Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.

Company Background

Alibaba Group, set up in 1999, is China's largest electronic commerce company. Its head office is in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. Having grown into an enterprise handling a wide variety of businesses ranging from cloud services and finance to media, besides e-commerce, the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange last year.

Founder Jack Ma, who first used the Internet in the U.S. in the mid-1990s, created in 1999 a website to support e-commerce. His company had initially focused on business-to-business transactions, before opening the Taobao online shopping site for individual users in 2003.

Thanks to the rapid spread of the Internet and expanding consumer spending in China, the users of Taobao soared at a fast pace. Today, Taobao.com for consumer-to-consumer deals and Tmall for business-to-consumer are two pillars of Alibaba's operations. The number of annual active buyers on Alibaba sites has reached 350 million.

Increasingly, more online shoppers are shifting to smartphones. Alibaba is been pushing ahead with efforts to attract smartphone users primarily by improving the convenience of the AliPay online payment system. As a result, the mobile monthly active users of its sites have reached close to 300 million in number. The company intends to enhance its financial business with Alipay at the center as well as to step up its cloud, information technology and big data businesses.

The company raised around $20 billion through its initial public offering in New York in 2014. It is acquiring other companies with the money raised. In August this year, Alibaba bought the majority of new shares issued by China's second biggest retailer, Suning Commerce Group, for 28.3 billion yuan, becoming the second largest shareholder in Suning. In China, Tencent and other local rivals are reinforcing strategies to erode Alibaba's dominance in e-commerce.

After failing to pass university entrance exams twice, Jack Ma once gave up going higher education and worked as a driver. A self-made man, he enjoys strong popularity among Chinese.

Business Summary

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. engages in providing technology infrastructure and marketing reach. It operates through the following business segments: China Commerce, International Commerce, Local Consumer Services, Cainiao, Cloud, Digital Media and Entertainment, and Innovation Initiatives and Others segments. The Core Commerce segment consists of platforms operating in retail and wholesale. The China Commerce segment includes China commerce retail and wholesale businesses. The International Commerce segment focuses on international commerce retail and wholesale businesses. The Local Consumer Services segment is involved in "To-Home" businesses, which include Ele.me, local services and delivery platform, and Taoxianda, and "To-Destination" segment businesses which include Amap, the provider of mobile digital map, navigation and real-time traffic information, and restaurant and local services guide platform. The Cainiao segment has Cainiao Network and offers domestic and international one-stop-shop logistics services and supply chain management solution. The Cloud segment includes Alibaba Cloud and DingTalk. The company was founded by Chung Tsai and Yun Ma on June 28, 1999 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

Financial Highlights

Mar 2023	HKD	USD
Revenue	993,191.25M	126,702.86M
Gross Profit	364,711.41M	46,526.76M
Operating income	117,836.75M	15,032.60M
Income before tax	101,967.40M	13,008.13M
Net income	82,901.32M	10,575.84M
EBITDA	--	--
Diluted EPS	3.92	0.50
Dividends Per Share	--	--
Total Assets	2,002.61B	255,112.25M
Total liabilities	719,811.11M	91,696.27M
Total equity	1,130.57B	144,023.23M
Operating cash flow	228,381.38M	29,134.94M
	Currency in HKD	Currency in USD

Historical Data

HKD | USD

	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023
Revenue	440,328.19M	571,883.94M	820,204.75M	1,034.79B	993,191.25M
Gross Profit	189,327.19M	244,012.01M	326,285.95M	367,199.78M	364,711.41M
Operating income	70,022.47M	107,186.93M	104,475.08M	115,874.57M	117,836.75M
Income before tax	112,430.65M	186,971.83M	189,334.93M	72,236.61M	101,967.40M
Net income	102,357.34M	167,469.63M	171,874.00M	75,158.83M	82,901.32M
EBITDA	113,180.81M	154,566.89M	158,298.62M	171,343.32M	--
Diluted EPS	4.87	7.84	7.81	3.44	3.92
Dividends Per Share	--	0	0	0	--
Total Assets	1,127.37B	1,434.80B	2,004.71B	2,093.44B	2,002.61B
Total liabilities	408,458.58M	473,520.53M	719,428.98M	757,274.44M	719,811.11M
Total equity	575,068.82M	825,511.11M	1,111.92B	1,171.08B	1,130.57B
Operating cash flow	176,408.67M	202,636.87M	265,042.37M	173,172.58M	228,381.38M

	Mar 2019	Mar 2020	Mar 2021	Mar 2022	Mar 2023
Revenue	56,149.34M	73,162.45M	105,795.79M	132,931.17M	126,702.86M
Gross Profit	24,142.44M	31,217.02M	42,086.66M	47,170.77M	46,526.76M
Operating income	8,929.05M	13,712.67M	13,475.93M	14,885.33M	15,032.60M
Income before tax	14,336.82M	23,919.74M	24,421.75M	9,279.57M	13,008.13M
Net income	13,052.30M	21,424.78M	22,169.52M	9,654.96M	10,575.84M
EBITDA	14,432.48M	19,774.10M	20,418.47M	22,010.89M	--
Diluted EPS	0.62	1.00	1.00	0.44	0.50
Dividends Per Share	--	0	0	0	--
Total Assets	143,615.52M	185,114.55M	257,858.89M	267,313.93M	255,112.25M
Total liabilities	52,033.27M	61,092.33M	92,537.60M	96,697.19M	91,696.27M
Total equity	73,257.64M	106,505.19M	143,023.19M	149,536.50M	144,023.23M
Operating cash flow	22,495.10M	25,923.80M	34,187.03M	22,245.88M	29,134.94M

Valuation Measures

Mar 2023
PER	25.40
ROA	4.04%
ROE	7.20%
Operating margin	11.86%
Profit margin	8.34%

Key executives

Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer: Yong Zhang
President & Director: John Michael Evans
Chief Financial Officer: Hong Xu
Chief Technology Officer: Wu Zeming
VP, Head-Global Intellectual Property Enforcement: Matthew Bassiur

Shareholders

SoftBank Group Corp. (13.6%)
MA FAMILY (2.2%)
The Vanguard Group, Inc. (2.1%)
APN Ltd. (1.8%)
BlackRock Fund Advisors (1.6%)
TSAI CHUNG HSIN /ALIBABA/ (1.4%)
Norges Bank Investment Management (1.3%)
Hang Seng Investment Management Ltd. (0.7%)
E Fund Management Co., Ltd. (0.6%)
Baillie Gifford & Co. (0.6%)

Contact Details

Website:http://www.alibabagroup.com
Address: 969 West Wen Yi Road, Yu Hang District, Hangzhou, 311121, China
Phone: +86.571.8502.2088

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Last Updated on 5 Jun, 2023