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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on BABA

What this diary said about Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Our record on BABA

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, with the outcome where it is known.

Company snapshot — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

BABA in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Alibaba runs online marketplaces and cloud services under one holding company, organised into separate units for Chinese retail, international commerce, cloud computing and other ventures. Taobao and Tmall anchor its domestic shopping business, while AliExpress, Lazada and Trendyol extend the same model into cross-border, Southeast Asian and Turkish markets. Its Cloud Intelligence unit sells infrastructure, platform and model services to businesses running their own workloads. Smaller units cover logistics through Cainiao, mapping through Amap, video through Youku and healthcare through Alibaba Health. It is based in Hangzhou and lists in the United States.
Where it sits in the stack
Alibaba holds no seat in our Rubin index of the AI build-out; it sits in the hyperscalers-and-platforms sleeve of our wider universe, the group of firms selling cloud infrastructure and marketplace services rather than supplying components into the chip and data-centre chain.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group treats Alibaba as a hyperscaler-and-platform name, set against companies with similar mixes of cloud and consumer services — Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle and Walmart. The market also weighs it against JD.com, its closest rival in Chinese e-commerce.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Alibaba carries no seat in Closelooknet's indices and has no Closelooknet score built yet. The diary has quoted it in Morning 10 and Midday 10 editions, most recently around an earnings miss with revenue roughly matching forecasts.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether Alibaba's run of earnings misses continues and whether growth in its cloud unit starts to offset softness in the core e-commerce business.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for BABA, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

The Street on this name 3 analyst actions on the wire · latest: price target by Bernstein SocGen Group, 2026-09-07

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for BABA from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Bernstein SocGen Group — target 165 Target set to $165 (+45.7% to spot) 2026-09-07
  • Price target Baird — target 160 from 164 Target cut to $160 from $164 (+22.6% to spot) 2026-08-21
  • Price target Barclays — target 200 from 195 Target raised to $200 from $195 (+53.2% to spot) 2026-08-21

3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 3 target changes. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

Who it is priced against Hyperscalers and platforms · 5 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Hyperscalers and platforms

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against BABA on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.96%, annual · last 1.05 USD on 2026-06-11

Dividends and capital return

What BABA pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.05 USD per share · a 0.96% yield on the 2026-09-25 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-25
  • Change on the year +10.5% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.95 USD per share
  • Last distribution 1.05 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-11
  • By calendar year 2023: 1.00 USD (partial) · 2024: 0.66 USD · 2025: 0.95 USD · 2026: 1.05 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-20

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.10 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How BABA has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.10 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Alibaba Group Holding Ltd moved 0.10% on average · correlation 0.02 · higher than 14% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.40 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −1.11% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.15% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (BABA)?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd trades as BABA on the US exchange in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is BABA in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

What is Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelooknet covers, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd beat EPS estimates 6 times and revenue estimates 6 times; the three-day reactions split 2 up, 6 flat and 2 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-08-20 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does BABA trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -6.8% vs the 50-day and -16.9% vs the 200-day average, 43% below the 52-week high and +19.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd do?

Alibaba runs online marketplaces and cloud services under one holding company, organised into separate units for Chinese retail, international commerce, cloud computing and other ventures. Taobao and Tmall anchor its domestic shopping business, while AliExpress, Lazada and Trendyol extend the same model into cross-border, Southeast Asian and Turkish markets. Its Cloud Intelligence unit sells infrastructure, platform and model services to businesses running their own workloads. Closelooknet's peer group treats Alibaba as a hyperscaler-and-platform name, set against companies with similar mixes of cloud and consumer services — Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet, Oracle and Walmart. The market also weighs it against JD.com, its closest rival in Chinese e-commerce.

Where does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Alibaba holds no seat in our Rubin index of the AI build-out; it sits in the hyperscalers-and-platforms sleeve of our wider universe, the group of firms selling cloud infrastructure and marketplace services rather than supplying components into the chip and data-centre chain. Alibaba carries no seat in Closelooknet's indices and has no Closelooknet score built yet. The diary has quoted it in Morning 10 and Midday 10 editions, most recently around an earnings miss with revenue roughly matching forecasts.

Does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd pay a dividend?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has paid 1.05 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.96% on the 2026-09-25 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.05 USD on 2026-06-11. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Alibaba Group Holding Ltd had a beta of 0.10 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 14% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −1.11% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What has Wall Street done on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd recently?

The most recent analyst action on Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Bernstein SocGen Group on 2026-09-07 (target 165). 3 actions on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 3 target changes. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

Where has Closelooknet written about Alibaba Group Holding Ltd?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd appears in 4 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Morning 10: The buyback rally fades and the 30-year pushes back to 5.25%, but crypto answers louder — Bitcoin above 75,000 toward its best week since March 2024, BITW breaks a year-long wedge, and the yen's first falsifier line goes live at 158.83 (2026-08-21); Morning 10: The Treasury buys duration with bills, hard assets read it first — Bitcoin toward 70,000, gold through 4,400, as the minutes turn hawkish and Korea answers its crash with a buyback (2026-08-20); Midday 10: Yields reverse back through the buyback within hours — 10-year 4.692%, 30-year 5.234% — as Walmart's double beat is sold 9% and Bitcoin holds a new local high above 71,500 (2026-08-20). What Closelooknet said most recently: NTES −5.85%, BABA reversed intraday to +1.30% green. (Morning 10, 2026-08-21). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BABA, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 4 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “The buyback rally fades and the 30-year pushes back to 5.25%, but crypto answers louder — Bitcoin above 75,000 toward its best week since March 2024, BITW breaks a year-long wedge, and the yen's first falsifier line goes live at 158.83” (2026-08-21)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where BABA appears in the diary — 4 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

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