Chinese multinational technology company specializing in e-commerce, retail, internet, and cloud computing with platforms like Taobao and Tmall.
Profile & Fundamentals
Alibaba: Company identity, ownership, reported financial performance, balance sheets, and corporate actions.
Profile & Fundamentals
Alibaba Profile & Fundamentals
Examine company identity, ownership, reported performance, valuation, balance-sheet resilience, dividends, buybacks, and material corporate events.
Explore this pageJump to a Profile & Fundamentals section
Explore this research
Profile & Fundamentals contents
Jump directly to any section
Company and Market Context
Company Profile & Ownership
Alibaba Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides technology infrastructure and marketing reach to help merchants, brands, retailers, and other businesses in the People's Republic of China and internationally. It operates through the Alibaba China E-Commerce Group, Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group, Cloud Intelligence Group, and All Others segments. The Alibaba China E-commerce Group segment operates Taobao and Tmall, which are digital retail platforms; Taobao Instant Commerce, a local services and on-demand delivery platform; 1688.com, a domestic wholesale marketplace; and Xianyu, a consumer-to-consumer community and marketplace for idle goods. Its Alibaba International Digital Commerce Group segment includes AliExpress, a global e-commerce platform; Trendyol, an e-commerce platform in Turkey; Lazada, an e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia; Daraz, an e-commerce platform in South Asia, primarily in Pakistan and Bangladesh; and Alibaba.com, an integrated international online wholesale marketplace. The Cloud Intelligence Group segment offers a suite of cloud services based on infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service, and model-as-a-service. Its All Others segment comprises Amap, a provider of mobile digital maps, navigation, and real-time traffic information in China; Cainiao, which provides logistics solutions; Youku, an online long-form video platform in China; Freshippo, a retail platform for groceries and fresh goods; and Alibaba Health, a pharmaceutical and healthcare services platform. Alibaba Group Holding Limited was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Hangzhou, China.
Company profile record
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
Common Stock · Consumer Discretionary · Internet & Direct Marketing Retail
Company
- Company / asset
- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
- Security type
- Common Stock
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- Internet & Direct Marketing Retail
- HQ
- 🇨🇳 China
- Head office
- 960-1 West Wen Yi Road, Hangzhou, China, 311121
Leadership & scale
- Chief executive
- Mr. Yongming Wu
- CEO year born
- 1975
- Full-time employees
- 132.2K
- Fiscal year end
- March
Fundamentals snapshot
- Market Cap
- HKD 2.09T
- P/E
- 25.3x
- Revenue (Q2 26)
- CNY 267.8B
- Profit (Q2 26)
- CNY 10.6B
- Dividend Yield
- 1.0%
- Revenue (FY 26)
- CNY 1.02T
- Shares in public float
- 17.8B
- Insider ownership
- 4.69%
Reporting & identifiers
- Symbol
- 9988.HKEX
- Listing
- 🇭🇰 Hong Kong | Dividend Tax: 0%
- Ticker Currency
- HKD
- Income Statement Currency
- CNY
- Balance Sheet Currency
- CNY
- Cash Flow Currency
- CNY
- EPS Currency
- CNY
- Contract Type
- SPOT
- ISIN
- KYG017191142
- Asset ID
- equity_85f9f80c-2913-5bac-816a-0b9ad6226c1f
Ownership
Shares Outstanding
Latest: 19.3B | Max: 22.0B | Min: 19.2B
Latest reported ownership snapshot
As of Oct 1, 2026Float Shares
91.89%
17.8B latest reported shares
Insider Ownership
4.69%
Latest reported insider stake
Short Float
--
Latest reported short interest / float
Source tablesView ownership tables
Shares Outstanding
Annual reported shares outstanding; up to 10 reporting dates.
Scroll the table to see every column.
| Reporting date | Shares outstanding |
|---|---|
| 2017-01-01 | 20,920,000,000 |
| 2018-01-01 | 20,912,000,000 |
| 2019-01-01 | 21,393,000,000 |
| 2020-01-01 | 22,021,000,000 |
| 2021-01-01 | 21,716,000,000 |
| 2022-01-01 | 20,912,000,000 |
| 2023-01-01 | 20,321,000,000 |
| 2024-01-01 | 19,200,000,000 |
| 2025-01-01 | 19,310,000,000 |
| 2026-01-01 | 19,324,000,000 |
Top Holders
Available reported ownership records.
No reported records are available in this preview.
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings, Profitability & Valuation
Earnings & Revenue
Earnings and Revenue Trajectory
AI Review
The company surpassed one trillion renminbi in annual revenue for fiscal 2026, yet reported net income dropped by seventy-four percent in the latest quarter. This dramatic bottom-line drop does not stem from collapsing customer demand, but from deliberate corporate spending on artificial intelligence research, computing hardware, and defensive retail price matching. Beneath headline earnings pressure, public cloud revenues grew forty-five percent while core marketplace operations generated substantial operating profits. While reported free cash flow turned negative due to heavy datacenter building, the underlying commerce engine continues producing reliable cash to fund this technological transition.
The company surpassed one trillion renminbi in annual revenue for fiscal 2026, yet reported net income dropped by seventy-four percent in the latest quarter. This dramatic bottom-line drop does not stem from collapsing customer demand, but from deliberate corporate spending on artificial intelligence research, computing hardware, and defensive retail price matching. Beneath headline earnings pressure, public cloud revenues grew forty-five percent while core marketplace operations generated substantial operating profits. While reported free cash flow turned negative due to heavy datacenter building, the underlying commerce engine continues producing reliable cash to fund this technological transition.
Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Latest: CNY 1.02T | Max: CNY 1.02T | Min: CNY -50.7B
Valuation
P/E Ratio (TTM)iPublished valuation snapshots use the earnings basis recorded with each observation. Source tables retain that basis.
Latest: 20x
Profitability & Margins
Margins and Operating Efficiency
AI Review
Operating margins dropped to just under six percent in fiscal 2026 from historical double-digit levels. This compression was driven by heavy promotions to protect domestic market share against discount rivals, alongside surging depreciation from newly opened datacenters. Yet gross margins held resilient near forty percent, showing that core transactional pricing power remains stable. The margin outlook depends on whether this slump is cyclical or structural. As newly added computer capacity begins generating high-margin software revenues and platform service fees expand across merchant storefronts, operating margins are projected to climb back toward ten percent.
Operating margins dropped to just under six percent in fiscal 2026 from historical double-digit levels. This compression was driven by heavy promotions to protect domestic market share against discount rivals, alongside surging depreciation from newly opened datacenters. Yet gross margins held resilient near forty percent, showing that core transactional pricing power remains stable. The margin outlook depends on whether this slump is cyclical or structural. As newly added computer capacity begins generating high-margin software revenues and platform service fees expand across merchant storefronts, operating margins are projected to climb back toward ten percent.
Profitability Margins
Latest: 39.8% | Max: 62.4% | Min: 5.8%
Latest Profitability Ratios as of 2026-03-31
Gross Margin
39.8%
Gross profit / revenue
Operating Margin
5.8%
Operating income / revenue
Net Margin
10.1%
Net income / revenue
FCF Margin
-5.0%
Free cash flow / revenue
Source tablesView earnings, profitability & valuation tables
Revenue, Net Income, and Free Cash Flow
Annual reported results, using the source statement's recorded USD conversion. Up to 10 reporting periods; missing values are not estimated.
Scroll the table to see every column.
| Period end | Revenue (USD) | Net income (USD) | Free cash flow (USD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-31 | 22,971,407,837.45 | 6,338,896,952.1 | 9,304,474,746.01 |
| 2018-03-31 | 39,851,273,885.35 | 10,205,891,719.75 | 14,316,408,439.49 |
| 2019-03-31 | 56,161,549,925.48 | 13,097,764,530.55 | 15,105,252,011.92 |
| 2020-03-31 | 71,993,079,096.05 | 21,106,355,932.2 | 19,585,641,949.15 |
| 2021-03-31 | 109,509,770,992.37 | 22,989,007,633.59 | 27,780,625,190.84 |
| 2022-03-31 | 134,552,365,930.6 | 9,818,454,258.68 | 13,872,165,299.68 |
| 2023-03-31 | 126,446,433,770.01 | 10,594,323,144.1 | 24,093,568,413.39 |
| 2024-03-31 | 130,355,678,670.36 | 11,081,578,947.37 | 20,889,602,216.07 |
| 2025-03-31 | 128,065,167,095.12 | 16,723,521,850.9 | 10,046,106,940.87 |
| 2026-03-31 | 148,357,971,014.49 | 15,013,333,333.33 | -7,351,304,347.83 |
Published P/E Ratio
Published valuation snapshots retain each observation's earnings basis.
Scroll the table to see every column.
| Period end | P/E (times earnings) | Earnings basis |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-31 | 19.99 | Trailing four quarters |
| 2025-03-31 | 19 | Trailing four quarters |
| 2024-03-31 | 15.9 | Trailing four quarters |
| 2023-03-31 | 24.53 | Annual net income |
| 2022-03-31 | 30.49 | Annual net income |
Profitability Margins
Matching annual reporting dates. Values are percentages.
Scroll the table to see every column.
| Period end | Gross margin (%) | Operating margin (%) | Net margin (%) | Free cash flow margin (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-03-31 | 62.42 | 30.36 | 27.59 | 40.5 |
| 2018-03-31 | 57.23 | 27.7 | 25.61 | 35.92 |
| 2019-03-31 | 45.09 | 15.15 | 23.32 | 26.9 |
| 2020-03-31 | 44.6 | 17.94 | 29.32 | 27.2 |
| 2021-03-31 | 41.28 | 12.5 | 20.99 | 25.37 |
| 2022-03-31 | 36.76 | 8.16 | 7.3 | 10.31 |
| 2023-03-31 | 36.72 | 11.55 | 8.38 | 19.05 |
| 2024-03-31 | 37.7 | 12.04 | 8.5 | 16.03 |
| 2025-03-31 | 39.95 | 14.14 | 13.06 | 7.84 |
| 2026-03-31 | 39.81 | 5.83 | 10.12 | -4.96 |
Public data excerpt created by iPulse AI and published by Future Edge Group FZE. Source: eodhd. Snapshot retrieved 2026-10-01.
Use is subject to the iPulse AI Terms of Service and applicable source rights. Missing inputs are not estimated. Full access includes the remaining records, research and interactive tools.
Complete Research Workspace
Unlock the complete Profile & Fundamentals
Sign in to verify your access, or upgrade to the Base plan to open the complete profile & fundamentals and available source data.