in coming years, shares will likely trade at a lower valuation in coming years, compared to how they were valued in the past.</p>\n<p>I still think that shares do have some valuation expansion potential from the current earnings multiple of around 21, thus let's assume that shares trade at 23x net profits in the future. This would still represent a massive discount versus the historic valuation, and also a substantial discount compared to how US-based high-tech mega-caps are valued -- Amazon (AMZN), for example, trades at 59x this year's earnings.</p>\n<p>If we want to get to a $500 share price for BABA using a 23x earnings multiple, then we get to earnings per share of $21.70 that Alibaba must generate. When could this be the case? In the following chart, we see EPS estimates for the current year, next year (CY 2022), and CY 2023:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6fcf78e0b071eff9753afbdcd96f751c\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>If analysts are right, Alibaba will not get to earn $22 a share through 2023, and I think that is realistic. I do not see earnings per share rising by 100%+ between this year and 2023, either. From 2023, it would take another 43% increase in Alibaba's earnings per share to get to $21.70, which is our \"target EPS\" for a $500 share price.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7b4c351b4b5eb3328191ccaa9a3b776c\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>Analysts are currently forecasting long-term EPS growth of around 27%, which would mean it would take Alibaba about 1.5 years to grow its EPS from $15.20 (2023 estimate) to our target of $21.70. Even if we assume that this is too optimistic and that growth will be just 20% in 2024 and 2025, EPS of $21.70 could be hit by the end of 2025. So, in other words, if Alibaba grows a little less than what analysts are forecasting right now, Alibaba could trade at $500 by the end of 2025 -- or 4.5 years from now. Note that this scenario does not require a high earnings multiple at all -- at 23x net profits, Alibaba wouldn't be expensive, I believe.</p>\n<p>We can get even more conservative and assume that the 2023 EPS estimate is 10% too high and that EPS will grow by just 17% a year in the years beyond 2023 (versus a long-term forecast of 27% a year by the analyst community). In that case, Alibaba would hit $21.70 in earnings per share in 2026, and shares would rise to $500 over the next 5.5 years. Even in this scenario, BABA wouldn't be a bad investment at all -- a 130% share price increase from the current level over the next 5.5 years would equate to annualized returns of 16%.</p>\n<p>So, to sum this section up, I'd say<i>yes, BABA can hit $500</i>-- but it will realistically take a couple of years. By the mid-2020s, this seems like a very achievable goal to me, although there are, of course, no guarantees.</p>\n<p><b>Is Alibaba Stock A Buy Or Sell Now?</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba Group is, I believe, a strong investment. The company generates strong growth, profits from multiple long-term macro trends, such as growing consumer spending in China, growing e-commerce market share, and cloud computing. There are, however, risks to consider: Alibaba is highly China-dependent, and in case the economic growth story in China ends, Alibaba would be hurt a lot. On top of that, Alibaba could be targeted again by regulators, although I personally think that it is not in China's best interest to hurt one of its highest-growth tech companies.</p>\n<p>For those that worry about these risks, Alibaba may not be the right choice, but for those that see Alibaba as a potentially very rewarding play on Chinese consumers, BABA could be a strong pick in a diversified portfolio. I belong to the latter group and thus rate the stock a buy at current valuations, expecting significant upside over the coming years. Depending on your risk tolerance and how you weigh the opportunities and threats of investing in Chinese companies, you may decide differently, however.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500? 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If You Got Time, Yes\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-04 20:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAlibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.\nI believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1154529120","content_text":"Summary\n\nAlibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.\nI believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.\nIn the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.\n\nPhoto by efetova/iStock via Getty Images\nArticle Thesis\nAlibaba Group (BABA) is a leading global high-tech name that continues to generate attractive growth and that offers investors exposure to the high-growth Chinese consumer market. At the same time, through a range of ventures, Alibaba is also active in additional industries, such as cloud computing. Shares have declined considerably over the last couple of months, but I believe that the long-term potential is significant. I would not be surprised to see shares rise towards $500, although that will not happen in the near term.\nBABA Stock Price\nSince its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:\nData byYCharts\nShares are now basically where they were one year ago, as the gains during summer 2020 have been erased when Ant Financial's IPO plans were stopped. The flat share price performance over the last year is somewhat surprising, though, as Alibaba continued to generate strong results in that time frame. During the last quarter, for example, Alibaba showcased a revenue growth rate of 64%, while revenue growth during the previous quarter was also very strong, at around 50%. This is not the only positive in Alibaba's earnings releases, however. The company also managed to grow its user count by 32 million during the most recent quarter alone, which equates to an annualized user growth rate of around 20%. This bodes well for future quarters, as more users on Alibaba's platform should translate into higher revenues. On top of that, the strong user growth shows that there is still growing demand for the shopping services that Alibaba's platforms offer -- the market is not saturated at all. Alibaba also managed to grow its EBITDA by 25% year over year, which is an attractive growth pace as well, and which was achieved despite growing investments in what management calls key growth areas. Income from operations, meanwhile, grew at an even faster pace, thanks to some operating leverage, rising by 48% year over year when adjusted for the fine that Alibaba had to pay during Q1. It makes, I believe, sense to back out this one-time item to get a clearer picture about Alibaba's underlying, \"core\" profitability during an average quarter.\nAlibaba Group's weak share price performance, relative to the broad market and other tech names, is thus not the result of weak operating performance, but rather a result of multiple compression, driven by weak investor sentiment due to China exposure and fears about regulation.\nAt its current price of $220, BABA trades at a quite large discount compared to the current consensus analyst price target of $298. If Alibaba were to hit that, shares would gain 35%. Analyst price targets are usually issued with a 1-year time frame, thus, if the analyst community is correct, Alibaba could be a great investment. From a valuation standpoint, this price target doesn't seem outrageous at all, as $298 would equate to around 29x this year's expected net profits, or 23x next year's net earnings. The latter is likely the more telling one when we talk about a price target for summer 2022, i.e. 1 year from now.\nCan Alibaba Stock Hit $500?\nThe answer to that question, I think, depends on your time frame. If you are looking at a 12-month window, then Alibaba will most likely not be able to hit $500. The ~$300 price target seems achievable, although that is, of course, also not guaranteed. If, however, we take a longer-term view, then $500 seems like a share price that BABA could hit eventually. Let's look at a couple of examples.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $20 at some point and traded at an earnings multiple of 25, then shares would trade at $500.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $25 and traded at a 20x earnings multiple, then shares would trade at $500.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $17 and traded at 29x its net profits, then shares would trade at (marginally below) $500.\nWe see that there are many scenarios that could get us to a $500 share price for BABA, some of them more likely than others. Of course, the higher your target multiple, the lower the earnings that would be required. This, in turn, means that the price target can be hit sooner, as less cumulative earnings growth would be required. When we take a look at how Alibaba was valued in the past, we see that the longer-term median earnings multiples for BABA look like this:\nData byYCharts\nAt 30-40x net earnings, Alibaba was clearly trading at a massive premium relative to how shares are valued today (around 20x this year's earnings). I think that the current valuation is too low, but on the other hand, I do not expect Alibaba to trade at 30, 35, or even 40x net profits in coming years. Due to the growing scale of Alibaba, which makes it a little harder to maintain its excellent growth in coming years, shares will likely trade at a lower valuation in coming years, compared to how they were valued in the past.\nI still think that shares do have some valuation expansion potential from the current earnings multiple of around 21, thus let's assume that shares trade at 23x net profits in the future. This would still represent a massive discount versus the historic valuation, and also a substantial discount compared to how US-based high-tech mega-caps are valued -- Amazon (AMZN), for example, trades at 59x this year's earnings.\nIf we want to get to a $500 share price for BABA using a 23x earnings multiple, then we get to earnings per share of $21.70 that Alibaba must generate. When could this be the case? In the following chart, we see EPS estimates for the current year, next year (CY 2022), and CY 2023:\nData byYCharts\nIf analysts are right, Alibaba will not get to earn $22 a share through 2023, and I think that is realistic. I do not see earnings per share rising by 100%+ between this year and 2023, either. From 2023, it would take another 43% increase in Alibaba's earnings per share to get to $21.70, which is our \"target EPS\" for a $500 share price.\nData byYCharts\nAnalysts are currently forecasting long-term EPS growth of around 27%, which would mean it would take Alibaba about 1.5 years to grow its EPS from $15.20 (2023 estimate) to our target of $21.70. Even if we assume that this is too optimistic and that growth will be just 20% in 2024 and 2025, EPS of $21.70 could be hit by the end of 2025. So, in other words, if Alibaba grows a little less than what analysts are forecasting right now, Alibaba could trade at $500 by the end of 2025 -- or 4.5 years from now. Note that this scenario does not require a high earnings multiple at all -- at 23x net profits, Alibaba wouldn't be expensive, I believe.\nWe can get even more conservative and assume that the 2023 EPS estimate is 10% too high and that EPS will grow by just 17% a year in the years beyond 2023 (versus a long-term forecast of 27% a year by the analyst community). In that case, Alibaba would hit $21.70 in earnings per share in 2026, and shares would rise to $500 over the next 5.5 years. Even in this scenario, BABA wouldn't be a bad investment at all -- a 130% share price increase from the current level over the next 5.5 years would equate to annualized returns of 16%.\nSo, to sum this section up, I'd sayyes, BABA can hit $500-- but it will realistically take a couple of years. By the mid-2020s, this seems like a very achievable goal to me, although there are, of course, no guarantees.\nIs Alibaba Stock A Buy Or Sell Now?\nAlibaba Group is, I believe, a strong investment. The company generates strong growth, profits from multiple long-term macro trends, such as growing consumer spending in China, growing e-commerce market share, and cloud computing. There are, however, risks to consider: Alibaba is highly China-dependent, and in case the economic growth story in China ends, Alibaba would be hurt a lot. On top of that, Alibaba could be targeted again by regulators, although I personally think that it is not in China's best interest to hurt one of its highest-growth tech companies.\nFor those that worry about these risks, Alibaba may not be the right choice, but for those that see Alibaba as a potentially very rewarding play on Chinese consumers, BABA could be a strong pick in a diversified portfolio. I belong to the latter group and thus rate the stock a buy at current valuations, expecting significant upside over the coming years. Depending on your risk tolerance and how you weigh the opportunities and threats of investing in Chinese companies, you may decide differently, however.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":522,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":118807771,"gmtCreate":1622726956793,"gmtModify":1704189834127,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Too the moon!","listText":"Too the moon!","text":"Too the moon!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/118807771","repostId":"1180328270","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":440,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":118370618,"gmtCreate":1622720987334,"gmtModify":1704189676100,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good start!","listText":"Good start!","text":"Good start!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/118370618","repostId":"1125253857","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":544,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":119221510,"gmtCreate":1622550766530,"gmtModify":1704186111567,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Waiting for the uptrend!","listText":"Waiting for the uptrend!","text":"Waiting for the uptrend!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/119221510","repostId":"1112782785","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1112782785","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1622534759,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1112782785?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-01 16:05","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Alibaba stock surged nearly 5% in premarket trading","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1112782785","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Alibaba stock surged nearly 5% in premarket trading after its shares closing up 3.4% in Hong Kong.Suspended Ant Group IPO, Jack Ma's disappearance, and regulatory concerns have forced Alibaba’s stock price ~-30% off highs.I believe Alibaba is trading at massive discounts on a relative basis.Future growth runways coupled with discounted buying opportunities could create a valuable investment opportunity.Currently, in a market full of elevated asset prices it can be difficult for investors to find","content":"<p>Alibaba stock surged&nbsp;nearly 5% in premarket trading&nbsp;after&nbsp;its shares closing up 3.4% in Hong Kong.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/eb087d2067906ea07d1e9a1851fb2170\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/de6e1ea296db9382fbaf414201ee23d4\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><ul><li>Suspended Ant Group IPO, Jack Ma's disappearance, and regulatory concerns have forced Alibaba’s stock price ~-30% off highs.</li><li>I believe Alibaba is trading at massive discounts on a relative basis.</li><li>Future growth runways coupled with discounted buying opportunities could create a valuable investment opportunity.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76c35f5fb7c6d19825e9a4c876f7522c\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1025\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Intro</b></p><p>Currently, in a market full of elevated asset prices it can be difficult for investors to find underappreciated securities on a valuation basis. After months of negative headlines and regulatory issues, I believe Alibaba (BABA) is being underappreciated through the lens of both valuation and growth potential. While investors may be fearful of regulatory risks, management stability, and financial legitimacy, BABA’s growth runway coupled with discounted prices could potentially produce a valuable investment opportunity.</p><p><b>Why I Think it is Cheap</b></p><p>After Chinese regulators suspended the highly anticipated IPO of Ant Group due to issues surrounding changes in the financial regulatory environment and how the company was not meeting disclosure requirements, BABA’s share price began seeing initial selling pressure. BABA saw an -8.13% dip in share price after the IPO was delayed. Given that BABA has a&nbsp;33% equity interestin the company, the canceled listing of Ant Group caused obvious headwinds. Shortly after the canceled IPO, Jack Ma publicly denounced China’s financial regulators on stage at a conference in Shanghai. Adding to the mountain of negative headlines, the outspoken founder went missing shortly after this stint which was followed by a further decline in share price. Weeks after Ma’s criticisms regarding China’s regulators, China came crashing down hard on Alibaba with an antitrust investigation based on monopolistic concerns. BABA’s share price began to see deep selling pressure in late December with the U.S.-listed ADR falling over -13% on Christmas Eve.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/67f6cf5346933ea265d9c4ba262c3880\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"356\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After a slew of negative press, financial and regulatory headwinds, BABA has fallen ~-30% from ATH where it currently sits just over $210 a share. With share price declining and earnings continuing to grow rapidly, Alibaba has seen valuation multiples contract to levels not seen since shortly after their NYSE listing in 2015.</p><p><b>How Cheap is it on a Relative Basis?</b></p><p>Using the next twelve months forward earnings estimates, \"NTM,\" we begin to quantify how discounted BABA is through valuation multiples. Below are two charts showing BABA at the very bottom of its EV/S and P/E channels. Each chart compares the NTM multiple relative to the earnings denominator (NTM Revs &amp; NTM EPS respectively).</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9e4fecfcf6207a0c65a113e167696067\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"355\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1b0ea99d299e7aaa2a5c793434e2c05d\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"360\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Since BABA listed on the NYSE, their EV/S multiple has contracted over time as revenue growth has progressed rapidly; P/E typically has traded in a range of 20x – 35x NTM EPS estimates. Due to hyper EPS growth in the last few years, coupled with the short-term price downturn; Alibaba’s NTM P/E multiple has contracted to the very bottom of its historical channel (~20x NTM P/E).</p><p>Next, I used NTM forecasts for both revenue and EPS, coupled with bull, bear, and base case NTM multiples to derive my case-specific price targets. Price targets using EPS and P/E were calculated by multiplying expected NTM EPS by expected NTM P/E. Price targets using revenue and EV/S were calculated by multiplying expected NTM rev by expected NTM EV/S, subtracting trailing twelve months \"TTM\" net debt (-$52,797.3M) and dividing by TTM diluted shares outstanding (2,750M).</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a262edad6a9272298ad31bdc8f3e1fc5\" tg-width=\"906\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After taking the median bull and bear price targets, I created a tactical risk/reward chart to determine BABA’s margin of safety at current price levels. I used the median to calculate official price targets to gain exposure from both BABA's top and bottom-line.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d61c7cd16fc768cc10b8ae344427eae5\" tg-width=\"682\" tg-height=\"671\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Given a market price of $213, BABA implies a 10.3x risk/reward level based on my forecasts. After comparing my multiple expectations to competitors, there is the risk of further contraction in EV/S over time but BABA appears very discounted relative to competition on a P/E basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8de1a38e8f053d82c2884626320b2069\" tg-width=\"907\" tg-height=\"633\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Next, I wanted to measure BABA’s discounted valuation relative to TTM revenue growth. To do this I created a scatter plot, charting P/S on a TTM basis on the y-axis and TTM revenue growth YoY on the x-axis. Points charted under the dashed line are deemed undervalued and any points above the line are deemed overvalued.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6fee6fd697b605d498925cc094b39ff5\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"370\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Based on TTM revenue growth through Q1 ’21, it’s clear to see the major discount BABA also has adjusted for top-line growth. Lastly, I wanted to throw in a price action chart with a long-term trendline pointing to BABA’s discounted price factor:</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2e3c649795d1e8b6e297b436a9ee32b8\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"354\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Growth Runway</b></p><p>To capture excellent investment gains, valuation is not enough, Alibaba will have to continue executing its growth strategy. While the stock seems to be cheap on a relative basis, I also believe growth on the top and bottom lines is imminent.</p><p></p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8af3a56b016bed164ca19ff7282a581a\" tg-width=\"284\" tg-height=\"337\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After their Q1 release, BABA reported 41% YoY growth on the top-line driven by their leading core commerce segment alongside the fast-growing cloud segment. Coming off 35% YoY growth in 2020, being able to deliver a 41% topline increase is incredible for the year following. Given the fact COVID-19related online growth was reflected in early 2020 results, I find it very feasiblefor core commerce tailwinds to continue as growth persisted, and expanded, the following year.</p><p>Alongside general e-commerce tailwinds, China’s middle-class growth could support sales for a mega-cap commerce player like Alibaba. “China already makes up the&nbsp;largest middle-class consumption&nbsp;market segment in the world” asChinese middle-class consumers were on track to spend over $7.3 Trillion in 2020, roughly 55% higher than the United States middle-class at $4.7 Trillion. At current levels, less than one-third of China’s total population lies within their middle-class, containing roughly 400 million people. Population expectations for the Chinese middle-class are expected to be 1.2 Billion people in 2027, a 17% CAGR. Coupling the sheer class population growth with a forecasted income CAGR of 3% stacked on top, BABA is potentially looking at a 20% built-in core commerce CAGR over the next 7 years based on these estimates.