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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA)

NYSE / Consumer Cyclical / Specialty Retail

Share price

111.11 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

271.80B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2026, filed May 20, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2017 to FY2026
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on equity

9.8% Computed

From the FY2026 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

17.57x Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Dividend yield

1.9% Computed

FY2026 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2017 Revenue: 158.27B CNYFY2017 Net income: 43.67B CNYFY2018 Revenue: 250.27B CNYFY2018 Net income: 64.09B CNYFY2019 Revenue: 376.84B CNYFY2019 Net income: 87.89B CNYFY2020 Revenue: 509.71B CNYFY2020 Net income: 149.43B CNYFY2021 Revenue: 717.29B CNYFY2021 Net income: 150.58B CNYFY2022 Revenue: 853.06B CNYFY2022 Net income: 62.25B CNYFY2023 Revenue: 868.69B CNYFY2023 Net income: 72.78B CNYFY2024 Revenue: 941.17B CNYFY2024 Net income: 80.01B CNYFY2025 Revenue: 996.35B CNYFY2025 Net income: 130.11B CNYFY2026 Revenue: 1.02T CNYFY2026 Net income: 103.59B CNY
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
0 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 17.57x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2026 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 15.00x and 25.00x.

Today, against the Specialty Retail industry (44 companies), 17.57x sits at the 31st percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 15.54x to 47.91x.

Is it good

Return on equity was 9.8% in FY2026, in the band labelled "Ordinary" (8.0% to 15.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data.

Today, against the Specialty Retail industry (70 companies), 9.8% sits at the 62nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -13.0% to 18.0%.

Is it safe

Interest coverage was 5.12x in FY2026, in the band labelled "Investment grade" (3.00x to 6.00x), on lines anchored on Damodaran's interest-coverage table.

Year by year against peers
Whether Alibaba Group Holding Limited's return on equity stayed above the median of the Specialty Retail industry, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2026, 4 fiscal years of Alibaba Group Holding Limited with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Alibaba Group Holding Limited's return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2017 to FY2026, 10 filed years of Alibaba Group Holding Limited)
What could explain it
What in Alibaba Group Holding Limited's filed statements could explain the movements. (4 readings drawn from the statement lines Alibaba Group Holding Limited filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and where in its filings. (2 questions for Alibaba Group Holding Limited)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Alibaba Group Holding Limited's returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (7 of sixteen figures read for Alibaba Group Holding Limited)

These are BABA’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2026 annual report: 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-231755.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Return on equity9.8% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Return on capital employed, pre-tax3.5% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Return on assets5.4% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Gross margin39.8% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Operating margin4.9% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Net margin10.1% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
BABA 10.1%
TM 9.9%HD 8.6%TSLA 4.0%AMZN 10.8%
4.0%10.8%
Net margin: BABA against the 4 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingComputedCompany statement

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity
Why n/a

The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Current ratio1.28 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Quick ratio1.28 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Interest coverage5.12x ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Altman Z-score
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Net debt
Why n/a

The FY2026 balance sheet carries no net debt we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Total assets 1.91TTotal liabilities 783.30BShareholders' equity 1.06TOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Alibaba Group Holding Limited owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2026, from the balance sheet it filed (20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755).

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: balance sheet position
Total assets1.91T FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026
Total liabilities783.30B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026
Shareholders' equity1.06T FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026
Cash286.84B FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026
Total debtn/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026
Net debtn/a
Current ratio1.28
Debt to equityn/a
  • Debt to equity: FY2026: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings17.57x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book1.72x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Price to sales1.78x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Enterprise value to EBITDA
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2026 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value BABA on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Alibaba Group Holding Limited today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: valuation
Share price111.11 USD
Market capitalisation271.80B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDAn/a
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Alibaba Group Holding Limited

  1. Toyota Motor Corporation (TM)Market cap 227.30B USD
  2. The Home Depot, Inc. (HD)Market cap 307.50B USD
  3. Tesla, Inc. (TSLA)Market cap 1.43T USD
  4. Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)Market cap 2.75T USD

