Alibaba (BABA)/ 9988 HK; Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Apr 21)

Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 23, 2017 7:40 pm

THIS 'MIDDLEMAN' RETAILER IS SOARING

Today's chart highlights a massive online retailer...

No, we're not talking about Amazon (AMZN)... We're talking about China's version, Alibaba (BABA). Alibaba.com is a global marketplace for wholesale goods. That means it connects global importers with Chinese exporters.

And it does a lot of connecting... Alibaba saw nearly $550 billion in online transactions during its 2017 fiscal year.

The real difference between Alibaba and Amazon isn't the company's wholesale focus – Alibaba owns other websites that cater to individuals, too. The difference is that Alibaba is just a middleman, like eBay (EBAY) or Etsy...

The company connects buyers and sellers, but doesn't have to warehouse the inventory. That's a good strategy for generating big profits...

Last quarter, Alibaba's sales and profits jumped 56% and 90%, respectively. The company reported a huge 29% profit margin.

And as you can see below, its shares are on a tear this year. They've nearly doubled since January... and recently hit a new all-time high. As the global boom in online shopping continues, Alibaba will thrive...

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:27 pm

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Chinese Stocks to Buy: Alibaba (BABA)

China’s largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) has roughly 500 million active annual consumers on its Chinese retail marketplaces.

And to fulfill the orders of all these consumers, BABA delivers an average of nearly 55 million packages a day.

The hard work is paying off: Alibaba has received an incredible 17 back-to-back buy ratings from the Street in just the last three months. These analysts are predicting that, on average, the stock has just over 10% upside potential for the next 12 months from its current share price of $168.

For example, JPMorgan analyst Alex Yao raised his price target for BABA to $205 (more than 20% upside) after BABA reported its fiscal Q1 results.

He says Alibaba’s “solid” financial performance is due to its impressive “strategic planning and execution capability.” In fact, Yao calls Alibaba one of the “best quality growth names” in his firm’s coverage universe with an attractive valuation.

Indeed, Alibaba has several growth drivers up its sleeve, including its cloud unit (Alibaba Cloud), which has just passed the 1 million paying customers mark.

Now talk is of a showdown between Alibaba and its U.S. counterpart Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). BABA can compete with Amazon on the cloud and retail front. And the crux is that as both companies expand their international reach, competition will increase for limited global warehouse space.

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

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Why $6.2 billion will flow into Alibaba – from just two buyers

by Dr. Steve Sjuggerud

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby behappyalways » Sat Sep 16, 2017 5:48 pm

Jack Ma tried to be Michael Jackson at Alibaba’s anniversary. He dressed up as a princess previously.
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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Oct 18, 2017 11:12 am

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:20 pm

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Alibaba

This red-hot momentum stock is being bought this quarter by Dan Loeb, who runs Third Point, a New York–based hedge fund.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (NYSE: BABA) runs the largest retail marketplaces (Taobao, TMall) and leading B2B sites (Alibaba.com, 1688.com) in China and Lazada in Southeast Asia.

It collects revenues mainly from commissions, marketing services, subscription fees, cloud computing and software, as well as other value-added services.

The company has gone beyond e-commerce and developed into a sophisticated new type of conglomerate in the cyber-era with e-commerce as the base for the rest of the four businesses: logistics, finance, data-computing and cross-border infrastructure.

Top analysts expect a whopping 24% compounded annual growth rate between now and 2018 for e-commerce in China.

The company recently reported huge quarterly numbers, and the driving force for some of the outperformance included social features, customized mobile app for users, cross-platform user tracking and ad targeting for merchants. In fact, growth returned to the levels the company was at when it went public.

The SunTrust price target for the shares is $210, and the Wall Street consensus target is $208.53. The shares closed trading Friday at $177.62.

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby behappyalways » Wed Dec 13, 2017 9:48 am

Alibaba doesn’t buy Ezbuy’s sob story, labels activities as ‘classic scalping behaviour’
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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sat Dec 16, 2017 5:52 pm

Alibaba's Stock Has Oddly Pulled Back 11% -- Buying Opportunity of Lifetime?

The juggernaut known as Alibaba has a rare trading session in light of some sluggish Chinese retail sales data.

By Brian Sozzi

The sell-off has been fed by disappointing Chinese retail sales, which rose 10.2% from the prior year in November vs. analyst estimates for a 10.3% pop.

"With 500 million plus annual active consumers on Alibaba's platforms consuming content and conducting transactions, the company is able to garner significant intelligence about customers.

Leveraging these data insights, Alibaba can enhance the consumer experience by providing products, services, and content that are personalized to each consumers' preferences.

"Ultimately, management expects the higher consumer engagement to drive traffic growth and raise conversion, compelling merchants and brands to allocate more of their marketing spend to Alibaba's platforms."


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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:24 pm

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You Don't Have to Worry About Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) Stock

by Wayne Duggan

Three reasons why Alibaba shares have slumped:
1. Rotation out of technology stocks
2. Weakness in the Chinese market, particularly in internet stocks
3. Disappointing e-commerce sales numbers from the National Bureau of Statistics of China. The NBS reported that online sales growth in China decelerated from 35 percent in October to 32 percent in November.


Alibaba's Tmall is gaining market share from its largest competitor, JD.com ( JD).

Alibaba reported 39 percent year-over-year growth in Single's Day sales in November, which MKM estimates accounted for up to 30 percent of total November online sales in China.


Source: U.S.News & World Report

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Re: Alibaba (BABA) / Jack Ma 02 (May 16 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:57 am

Stocks to Sell: Alibaba (BABA)
YTD Gain: 95%

Even a torrid market for large-cap tech, only one company this year has added more value to its market cap than Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA). That stock, of course, is Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), the world’s most valuable company.

It’s easy to see why BABA has posted gains this year. China-focused stocks as a whole are doing extremely well. The company’s cloud business is something of a secret weapon for the stock, as I wrote back in February.

Optimism toward large-cap tech has helped, and Alibaba maintains a dominant market share lead over the second-place Chinese online retailer, JD.com Inc(ADR) (NASDAQ:JD).

But BABA stock already has begun to weaken, dropping about 9% from its all-time high reached last month. And risks are starting to mount.

Concerns persist related to Alibaba’s accounting and corporate structure. JD is taking market share. Sales of counterfeit goods raise regulatory risk. And the long-held worries about the health and true nature of the Chinese economy seem likely to come back at some point.

In theory, BABA’s gains this year make some sense, as does its status as the seventh-largest company on U.S. exchanges by market cap. It is the e-commerce leader in a growing economy with over 1 billion citizens, after all. But in practice, the story isn’t quite that good — and the gains shouldn’t be quite this big.

Investors seem to be figuring that out at the moment. And in 2018, I expect BABA at best will go back to its pre-2017 sideways trading.

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