Movement Alert｜Alibaba Falls 3.86% in Regular Trading, Post-Earnings Profit-Taking as Heavy AI Spending Weighs on Margins

Market Focus05-15

On May 15, Alibaba fell 3.86% in regular trading, trading at $134.65/share with trading volume of $3.16 billion. The decline follows a pattern of post-earnings profit-taking after the company reported fiscal Q4 2026 results on May 13.

Alibaba's quarterly revenue reached 243.38 billion yuan, up 3% year-over-year (11% on a like-for-like basis excluding divested businesses). While AI and cloud performance impressed — cloud external commercialization revenue grew 40% and AI-related product revenue accounted for 30% of cloud external revenue with 11 consecutive quarters of triple-digit growth — profitability deteriorated sharply. Adjusted EBITA plunged 84% to 5.1 billion yuan, the company posted an operating loss of 848 million yuan versus a profit of 28.47 billion yuan a year earlier, and free cash flow turned negative at negative 17.3 billion yuan. CEO Wu Yongming stated the company's full-stack AI investment has crossed the initial cultivation stage into a commercialization return cycle, but the market appears to be repricing the near-term margin drag from heavy technology spending.

The broader Broadline Retail sector also saw weakness, with Amazon.com down 2.02%, JD.com down 1.78%, MercadoLibre down 1.95%, PDD Holdings down 1.18%, and eBay down 0.02%.

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