Same sector (Consumer Cyclical) and size band (Mega, 200B and over), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Free cash flow
Why n/a

The FY2026 filing carries no free cash flow we could read.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Free cash flow margin
Why n/a

No free cash flow, and no operating cash flow and capital expenditure pair, is filed for this year.

n/a ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Dividend yield1.9% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Payout ratio32.6% ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
FY2017 Free cash flow: 77.17B CNYFY2017 Net income: 43.67B CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: 110.20B CNYFY2018 Net income: 64.09B CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: 118.64B CNYFY2019 Net income: 87.89B CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: 155.94B CNYFY2020 Net income: 149.43B CNYFY2021 Net income: 150.58B CNYFY2022 Net income: 62.25B CNYFY2023 Net income: 72.78B CNYFY2024 Net income: 80.01B CNYFY2025 Net income: 130.11B CNYFY2026 Net income: 103.59B CNY
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filing

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
17.57xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
1.72xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a Enterprise value is the market value plus total debt less cash, and the filed balance sheet reports no debt total or no cash.
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports neither free cash flow nor the operating cash flow and capital spending it is built from.
n/aFY2026May 20, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
1.9%FY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026May 20, 2026
n/a The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
1.28FY2026May 20, 2026
1.78xFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
n/aFY2026Oct 15, 2026
n/a We hold no figure here and no stored reason for its absence. The gap is ours, not the company's.
-3.00FY2026May 20, 2026
2/9FY2026May 20, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2026, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2017 to FY2026, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2017 to FY2026, read from the annual reports Alibaba Group Holding Limited filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY20261.02T50.15B103.59Bn/an/a4.9%9.8%20-F, May 20, 20260001193125-26-231755
FY2025996.35B140.91B130.11Bn/an/a14.1%12.9%20-F, Jun 26, 20250000950170-25-090161
FY2024941.17B113.35B80.01Bn/an/a12.0%8.1%20-F, May 23, 20240000950170-24-063767
FY2023868.69B100.35B72.78Bn/an/a11.6%7.3%20-F, Jul 21, 20230000950170-23-033752
FY2022853.06B69.64B62.25Bn/an/a8.2%6.5%20-F, Jul 26, 20220001104659-22-082622
FY2021717.29B89.68B150.58Bn/an/a12.5%16.0%20-F, Jul 27, 20210001104659-21-096092
FY2020509.71B91.43B149.43Bn/a155.94B17.9%19.8%20-F, Jul 9, 20200001104659-20-082409
FY2019376.84B57.08B87.89Bn/a118.64B15.2%17.8%20-F, Jun 5, 20190001047469-19-003492
FY2018250.27B69.31B64.09Bn/a110.20B27.7%17.5%20-F, Jul 27, 20180001047469-18-005257
FY2017158.27B48.05B43.67Bn/a77.17B30.4%15.5%20-F, Jun 15, 20170001047469-17-004019
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 23.1%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2026: 10.1%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow, compound annual growth FY2017 to FY2020: 26.4%

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Alibaba Group Holding Limited: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-3.00 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Piotroski F-score2/9 ComputedFY2026 20-F, filed May 20, 2026, 0001193125-26-231755
Named tests met0 of 30 Computed
Beta1.00 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 0 met, 23 not met, 7 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
None of the named tests.
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Tangible book or below; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); EV/EBITDA and coverage; ROIC at or above WACC; P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend; Cash-flow yield and ROIC. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(14)
  • Debt to Equity: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Return on Invested Capital: The filed borrowings do not add up to a total we can stand behind: the filer's own liability subtotals leave room for debt we did not read.
  • Altman Z-Score: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • EV/EBITDA: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Free Cash Flow Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • ROIC-WACC Spread: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Capex To Ocf: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by the founder: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 14 figures could not be read on this company, among them Debt to Equity, Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 7 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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