</p><p>Lastly, I believe the digital transformation acceleration happening around the globewill be an excellent growth catalyst for the company moving forward. Like Amazon, Alibaba constructed its cloud base on logistical support for the commerce/delivery giant. Now that the infrastructure is built, they can grow the cloud as an operating segment, separate from core commerce, and outsource to major customers.</p><p>Below you can see previous YoY growth on three months ended and annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d2844a5c25507131d3bb1acc5e223c71\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"273\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>While Alibaba Cloud only makes up 8% of total revenues, in the future I believe this segment will be a larger contributor to the total top-line as domestic and international adoption grows. Couple the cloud with core commerce expansion propelled forward by a rapidly increasing middle-class and BABA's growth runway is seemingly attractive for short and long-term investors.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/253a50e7e7e1960b19d0ca68e2fd0360\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"462\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Risks</b></p><p>The reason this opportunity exists isn't because of a systematic drawdown or a major global catalyst suppressing stock prices, there are clear idiosyncratic risks to investing in Alibaba. The major risks of a BABA investment were highlighted clearly over the past 7 months. Starting with the Ant IPO suspension, BABA investors became concerned not just with the fin-tech company exposure, but also began questioning the financial legitimacy of BABA itself. To make things worse, the outspoken billionaire founder denounced the Chinese regulators in a very public fashion. Obviously, China didn't like this and launched the full-fledged antitrust investigation into Alibaba. The regulatory risk is my biggest concern while investing in BABA. At the end of the day, I've only ever lived in the United States and am no expert on Chinese foreign policy. I want to make clear these regulatory risks are very real for any mega-cap company but potentially more so for those internationally. As an investor, it's very important to run through all the potential risks to a company before investing and only allocate capital if you believe the potential reward outweighs the risks accounted for.</p><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>In a short-term view, Alibaba has an excellent catalyst with the 6.18 sale. It is their first major sale since COVID, and it lasts from May 24th – June 20th. While sales like these are common annually and may have an extremely minimal effect on stock price, the positive sentiment generated could be a good turning point for BABA. Based on a long-term approach, I believe Alibaba will continue to be a massive global leader and continue to dominate Chinese e-commerce even in the wake of regulatory risk. With a rapidly growing middle-class and a digital transformation acceleration, I think core commerce and Alibaba cloud will continue driving growth for the company. After paying off the fine imposed I think much of the regulatory risk is behind them now. As future earnings growth has the potential to outweigh any regulatory concerns, BABA is in the making be an excellent investment opportunity, especially at deeply discounted valuations.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alibaba stock surged nearly 5% in premarket trading</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlibaba stock surged nearly 5% in premarket trading\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-01 16:05</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Alibaba stock surged&nbsp;nearly 5% in premarket trading&nbsp;after&nbsp;its shares closing up 3.4% in Hong Kong.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/eb087d2067906ea07d1e9a1851fb2170\" tg-width=\"1302\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/de6e1ea296db9382fbaf414201ee23d4\" tg-width=\"840\" tg-height=\"470\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><ul><li>Suspended Ant Group IPO, Jack Ma's disappearance, and regulatory concerns have forced Alibaba’s stock price ~-30% off highs.</li><li>I believe Alibaba is trading at massive discounts on a relative basis.</li><li>Future growth runways coupled with discounted buying opportunities could create a valuable investment opportunity.</li></ul><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76c35f5fb7c6d19825e9a4c876f7522c\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"1025\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Intro</b></p><p>Currently, in a market full of elevated asset prices it can be difficult for investors to find underappreciated securities on a valuation basis. After months of negative headlines and regulatory issues, I believe Alibaba (BABA) is being underappreciated through the lens of both valuation and growth potential. While investors may be fearful of regulatory risks, management stability, and financial legitimacy, BABA’s growth runway coupled with discounted prices could potentially produce a valuable investment opportunity.</p><p><b>Why I Think it is Cheap</b></p><p>After Chinese regulators suspended the highly anticipated IPO of Ant Group due to issues surrounding changes in the financial regulatory environment and how the company was not meeting disclosure requirements, BABA’s share price began seeing initial selling pressure. BABA saw an -8.13% dip in share price after the IPO was delayed. Given that BABA has a&nbsp;33% equity interestin the company, the canceled listing of Ant Group caused obvious headwinds. Shortly after the canceled IPO, Jack Ma publicly denounced China’s financial regulators on stage at a conference in Shanghai. Adding to the mountain of negative headlines, the outspoken founder went missing shortly after this stint which was followed by a further decline in share price. Weeks after Ma’s criticisms regarding China’s regulators, China came crashing down hard on Alibaba with an antitrust investigation based on monopolistic concerns. BABA’s share price began to see deep selling pressure in late December with the U.S.-listed ADR falling over -13% on Christmas Eve.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/67f6cf5346933ea265d9c4ba262c3880\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"356\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After a slew of negative press, financial and regulatory headwinds, BABA has fallen ~-30% from ATH where it currently sits just over $210 a share. With share price declining and earnings continuing to grow rapidly, Alibaba has seen valuation multiples contract to levels not seen since shortly after their NYSE listing in 2015.</p><p><b>How Cheap is it on a Relative Basis?</b></p><p>Using the next twelve months forward earnings estimates, \"NTM,\" we begin to quantify how discounted BABA is through valuation multiples. Below are two charts showing BABA at the very bottom of its EV/S and P/E channels. Each chart compares the NTM multiple relative to the earnings denominator (NTM Revs &amp; NTM EPS respectively).</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9e4fecfcf6207a0c65a113e167696067\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"355\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1b0ea99d299e7aaa2a5c793434e2c05d\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"360\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Since BABA listed on the NYSE, their EV/S multiple has contracted over time as revenue growth has progressed rapidly; P/E typically has traded in a range of 20x – 35x NTM EPS estimates. Due to hyper EPS growth in the last few years, coupled with the short-term price downturn; Alibaba’s NTM P/E multiple has contracted to the very bottom of its historical channel (~20x NTM P/E).</p><p>Next, I used NTM forecasts for both revenue and EPS, coupled with bull, bear, and base case NTM multiples to derive my case-specific price targets. Price targets using EPS and P/E were calculated by multiplying expected NTM EPS by expected NTM P/E. Price targets using revenue and EV/S were calculated by multiplying expected NTM rev by expected NTM EV/S, subtracting trailing twelve months \"TTM\" net debt (-$52,797.3M) and dividing by TTM diluted shares outstanding (2,750M).</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a262edad6a9272298ad31bdc8f3e1fc5\" tg-width=\"906\" tg-height=\"666\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After taking the median bull and bear price targets, I created a tactical risk/reward chart to determine BABA’s margin of safety at current price levels. I used the median to calculate official price targets to gain exposure from both BABA's top and bottom-line.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d61c7cd16fc768cc10b8ae344427eae5\" tg-width=\"682\" tg-height=\"671\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Given a market price of $213, BABA implies a 10.3x risk/reward level based on my forecasts. After comparing my multiple expectations to competitors, there is the risk of further contraction in EV/S over time but BABA appears very discounted relative to competition on a P/E basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8de1a38e8f053d82c2884626320b2069\" tg-width=\"907\" tg-height=\"633\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Next, I wanted to measure BABA’s discounted valuation relative to TTM revenue growth. To do this I created a scatter plot, charting P/S on a TTM basis on the y-axis and TTM revenue growth YoY on the x-axis. Points charted under the dashed line are deemed undervalued and any points above the line are deemed overvalued.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6fee6fd697b605d498925cc094b39ff5\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"370\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>Based on TTM revenue growth through Q1 ’21, it’s clear to see the major discount BABA also has adjusted for top-line growth. Lastly, I wanted to throw in a price action chart with a long-term trendline pointing to BABA’s discounted price factor:</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/2e3c649795d1e8b6e297b436a9ee32b8\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"354\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Growth Runway</b></p><p>To capture excellent investment gains, valuation is not enough, Alibaba will have to continue executing its growth strategy. While the stock seems to be cheap on a relative basis, I also believe growth on the top and bottom lines is imminent.</p><p></p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8af3a56b016bed164ca19ff7282a581a\" tg-width=\"284\" tg-height=\"337\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>After their Q1 release, BABA reported 41% YoY growth on the top-line driven by their leading core commerce segment alongside the fast-growing cloud segment. Coming off 35% YoY growth in 2020, being able to deliver a 41% topline increase is incredible for the year following. Given the fact COVID-19related online growth was reflected in early 2020 results, I find it very feasiblefor core commerce tailwinds to continue as growth persisted, and expanded, the following year.</p><p>Alongside general e-commerce tailwinds, China’s middle-class growth could support sales for a mega-cap commerce player like Alibaba. “China already makes up the&nbsp;largest middle-class consumption&nbsp;market segment in the world” asChinese middle-class consumers were on track to spend over $7.3 Trillion in 2020, roughly 55% higher than the United States middle-class at $4.7 Trillion. At current levels, less than one-third of China’s total population lies within their middle-class, containing roughly 400 million people. Population expectations for the Chinese middle-class are expected to be 1.2 Billion people in 2027, a 17% CAGR. Coupling the sheer class population growth with a forecasted income CAGR of 3% stacked on top, BABA is potentially looking at a 20% built-in core commerce CAGR over the next 7 years based on these estimates.</p><p>Lastly, I believe the digital transformation acceleration happening around the globewill be an excellent growth catalyst for the company moving forward. Like Amazon, Alibaba constructed its cloud base on logistical support for the commerce/delivery giant. Now that the infrastructure is built, they can grow the cloud as an operating segment, separate from core commerce, and outsource to major customers.</p><p>Below you can see previous YoY growth on three months ended and annual basis.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d2844a5c25507131d3bb1acc5e223c71\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"273\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>While Alibaba Cloud only makes up 8% of total revenues, in the future I believe this segment will be a larger contributor to the total top-line as domestic and international adoption grows. Couple the cloud with core commerce expansion propelled forward by a rapidly increasing middle-class and BABA's growth runway is seemingly attractive for short and long-term investors.</p><p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/253a50e7e7e1960b19d0ca68e2fd0360\" tg-width=\"624\" tg-height=\"462\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p><b>Risks</b></p><p>The reason this opportunity exists isn't because of a systematic drawdown or a major global catalyst suppressing stock prices, there are clear idiosyncratic risks to investing in Alibaba. The major risks of a BABA investment were highlighted clearly over the past 7 months. Starting with the Ant IPO suspension, BABA investors became concerned not just with the fin-tech company exposure, but also began questioning the financial legitimacy of BABA itself. To make things worse, the outspoken billionaire founder denounced the Chinese regulators in a very public fashion. Obviously, China didn't like this and launched the full-fledged antitrust investigation into Alibaba. The regulatory risk is my biggest concern while investing in BABA. At the end of the day, I've only ever lived in the United States and am no expert on Chinese foreign policy. I want to make clear these regulatory risks are very real for any mega-cap company but potentially more so for those internationally. As an investor, it's very important to run through all the potential risks to a company before investing and only allocate capital if you believe the potential reward outweighs the risks accounted for.</p><p><b>Summary</b></p><p>In a short-term view, Alibaba has an excellent catalyst with the 6.18 sale. It is their first major sale since COVID, and it lasts from May 24th – June 20th. While sales like these are common annually and may have an extremely minimal effect on stock price, the positive sentiment generated could be a good turning point for BABA. Based on a long-term approach, I believe Alibaba will continue to be a massive global leader and continue to dominate Chinese e-commerce even in the wake of regulatory risk. With a rapidly growing middle-class and a digital transformation acceleration, I think core commerce and Alibaba cloud will continue driving growth for the company. After paying off the fine imposed I think much of the regulatory risk is behind them now. As future earnings growth has the potential to outweigh any regulatory concerns, BABA is in the making be an excellent investment opportunity, especially at deeply discounted valuations.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1112782785","content_text":"Alibaba stock surged nearly 5% in premarket trading after its shares closing up 3.4% in Hong Kong.Suspended Ant Group IPO, Jack Ma's disappearance, and regulatory concerns have forced Alibaba’s stock price ~-30% off highs.I believe Alibaba is trading at massive discounts on a relative basis.Future growth runways coupled with discounted buying opportunities could create a valuable investment opportunity.IntroCurrently, in a market full of elevated asset prices it can be difficult for investors to find underappreciated securities on a valuation basis. After months of negative headlines and regulatory issues, I believe Alibaba (BABA) is being underappreciated through the lens of both valuation and growth potential. While investors may be fearful of regulatory risks, management stability, and financial legitimacy, BABA’s growth runway coupled with discounted prices could potentially produce a valuable investment opportunity.Why I Think it is CheapAfter Chinese regulators suspended the highly anticipated IPO of Ant Group due to issues surrounding changes in the financial regulatory environment and how the company was not meeting disclosure requirements, BABA’s share price began seeing initial selling pressure. BABA saw an -8.13% dip in share price after the IPO was delayed. Given that BABA has a 33% equity interestin the company, the canceled listing of Ant Group caused obvious headwinds. Shortly after the canceled IPO, Jack Ma publicly denounced China’s financial regulators on stage at a conference in Shanghai. Adding to the mountain of negative headlines, the outspoken founder went missing shortly after this stint which was followed by a further decline in share price. Weeks after Ma’s criticisms regarding China’s regulators, China came crashing down hard on Alibaba with an antitrust investigation based on monopolistic concerns. BABA’s share price began to see deep selling pressure in late December with the U.S.-listed ADR falling over -13% on Christmas Eve.After a slew of negative press, financial and regulatory headwinds, BABA has fallen ~-30% from ATH where it currently sits just over $210 a share. With share price declining and earnings continuing to grow rapidly, Alibaba has seen valuation multiples contract to levels not seen since shortly after their NYSE listing in 2015.How Cheap is it on a Relative Basis?Using the next twelve months forward earnings estimates, \"NTM,\" we begin to quantify how discounted BABA is through valuation multiples. Below are two charts showing BABA at the very bottom of its EV/S and P/E channels. Each chart compares the NTM multiple relative to the earnings denominator (NTM Revs & NTM EPS respectively).Since BABA listed on the NYSE, their EV/S multiple has contracted over time as revenue growth has progressed rapidly; P/E typically has traded in a range of 20x – 35x NTM EPS estimates. Due to hyper EPS growth in the last few years, coupled with the short-term price downturn; Alibaba’s NTM P/E multiple has contracted to the very bottom of its historical channel (~20x NTM P/E).Next, I used NTM forecasts for both revenue and EPS, coupled with bull, bear, and base case NTM multiples to derive my case-specific price targets. Price targets using EPS and P/E were calculated by multiplying expected NTM EPS by expected NTM P/E. Price targets using revenue and EV/S were calculated by multiplying expected NTM rev by expected NTM EV/S, subtracting trailing twelve months \"TTM\" net debt (-$52,797.3M) and dividing by TTM diluted shares outstanding (2,750M).After taking the median bull and bear price targets, I created a tactical risk/reward chart to determine BABA’s margin of safety at current price levels. I used the median to calculate official price targets to gain exposure from both BABA's top and bottom-line.Given a market price of $213, BABA implies a 10.3x risk/reward level based on my forecasts. After comparing my multiple expectations to competitors, there is the risk of further contraction in EV/S over time but BABA appears very discounted relative to competition on a P/E basis.Next, I wanted to measure BABA’s discounted valuation relative to TTM revenue growth. To do this I created a scatter plot, charting P/S on a TTM basis on the y-axis and TTM revenue growth YoY on the x-axis. Points charted under the dashed line are deemed undervalued and any points above the line are deemed overvalued.Based on TTM revenue growth through Q1 ’21, it’s clear to see the major discount BABA also has adjusted for top-line growth. Lastly, I wanted to throw in a price action chart with a long-term trendline pointing to BABA’s discounted price factor:Growth RunwayTo capture excellent investment gains, valuation is not enough, Alibaba will have to continue executing its growth strategy. While the stock seems to be cheap on a relative basis, I also believe growth on the top and bottom lines is imminent.After their Q1 release, BABA reported 41% YoY growth on the top-line driven by their leading core commerce segment alongside the fast-growing cloud segment. Coming off 35% YoY growth in 2020, being able to deliver a 41% topline increase is incredible for the year following. Given the fact COVID-19related online growth was reflected in early 2020 results, I find it very feasiblefor core commerce tailwinds to continue as growth persisted, and expanded, the following year.Alongside general e-commerce tailwinds, China’s middle-class growth could support sales for a mega-cap commerce player like Alibaba. “China already makes up the largest middle-class consumption market segment in the world” asChinese middle-class consumers were on track to spend over $7.3 Trillion in 2020, roughly 55% higher than the United States middle-class at $4.7 Trillion. At current levels, less than one-third of China’s total population lies within their middle-class, containing roughly 400 million people. Population expectations for the Chinese middle-class are expected to be 1.2 Billion people in 2027, a 17% CAGR. Coupling the sheer class population growth with a forecasted income CAGR of 3% stacked on top, BABA is potentially looking at a 20% built-in core commerce CAGR over the next 7 years based on these estimates.Lastly, I believe the digital transformation acceleration happening around the globewill be an excellent growth catalyst for the company moving forward. Like Amazon, Alibaba constructed its cloud base on logistical support for the commerce/delivery giant. Now that the infrastructure is built, they can grow the cloud as an operating segment, separate from core commerce, and outsource to major customers.Below you can see previous YoY growth on three months ended and annual basis.While Alibaba Cloud only makes up 8% of total revenues, in the future I believe this segment will be a larger contributor to the total top-line as domestic and international adoption grows. Couple the cloud with core commerce expansion propelled forward by a rapidly increasing middle-class and BABA's growth runway is seemingly attractive for short and long-term investors.RisksThe reason this opportunity exists isn't because of a systematic drawdown or a major global catalyst suppressing stock prices, there are clear idiosyncratic risks to investing in Alibaba. The major risks of a BABA investment were highlighted clearly over the past 7 months. Starting with the Ant IPO suspension, BABA investors became concerned not just with the fin-tech company exposure, but also began questioning the financial legitimacy of BABA itself. To make things worse, the outspoken billionaire founder denounced the Chinese regulators in a very public fashion. Obviously, China didn't like this and launched the full-fledged antitrust investigation into Alibaba. The regulatory risk is my biggest concern while investing in BABA. At the end of the day, I've only ever lived in the United States and am no expert on Chinese foreign policy. I want to make clear these regulatory risks are very real for any mega-cap company but potentially more so for those internationally. As an investor, it's very important to run through all the potential risks to a company before investing and only allocate capital if you believe the potential reward outweighs the risks accounted for.SummaryIn a short-term view, Alibaba has an excellent catalyst with the 6.18 sale. It is their first major sale since COVID, and it lasts from May 24th – June 20th. While sales like these are common annually and may have an extremely minimal effect on stock price, the positive sentiment generated could be a good turning point for BABA. Based on a long-term approach, I believe Alibaba will continue to be a massive global leader and continue to dominate Chinese e-commerce even in the wake of regulatory risk. With a rapidly growing middle-class and a digital transformation acceleration, I think core commerce and Alibaba cloud will continue driving growth for the company. After paying off the fine imposed I think much of the regulatory risk is behind them now. As future earnings growth has the potential to outweigh any regulatory concerns, BABA is in the making be an excellent investment opportunity, especially at deeply discounted valuations.