Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE: BABA) Is Up 5.37% So Far This Year: What Will Happen Next?

The trading price of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE:BABA) floating lower at last check on current market day and closing at $80.99, -5.18% lower than its previous close.

Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $80.3703 and $81.96. The company’s P/E ratio in the trailing 12-month period was 21.16, while its 5Y monthly beta was 0.318. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $95.86 and a 52-week low of $66.07. Over the past month, the stock has gained 5.82% in value.

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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR, whose market valuation is $170.89 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2024-Nov-14. The dividend yield on the company stock is 2.47%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 2.00. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable. Analysts have predicted the quarterly earnings per share to grow by 2.07 per share this quarter, however they have predicted annual earnings per share of 8.8 for current year and 9.85 for next year.

Analysts have forecast the company to bring in revenue of 33.54B for the current quarter, with the likely lows of 32.43B and highs of 34.49B. From the analysts’ viewpoint, the consensus estimate for the company’s annual revenue is 141.28B.

On the technical side, indicators suggest BABA has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 50% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 100% Buy.

Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned BABA a recommendation rating is 30. Out of them, 9 rate it a Hold, while 21 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (BABA) as Underweight, while 0 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Buy, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.

If we dig deeper into the stock’s outlook, we see that the stock’s PEG is 2.37, which symbolizes a positive outlook. A quick review shows that BABA’s price is currently 0.92% off the SMA20 and 4.82% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 52.25, and weekly volatility stands at 2.12%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 2.37%. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE:BABA)’s beta value is currently sitting at 0.33, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 2.51. With analysts defining $83.89-$300 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $141 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -3.58% off the estimated low and -270.42% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if BABA’s share price rises to $141, which is the median consensus price. At that level, BABA’s share price would be -74.1% below current price.

To see how Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: BABA stock’s performance was -5.18% at last check in today’s session, and -8.34% in the past year. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR has a P/E ratio of 21.16.

An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ADR (NYSE:BABA) indicates that the 3-month average is 13.57 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 17.08.

Currently, records show that 2.43 billion of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 0.13% of outstanding shares, whereasinstitutions hold 17.38%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2024-07-31, stood at 54.81 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 4.73 at that time. It is noteworthy that short shares in July were up slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 50.24 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 5.37% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.

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