BABA Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Alibaba Gr Hldgs | NYSE:BABA)

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

Alibaba Gr Hldgs trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol BABA.

As of January 31, 2025, BABA stock price declined to $98.84 with 33,462,107 million shares trading.

BABA has a beta of 0.88, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BABA has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BABA has a market cap of $234.87 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Alibaba Gr Hldgs reported $34 billion in Revenue and $2.15 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $231 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.11.

In the last 3 years, BABA traded as high as $129.40 and as low as $58.01.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BABA belongs to (by Net Assets): AVEM, AIQ, XNTK, PNQI, QTUM.

BABA has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +37.2% while the SPY ETF gained +26.1%. However, in the short term, BABA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +0.9% vs +6.2% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, BABA shares have fared better than the market returning +16.1% compared to SPY +0.7%.

BABA support price is $100.22 and resistance is $105.26 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BABA shares will trade within this expected range on the day.