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":244,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":197104834,"gmtCreate":1621432081228,"gmtModify":1704357544118,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I agree","listText":"I agree","text":"I agree","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197104834","repostId":"1174089278","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1174089278","pubTimestamp":1621430200,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1174089278?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-19 21:16","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Regulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1174089278","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month","content":"<p>The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity</p>\n<p><b>Alibaba</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BABA</u></b>) has had a rough month. The company&nbsp;recently announced&nbsp;that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result of its recent fine. Because of negative earnings, BABA stock broke through the important support level of $220. Now BABA stock has lost almost a third of its value from its November highs.</p>\n<p>The main cause behind this massive decline is that Chinese regulators have begun exerting regulatory pressure on the country’s large tech firms. Alibaba’s regulatory issues began when the $34.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) of its financial technology affiliate,<b>Ant Group</b>,was suspended. The reason cited was “changes in financial technology regulatory environment.” Chinese regulators also hit the company with an&nbsp;$2.8 billion fine&nbsp;due to anti-competitive practices.</p>\n<p>Despite these developments, though, I believe though that Alibaba will eventually straighten out its regulatory issues. At these prices, BABA offers a compelling value.</p>\n<p><b>BABA Stock: Cloud Will Drive Growth for Years to Come</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba is best known for its dominant ecommerce business. However, the company has a slew of other businesses, ranging from entertainment to digital payments. I believe, however, the company’s most promising venture is its cloud services. Similar to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes up a significant portion of&nbsp;<b>Amazon’s</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>AMZN</u></b>) value, Alibaba Cloud will become a massive growth driver for BABA stock in the years to come.</p>\n<p>For starters, Alibaba Cloud recently&nbsp;became profitable&nbsp;after 11 years of operating history, showing positive adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). This achievement was due to its “realization of economies of scale.” A boost also came from Covid-19 this past year, which saw a lot of firms adopting cloud technology. Additionally, the company noted that digitalization demand remains robust in post-pandemic China, especially in the restaurant and service industries.</p>\n<p>That said, Alibaba’s cloud services are still a small contributor to the company’s overall revenue. As of the latest quarter, cloud services only accounted for about 9% of BABA’s total revenue. Worldwide, Alibaba Cloud is also&nbsp;trailing behind leaders&nbsp;Amazon and&nbsp;<b>Microsoft</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>MSFT</u></b>) with a 9.1% market share.</p>\n<p>For comparison, Amazon and Microsoft have 45% and 17.9% of the cloud market, respectively. However, this could change in the near future. In the latest quarter, Alibaba’s cloud-computing division grew its revenues by a massive 37% year-over-year (YOY).</p>\n<p><b>China’s Cloud Market Is Booming</b></p>\n<p>Part of the reason I’m so bullish on BABA stock and Alibaba Cloud is because China’s cloud market is on the rise.</p>\n<p>China’s cloud industry is still in its infancy. In fact, despite being the world’s second largest cloud-computing market, China’s cloud industry is&nbsp;still a fraction&nbsp;of its U.S. counterpart. However, this means that Alibaba has plenty of room to grow, given China’s much larger population and relative importance to the world economy.</p>\n<p>Apart from the aforementioned tailwind of digitalization, the Chinese government has also made cloud computing one of its&nbsp;strategic priorities. Cloud services expenditures grew 62% in Q4 2020, from $2.2 billion in the same period in 2019 up to $5.8 billion recently. This was the “highest ever recorded” growth for the industry according to Canalys, indicating “robust” underlying demand.</p>\n<p><b>Investor Takeaway on BABA Stock</b></p>\n<p>Apart from the promise of Alibaba’s cloud business, though, its traditional ecommerce business has also been performing exceptionally well, despite the fierce competition in China’s market. To be clear, Alibaba’s commerce business brought in well over $25 billion as the continued effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic force shoppers online.</p>\n<p>Overall, this company has done superb. Alibaba beat Wall Street revenue estimates handily for the quarter, with a 64% increase YOY. Plus, while the company did report a loss from operations this quarter, the bulk of that is due to the hefty government fine. Without the fine, CEO Daniel Zhang has said that it would have reported a massive 48% YOY increase in operating income. In other words, take away the regulatory issues and Alibaba has had pretty solid results.</p>\n<p>This in mind, it is in my view that regulatory issues with tech firms eventually tend to work themselves out. Look at the stock performances of&nbsp;<b>Alphabet</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>GOOG</u></b>) and&nbsp;<b>Facebook</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>FB</u></b>), which have recently faced similar issues.\\</p>\n<p>BABA stock is currently trading at a trailing 12-month price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.37. This is extremely cheap when considering it is still growing at a fairly rapid pace. As such, I believe investors should consider purchasing shares at these prices.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Regulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nRegulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-19 21:16 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month. The company recently announced that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174089278","content_text":"The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month. The company recently announced that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result of its recent fine. Because of negative earnings, BABA stock broke through the important support level of $220. Now BABA stock has lost almost a third of its value from its November highs.\nThe main cause behind this massive decline is that Chinese regulators have begun exerting regulatory pressure on the country’s large tech firms. Alibaba’s regulatory issues began when the $34.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) of its financial technology affiliate,Ant Group,was suspended. The reason cited was “changes in financial technology regulatory environment.” Chinese regulators also hit the company with an $2.8 billion fine due to anti-competitive practices.\nDespite these developments, though, I believe though that Alibaba will eventually straighten out its regulatory issues. At these prices, BABA offers a compelling value.\nBABA Stock: Cloud Will Drive Growth for Years to Come\nAlibaba is best known for its dominant ecommerce business. However, the company has a slew of other businesses, ranging from entertainment to digital payments. I believe, however, the company’s most promising venture is its cloud services. Similar to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes up a significant portion of Amazon’s(NASDAQ:AMZN) value, Alibaba Cloud will become a massive growth driver for BABA stock in the years to come.\nFor starters, Alibaba Cloud recently became profitable after 11 years of operating history, showing positive adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). This achievement was due to its “realization of economies of scale.” A boost also came from Covid-19 this past year, which saw a lot of firms adopting cloud technology. Additionally, the company noted that digitalization demand remains robust in post-pandemic China, especially in the restaurant and service industries.\nThat said, Alibaba’s cloud services are still a small contributor to the company’s overall revenue. As of the latest quarter, cloud services only accounted for about 9% of BABA’s total revenue. Worldwide, Alibaba Cloud is also trailing behind leaders Amazon and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) with a 9.1% market share.\nFor comparison, Amazon and Microsoft have 45% and 17.9% of the cloud market, respectively. However, this could change in the near future. In the latest quarter, Alibaba’s cloud-computing division grew its revenues by a massive 37% year-over-year (YOY).\nChina’s Cloud Market Is Booming\nPart of the reason I’m so bullish on BABA stock and Alibaba Cloud is because China’s cloud market is on the rise.\nChina’s cloud industry is still in its infancy. In fact, despite being the world’s second largest cloud-computing market, China’s cloud industry is still a fraction of its U.S. counterpart. However, this means that Alibaba has plenty of room to grow, given China’s much larger population and relative importance to the world economy.\nApart from the aforementioned tailwind of digitalization, the Chinese government has also made cloud computing one of its strategic priorities. Cloud services expenditures grew 62% in Q4 2020, from $2.2 billion in the same period in 2019 up to $5.8 billion recently. This was the “highest ever recorded” growth for the industry according to Canalys, indicating “robust” underlying demand.\nInvestor Takeaway on BABA Stock\nApart from the promise of Alibaba’s cloud business, though, its traditional ecommerce business has also been performing exceptionally well, despite the fierce competition in China’s market. To be clear, Alibaba’s commerce business brought in well over $25 billion as the continued effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic force shoppers online.\nOverall, this company has done superb. Alibaba beat Wall Street revenue estimates handily for the quarter, with a 64% increase YOY. Plus, while the company did report a loss from operations this quarter, the bulk of that is due to the hefty government fine. Without the fine, CEO Daniel Zhang has said that it would have reported a massive 48% YOY increase in operating income. In other words, take away the regulatory issues and Alibaba has had pretty solid results.\nThis in mind, it is in my view that regulatory issues with tech firms eventually tend to work themselves out. Look at the stock performances of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), which have recently faced similar issues.\\\nBABA stock is currently trading at a trailing 12-month price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.37. This is extremely cheap when considering it is still growing at a fairly rapid pace. As such, I believe investors should consider purchasing shares at these prices.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":158,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":198790510,"gmtCreate":1620987897730,"gmtModify":1704351572068,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","listText":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","text":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/198790510","repostId":"1112285344","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":293,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":191799135,"gmtCreate":1620905237127,"gmtModify":1704350199415,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Great&nbsp;performance!!","listText":"Great&nbsp;performance!!","text":"Great performance!!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/191799135","repostId":"1179179054","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1179179054","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1620905062,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1179179054?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-13 19:24","market":"sh","language":"en","title":"Alibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1179179054","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":" Alibaba Group Holding Limited  today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new business","content":"<p>(May 13)&nbsp;Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.</p><ul><li>Alibaba&nbsp;Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32&nbsp;misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.</li><li>Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.</li><li>Annual active consumers on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li>Mobile MAUs on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li>“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,”&nbsp;said&nbsp;Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.</li></ul><p>Alibaba&nbsp;rose 0.05% in premarket trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/921d78254d608876b280bdeb0de34008\" tg-width=\"766\" tg-height=\"494\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”</p><p>“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”</p><p><b>BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><p><b>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li><b>Loss from operations</b>was RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).</li><li><b>Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),and<b>net loss</b>was RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted loss per ADS</b>was RMB1.99 (US$0.30) and<b>diluted loss per share</b>was RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).<b>Non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.</li></ul><p><b>In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>for the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.</li><li><b>GMV</b>transacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.</li><li><b>Income from operations</b>was RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).</li><li><b>Adjusted EBITA for core commerce</b>was RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Our<b>marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.</li><li><b>Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),and<b>net income</b>was RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB54.70 (US$8.35) and<b>diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) and<b>non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.</li></ul><p>Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATES</b></p><p><b>Alibaba Ecosystem</b></p><p>Our China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.</p><p>Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.</p><p><b>Core Commerce</b></p><p><b>China Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rate</b></p><p><i>Consumers</i></p><p>In March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.</p><p>In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.</p><p>Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.</p><p>We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.</p><p><i>Product Supply</i></p><p>A key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Engagement</i></p><p>The Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services</b></p><p>Our New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.</p><p>Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.</p><p><i>Community Marketplaces</i>– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.</p><p><i>Freshippo</i>– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.</p><p><i>Taoxianda</i>– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.</p><p><b>Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experience</b></p><p>In fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.</p><p><b>Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationally</b></p><p>Cainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.</p><p>A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.</p><p>In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.</p><p><b>International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpress</b></p><p>Our international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Lazada</i>– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.</p><p><i>AliExpress</i>– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>Cloud Computing</b></p><p>In 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:</p><ul><li><b>Elastic Computing</b>- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.</li><li><b>Database</b>- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.</li><li><b>Serverless</b>- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.</li></ul><p>In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.</p><p><b>Digital Media and Entertainment</b></p><p>During fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.</p><p>Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.</p><p><b>Innovation Initiatives and Others</b></p><p><i>Amap</i><b>–</b>Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.</p><p><b>Share Repurchases</b></p><p>Pursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.</p><p><b>Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash Flow</b></p><p>In the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.</p><p>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>Guidance</b></p><p>The guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-13 19:24</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>(May 13)&nbsp;Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.</p><ul><li>Alibaba&nbsp;Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32&nbsp;misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.</li><li>Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.</li><li>Annual active consumers on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li>Mobile MAUs on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li>“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,”&nbsp;said&nbsp;Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.</li></ul><p>Alibaba&nbsp;rose 0.05% in premarket trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/921d78254d608876b280bdeb0de34008\" tg-width=\"766\" tg-height=\"494\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”</p><p>“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”</p><p><b>BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><p><b>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li><b>Loss from operations</b>was RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).</li><li><b>Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),and<b>net loss</b>was RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted loss per ADS</b>was RMB1.99 (US$0.30) and<b>diluted loss per share</b>was RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).<b>Non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.</li></ul><p><b>In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>for the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.</li><li><b>GMV</b>transacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.</li><li><b>Income from operations</b>was RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).</li><li><b>Adjusted EBITA for core commerce</b>was RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Our<b>marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.</li><li><b>Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),and<b>net income</b>was RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB54.70 (US$8.35) and<b>diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) and<b>non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.</li></ul><p>Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATES</b></p><p><b>Alibaba Ecosystem</b></p><p>Our China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.</p><p>Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.</p><p><b>Core Commerce</b></p><p><b>China Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rate</b></p><p><i>Consumers</i></p><p>In March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.</p><p>In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.</p><p>Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.</p><p>We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.</p><p><i>Product Supply</i></p><p>A key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Engagement</i></p><p>The Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services</b></p><p>Our New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.</p><p>Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.</p><p><i>Community Marketplaces</i>– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.</p><p><i>Freshippo</i>– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.</p><p><i>Taoxianda</i>– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.</p><p><b>Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experience</b></p><p>In fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.</p><p><b>Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationally</b></p><p>Cainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.