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Alibaba Raises $10 Billion for AI — Why BofA Is Looking Past the Dilution

On August 25, BofA Securities analyst Joyce Ju reiterated a Buy rating and $172.00 price target on Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA). The rating affirmation follows one of the largest capital raises by Alibaba. The tech giant raised HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) in Hong …

Alibaba (BABA) Stock Could Still Be A Bargain As AI Fundraising Bites

Alibaba Group Holding stock has delivered a 35.9% gain over the past three years, yet several valuation checks suggest the shares may still trade below what the company's cash flows and fundamentals imply. Recent AI focused capital raising and heavy investment have added fresh …

Alibaba Just Made Its AI Model Much Cheaper to Run

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA, Financials) is trying to boost AI efficiency with a new model that promises to offer higher performance at a far lower cost.It also announced a 125 billion-parameter multimodal model, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, which also provides …

Global Market: Alibaba shares slide after $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI expansion

Alibaba Stock Rises After New Qwen AI Model Takes Aim at Costs

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) shares rose 2% Wednesday after the Chinese technology company introduced Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, a new artificial intelligence model designed to lower computing costs. The model has 125 billion parameters and uses a Mixture of Experts architecture. Alibaba said …

Michael Burry Just Abandoned Alibaba Stock. How to Play BABA Stock from Here.

US Indices End Week Higher As Amazon Earnings Lift Sentiment, But Nasdaq Logs Worst Month In Over A Year — PSKY, BABA, RDDT, RIVN, AMZN In Focus

Alibaba Completes $10.2 Billion Hong Kong Share Placement

SHANGHAI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba slumped on Monday after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing company launched a $10.2 ‌billion share placement, as investors worried about payback from its massive ‌AI spending. Alibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 …

Alibaba Group Announced Completion of HK$80 Billion Placing of New Shares in Hong Kong

HONG KONG, August 26, 2026--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988 (HKD Counter) and 89988 (RMB Counter), "Alibaba," "Alibaba Group" or the "Company") today announced the completion of its HK$80 billion placing of 710,000,000 newly issued ordinary shares of the Company …

Alibaba (BABA) Closes Record HK$80 Billion Share Placement To Fund AI Push

Find your next quality investment with Simply Wall St's easy and powerful screener, trusted by over 7 million individual investors worldwide. Alibaba Group Holding (NYSE:BABA) completed a record HK$80b Hong Kong share placement to fund its AI transformation. The primary offering is the largest …

41Caijing Unveils AI Agent Cluster at China Cross-Border E-Commerce Forum, Joining Alibaba and Other Industry Leaders to Reshape Global Marketing

41Caijing Shenzhen, China, Aug. 25, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cross-Border E-Commerce AI Salon Opens as 41Caijing Showcases AI Agent Cluster and Explores New Paths to Lower Costs and Improve Efficiency with Alibaba, ByteDance and Others On August 5, the "Cross-Border E-Commerce AI Application Case …

Alibaba Stock Plunges After Pricing $10 Billion Share Placement in Hong Kong

SHANGHAI, Aug 24 (Reuters) - The Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba slumped on Monday after the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing company launched a $10.2 ‌billion share placement, as investors worried about payback from its massive ‌AI spending. Alibaba said on Sunday its HK$80 …

Alibaba's Wan 3.0 AI Debut Follows $10.2B Share Sale: What's Ahead?

Alibaba Group BABA rolled out its next-generation AI video model, Wan3.0, a day after closing an HK$80 billion (roughly $10.2 billion) share placement in Hong Kong, the largest primary follow-on offering by a Hong Kong-listed company. Wan3.0, developed by Alibaba's Tongyi Lab, generates videos …

Alibaba Is No Longer the Same Company That Investors Have Known. Here's Why.

For years, Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) was synonymous with Chinese e-commerce. Its Taobao and Tmall operations were the crown jewels of its tech empire. The cloud was a promising side business. And investors largely viewed the company through the lens of China's consumer economy. Missed …

Alibaba’s $10 Billion Stock Sale Was Nearly 3 Times Oversubscribed. Should You Follow the Smart Money?

