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 retail e-commerce platform is the most valuable cash flow-generating business at Alibaba. Additional revenue sources include China wholesale e-commerce, international retail and wholesale e-commerce, local consumer services, travel services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment, Cainiao logistics services, and other businesses.

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

As of January 26, 2026, BABA stock price declined to $171.37 with 8,640,706 million shares trading.

BABA has a beta of 0.77, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. BABA has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BABA has a market cap of $408.89 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Alibaba Gr Hldgs reported $35 billion in Revenue and $.61 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $378 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.12.

In the last 3 years, BABA traded as high as $192.67 and as low as $66.63.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BABA belongs to (by Net Assets): AIQ, AVEM, JTEK, ARKK, DFAE.

BABA has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +99.3% while the SPY ETF gained +14.8%. However, in the short term, BABA had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning -0.3% vs +3.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, BABA shares have fared better than the market returning +13.5% compared to SPY -0.2%.

BABA support price is $167.78 and resistance is $178.68 (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.