</p><p>A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.</p><p>In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.</p><p><b>International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpress</b></p><p>Our international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Lazada</i>– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.</p><p><i>AliExpress</i>– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>Cloud Computing</b></p><p>In 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:</p><ul><li><b>Elastic Computing</b>- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.</li><li><b>Database</b>- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.</li><li><b>Serverless</b>- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.</li></ul><p>In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.</p><p><b>Digital Media and Entertainment</b></p><p>During fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.</p><p>Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.</p><p><b>Innovation Initiatives and Others</b></p><p><i>Amap</i><b>–</b>Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.</p><p><b>Share Repurchases</b></p><p>Pursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.</p><p><b>Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash Flow</b></p><p>In the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.</p><p>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>Guidance</b></p><p>The guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1179179054","content_text":"(May 13) Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.Alibaba Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32 misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.Mobile MAUs on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.Alibaba rose 0.05% in premarket trading.“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTSIn the quarter ended March 31, 2021:Revenuewas RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).Annual active consumerson our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.Mobile MAUson our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.Loss from operationswas RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholderswas RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),andnet losswas RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,non-GAAP net incomewas RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.Diluted loss per ADSwas RMB1.99 (US$0.30) anddiluted loss per sharewas RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year andnon-GAAP diluted earnings per sharewas RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.Net cash provided by operating activitieswas RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).Non-GAAP free cash flowwas an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:Revenuewas RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).Annual active consumersfor the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.Mobile MAUson our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.GMVtransacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.Income from operationswas RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).Adjusted EBITA for core commercewas RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Ourmarketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.Net income attributable to ordinary shareholderswas RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),andnet incomewas RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,non-GAAP net incomewas RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.Diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB54.70 (US$8.35) anddiluted earnings per sharewas RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year andnon-GAAP diluted earnings per sharewas RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.Net cash provided by operating activitieswas RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) andnon-GAAP free cash flowwas RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATESAlibaba EcosystemOur China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.Core CommerceChina Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rateConsumersIn March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.Product SupplyA key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef & Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.EngagementThe Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment servicesOur New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.Community Marketplaces– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.Freshippo– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.Taoxianda– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experienceIn fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationallyCainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpressOur international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.Lazada– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.AliExpress– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.Cloud ComputingIn 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:Elastic Computing- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.Database- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.Serverless- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.Digital Media and EntertainmentDuring fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.Innovation Initiatives and OthersAmap–Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.Share RepurchasesPursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash FlowIn the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.GuidanceThe guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":506,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":190719256,"gmtCreate":1620652216875,"gmtModify":1704346129430,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Looking forward to the full year Alibaba&nbsp;results coming outsoon!","listText":"Looking forward to the full year Alibaba&nbsp;results coming outsoon!","text":"Looking forward to the full year Alibaba results coming outsoon!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/190719256","repostId":"2134341786","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":588,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":105690302,"gmtCreate":1620294924806,"gmtModify":1704341479046,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Fingers crossed!! &nbsp;Hope that will signal the beginning on a great news!","listText":"Fingers crossed!! &nbsp;Hope that will signal the beginning on a great news!","text":"Fingers crossed!! Hope that will signal the beginning on a great news!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/105690302","repostId":"2133602520","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":373,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":342071465,"gmtCreate":1618140213657,"gmtModify":1704706926864,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"3560739763641510","idStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","listText":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","text":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/342071465","repostId":"2126030131","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":368,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"hots":[{"id":185422105,"gmtCreate":1623668636207,"gmtModify":1704208193815,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"My take : Alibaba will be the King!","listText":"My take : Alibaba will be the King!","text":"My take : Alibaba will be the King!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":5,"commentSize":7,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/185422105","repostId":"2143857817","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":699,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":121983954,"gmtCreate":1624449375778,"gmtModify":1703836996625,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"That’s a good step to work w the China govt. &nbsp;Maythe IPO be out soon and let Alibaba start to go up to fair value !","listText":"That’s a good step to work w the China govt. &nbsp;Maythe IPO be out soon and let Alibaba start to go up to fair value !","text":"That’s a good step to work w the China govt. Maythe IPO be out soon and let Alibaba start to go up to fair value !","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":7,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/121983954","repostId":"2145995020","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":1078,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":116734847,"gmtCreate":1622818572489,"gmtModify":1704191887847,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Huge&nbsp;growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. &nbsp;there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","listText":"Huge&nbsp;growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. &nbsp;there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","text":"Huge growth potential, low PE valuation, wide diversified offering within the group.. there is only a few of the same! Go Baba go!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":3,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/116734847","repostId":"1154529120","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1154529120","pubTimestamp":1622810459,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1154529120?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-04 20:40","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500? If You Got Time, Yes","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1154529120","media":"seekingalpha","summary":"Alibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.I believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.In the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.Since its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:. Alibaba Group'","content":"<p><b>Summary</b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Alibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.</li>\n <li>I believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.</li>\n <li>In the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.</li>\n</ul>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/567d19950e6c8789ce2192b4503f0fa5\" tg-width=\"1536\" tg-height=\"653\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"><span>Photo by efetova/iStock via Getty Images</span></p>\n<p><b>Article Thesis</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba Group (BABA) is a leading global high-tech name that continues to generate attractive growth and that offers investors exposure to the high-growth Chinese consumer market. At the same time, through a range of ventures, Alibaba is also active in additional industries, such as cloud computing. Shares have declined considerably over the last couple of months, but I believe that the long-term potential is significant. I would not be surprised to see shares rise towards $500, although that will not happen in the near term.</p>\n<p><b>BABA Stock Price</b></p>\n<p>Since its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8079eeb5384ea003fb3725d3cd1e877f\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>Shares are now basically where they were one year ago, as the gains during summer 2020 have been erased when Ant Financial's IPO plans were stopped. The flat share price performance over the last year is somewhat surprising, though, as Alibaba continued to generate strong results in that time frame. During the last quarter, for example, Alibaba showcased a&nbsp;revenue growth rate of 64%, while revenue growth during the previous quarter was also very strong, at around 50%. This is not the only positive in Alibaba's earnings releases, however. The company also managed to grow its user count by 32 million during the most recent quarter alone, which equates to an annualized user growth rate of around 20%. This bodes well for future quarters, as more users on Alibaba's platform should translate into higher revenues. On top of that, the strong user growth shows that there is still growing demand for the shopping services that Alibaba's platforms offer -- the market is not saturated at all. Alibaba also managed to grow its EBITDA by 25% year over year, which is an attractive growth pace as well, and which was achieved despite growing investments in what management calls key growth areas. Income from operations, meanwhile, grew at an even faster pace, thanks to some operating leverage, rising by 48% year over year when adjusted for the fine that Alibaba had to pay during Q1. It makes, I believe, sense to back out this one-time item to get a clearer picture about Alibaba's underlying, \"core\" profitability during an average quarter.</p>\n<p>Alibaba Group's weak share price performance, relative to the broad market and other tech names, is thus not the result of weak operating performance, but rather a result of multiple compression, driven by weak investor sentiment due to China exposure and&nbsp;fears about regulation.</p>\n<p>At its current price of $220, BABA trades at a quite large discount compared to the current consensus analyst price target of $298. If Alibaba were to hit that, shares would gain 35%. Analyst price targets are usually issued with a 1-year time frame, thus, if the analyst community is correct, Alibaba could be a great investment. From a valuation standpoint, this price target doesn't seem outrageous at all, as $298 would equate to around 29x this year's expected net profits, or 23x next year's net earnings. The latter is likely the more telling one when we talk about a price target for summer 2022, i.e. 1 year from now.</p>\n<p><b>Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500?</b></p>\n<p>The answer to that question, I think, depends on your time frame. If you are looking at a 12-month window, then Alibaba will most likely not be able to hit $500. The ~$300 price target seems achievable, although that is, of course, also not guaranteed. If, however, we take a longer-term view, then $500 seems like a share price that BABA could hit eventually. Let's look at a couple of examples.</p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $20 at some point and traded at an earnings multiple of 25, then shares would trade at $500.</i></p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $25 and traded at a 20x earnings multiple, then shares would trade at $500.</i></p>\n<p><i>- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $17 and traded at 29x its net profits, then shares would trade at (marginally below) $500.</i></p>\n<p>We see that there are many scenarios that could get us to a $500 share price for BABA, some of them more likely than others. Of course, the higher your target multiple, the lower the earnings that would be required. This, in turn, means that the price target can be hit sooner, as less cumulative earnings growth would be required. When we take a look at how Alibaba was valued in the past, we see that the longer-term median earnings multiples for BABA look like this:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/dd2d42b7094deb394266d6410287c2e4\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>At 30-40x net earnings, Alibaba was clearly trading at a massive premium relative to how shares are valued today (around 20x this year's earnings). I think that the current valuation is too low, but on the other hand, I do not expect Alibaba to trade at 30, 35, or even 40x net profits in coming years. Due to the growing scale of Alibaba, which makes it a little harder to maintain its excellent growth in coming years, shares will likely trade at a lower valuation in coming years, compared to how they were valued in the past.</p>\n<p>I still think that shares do have some valuation expansion potential from the current earnings multiple of around 21, thus let's assume that shares trade at 23x net profits in the future. This would still represent a massive discount versus the historic valuation, and also a substantial discount compared to how US-based high-tech mega-caps are valued -- Amazon (AMZN), for example, trades at 59x this year's earnings.</p>\n<p>If we want to get to a $500 share price for BABA using a 23x earnings multiple, then we get to earnings per share of $21.70 that Alibaba must generate. When could this be the case? In the following chart, we see EPS estimates for the current year, next year (CY 2022), and CY 2023:</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6fcf78e0b071eff9753afbdcd96f751c\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"436\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>If analysts are right, Alibaba will not get to earn $22 a share through 2023, and I think that is realistic. I do not see earnings per share rising by 100%+ between this year and 2023, either. From 2023, it would take another 43% increase in Alibaba's earnings per share to get to $21.70, which is our \"target EPS\" for a $500 share price.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/7b4c351b4b5eb3328191ccaa9a3b776c\" tg-width=\"635\" tg-height=\"403\"><span>Data byYCharts</span></p>\n<p>Analysts are currently forecasting long-term EPS growth of around 27%, which would mean it would take Alibaba about 1.5 years to grow its EPS from $15.20 (2023 estimate) to our target of $21.70. Even if we assume that this is too optimistic and that growth will be just 20% in 2024 and 2025, EPS of $21.70 could be hit by the end of 2025. So, in other words, if Alibaba grows a little less than what analysts are forecasting right now, Alibaba could trade at $500 by the end of 2025 -- or 4.5 years from now. Note that this scenario does not require a high earnings multiple at all -- at 23x net profits, Alibaba wouldn't be expensive, I believe.</p>\n<p>We can get even more conservative and assume that the 2023 EPS estimate is 10% too high and that EPS will grow by just 17% a year in the years beyond 2023 (versus a long-term forecast of 27% a year by the analyst community). In that case, Alibaba would hit $21.70 in earnings per share in 2026, and shares would rise to $500 over the next 5.5 years. Even in this scenario, BABA wouldn't be a bad investment at all -- a 130% share price increase from the current level over the next 5.5 years would equate to annualized returns of 16%.</p>\n<p>So, to sum this section up, I'd say<i>yes, BABA can hit $500</i>-- but it will realistically take a couple of years. By the mid-2020s, this seems like a very achievable goal to me, although there are, of course, no guarantees.</p>\n<p><b>Is Alibaba Stock A Buy Or Sell Now?</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba Group is, I believe, a strong investment. The company generates strong growth, profits from multiple long-term macro trends, such as growing consumer spending in China, growing e-commerce market share, and cloud computing. There are, however, risks to consider: Alibaba is highly China-dependent, and in case the economic growth story in China ends, Alibaba would be hurt a lot. On top of that, Alibaba could be targeted again by regulators, although I personally think that it is not in China's best interest to hurt one of its highest-growth tech companies.</p>\n<p>For those that worry about these risks, Alibaba may not be the right choice, but for those that see Alibaba as a potentially very rewarding play on Chinese consumers, BABA could be a strong pick in a diversified portfolio. I belong to the latter group and thus rate the stock a buy at current valuations, expecting significant upside over the coming years. Depending on your risk tolerance and how you weigh the opportunities and threats of investing in Chinese companies, you may decide differently, however.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Can Alibaba Stock Hit $500? 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If You Got Time, Yes\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-04 20:40 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Summary\n\nAlibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.\nI believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4432992-alibaba-stock-hit-500","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1154529120","content_text":"Summary\n\nAlibaba is a battleground stock where some see a lot of opportunities, while others see many risks.\nI believe that there are both opportunities and risks, but would see the prior outweighing the latter.\nIn the long run, BABA has a chance of delivering strong gains for those that buy at the current, quite low, valuation.\n\nPhoto by efetova/iStock via Getty Images\nArticle Thesis\nAlibaba Group (BABA) is a leading global high-tech name that continues to generate attractive growth and that offers investors exposure to the high-growth Chinese consumer market. At the same time, through a range of ventures, Alibaba is also active in additional industries, such as cloud computing. Shares have declined considerably over the last couple of months, but I believe that the long-term potential is significant. I would not be surprised to see shares rise towards $500, although that will not happen in the near term.\nBABA Stock Price\nSince its IPO, Alibaba has seen strong share price gains, but it should also be mentioned that shares did peek in H2 2020, and have declined considerably since then:\nData byYCharts\nShares are now basically where they were one year ago, as the gains during summer 2020 have been erased when Ant Financial's IPO plans were stopped. The flat share price performance over the last year is somewhat surprising, though, as Alibaba continued to generate strong results in that time frame. During the last quarter, for example, Alibaba showcased a revenue growth rate of 64%, while revenue growth during the previous quarter was also very strong, at around 50%. This is not the only positive in Alibaba's earnings releases, however. The company also managed to grow its user count by 32 million during the most recent quarter alone, which equates to an annualized user growth rate of around 20%. This bodes well for future quarters, as more users on Alibaba's platform should translate into higher revenues. On top of that, the strong user growth shows that there is still growing demand for the shopping services that Alibaba's platforms offer -- the market is not saturated at all. Alibaba also managed to grow its EBITDA by 25% year over year, which is an attractive growth pace as well, and which was achieved despite growing investments in what management calls key growth areas. Income from operations, meanwhile, grew at an even faster pace, thanks to some operating leverage, rising by 48% year over year when adjusted for the fine that Alibaba had to pay during Q1. It makes, I believe, sense to back out this one-time item to get a clearer picture about Alibaba's underlying, \"core\" profitability during an average quarter.\nAlibaba Group's weak share price performance, relative to the broad market and other tech names, is thus not the result of weak operating performance, but rather a result of multiple compression, driven by weak investor sentiment due to China exposure and fears about regulation.