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BABA

Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Alibaba Group Holding Limited is classed by the SEC under Services-Business Services, NEC (industry code 7389), based in Causeway Bay, HK. In its latest annual figures on file, for the fiscal year ended 2026-03-31, it reported revenue of $148 billion and a profit of $15 billion (its filed statements).

Marketplace business Services-Business Services, NEC Causeway Bay, HK filings since 2014 8 of 9 filed, 1 estimated

Sector peers: KSPIFICOTCOMSEZL

5.4/10headline grade
vs its business-model standard

Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a marketplace business: prior from its industry code (SEC 7389, Services-Business Services, NEC); the filing read can change it. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

The grade, in three tenses

Headline 5.4 out of ten, 8 of 9 metrics filed and 1 estimated: past 7.9 out of ten, present 5.7 out of ten, future 3.7 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.

The nine metrics

  • Surviving crises (past): 7.9 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 79th percentile among 105 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Track record (past): 8.1 out of ten. +23.1% a year over 10 filed years; profitable in 10 of 10. 81st percentile among 99 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Shareholder treatment (past): 7.5 out of ten. Share count shrank 3.1% a year. 62% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 13 sales, 3 purchases. 75th percentile among 70 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Financial health (present): 5.8 out of ten. ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 41%: owes 41¢ per asset dollar. 58th percentile among 98 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Industry position (present): 5.9 out of ten. top 41% of 101 in its family; net margin 10.1%. 59th percentile among 101 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Leadership (present): 5.3 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 5.3/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median). 50th percentile among 75 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: family median, confidence 20 of 100; its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
  • Room to expand (future): 4.3 out of ten. bottom 43% of 99 in its family for room to expand. 43rd percentile among 99 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Growth drivers (future): 3.4 out of ten. bottom 34% of 99 in its family for growth drivers. 34th percentile among 99 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
  • Expectations vs reality (future): 3.3 out of ten. bottom 33% of 93 in its family for expectations against reality. 33rd percentile among 93 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).

The filing record

Newest annual report: Form 20-F filed 2026-05-20 for the period ended 2026-03-31 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 6-K, 2026-10-07. Filings on record since 2014. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.

Where the revenue comes from

Product and service lines in fiscal 2026: Customer Management Services 45%, Sales of Goods 22%, Logistics Services 14%, Cloud Services 11%, Membership Fees and Value Added Services 5%, Product and Service Other 4%. As tagged in its annual report (Form 20-F, filed 2026-05-20).

Who runs it

Wu, Yongming (Chief Executive Officer); Jiang, Fan (fj) (CEO of Business Group); Evans, J. Michael (President); Xu, Hong (Chief Financial Officer); Jiang, Fang (Chief People Officer); Yu, Siying (General Counsel); Tsai, Joseph C (director); Lee, Irene Yun-Lien (director); Martello, Wan Ling (director); Misra, Kabir (director); and 4 more. 14 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-10-05.

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