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Company snapshot — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

9988.HK in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Alibaba runs a group of businesses centred on Chinese and international e-commerce, cloud computing, and a set of separate consumer platforms. Its domestic marketplaces Taobao and Tmall connect merchants and shoppers, alongside a wholesale marketplace and a resale platform for used goods. Internationally it operates AliExpress, Trendyol, Lazada, Daraz and a cross-border wholesale site. A separate cloud arm sells infrastructure, platform and model services to businesses needing computing capacity. Other units cover digital mapping, logistics, video streaming, grocery retail and healthcare services. The group is based in Hangzhou, China.
Where it sits in the stack
Alibaba carries no seat in Closelook's index. Within our universe it sits in the internet retail sleeve of the consumer cyclical sector, spanning both its e-commerce marketplaces and its separate cloud computing arm.
Who it is priced against
The diary has not yet built a peer group for Alibaba; the comparison the market draws most often is with Amazon, given the overlap in e-commerce and cloud computing.
Why Closelook tracks it
Alibaba holds no seat in our index and carries no Closelook score yet; it has not featured in any edition or quote so far.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the shares stabilise after slipping below both their 50-day and 200-day averages and well off their 52-week high, and what that shift implies for sentiment toward its various segments.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK) trades on the HK exchange in Hong Kong.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for 9988.HK, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Internet Retail · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Internet Retail

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against 9988.HK on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 0.94%, annual · last 1.03 HKD on 2026-06-10

Dividends and capital return

What 9988.HK pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.03 HKD per share · a 0.94% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 1 distribution, paid once a year 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year −0.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.03 HKD per share
  • Last distribution 1.03 HKD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-10
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.98 HKD (partial) · 2024: 0.98 HKD · 2025: 1.03 HKD · 2026: 1.03 HKD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-20

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (9988.HK)?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd trades as 9988.HK on the HK exchange (Hong Kong) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is 9988.HK in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does 9988.HK trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -5.3% vs the 50-day and -16.3% vs the 200-day average, 41.3% below the 52-week high and +23.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd do?

Alibaba runs a group of businesses centred on Chinese and international e-commerce, cloud computing, and a set of separate consumer platforms. Its domestic marketplaces Taobao and Tmall connect merchants and shoppers, alongside a wholesale marketplace and a resale platform for used goods. Internationally it operates AliExpress, Trendyol, Lazada, Daraz and a cross-border wholesale site. The diary has not yet built a peer group for Alibaba; the comparison the market draws most often is with Amazon, given the overlap in e-commerce and cloud computing.

Where does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd sit in the AI build-out?

Alibaba carries no seat in Closelook's index. Within our universe it sits in the internet retail sleeve of the consumer cyclical sector, spanning both its e-commerce marketplaces and its separate cloud computing arm. Alibaba holds no seat in our index and carries no Closelook score yet; it has not featured in any edition or quote so far.

Does Alibaba Group Holding Ltd pay a dividend?

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has paid 1.03 HKD per share over the last twelve months, paid once a year, a trailing yield of 0.94% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 1.03 HKD on 2026-06-10. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for 9988.HK, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Internet Retail. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.