Currently, there are 2.39B common shares owned by the public and among those 2.39B shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.34% and 57.07% over the past three months. BABA shares are trading 66.41% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 87.09% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $67.78 and touched a high of $145.36 over the same period. BABA has an average intraday trading volume of 27.61 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 4.57%, 28.32%, and 52.97% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE: BABA) shares accounts for 13.98% of the company’s 2.39B shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $337.85B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.20. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 20.39, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $6.92. The company has a PEG of 2.21 and a Quick Ratio of 1.48 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.23. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 3.61% over the week and 4.13% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (BABA) will achieve an EPS of 12.89 for the current quarter, 18.22 for the next quarter and 74.41 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 9.45 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 9.45. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 10.14 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 3.78%, and 11.55% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 9.21% over the next five years, compared to -2.72% over the past 5-year period.
Morgan Stanley was of a view on February 24, 2025 that the stock is Overweight, while Macquarie gave the stock Outperform rating on October 07, 2024, issuing a price target of $145. Macquarie on their part issued Neutral rating on February 08, 2024.