\nAt its current price of $220, BABA trades at a quite large discount compared to the current consensus analyst price target of $298. If Alibaba were to hit that, shares would gain 35%. Analyst price targets are usually issued with a 1-year time frame, thus, if the analyst community is correct, Alibaba could be a great investment. From a valuation standpoint, this price target doesn't seem outrageous at all, as $298 would equate to around 29x this year's expected net profits, or 23x next year's net earnings. The latter is likely the more telling one when we talk about a price target for summer 2022, i.e. 1 year from now.\nCan Alibaba Stock Hit $500?\nThe answer to that question, I think, depends on your time frame. If you are looking at a 12-month window, then Alibaba will most likely not be able to hit $500. The ~$300 price target seems achievable, although that is, of course, also not guaranteed. If, however, we take a longer-term view, then $500 seems like a share price that BABA could hit eventually. Let's look at a couple of examples.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $20 at some point and traded at an earnings multiple of 25, then shares would trade at $500.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $25 and traded at a 20x earnings multiple, then shares would trade at $500.\n- If Alibaba were to generate earnings per share of $17 and traded at 29x its net profits, then shares would trade at (marginally below) $500.\nWe see that there are many scenarios that could get us to a $500 share price for BABA, some of them more likely than others. Of course, the higher your target multiple, the lower the earnings that would be required. This, in turn, means that the price target can be hit sooner, as less cumulative earnings growth would be required. When we take a look at how Alibaba was valued in the past, we see that the longer-term median earnings multiples for BABA look like this:\nData byYCharts\nAt 30-40x net earnings, Alibaba was clearly trading at a massive premium relative to how shares are valued today (around 20x this year's earnings). I think that the current valuation is too low, but on the other hand, I do not expect Alibaba to trade at 30, 35, or even 40x net profits in coming years. Due to the growing scale of Alibaba, which makes it a little harder to maintain its excellent growth in coming years, shares will likely trade at a lower valuation in coming years, compared to how they were valued in the past.\nI still think that shares do have some valuation expansion potential from the current earnings multiple of around 21, thus let's assume that shares trade at 23x net profits in the future. This would still represent a massive discount versus the historic valuation, and also a substantial discount compared to how US-based high-tech mega-caps are valued -- Amazon (AMZN), for example, trades at 59x this year's earnings.\nIf we want to get to a $500 share price for BABA using a 23x earnings multiple, then we get to earnings per share of $21.70 that Alibaba must generate. When could this be the case? In the following chart, we see EPS estimates for the current year, next year (CY 2022), and CY 2023:\nData byYCharts\nIf analysts are right, Alibaba will not get to earn $22 a share through 2023, and I think that is realistic. I do not see earnings per share rising by 100%+ between this year and 2023, either. From 2023, it would take another 43% increase in Alibaba's earnings per share to get to $21.70, which is our \"target EPS\" for a $500 share price.\nData byYCharts\nAnalysts are currently forecasting long-term EPS growth of around 27%, which would mean it would take Alibaba about 1.5 years to grow its EPS from $15.20 (2023 estimate) to our target of $21.70. Even if we assume that this is too optimistic and that growth will be just 20% in 2024 and 2025, EPS of $21.70 could be hit by the end of 2025. So, in other words, if Alibaba grows a little less than what analysts are forecasting right now, Alibaba could trade at $500 by the end of 2025 -- or 4.5 years from now. Note that this scenario does not require a high earnings multiple at all -- at 23x net profits, Alibaba wouldn't be expensive, I believe.\nWe can get even more conservative and assume that the 2023 EPS estimate is 10% too high and that EPS will grow by just 17% a year in the years beyond 2023 (versus a long-term forecast of 27% a year by the analyst community). In that case, Alibaba would hit $21.70 in earnings per share in 2026, and shares would rise to $500 over the next 5.5 years. Even in this scenario, BABA wouldn't be a bad investment at all -- a 130% share price increase from the current level over the next 5.5 years would equate to annualized returns of 16%.\nSo, to sum this section up, I'd sayyes, BABA can hit $500-- but it will realistically take a couple of years. By the mid-2020s, this seems like a very achievable goal to me, although there are, of course, no guarantees.\nIs Alibaba Stock A Buy Or Sell Now?\nAlibaba Group is, I believe, a strong investment. The company generates strong growth, profits from multiple long-term macro trends, such as growing consumer spending in China, growing e-commerce market share, and cloud computing. There are, however, risks to consider: Alibaba is highly China-dependent, and in case the economic growth story in China ends, Alibaba would be hurt a lot. On top of that, Alibaba could be targeted again by regulators, although I personally think that it is not in China's best interest to hurt one of its highest-growth tech companies.\nFor those that worry about these risks, Alibaba may not be the right choice, but for those that see Alibaba as a potentially very rewarding play on Chinese consumers, BABA could be a strong pick in a diversified portfolio. I belong to the latter group and thus rate the stock a buy at current valuations, expecting significant upside over the coming years. Depending on your risk tolerance and how you weigh the opportunities and threats of investing in Chinese companies, you may decide differently, however.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":522,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":342071465,"gmtCreate":1618140213657,"gmtModify":1704706926864,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","listText":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","text":"Hopefully. this marks the end/ bottom for Alibaba","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":3,"commentSize":2,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/342071465","repostId":"2126030131","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"2126030131","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Reuters.com brings you the latest news from around the world, covering breaking news in markets, business, politics, entertainment and technology","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Reuters","id":"1036604489","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/443ce19704621c837795676028cec868"},"pubTimestamp":1618124861,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/2126030131?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-04-11 15:07","market":"sh","language":"en","title":"NEWSMAKER-Record penalty for Ma's Alibaba marks tumultuous stretch for its founder","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=2126030131","media":"Reuters","summary":"By Tony Munroe   BEIJING, April 11 (Reuters) - Once seemingly untouchable, Alibaba founder Jack Ma h","content":"<html><body><p>By Tony Munroe</p><p>   BEIJING, April 11 (Reuters) - Once seemingly untouchable, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has endured a tumultuous run that saw his Chinese e-commerce giant hit with a record 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) antitrust fine on Saturday, resolving <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE\">one</a> key uncertainty even as others persist for himself and his business empire.</p><p>   The reversal of fortune for the 56-year-old Ma, who has all-but-disappeared from public view since an October speech blasting China's regulatory system, has been striking for an entrepreneur whose transformation of commerce in China - and his relentless optimism - commanded cult-like reverence.            </p><p>   Ma, who stepped down from Alibaba in 2019 but looms large in the corporate psyche and in the eyes of investors, had revelled in pushing boundaries with audacious statements, taking a high profile even as most Chinese peers kept their heads down. </p><p>   Friends in high places, as well as pride in Alibaba's success, had protected Ma, sources have said.  </p><p>   That was until his Shanghai speech triggered a backlash that led to the scuppering of a blockbuster $37 billion IPO for Alibaba financial technology affiliate Ant Group, as well as a clampdown by authorities on the e-commerce giant itself and the wider \"platform economy\", which continues to reverberate.</p><p>   Ant, whose rapid growth and freewheeling lending practices drew regulatory concern about financial risk, remains subject to an enforced restructuring that is expected to rein in some of its most profitable businesses and slash its valuation.</p><p>   \"Entrepreneurship has to be disruptive. But being provocative to the government has its limits,\" said Duncan Clark, chairman of Beijing-based tech consultancy BDA China and author of a book on Alibaba and Ma. </p><p>   Saturday's settlement, he said, \"should draw a line\" under the matter for Alibaba. ] </p><p>   \"But for Ant and Jack, there's no line drawn yet,\" he said.</p><p>   Alibaba declined to comment on Ma, and his foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.</p><p>   CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE</p><p>   Ma's absence from public view became conspicuous until he surfaced for the first time in three months in late January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging. He has continued to keep an extremely low profile.  </p><p>   \"He's playing a lot of golf and improving his handicap,\" said <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> person who knows him.</p><p>   A former English teacher, Ma co-founded Alibaba   </p><p>  in 1999 from a shared apartment in the eastern city of Hangzhou, ultimately building a colossus that spans e-commerce, financial services, cloud computing and even supermarkets, making him China's most famous businessman.</p><p>   He was also China's richest, until the clampdown knocked him back to fourth place on the Hurun Global Rich List published in March, although Ma and his family's wealth still grew last year by 22% to 360 billion yuan, according to the list.  </p><p>   As of last July, he owned 4.8% of Alibaba. </p><p>   In 2018, Ma was revealed to be a Communist Party member by its official newspaper, debunking a public assumption that he was politically unattached. </p><p>   'ARROGANCE DISCOUNT'</p><p>   Ma has often been described in Chinese media as a source of national pride and even legend. His global prominence made him an almost-diplomatic figure. Countless books have been published on Alibaba's founding and Ma's business tactics.</p><p>   Ma-isms such as \"Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine\", are common in Chinese business circles. In Hangzhou, small firms have been known to set up altars adorned with images of Ma to bring good fortune.</p><p>   But in a February snub, Ma was left off a list of Chinese entrepreneurial leaders published by state media.  </p><p>   Franklin Chu, president of Sage Capital in Rye, New York, noted that Alibaba shares are trading at a 30% discount to their 52-week high.</p><p>   \"I call this the 'Jack Ma arrogance discount,' combined with the recent round of China-bashing coming out of Washington,\" he said.</p><p>   Alibaba, he said, \"needs to work hard to re-establish an accommodative relationship with its regulatory handlers.\"</p><p>   Since stepping back from the company, Ma has sought to focus his time on philanthropy and education, including his charitable trust, the Jack Ma Foundation, and two schools in Hangzhou.</p><p>   Ma was an active conference participant, making at least 12 appearances in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began. In March 2020, he opened a <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> account - the platform is blocked in China - which mainly tweeted about his foundation's COVID-19 prevention efforts. Its last tweet was on Oct. 10.</p><p>   \"It's crucial for Chinese entrepreneurs to be low-key. Don't speak casually. And don't say anything wrong,\" Edward Chen, chairman of Shanghai-based fintech consultancy China Rising Group, said in a social media video post.</p><p>   \"Prudence in words and action is the No. 1 priority so that Chinese entrepreneurs can live longer.\"</p><p>   ($1 = 6.5522 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p>    &lt;^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ China fines Alibaba record $2.75 bln for anti-monopoly violations       TIMELINE-Events leading up to China's fine on Alibaba   </p><p>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^&gt;</p><p>(Reporting by Tony Munroe in Beijing, Brenda Goh, Samuel Shen and Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Kane Wu in Hong Kong and Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Kim Coghill)</p><p>((tony.munroe@thomsonreuters.com; +86 10 6627 1288; Reuters Messaging: tony.munroe.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))</p></body></html>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>NEWSMAKER-Record penalty for Ma's Alibaba marks tumultuous stretch for its founder</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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But being provocative to the government has its limits,\" said Duncan Clark, chairman of Beijing-based tech consultancy BDA China and author of a book on Alibaba and Ma. </p><p>   Saturday's settlement, he said, \"should draw a line\" under the matter for Alibaba. ] </p><p>   \"But for Ant and Jack, there's no line drawn yet,\" he said.</p><p>   Alibaba declined to comment on Ma, and his foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.</p><p>   CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE</p><p>   Ma's absence from public view became conspicuous until he surfaced for the first time in three months in late January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging. He has continued to keep an extremely low profile.  </p><p>   \"He's playing a lot of golf and improving his handicap,\" said <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AONE.U\">one</a> person who knows him.</p><p>   A former English teacher, Ma co-founded Alibaba   </p><p>  in 1999 from a shared apartment in the eastern city of Hangzhou, ultimately building a colossus that spans e-commerce, financial services, cloud computing and even supermarkets, making him China's most famous businessman.</p><p>   He was also China's richest, until the clampdown knocked him back to fourth place on the Hurun Global Rich List published in March, although Ma and his family's wealth still grew last year by 22% to 360 billion yuan, according to the list.  </p><p>   As of last July, he owned 4.8% of Alibaba. </p><p>   In 2018, Ma was revealed to be a Communist Party member by its official newspaper, debunking a public assumption that he was politically unattached. </p><p>   'ARROGANCE DISCOUNT'</p><p>   Ma has often been described in Chinese media as a source of national pride and even legend. His global prominence made him an almost-diplomatic figure. Countless books have been published on Alibaba's founding and Ma's business tactics.</p><p>   Ma-isms such as \"Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine\", are common in Chinese business circles. In Hangzhou, small firms have been known to set up altars adorned with images of Ma to bring good fortune.</p><p>   But in a February snub, Ma was left off a list of Chinese entrepreneurial leaders published by state media.  </p><p>   Franklin Chu, president of Sage Capital in Rye, New York, noted that Alibaba shares are trading at a 30% discount to their 52-week high.</p><p>   \"I call this the 'Jack Ma arrogance discount,' combined with the recent round of China-bashing coming out of Washington,\" he said.</p><p>   Alibaba, he said, \"needs to work hard to re-establish an accommodative relationship with its regulatory handlers.\"</p><p>   Since stepping back from the company, Ma has sought to focus his time on philanthropy and education, including his charitable trust, the Jack Ma Foundation, and two schools in Hangzhou.</p><p>   Ma was an active conference participant, making at least 12 appearances in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began. In March 2020, he opened a <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/TWTR\">Twitter</a> account - the platform is blocked in China - which mainly tweeted about his foundation's COVID-19 prevention efforts. Its last tweet was on Oct. 10.</p><p>   \"It's crucial for Chinese entrepreneurs to be low-key. Don't speak casually. And don't say anything wrong,\" Edward Chen, chairman of Shanghai-based fintech consultancy China Rising Group, said in a social media video post.</p><p>   \"Prudence in words and action is the No. 1 priority so that Chinese entrepreneurs can live longer.\"</p><p>   ($1 = 6.5522 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p>    &lt;^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ China fines Alibaba record $2.75 bln for anti-monopoly violations       TIMELINE-Events leading up to China's fine on Alibaba   </p><p>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^&gt;</p><p>(Reporting by Tony Munroe in Beijing, Brenda Goh, Samuel Shen and Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Kane Wu in Hong Kong and Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Kim Coghill)</p><p>((tony.munroe@thomsonreuters.com; +86 10 6627 1288; Reuters Messaging: tony.munroe.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"source_url":"http://api.rkd.refinitiv.com/api/News/News.svc/REST/News_1/RetrieveStoryML_1","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2126030131","content_text":"By Tony Munroe   BEIJING, April 11 (Reuters) - Once seemingly untouchable, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has endured a tumultuous run that saw his Chinese e-commerce giant hit with a record 18 billion yuan ($2.75 billion) antitrust fine on Saturday, resolving one key uncertainty even as others persist for himself and his business empire.   The reversal of fortune for the 56-year-old Ma, who has all-but-disappeared from public view since an October speech blasting China's regulatory system, has been striking for an entrepreneur whose transformation of commerce in China - and his relentless optimism - commanded cult-like reverence.               Ma, who stepped down from Alibaba in 2019 but looms large in the corporate psyche and in the eyes of investors, had revelled in pushing boundaries with audacious statements, taking a high profile even as most Chinese peers kept their heads down.    Friends in high places, as well as pride in Alibaba's success, had protected Ma, sources have said.     That was until his Shanghai speech triggered a backlash that led to the scuppering of a blockbuster $37 billion IPO for Alibaba financial technology affiliate Ant Group, as well as a clampdown by authorities on the e-commerce giant itself and the wider \"platform economy\", which continues to reverberate.   Ant, whose rapid growth and freewheeling lending practices drew regulatory concern about financial risk, remains subject to an enforced restructuring that is expected to rein in some of its most profitable businesses and slash its valuation.   \"Entrepreneurship has to be disruptive. But being provocative to the government has its limits,\" said Duncan Clark, chairman of Beijing-based tech consultancy BDA China and author of a book on Alibaba and Ma.    Saturday's settlement, he said, \"should draw a line\" under the matter for Alibaba. ]    \"But for Ant and Jack, there's no line drawn yet,\" he said.   Alibaba declined to comment on Ma, and his foundation did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.   CONSPICUOUS ABSENCE   Ma's absence from public view became conspicuous until he surfaced for the first time in three months in late January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging. He has continued to keep an extremely low profile.     \"He's playing a lot of golf and improving his handicap,\" said one person who knows him.   A former English teacher, Ma co-founded Alibaba     in 1999 from a shared apartment in the eastern city of Hangzhou, ultimately building a colossus that spans e-commerce, financial services, cloud computing and even supermarkets, making him China's most famous businessman.   He was also China's richest, until the clampdown knocked him back to fourth place on the Hurun Global Rich List published in March, although Ma and his family's wealth still grew last year by 22% to 360 billion yuan, according to the list.     As of last July, he owned 4.8% of Alibaba.    In 2018, Ma was revealed to be a Communist Party member by its official newspaper, debunking a public assumption that he was politically unattached.    'ARROGANCE DISCOUNT'   Ma has often been described in Chinese media as a source of national pride and even legend. His global prominence made him an almost-diplomatic figure. Countless books have been published on Alibaba's founding and Ma's business tactics.   Ma-isms such as \"Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine\", are common in Chinese business circles. In Hangzhou, small firms have been known to set up altars adorned with images of Ma to bring good fortune.   But in a February snub, Ma was left off a list of Chinese entrepreneurial leaders published by state media.     Franklin Chu, president of Sage Capital in Rye, New York, noted that Alibaba shares are trading at a 30% discount to their 52-week high.   \"I call this the 'Jack Ma arrogance discount,' combined with the recent round of China-bashing coming out of Washington,\" he said.   Alibaba, he said, \"needs to work hard to re-establish an accommodative relationship with its regulatory handlers.\"   Since stepping back from the company, Ma has sought to focus his time on philanthropy and education, including his charitable trust, the Jack Ma Foundation, and two schools in Hangzhou.   Ma was an active conference participant, making at least 12 appearances in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic began. In March 2020, he opened a Twitter account - the platform is blocked in China - which mainly tweeted about his foundation's COVID-19 prevention efforts. Its last tweet was on Oct. 10.   \"It's crucial for Chinese entrepreneurs to be low-key. Don't speak casually. And don't say anything wrong,\" Edward Chen, chairman of Shanghai-based fintech consultancy China Rising Group, said in a social media video post.   \"Prudence in words and action is the No. 1 priority so that Chinese entrepreneurs can live longer.