Alibaba (9988)
China's largest e-commerce platforms (Taobao, Tmall) plus Alibaba Cloud and international commerce.
- Legal name
- Alibaba Group Holding Limited
- Ticker
- 9988
- Exchange
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing · MIC XHKG
- Country
- China
- Sector
- Consumer Discretionary
- Industry
- E-Commerce & Cloud
- Market cap ≈
- $278.6bn — computed, not copied: 19.175bn shares × 113.9 HKD close on 2026-08-28
- Reporting currency
- HKD
- Founded
- 1999
- Website
- www.alibabagroup.com
- LEI
- 5493001NTNQJDH60PM02 (GLEIF)
- ISIN
- KYG017191142 (check digit validated)
- FIGI
- BBG001T5DBT4 (share class, OpenFIGI)
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lists_onHong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
domiciled_inChina
member_ofHang Seng Index
held_by (top holdings)iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF
Sector peers — Consumer Discretionary
Amazon · Tesla · LVMH · Toyota · Home Depot · McDonald's
Compare: 9988 vs AMZN · 9988 vs TSLA · 9988 vs MC
How this market cap is arrived at
| Shares outstanding | 19,174,988,918 |
| Basis | issued, no treasury |
| As of | 2026-07-31 |
| Source | HKEX 'Monthly Return for Equity Issuer' for the month ended 31 July 2026, furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to... |
| Price | 113.9 HKD · 9988.HK · close 2026-08-28 |
| Venue | HKSE |
| Converted at | ECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28 |
| Market cap | $278.6bn |
Alibaba's own Hong Kong monthly return at 31 July 2026 reports 19,174,988,918 ordinary shares issued and no treasury shares. The single class trades on three lines — the Hong Kong counter, the RMB counter and the New York ADS at 8 ordinary shares each — so an ADS count is not a share count.
Share counts move on a filing cadence, prices move continuously — so this figure is exact only as of the two dates above, and we publish both rather than a single undated number. This company is quoted here through a depositary receipt (BABA), where one receipt represents 8 ordinary shares; the price is put on an ordinary-share basis before it meets the share count. Provenance.
Fundamentals
| From the 20-F for the year ended 2026-03-31 | USD | As reported |
|---|---|---|
| Revenueus-gaap:Revenues | $148.3bn | 1.02tn CNY |
| Operating incomeus-gaap:OperatingIncomeLoss | $7.3bn | 50.1bn CNY |
| Net incomeus-gaap:NetIncomeLoss | $15.0bn | 103.6bn CNY |
| Research & developmentus-gaap:ResearchAndDevelopmentExpense | $9.6bn | 66.5bn CNY |
| Total assetsus-gaap:Assets | $276.7bn | 1.91tn CNY |
| Shareholders' equityus-gaap:StockholdersEquity | $153.7bn | 1.06tn CNY |
| Cash & equivalentsus-gaap:CashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue | $19.1bn | 131.5bn CNY |
Net margin 10.1% — net income divided by revenue, both from this same filing.
Market cap / net income 18.6× — a market value from 2026-08-28 divided by earnings for a year that ended 2026-03-31. The two dates are far apart on purpose: this is arithmetic on two published numbers, not a valuation.
Every figure above is read from the same 20-F, filed 2026-05-20, and each row names the XBRL tag it came from so it can be checked against the document. Metrics absent from that filing are absent here rather than sourced from a different year — a table mixing periods is individually true and collectively meaningless. The company reports in CNY; the dollar column converts at ECB euro reference rate on 2026-03-31, the period end, not today.
Identifier crosswalk
| Standard | Value | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker | 9988 | Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets |
| MIC | XHKG | ISO 10383 — the venue |
| ISIN | KYG017191142 | ISO 6166 — the security |
| LEI | 5493001NTNQJDH60PM02 | ISO 17442 — the legal entity |
| FIGI | BBG001T5DBT4 | OpenFIGI — instrument, share class |
5 naming systems for one entity — only codes we actually hold are listed, with no gaps filled by guessing. Sources: LEI from GLEIF (CC0), ISIN read from the issuer's own primary listing document, with its ISO 6166 check digit validated, FIGI from OpenFIGI (open standard), MIC from the ISO 10383 registry. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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