Quick Read Sovereign wealth funds claimed 40% of Alibaba's (BABA) $10.2B share placement at an 8.4% discount, validating the AI strategy while diluting existing public shareholders 3.6%. Alibaba Cloud AI-related revenue has grown triple digits for 12 consecutive quarters and now accounts for 35% …

Jack Ma reportedly buys $76.5M of Alibaba stock, joining executives in backing AI push

[Alibaba company logo on office building] Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Alibaba Group (BABA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BABA]) co-founder Jack Ma has bought more than HK$600M ($76.5M) of the company’s Hong Kong-listed shares in recent days, _South China Morning Post_ reported, joining chairman Joe Tsai and …

Michael Burry sold Alibaba stock before $10 billion Hong Kong share sale

Michael Burry sold his entire Alibaba position to invest in JD.com before Alibaba's $10.2 billion Hong Kong share offering. Burry stated he would only reconsider Alibaba stock if its value dropped by half, criticizing the share issuance. The offering, which set a record as …

Jack Ma Joins Top Executives in Buying Alibaba Stock, SCMP Says

(Bloomberg) -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. co-founder Jack Ma has joined a pair of senior executives in picking up company stock to show support for its AI ambitions, the South China Morning Post reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Most Read from Bloomberg …

Alibaba chairman, CEO buy $15.3M in shares after $10.2B AI funding deal

[Alibaba company logo on office building] Robert Way/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Alibaba Group (BABA [https://seekingalpha.com/symbol/BABA]) executives, including co-founder and chairman Joseph Tsai, bought over 1.1M shares worth about $15.3M on Monday, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings. Tsai purchased [https://seekingalpha.com/filing/309981899]720,000 shares …

Alibaba (BABA) Bets $10 Billion on AI: Is the Massive Spending Worth It?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE:BABA) has launched a HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) Hong Kong share placement to fund its artificial intelligence ambitions. The company plans to use all of the proceeds to strengthen its "full-stack" AI capabilities, including computing infrastructure, chips, and AI model …

Alibaba Stock Wavers As AI Push Drives $10 Billion Share Sale

Alibaba stock fell in U.S. trading after the Chinese tech giant announced a roughly $10.2 billion equity placement. Continue Reading

Alibaba Says AI Now Drives More Than One-Third of Cloud Revenue

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. For all the excitement around artificial intelligence, investors have had surprisingly little visibility into one key question: how much revenue is AI actually generating? Alibaba Group Holding …

Alibaba's new shares, US-Canada trade war weighs on steel: AlphaSpace

Market Catalysts Host Jared Blikre uses Yahoo Finance's AlphaSpace platform to take a closer look at Alibaba's (BABA, 9988.HK) stock moves as it issues new shares, how Cleveland-Cliffs (CLF) and other steel companies are reacting to a potential US-Canada trade war, and Wells Fargo's …

Alibaba Slides 10% as $10.2 Billion AI Bet Dilutes Investors

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA, Financials) wants investors to help fund a much larger AI effort, and the market didn't love the price. The Chinese internet giant priced its $10.2 billion share offering at HK$112.70 each, an 8.4% …

Alibaba Announces Share Placement to Raise Money for AI Efforts

Alibaba Group Holding Limited announced the placement of $80 billion HK for 710 million newly issued ordinary shares to non-U.S. investors outside the U.S. The price is $112.70 HK per placement share and is expected to close Aug. 26. "The equity placement is being …

Alibaba Drops, SoftBank Bond Sale, Bitcoin Rally | Stock Movers

Today's biggest winners and losers in the stock market.On this episode of Stock Movers:- Alibaba (BABA) is tumbling after announcing a plan to raise about HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) from a share sale. The share placement is expected to dilute earnings and hurt stock …

Michael Burry Abandons Alibaba Over Broken Management Pledge

Quick Read Alibaba's CFO touted $46 billion in net cash, then launched a $10 billion share sale days later, and Burry exited his entire position immediately. BABA ADR holders absorb the dilution without access to the discounted Hong Kong placement price, with shares down …

Alibaba Stock Falls As AI Push Drives $10 Billion Share Sale

Alibaba stock fell in U.S. trading after the Chinese tech giant announced a roughly $10.2 billion equity placement. Continue Reading

Yongming Wu Purchases 350,000 Shares of Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) Stock

Alibaba Group CEO Yongming Wu recently purchased 350,000 shares of the company's stock for nearly $5 million, increasing his direct stake by 34.5%. This transaction follows Alibaba's $10.2 billion share placement to fund AI development, which caused some dilution for existing shareholders and put …

Alibaba Stock Slides As Legal And Earnings Pressures Mount

Alibaba executives buy $15.3 million in shares after stock offering

Investing.com -- Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. executives Joseph Tsai and Eddie Wu purchased approximately HK$120 million ($15.3 million) of company shares on Monday following a decline in the stock price after a capital raise announcement. Chairman Joseph Tsai bought about HK$81 million worth of …

A $10.3 Billion Reason Why Alibaba Stock Is Tumbling Monday

This article first appeared on GuruFocus. Alibaba Group (NYSE:BABA) shares dropped 10% in early Monday trading after the company set terms for a major equity placement. The Chinese technology company priced 710 million newly issued ordinary shares at HK$112.70 each, generating HK$80 billion, or …