\"   ($1 = 6.5522 Chinese yuan renminbi)    <^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ China fines Alibaba record $2.75 bln for anti-monopoly violations       TIMELINE-Events leading up to China's fine on Alibaba      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^>(Reporting by Tony Munroe in Beijing, Brenda Goh, Samuel Shen and Josh Horwitz in Shanghai, Kane Wu in Hong Kong and Ross Kerber in Boston; Editing by Kim Coghill)((tony.munroe@thomsonreuters.com; +86 10 6627 1288; Reuters Messaging: tony.munroe.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net))","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":368,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":9008151057,"gmtCreate":1641393904330,"gmtModify":1676533609774,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/BABA\">$Alibaba(BABA)$</a>The Charlie Munger Effect!!! To The Moon!","listText":"<a href=\"https://ttm.financial/S/BABA\">$Alibaba(BABA)$</a>The Charlie Munger Effect!!! To The Moon!","text":"$Alibaba(BABA)$The Charlie Munger Effect!!! 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Wearing a blue T-shirt, white trousers and a pair of Chinese-style cloth shoes, Ma was smiling.</p><p>   \"It's so exciting to see Jack,\" said the employee, declining to be named.  </p><p>   \"It's a pity there was no chance to take a photo with him.\"</p><p>   China's most famous entrepreneur, Ma enjoyed cult-like status among staff even after stepping down as chairman in 2019.</p><p>   Ma, who is based in Hangzhou, disappeared from public view for three months before surfacing in January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging, but has not made any other public appearances since then.</p><p>   Last month, regulators imposed a sweeping restructuring on Ant Group, while Alibaba was hit with a record antitrust fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.84 billion) after an investigation found it abused its market dominance.   </p><p> ($1 = 6.4110 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p> (Reporting by Sophie Yu and Tony Munroe; Editing by Susan Fenton)</p><p>((Sophie.Yu@thomsonreuters.com; 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Wearing a blue T-shirt, white trousers and a pair of Chinese-style cloth shoes, Ma was smiling.</p><p>   \"It's so exciting to see Jack,\" said the employee, declining to be named.  </p><p>   \"It's a pity there was no chance to take a photo with him.\"</p><p>   China's most famous entrepreneur, Ma enjoyed cult-like status among staff even after stepping down as chairman in 2019.</p><p>   Ma, who is based in Hangzhou, disappeared from public view for three months before surfacing in January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging, but has not made any other public appearances since then.</p><p>   Last month, regulators imposed a sweeping restructuring on Ant Group, while Alibaba was hit with a record antitrust fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.84 billion) after an investigation found it abused its market dominance.   </p><p> ($1 = 6.4110 Chinese yuan renminbi)</p><p> (Reporting by Sophie Yu and Tony Munroe; Editing by Susan Fenton)</p><p>((Sophie.Yu@thomsonreuters.com; 861056692136;))</p></body></html>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴","QNETCN":"纳斯达克中美互联网老虎指数"},"source_url":"http://api.rkd.refinitiv.com/api/News/News.svc/REST/News_1/RetrieveStoryML_1","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"2134341786","content_text":"BEIJING, May 10 (Reuters) - Alibaba    founder Jack Ma, largely out of public view amid a regulatory clampdown on the group, made a rare visit to its Hangzhou campus on Monday during the e-commerce giant's annual \"Ali Day\" staff and family event, company sources said.   The billionaire has kept an extremely low profile since delivering a speech in October in Shanghai criticising China's financial regulators, which set off a chain of events that led to the shelving of what would have been a record $37 billion initial public offering of Alibaba's affiliate Ant Group.   On Monday, Ma was seen in an open-air campus shuttle bus with a number of Alibaba executives, according to a photograph taken by an employee at the event, viewed by Reuters. Wearing a blue T-shirt, white trousers and a pair of Chinese-style cloth shoes, Ma was smiling.   \"It's so exciting to see Jack,\" said the employee, declining to be named.     \"It's a pity there was no chance to take a photo with him.\"   China's most famous entrepreneur, Ma enjoyed cult-like status among staff even after stepping down as chairman in 2019.   Ma, who is based in Hangzhou, disappeared from public view for three months before surfacing in January, speaking to a group of teachers by video, which sent Alibaba shares surging, but has not made any other public appearances since then.   Last month, regulators imposed a sweeping restructuring on Ant Group, while Alibaba was hit with a record antitrust fine of 18.2 billion yuan ($2.84 billion) after an investigation found it abused its market dominance.    ($1 = 6.4110 Chinese yuan renminbi) (Reporting by Sophie Yu and Tony Munroe; Editing by Susan Fenton)((Sophie.Yu@thomsonreuters.com; 861056692136;))","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":588,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":118370618,"gmtCreate":1622720987334,"gmtModify":1704189676100,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good start!","listText":"Good start!","text":"Good start!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/118370618","repostId":"1125253857","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1125253857","pubTimestamp":1622719182,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1125253857?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-03 19:19","market":"sh","language":"en","title":"Ant Gets Go-Ahead for Consumer Lending Unit in Sign of Thaw","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1125253857","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"New finance company will have 8 billion yuan of capital\nThe unit will be allowed to dole out loans a","content":"<ul>\n <li>New finance company will have 8 billion yuan of capital</li>\n <li>The unit will be allowed to dole out loans and issue bonds</li>\n</ul>\n<p>China is allowing Jack Ma’s&nbsp;Ant Group Co.&nbsp;to start operations at its consumer finance company, the first sign of progress after a regulatory crackdown torpedoed the fintech giant’s record listing.</p>\n<p>The unit, registered in Chongqing, will be allowed to lend to individuals, issue bonds and borrow from domestic financial institutions, according to a&nbsp;notice&nbsp;from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission on Thursday.</p>\n<p>The approval marks an important step in Ant’s overhaul as it transitions to become a&nbsp;financial holding company&nbsp;that will be regulated more like a bank. The new unit will allow Ant to continue with consumer lending, its most lucrative operation, though it’s unclear how it would affect the scale of that business.</p>\n<p>“There are ambiguities but the importance is this is a step ahead,” said Shujin Chen, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Jefferies. The move will curb Ant’s ability to lend, but it’s yet to be seen whether regulators will allow it to continue to distribute loans for other institutions for a fee, she said.</p>\n<p>Ant will now need to transfer its online lending operations and outstanding loans to the unit. Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance Co. will have registered capital of 8 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), and Ant will hold a 50% stake.</p>\n<p>China Huarong Asset Management Co. is also among the shareholders, with a 4.99% holding. Other investors include Nanyang Commercial Bank Ltd.,China TransInfo Technology Corp.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.</p>\n<p>The banking regulator said that Ant will need to comply with laws by fully disclosing borrowers, loan terms, annual interest rates and overdue loans.</p>\n<p>Ant will work with the other shareholders “to serve the needs of consumers, and to continue enhancing the quality of financial services and risk management capabilities,” a company spokesperson said in a text message.</p>\n<p>Separately, the People’s Bank of China-backed Financial Newsreportedthat the consumer finance unit will take over qualified businesses from two small-loan companies of Ant Group, which will be closed within a year after the new unit starts operation.</p>\n<p><b>Two Brands</b></p>\n<p>The two most important brands for the small-loan companies -- Huabei and Jiebei -- can only be used for loans underpinned by capital from the consumer finance firm, 21st Century Business reported, citing an unidentified official from the banking regulator. Loans that have co-funding from banks will need to specify the source of financing, and can’t use the Huabei and Jiebei names, the person added, according to the report.</p>\n<p>Before the crackdown, Ant had a thriving business doling out small unsecured loans via the two brands. Overall, its CreditTech business was its single biggest revenue maker, contributing 39% of the total in the first six months of last year.</p>\n<p>In the past, consumer finance companies have been typically&nbsp;allowed&nbsp;to lend out 10 times their capital. Ant, China’s largest provider of online consumer loans, issued about 1.7 trillion yuan in micro consumer loans to 500 million people as of last June.</p>\n<p>Fintech platforms have since faced criticism for not having enough safeguards and for lending to low-income and young people. In February, the banking regulator imposed restrictions on banks and financial institutions working with online microlenders, capping the amount of joint lending they can do with the platforms. The watchdog has also said fintechs will have to raise their share in any joint lending, according to draft regulations for the sector.</p>\n<p>Consumer finance is becoming increasingly competitive in China. More than 20 such companies have emerged after the banking regulator started a pilot program in 2010 to promote purchases of durable goods such as home appliances. Such firms, while unable to take deposits, can fund their loans by borrowing from the interbank market, shareholders and issuing bonds and asset-backed securities.</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Ant Gets Go-Ahead for Consumer Lending Unit in Sign of Thaw</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAnt Gets Go-Ahead for Consumer Lending Unit in Sign of Thaw\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-06-03 19:19 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/china-allows-ant-to-start-consumer-finance-unit-amid-overhaul?srnd=premium-asia><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>New finance company will have 8 billion yuan of capital\nThe unit will be allowed to dole out loans and issue bonds\n\nChina is allowing Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to start operations at its consumer ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/china-allows-ant-to-start-consumer-finance-unit-amid-overhaul?srnd=premium-asia\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"source_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-03/china-allows-ant-to-start-consumer-finance-unit-amid-overhaul?srnd=premium-asia","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1125253857","content_text":"New finance company will have 8 billion yuan of capital\nThe unit will be allowed to dole out loans and issue bonds\n\nChina is allowing Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to start operations at its consumer finance company, the first sign of progress after a regulatory crackdown torpedoed the fintech giant’s record listing.\nThe unit, registered in Chongqing, will be allowed to lend to individuals, issue bonds and borrow from domestic financial institutions, according to a notice from the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission on Thursday.\nThe approval marks an important step in Ant’s overhaul as it transitions to become a financial holding company that will be regulated more like a bank. The new unit will allow Ant to continue with consumer lending, its most lucrative operation, though it’s unclear how it would affect the scale of that business.\n“There are ambiguities but the importance is this is a step ahead,” said Shujin Chen, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Jefferies. The move will curb Ant’s ability to lend, but it’s yet to be seen whether regulators will allow it to continue to distribute loans for other institutions for a fee, she said.\nAnt will now need to transfer its online lending operations and outstanding loans to the unit. Chongqing Ant Consumer Finance Co. will have registered capital of 8 billion yuan ($1.3 billion), and Ant will hold a 50% stake.\nChina Huarong Asset Management Co. is also among the shareholders, with a 4.99% holding. Other investors include Nanyang Commercial Bank Ltd.,China TransInfo Technology Corp. and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.\nThe banking regulator said that Ant will need to comply with laws by fully disclosing borrowers, loan terms, annual interest rates and overdue loans.\nAnt will work with the other shareholders “to serve the needs of consumers, and to continue enhancing the quality of financial services and risk management capabilities,” a company spokesperson said in a text message.\nSeparately, the People’s Bank of China-backed Financial Newsreportedthat the consumer finance unit will take over qualified businesses from two small-loan companies of Ant Group, which will be closed within a year after the new unit starts operation.\nTwo Brands\nThe two most important brands for the small-loan companies -- Huabei and Jiebei -- can only be used for loans underpinned by capital from the consumer finance firm, 21st Century Business reported, citing an unidentified official from the banking regulator. Loans that have co-funding from banks will need to specify the source of financing, and can’t use the Huabei and Jiebei names, the person added, according to the report.\nBefore the crackdown, Ant had a thriving business doling out small unsecured loans via the two brands. Overall, its CreditTech business was its single biggest revenue maker, contributing 39% of the total in the first six months of last year.\nIn the past, consumer finance companies have been typically allowed to lend out 10 times their capital. Ant, China’s largest provider of online consumer loans, issued about 1.7 trillion yuan in micro consumer loans to 500 million people as of last June.\nFintech platforms have since faced criticism for not having enough safeguards and for lending to low-income and young people. In February, the banking regulator imposed restrictions on banks and financial institutions working with online microlenders, capping the amount of joint lending they can do with the platforms. The watchdog has also said fintechs will have to raise their share in any joint lending, according to draft regulations for the sector.\nConsumer finance is becoming increasingly competitive in China. More than 20 such companies have emerged after the banking regulator started a pilot program in 2010 to promote purchases of durable goods such as home appliances. Such firms, while unable to take deposits, can fund their loans by borrowing from the interbank market, shareholders and issuing bonds and asset-backed securities.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":544,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":198790510,"gmtCreate":1620987897730,"gmtModify":1704351572068,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","listText":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","text":"So now we know who this the net seller for Alibabayesterday... all the best to Ark!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/198790510","repostId":"1112285344","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":293,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":188364054,"gmtCreate":1623421950678,"gmtModify":1704203311329,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I agree. BABA&nbsp;is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","listText":"I agree. BABA&nbsp;is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","text":"I agree. BABA is more compelling buy compared to JD and PDD","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/188364054","repostId":"1195128984","repostType":2,"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":267,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":118807771,"gmtCreate":1622726956793,"gmtModify":1704189834127,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Too the moon!","listText":"Too the moon!","text":"Too the moon!","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/118807771","repostId":"1180328270","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1180328270","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Stock Market Quotes, Business News, Financial News, Trading Ideas, and Stock Research by Professionals","home_visible":0,"media_name":"Benzinga","id":"1052270027","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa"},"pubTimestamp":1622726210,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1180328270?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-06-03 21:16","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Is Alibaba's Stock About To Rally?","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1180328270","media":"Benzinga","summary":"Support is a large concentration of buyers who are all looking to pay the same price. At support lev","content":"<p>Support is a large concentration of buyers who are all looking to pay the same price. At support levels, there is more demand for shares than there is supply. That’s why sell-offs end when they reach them.</p>\n<p>Sometimes when stocks fall to support, the tide turns and the stock rallies or rebounds.</p>\n<p>This is what happened to shares of&nbsp;<b>Alibaba Group Holding Limited</b>(NYSE:BABA) when they fell to $211.50 in December. Now it looks like it may happen again.</p>\n<p>Alibaba's stock reached this support on May 13. Shares were able to hold, and now they may be rebounding.</p>\n<p>The stock closed Wednesday at $219.59.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be199b13c5ecb52bd61d1f4d5e15fc86\" tg-width=\"1531\" tg-height=\"819\"></p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Is Alibaba's Stock About To Rally?</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nIs Alibaba's Stock About To Rally?\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<div class=\"head\" \">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/d08bf7808052c0ca9deb4e944cae32aa);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Benzinga </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-03 21:16</p>\n</div>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>Support is a large concentration of buyers who are all looking to pay the same price. At support levels, there is more demand for shares than there is supply. That’s why sell-offs end when they reach them.</p>\n<p>Sometimes when stocks fall to support, the tide turns and the stock rallies or rebounds.</p>\n<p>This is what happened to shares of&nbsp;<b>Alibaba Group Holding Limited</b>(NYSE:BABA) when they fell to $211.50 in December. Now it looks like it may happen again.</p>\n<p>Alibaba's stock reached this support on May 13. Shares were able to hold, and now they may be rebounding.</p>\n<p>The stock closed Wednesday at $219.59.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/be199b13c5ecb52bd61d1f4d5e15fc86\" tg-width=\"1531\" tg-height=\"819\"></p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1180328270","content_text":"Support is a large concentration of buyers who are all looking to pay the same price. At support levels, there is more demand for shares than there is supply. That’s why sell-offs end when they reach them.\nSometimes when stocks fall to support, the tide turns and the stock rallies or rebounds.\nThis is what happened to shares of Alibaba Group Holding Limited(NYSE:BABA) when they fell to $211.50 in December. Now it looks like it may happen again.\nAlibaba's stock reached this support on May 13. Shares were able to hold, and now they may be rebounding.\nThe stock closed Wednesday at $219.59.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":440,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":197104834,"gmtCreate":1621432081228,"gmtModify":1704357544118,"author":{"id":"3560739763641510","authorId":"3560739763641510","name":"Michaelw","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/9a0b95787039f20fdac242dcaee48b11","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3560739763641510","authorIdStr":"3560739763641510"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"I agree","listText":"I agree","text":"I agree","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/197104834","repostId":"1174089278","repostType":2,"repost":{"id":"1174089278","pubTimestamp":1621430200,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1174089278?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2021-05-19 21:16","market":"hk","language":"en","title":"Regulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1174089278","media":"InvestorPlace","summary":"The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month","content":"<p>The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity</p>\n<p><b>Alibaba</b>(NYSE:<b><u>BABA</u></b>) has had a rough month. The company&nbsp;recently announced&nbsp;that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result of its recent fine. Because of negative earnings, BABA stock broke through the important support level of $220. Now BABA stock has lost almost a third of its value from its November highs.</p>\n<p>The main cause behind this massive decline is that Chinese regulators have begun exerting regulatory pressure on the country’s large tech firms. Alibaba’s regulatory issues began when the $34.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) of its financial technology affiliate,<b>Ant Group</b>,was suspended. The reason cited was “changes in financial technology regulatory environment.” Chinese regulators also hit the company with an&nbsp;$2.8 billion fine&nbsp;due to anti-competitive practices.</p>\n<p>Despite these developments, though, I believe though that Alibaba will eventually straighten out its regulatory issues. At these prices, BABA offers a compelling value.</p>\n<p><b>BABA Stock: Cloud Will Drive Growth for Years to Come</b></p>\n<p>Alibaba is best known for its dominant ecommerce business. However, the company has a slew of other businesses, ranging from entertainment to digital payments. I believe, however, the company’s most promising venture is its cloud services. Similar to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes up a significant portion of&nbsp;<b>Amazon’s</b>(NASDAQ:<b><u>AMZN</u></b>) value, Alibaba Cloud will become a massive growth driver for BABA stock in the years to come.</p>\n<p>For starters, Alibaba Cloud recently&nbsp;became profitable&nbsp;after 11 years of operating history, showing positive adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). This achievement was due to its “realization of economies of scale.” A boost also came from Covid-19 this past year, which saw a lot of firms adopting cloud technology. Additionally, the company noted that digitalization demand remains robust in post-pandemic China, especially in the restaurant and service industries.</p>\n<p>That said, Alibaba’s cloud services are still a small contributor to the company’s overall revenue. As of the latest quarter, cloud services only accounted for about 9% of BABA’s total revenue. Worldwide, Alibaba Cloud is also&nbsp;trailing behind leaders&nbsp;Amazon and&nbsp;<b>Microsoft</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>MSFT</u></b>) with a 9.1% market share.</p>\n<p>For comparison, Amazon and Microsoft have 45% and 17.9% of the cloud market, respectively. However, this could change in the near future. In the latest quarter, Alibaba’s cloud-computing division grew its revenues by a massive 37% year-over-year (YOY).</p>\n<p><b>China’s Cloud Market Is Booming</b></p>\n<p>Part of the reason I’m so bullish on BABA stock and Alibaba Cloud is because China’s cloud market is on the rise.</p>\n<p>China’s cloud industry is still in its infancy. In fact, despite being the world’s second largest cloud-computing market, China’s cloud industry is&nbsp;still a fraction&nbsp;of its U.S. counterpart. However, this means that Alibaba has plenty of room to grow, given China’s much larger population and relative importance to the world economy.</p>\n<p>Apart from the aforementioned tailwind of digitalization, the Chinese government has also made cloud computing one of its&nbsp;strategic priorities. Cloud services expenditures grew 62% in Q4 2020, from $2.2 billion in the same period in 2019 up to $5.8 billion recently. This was the “highest ever recorded” growth for the industry according to Canalys, indicating “robust” underlying demand.</p>\n<p><b>Investor Takeaway on BABA Stock</b></p>\n<p>Apart from the promise of Alibaba’s cloud business, though, its traditional ecommerce business has also been performing exceptionally well, despite the fierce competition in China’s market. To be clear, Alibaba’s commerce business brought in well over $25 billion as the continued effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic force shoppers online.</p>\n<p>Overall, this company has done superb. Alibaba beat Wall Street revenue estimates handily for the quarter, with a 64% increase YOY. Plus, while the company did report a loss from operations this quarter, the bulk of that is due to the hefty government fine. Without the fine, CEO Daniel Zhang has said that it would have reported a massive 48% YOY increase in operating income. In other words, take away the regulatory issues and Alibaba has had pretty solid results.</p>\n<p>This in mind, it is in my view that regulatory issues with tech firms eventually tend to work themselves out. Look at the stock performances of&nbsp;<b>Alphabet</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>GOOG</u></b>) and&nbsp;<b>Facebook</b>&nbsp;(NASDAQ:<b><u>FB</u></b>), which have recently faced similar issues.\\</p>\n<p>BABA stock is currently trading at a trailing 12-month price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.37. This is extremely cheap when considering it is still growing at a fairly rapid pace. As such, I believe investors should consider purchasing shares at these prices.</p>","source":"lsy1606302653667","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Regulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nRegulatory Issues Aside, Don’t Ignore Alibaba’s Hidden Potential\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-05-19 21:16 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/><strong>InvestorPlace</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month. The company recently announced that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BABA":"阿里巴巴","09988":"阿里巴巴-W"},"source_url":"https://investorplace.com/2021/05/baba-stock-regulatory-issues-aside-dont-ignore-hidden-potential/","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1174089278","content_text":"The recent slump in BABA stock is a good buying opportunity\nAlibaba(NYSE:BABA) has had a rough month. The company recently announced that its “loss from operations was 7.66 billion yuan” as a result of its recent fine. Because of negative earnings, BABA stock broke through the important support level of $220. Now BABA stock has lost almost a third of its value from its November highs.\nThe main cause behind this massive decline is that Chinese regulators have begun exerting regulatory pressure on the country’s large tech firms. Alibaba’s regulatory issues began when the $34.5 billion initial public offering (IPO) of its financial technology affiliate,Ant Group,was suspended. The reason cited was “changes in financial technology regulatory environment.” Chinese regulators also hit the company with an $2.8 billion fine due to anti-competitive practices.\nDespite these developments, though, I believe though that Alibaba will eventually straighten out its regulatory issues. At these prices, BABA offers a compelling value.\nBABA Stock: Cloud Will Drive Growth for Years to Come\nAlibaba is best known for its dominant ecommerce business. However, the company has a slew of other businesses, ranging from entertainment to digital payments. I believe, however, the company’s most promising venture is its cloud services. Similar to how Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes up a significant portion of Amazon’s(NASDAQ:AMZN) value, Alibaba Cloud will become a massive growth driver for BABA stock in the years to come.\nFor starters, Alibaba Cloud recently became profitable after 11 years of operating history, showing positive adjusted EBITA (earnings before interest, taxes and amortization). This achievement was due to its “realization of economies of scale.” A boost also came from Covid-19 this past year, which saw a lot of firms adopting cloud technology. Additionally, the company noted that digitalization demand remains robust in post-pandemic China, especially in the restaurant and service industries.\nThat said, Alibaba’s cloud services are still a small contributor to the company’s overall revenue. As of the latest quarter, cloud services only accounted for about 9% of BABA’s total revenue. Worldwide, Alibaba Cloud is also trailing behind leaders Amazon and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) with a 9.1% market share.\nFor comparison, Amazon and Microsoft have 45% and 17.9% of the cloud market, respectively. However, this could change in the near future. In the latest quarter, Alibaba’s cloud-computing division grew its revenues by a massive 37% year-over-year (YOY).\nChina’s Cloud Market Is Booming\nPart of the reason I’m so bullish on BABA stock and Alibaba Cloud is because China’s cloud market is on the rise.\nChina’s cloud industry is still in its infancy. In fact, despite being the world’s second largest cloud-computing market, China’s cloud industry is still a fraction of its U.S. counterpart. However, this means that Alibaba has plenty of room to grow, given China’s much larger population and relative importance to the world economy.\nApart from the aforementioned tailwind of digitalization, the Chinese government has also made cloud computing one of its strategic priorities. Cloud services expenditures grew 62% in Q4 2020, from $2.2 billion in the same period in 2019 up to $5.8 billion recently. This was the “highest ever recorded” growth for the industry according to Canalys, indicating “robust” underlying demand.\nInvestor Takeaway on BABA Stock\nApart from the promise of Alibaba’s cloud business, though, its traditional ecommerce business has also been performing exceptionally well, despite the fierce competition in China’s market. To be clear, Alibaba’s commerce business brought in well over $25 billion as the continued effects of the novel coronavirus pandemic force shoppers online.\nOverall, this company has done superb. Alibaba beat Wall Street revenue estimates handily for the quarter, with a 64% increase YOY. Plus, while the company did report a loss from operations this quarter, the bulk of that is due to the hefty government fine. Without the fine, CEO Daniel Zhang has said that it would have reported a massive 48% YOY increase in operating income. In other words, take away the regulatory issues and Alibaba has had pretty solid results.\nThis in mind, it is in my view that regulatory issues with tech firms eventually tend to work themselves out. Look at the stock performances of Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB), which have recently faced similar issues.\\\nBABA stock is currently trading at a trailing 12-month price-earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.37. This is extremely cheap when considering it is still growing at a fairly rapid pace. 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in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new business","content":"<p>(May 13)&nbsp;Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.</p><ul><li>Alibaba&nbsp;Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32&nbsp;misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.</li><li>Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.</li><li>Annual active consumers on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li>Mobile MAUs on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li>“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,”&nbsp;said&nbsp;Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.</li></ul><p>Alibaba&nbsp;rose 0.05% in premarket trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/921d78254d608876b280bdeb0de34008\" tg-width=\"766\" tg-height=\"494\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”</p><p>“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”</p><p><b>BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><p><b>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li><b>Loss from operations</b>was RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).</li><li><b>Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),and<b>net loss</b>was RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted loss per ADS</b>was RMB1.99 (US$0.30) and<b>diluted loss per share</b>was RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).<b>Non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.</li></ul><p><b>In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>for the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.</li><li><b>GMV</b>transacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.</li><li><b>Income from operations</b>was RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).</li><li><b>Adjusted EBITA for core commerce</b>was RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Our<b>marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.</li><li><b>Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),and<b>net income</b>was RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB54.70 (US$8.35) and<b>diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) and<b>non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.</li></ul><p>Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATES</b></p><p><b>Alibaba Ecosystem</b></p><p>Our China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.</p><p>Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.</p><p><b>Core Commerce</b></p><p><b>China Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rate</b></p><p><i>Consumers</i></p><p>In March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.</p><p>In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.</p><p>Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.</p><p>We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.</p><p><i>Product Supply</i></p><p>A key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Engagement</i></p><p>The Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services</b></p><p>Our New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.</p><p>Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.</p><p><i>Community Marketplaces</i>– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.</p><p><i>Freshippo</i>– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.</p><p><i>Taoxianda</i>– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.</p><p><b>Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experience</b></p><p>In fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.</p><p><b>Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationally</b></p><p>Cainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.</p><p>A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.</p><p>In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.</p><p><b>International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpress</b></p><p>Our international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Lazada</i>– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.</p><p><i>AliExpress</i>– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>Cloud Computing</b></p><p>In 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:</p><ul><li><b>Elastic Computing</b>- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.</li><li><b>Database</b>- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.</li><li><b>Serverless</b>- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.</li></ul><p>In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.</p><p><b>Digital Media and Entertainment</b></p><p>During fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.</p><p>Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.</p><p><b>Innovation Initiatives and Others</b></p><p><i>Amap</i><b>–</b>Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.</p><p><b>Share Repurchases</b></p><p>Pursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.</p><p><b>Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash Flow</b></p><p>In the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.</p><p>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>Guidance</b></p><p>The guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Alibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nAlibaba posts loss due to anti-monopoly fine but beats revenue expectations\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-05-13 19:24</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p>(May 13)&nbsp;Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.</p><ul><li>Alibaba&nbsp;Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32&nbsp;misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.</li><li>Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.</li><li>Annual active consumers on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li>Mobile MAUs on our&nbsp;China&nbsp;retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li>“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,”&nbsp;said&nbsp;Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.</li></ul><p>Alibaba&nbsp;rose 0.05% in premarket trading.<img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/921d78254d608876b280bdeb0de34008\" tg-width=\"766\" tg-height=\"494\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p><p>“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”</p><p>“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”</p><p><b>BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS</b></p><p><b>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.</li><li><b>Loss from operations</b>was RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).</li><li><b>Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),and<b>net loss</b>was RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted loss per ADS</b>was RMB1.99 (US$0.30) and<b>diluted loss per share</b>was RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).<b>Non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.</li></ul><p><b>In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:</b></p><ul><li><b>Revenue</b>was RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).</li><li><b>Annual active consumers</b>for the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.</li><li><b>Mobile MAUs</b>on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.</li><li><b>GMV</b>transacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.</li><li><b>Income from operations</b>was RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.<b>Adjusted EBITDA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).<b>Adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).</li><li><b>Adjusted EBITA for core commerce</b>was RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Our<b>marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA</b>, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.</li><li><b>Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders</b>was RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),and<b>net income</b>was RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP net income</b>was RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB54.70 (US$8.35) and<b>diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS</b>was RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year and<b>non-GAAP diluted earnings per share</b>was RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.</li><li><b>Net cash provided by operating activities</b>was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) and<b>non-GAAP free cash flow</b>was RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.</li></ul><p>Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATES</b></p><p><b>Alibaba Ecosystem</b></p><p>Our China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.</p><p>Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.</p><p><b>Core Commerce</b></p><p><b>China Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rate</b></p><p><i>Consumers</i></p><p>In March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.</p><p>In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.</p><p>Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.</p><p>We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.</p><p><i>Product Supply</i></p><p>A key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef &amp; Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Engagement</i></p><p>The Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services</b></p><p>Our New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.</p><p>Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.</p><p><i>Community Marketplaces</i>– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.</p><p><i>Freshippo</i>– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.</p><p><i>Taoxianda</i>– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.</p><p><b>Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experience</b></p><p>In fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.</p><p><b>Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationally</b></p><p>Cainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.</p><p>A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.</p><p>In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.</p><p><b>International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpress</b></p><p>Our international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.</p><p><i>Lazada</i>– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.</p><p><i>AliExpress</i>– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.</p><p><b>Cloud Computing</b></p><p>In 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:</p><ul><li><b>Elastic Computing</b>- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.</li><li><b>Database</b>- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.</li><li><b>Serverless</b>- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.</li></ul><p>In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.</p><p><b>Digital Media and Entertainment</b></p><p>During fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.</p><p>Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.</p><p><b>Innovation Initiatives and Others</b></p><p><i>Amap</i><b>–</b>Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.</p><p><b>Share Repurchases</b></p><p>Pursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.</p><p><b>Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash Flow</b></p><p>In the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.</p><p>In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.</p><p><b>Guidance</b></p><p>The guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1179179054","content_text":"(May 13) Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter and fiscal year ended March 31, 2021.Alibaba Q4 Non-GAAP EPS of RMB10.32 misses by RMB2.96; GAAP EPS of -RMB1.99.Revenue of RMB187.4B (+63.9% Y/Y)beats by RMB6.73B.Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.Mobile MAUs on our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.“We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group.Alibaba rose 0.05% in premarket trading.“Alibaba achieved a historic milestone of one billion annual active consumers globally in the fiscal year ended March 2021,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our overall business delivered strong growth on a healthy foundation, with the Alibaba Ecosystem generating a record US$1.2 trillion in GMV during this fiscal year. Such achievements were built on top of clear value propositions that we offer to consumers and merchants. We remain very excited about the growth of China’s consumption economy, which is benefiting from the acceleration of digitalization in all aspects of life and work. We will continue to focus on customer experience and value creation through innovation, as we pursue our mission to make it easy to do business anywhere in the digital era.”“We surpassed our annual revenue guidance in fiscal year 2021 by achieving strong organic revenue growth of 32% excluding the consolidation of the newly-acquired Sun Art. This was driven by robust performance of our core commerce businesses as well as continued growth of Alibaba Cloud. Our adjusted EBITDA grew 25% year-over-year while we increased investments in new businesses and key strategic growth areas,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “We expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022. Given the market potential and our proven profit and cash flow generation capabilities, we plan to use all of our incremental profits and additional capital in fiscal year 2022 to support our merchants and invest into new businesses and key strategic areas that will help us increase consumer wallet share and penetrate into new addressable markets.”BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTSIn the quarter ended March 31, 2021:Revenuewas RMB187,395 million (US$28,602 million), an increase of 64% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art, our revenue would have grown 40% year-over-year to RMB159,952 million (US$24,413 million).Annual active consumerson our China retail marketplaces was 811 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, an increase of 32 million from the twelve months ended December 31, 2020.Mobile MAUson our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 23 million over December 2020.Loss from operationswas RMB7,663 million (US$1,170 million) due to a RMB18,228 million (US$2,782 million) fine levied by China’s State Administration for Market Regulation pursuant to China’s Anti-monopoly Law (the “Anti-monopoly Fine”). Excluding this one-time impact, our income from operations would have been RMB10,565 million (US$1,612 million), an increase of 48% year-over-year.Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 18% year-over-year to RMB29,898 million (US$4,563 million).Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 14% year-over-year to RMB22,612 million (US$3,451 million).Net loss attributable to ordinary shareholderswas RMB5,479 million (US$836 million),andnet losswas RMB7,654 million (US$1,168 million), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,non-GAAP net incomewas RMB26,216 million (US$4,001 million), an increase of 18% year-over-year.Diluted loss per ADSwas RMB1.99 (US$0.30) anddiluted loss per sharewas RMB0.25 (US$0.04 or HK$0.30), primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine. Excluding this impact and certain other items,non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB10.32 (US$1.58), an increase of 12% year-over-year andnon-GAAP diluted earnings per sharewas RMB1.29 (US$0.20 or HK$1.53), an increase of 12% year-over-year.Net cash provided by operating activitieswas RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million).Non-GAAP free cash flowwas an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million), compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020.In the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021:Revenuewas RMB717,289 million (US$109,480 million), an increase of 41% year-over-year. Excluding the consolidation of Sun Art starting in October 2020, our revenue would have grown 32% year-over-year to RMB674,420 million (US$102,937 million).Annual active consumersfor the Alibaba Ecosystem reached a milestone of over 1 billion, including 891 million consumers across our China retail marketplace, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, and approximately 240 million consumers outside China. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces was 811 million, an increase of 85 million from the twelve months ended March 31, 2020.Mobile MAUson our China retail marketplaces reached 925 million in March 2021, an increase of 79 million over March 2020.GMVtransacted in the Alibaba Ecosystem was RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) for fiscal year 2021, which mainly included China retail marketplaces GMV of RMB7,494 billion (US$1,144 billion), as well as international retail marketplaces and Local Consumer Services GMV.Income from operationswas RMB89,678 million (US$13,688 million), a decrease of 2% year-over-year, primarily due to the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine as well as a RMB16,054 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees.Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 25% year-over-year to RMB196,842 million (US$30,044 million).Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 24% year-over-year to RMB170,453 million (US$26,016 million).Adjusted EBITA for core commercewas RMB194,512 million (US$29,688 million), an increase of 17% year-over-year. Ourmarketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 17% year-over-year to RMB229,134 million (US$34,973 million). Starting this quarter, for purposes of presenting our marketplace-based core commerce adjusted EBITA, we expanded the list of new initiative businesses that we break out in order to present the progress of our strategic investments as well as the profitability of our marketplace-based core commerce businesses on a like-for-like basis. The new initiative businesses, which now include our New Retail businesses (primarily Freshippo, Tmall Supermarket, Community Marketplaces and Taoxianda), Local Consumer Services, Lazada, Taobao Deals, Cainiao Network, and others, represent strategic areas where we are executing to capture incremental opportunities. Comparative figures are presented in the same manner accordingly.Net income attributable to ordinary shareholderswas RMB150,308 million (US$22,941 million),andnet incomewas RMB143,284 million (US$21,869 million), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,non-GAAP net incomewas RMB171,985 million (US$26,250 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year.Diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB54.70 (US$8.35) anddiluted earnings per sharewas RMB6.84 (US$1.04 or HK$8.09), which reflected the above-mentioned Anti-monopoly Fine and the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above.Excluding these impacts and certain other items,non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB65.15 (US$9.94), an increase of 23% year-over-year andnon-GAAP diluted earnings per sharewas RMB8.14 (US$1.24 or HK$9.63), an increase of 23% year-over-year.Net cash provided by operating activitieswas RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million) andnon-GAAP free cash flowwas RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), an increase of 32% year-over-year.Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement.BUSINESS AND STRATEGIC UPDATESAlibaba EcosystemOur China consumer-facing businesses include China retail marketplaces, Local Consumer Services and digital media and entertainment platforms, serving the Chinese consumer sector, which is a RMB41.9 trillion (US$6.4 trillion) market for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Our China consumer-facing businesses served 891 million annual active consumers during the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Our international retail marketplaces, which include mainly the AliExpress cross-border retail platform and Lazada in Southeast Asia, served approximately 240 million annual active consumers during the same period. Our China and international consumer segments combined to serve over one billion annual active consumers and generated RMB8,119 billion (US$1,239 billion) in GMV.Our digital infrastructure, such as smart logistics and cloud computing, which enables and underpins across our platforms to serve our major commerce, local services and entertainment businesses, gives us unique technology-driven capabilities to meet changing consumer demand and help our enterprise customers and partners achieve digital transformation.Core CommerceChina Retail Marketplaces – comprehensive product supply and engaging user experience drive consumer growth and high consumer retention rateConsumersIn March 2021, our China retail marketplaces had 925 million mobile MAUs, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 79 million and 23 million, respectively. There were 811 million annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, representing annual and quarterly net increases of 85 million and 32 million, respectively. In fiscal year 2021, approximately 70% of new annual active consumers were from less developed areas.In fiscal year 2021, the strong GMV and user growth on our China retail marketplaces reflected our strategic focus on less developed cities and towns and broadening offerings of products and services to meet diverse consumption demand. Overall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 21% year-over-year in fiscal year 2021, driven primarily by the fast-moving-consumer-goods (FMCG) and home furnishing categories, and 33% year-over-year in the March quarter, driven primarily by the apparel and home furnishing categories. For the March quarter, Tmall online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew 26% year-over-year and Taobao online physical goods GMV, excluding unpaid orders, grew even faster as SME merchants recovered from the pandemic.Our app platforms appeal to a growing and increasingly diverse consumer base at various income levels as well as present different purchase use cases for the same consumer. Taobao Deals (特价版) offers value-for-money products for the price-conscious consumer and achieved rapid growth in fiscal year 2021. Annual active consumers of Taobao Deals reached over 150 million for the twelve months ended March 31, 2021. Taobao Deals continues to be an offering that attracts incremental users especially in less developed areas, and we have seen robust retention rate given its clear value-for-money proposition and its expanding product selections in different categories.We also saw increasing engagement of the existing consumer base on our China retail app platforms. The longer a consumer has shopped on our platforms, the more they spend through more orders across more product categories. In fiscal year 2021, average annual spending per consumer on our China retail marketplaces reached over RMB9,200 (US$1,404). Consumers on our China retail marketplaces exhibit high retention across all spending levels.Product SupplyA key to the success of our business is broadening product supply, including increasing the range of branded and imported products, going upstream to directly source agricultural products and expanding the breadth of selection of value-for-money and long-tail products. Consumption upgrading also helped to drive our business, as more consumers are purchasing from flagship stores of high-end brands and international retailers on our platforms. More than 200 luxury brands and retailers, such as Cartier, Farfetch, Gucci, IWC and Van Cleef & Arpels, operated their flagship stores on our China retail marketplaces, as of March 31, 2021.EngagementThe Taobao app is the largest social commerce platform in China, offering rich, highly relevant and curated content and features that enable merchants to engage with consumers through live-streaming, short-form videos, interactive games and microblogs. Among these interactive features, livestreaming is one of the fastest growing with significant scale. Taobao Live GMV reached over RMB500 billion (US$76.3 billion) in fiscal year 2021.New Retail – multi-format New Retail businesses built on an expanding digital supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment servicesOur New Retail strategy is to develop a digital commerce infrastructure that offers an upgraded consumer experience by seamlessly integrating online and offline. Over the years, we have helped many retailers digitally transform their businesses and created multiple retail formats that have enabled new consumption experiences by leveraging our consumer insights and technology. These New Retail businesses are supported and strengthened by our ecosystem with an expanding supply chain and increasingly diversified fulfilment services.Our New Retail commerce infrastructure now offers a full range of high-frequency fulfilment services that include on-demand delivery, same-or-next day delivery and next day pick-up services for a full range of consumable and physical products. We will continue to expand all of these fulfilment services across China to reach and serve even more consumers in both large cities and less developed areas as well as drive higher purchase frequency through more effective cross-selling on our China retail marketplaces.Community Marketplaces– As part of our latest exploration in New Retail, we started the Community Marketplaces business in select regions in China. Our Community Marketplaces business is supported by our next-day pickup fulfilment services and the supply capabilities of Freshippo, Sun Art and other partners. Given the initial success and long-term growth potential, we established a new business group in early 2021 to consolidate the resources and capabilities of the Alibaba Ecosystem in order to accelerate the growth of our Community Marketplaces business. Our Community Marketplaces are rapidly expanding their logistics and fulfilment infrastructure and aim to achieve broad coverage across mainland China within the next twelve months.Freshippo– Our self-operated retail chain Freshippo (known as “Hema” in Chinese) continued to execute a multi-format and multi-banner expansion strategy. In fiscal year 2021, Freshippo achieved healthy same-store sales growth, enriched and optimized its product selection and introduced new initiatives to improve customer experience. As of March 31, 2021, we had 257 self-operated Freshippo stores (compared to 202 stores as of March 31, 2020), primarily located in tier-one and tier-two cities throughout China.Taoxianda– Taoxianda, our online-offline retail integration service solution for FMCG brands and third-party grocery retail partners, puts us at the forefront of transforming the retail industry by digitalizing all aspects of store-based operations. Taoxianda drove Sun Art’s digitalization of its hypermarkets and, along with our other businesses, facilitated the growth of Sun Art’s online revenue. For the twelve months ended March 31, 2021, online revenue represented 24% of Sun Art’s sales of goods, increasing from 17% for the twelve months ended March 31, 2020. As of March 31, 2021, in addition to Sun Art, Taoxianda helped 42 retail chains to open online stores with services available across 145 cities in China and enabled over 168 retail chains, supermarkets and marketplaces to digitalize their marketing program.Local Consumer Services – Investing for new user acquisition and enhanced consumer experienceIn fiscal year 2021, Ele.me continued to improve its merchant supply and operating efficiency, as reflected in the increasing number of merchants, higher portion of GMV from national and regional chains and improved unit economics year-over-year. Building on this progress, starting from the March quarter 2021, Ele.me stepped up its investment in user acquisition as well as user experience enhancement. For example, during the Chinese New Year period Ele.me increased its rider subsidy to address the usual shortage of riders. As a result, Ele.me’s average daily number of paying members continued to grow strongly at approximately 40% year-over-year during the March quarter.Cainiao Network – improving efficiency across the Alibaba Ecosystem and the logistics industry in China and internationallyCainiao Network continues to expand both its domestic services and global smart logistics infrastructure by deepening integration with logistics partners as well as offering more products and services. In fiscal year 2021, after elimination of inter-company transactions, Cainiao Network achieved solid revenue growth of 68% year-over-year, to RMB37,258 million (US$5,687 million), representing 5% of our total revenue. Cainiao Network also reached an important milestone of generating positive operating cash flow during fiscal year 2021.A key driver of Cainiao Network’s strong financial performance is its global smart logistics infrastructure, which took years of investment to build. This global logistics infrastructure now enjoys increasing adoption of “Fulfilled by Cainiao” services by merchants from our fast growing cross-border businesses, including AliExpress and Tmall Global. Daily package volume on Cainiao Network’s global parcel network for the month ended March 31, 2021 exceeded 5 million.In China, Cainiao Network expanded the coverage of Cainiao Post (neighborhood and campus stations and residential self-pick up stations), as well as improved the customer experience of Cainiao Guoguo (crowdsourced parcel pick-up and delivery service). In March 2021, Cainiao Post’s average daily package volume nearly tripled year-over-year.International – consistent strong growth of Lazada and AliExpressOur international commerce retail business, mainly including Lazada and AliExpress, grew rapidly to achieve approximately 240 million annual active consumers in the twelve months ended March 31, 2021.Lazada– Lazada recorded triple-digit year-over-year order growth during the fiscal year and quarter ended March 31, 2021. Lazada continued to focus on investing in technology and logistics to enable merchants to better service consumers. We have seen strong adoption of store operation and business analytics tools by merchants on the Lazada platform, enabling them to achieve scale and GMV growth.AliExpress– AliExpress is a marketplace for consumers from around the world to buy directly from manufacturers and distributors, mainly from China but also increasingly in consumers’ local markets. AliExpress continued to improve its localization initiatives in the areas of differentiated product offerings and improved local delivery experience, which resulted in robust user and GMV growth in fiscal year 2021.Cloud ComputingIn 2020, Alibaba Group was ranked third globally and first in the Asia Pacific region in the global Infrastructure-as-a-Service market, according to Gartner’s April 2021 report. Alibaba Cloud’s unique advantages are its proprietary technology and Alibaba Group’s continued commitment to invest in research and development in new product offerings and industry-specific solutions for our customers and partners. Highlights of our proprietary technologies in fiscal year 2021 include:Elastic Computing- In February 2021, Alibaba Cloud launched the 7th generation ECS public cloud server that increases overall computing power by 40%. Built on top of our proprietary X-Dragon architecture, this new generation server offers mission critical security enhancements, which is especially important for customers in the Internet and finance industries that require fail-safe continuous operations and highly secure cloud infrastructure.Database- Our proprietary technologies have consistently won recognition from leading research and advisory organizations. For example, in December 2020, PolarDB, one of our key database products, won the first prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Chinese Institute of Electronics.Serverless- In the first quarter of 2021, Forrester recognized Alibaba Function Compute, our suite of serverless products, as a leader in the Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) market given our technological advancements and comprehensive product offerings. Alibaba Cloud is the only cloud vendor in China to be recognized as a FaaS leader.In fiscal year 2021, our cloud computing revenue grew 50% year-over-year, to RMB60,120 million (US$9,176 million), primarily driven by growth in revenue from customers in the Internet, public sector and finance industries. In the March 2021 quarter, cloud computing revenue grew 37% year-over-year to RMB16,761 million (US$2,558 million). The slower revenue growth during the quarter was primarily due to revenue decline from a top cloud customer in the Internet industry. This customer, which has a sizeable presence outside of China that used our overseas cloud services in the past, has decided to terminate the relationship with respect to their international business due to non-product related requirements. Excluding this customer, Alibaba Cloud’s top ten non-affiliated customers together accounted for no more than eight percent of Alibaba Cloud’s total revenue in fiscal year 2021. Going forward, we believe that our cloud computing revenue will be further diversified across customers and industries.Digital Media and EntertainmentDuring fiscal year 2021, Youku continued to focus on delivering a superior user experience and increasing paying subscribers. Youku’s average daily subscriber base continued to grow at a healthy rate, increasing 35% year-over-year during the fiscal year. The increase in paying subscribers was driven by our offerings of original and exclusive content, our effective targeting of new subscribers and a greater contribution from the 88VIP membership program on our China retail marketplaces. We invested in original and exclusive content while ensuring cost efficiencies and return on investment, which resulted in narrowing annual adjusted EBITA losses year-over-year in fiscal year 2021.Despite the challenges imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic on cinemas and live performance industries, Alibaba Pictures significantly narrowed its losses in fiscal year 2021, given successful diversification of its revenue stream beyond film and ticketing business and enhanced operational efficiency of its online ticketing platform (Tao Piao Piao) with lowered sales and marketing expenses. Alibaba Pictures will continue to diversify its businesses to capture revenue opportunities in the entire entertainment value chain, including content development, production, promotion and distribution, as well as IP commercialization. We believe these initiatives will ensure Alibaba Pictures’ long-term growth potential with a diversified revenue stream.Innovation Initiatives and OthersAmap–Amap is the largest provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information in China by monthly active users. It leverages big-data enabled digital mapping technology to power major mobile apps across different industries including local services, ride-hailing services and social networking. Amap reached an important milestone of over 100 million average DAUs in the month of April 2021.Share RepurchasesPursuant to our share repurchase authorization, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2021 and through the publication of this results announcement, we repurchased approximately 1.7 million of our ADSs (or approximately 13.6 million of our ordinary shares) for approximately US$371 million under the share repurchase program. As of March 31, 2021, we had approximately 21.7 billion ordinary shares issued and outstanding.Cash Flow from Operating Activities and Free Cash FlowIn the fiscal year 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB231,786 million (US$35,378 million), an increase of 28% compared to RMB180,607 million in the fiscal year 2020. Free cash flow, a non-GAAP measurement of liquidity, increased by 32% in fiscal year 2021 to RMB172,662 million (US$26,353 million), from RMB130,914 million in fiscal year 2020, mainly due to our profit growth.In the quarter ended March 31, 2021, net cash provided by operating activities was RMB24,183 million (US$3,691 million), which includes a net cash inflow of RMB18,796 million (US$2,869 million) in connection with the consumer protection fund deposits received primarily from Tmall merchants, as well as our increased spending for strategic initiatives. Free cash flow, which excluded these deposits and certain other items, was an outflow of RMB658 million (US$100 million) in the quarter ended March 31, 2021, compared to an outflow of RMB4,214 million in the same quarter of 2020. A reconciliation of net cash provided by operating activities to free cash flow is included at the end of this results announcement.GuidanceThe guidance below is a forward-looking statement that reflects assumptions that we believe to be reasonable as of the date of this announcement and involve inherent risks and uncertainties, many of which we are not able to predict or control. Based on our current view of Chinese and global consumption, enterprise digitalization and the competitive landscape, and subject to the uncertainties highlighted under the section entitled “Safe Harbor Statements” below, we expect to generate over RMB930 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2022.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":506,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}