Alibaba is worth buying, as it has reached a high value-for-money range. That agrees with a reply summing up the view as simply: buy Alibaba. x.com
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Chinese equities, including Alibaba and KWEB, look set for a rapid reversal: after months of profit-taking and decade lows in many names while US markets reached highs, this morning's inflow is a positive sign. There is still value in many of these names. x.com
Alibaba's offering looks leaked and already priced in, and Friday's options activity points much higher. Big money dumped the stock Friday because of the leak, so at worst it retests its China low before moving up, and the stock is already way too cheap. x.com x.com
Alibaba is no longer worth owning when better opportunities exist. The case for it as a China hedge was a macro feeling applied to a single company, and it ignored Jack Ma being yanked away and a lack of cloud growth while leaning on share buybacks and looking too cheap to ignore. Despite its discount to US companies, other stocks, such as GitLab and Airbnb, now look much more compelling. x.com
China reportedly restricted overseas travel for key AI talent at Alibaba and DeepSeek, a sign Beijing sees them as its two most strategic AI assets, and Alibaba could deliver surprises over the next couple of months. US tech has outperformed, but the bad news looks baked in, and any Chinese surprise could send Alibaba to the stratosphere. x.com x.com
Alibaba and Baidu are a no-brainer buy because Chinese AI stocks trade at very low valuations while China is determined to race the US in AI. x.com
Alibaba is not a cheap Amazon, and cheap can stay cheap for a long time. It trades at 2015 prices, while since 2015 Amazon has gone from $34 to $250, Alphabet from $39 to $344 and QQQ from $100 to about $770, eleven years of missed compounding. Chinese companies should not be assumed to follow the playbook of American tech giants, just as Tencent is not Alphabet and BYD is not Tesla. x.com
Alibaba is a contrarian trade because accelerating demand for relatively cheaper compute is very underappreciated, and China's cloud market is still in its infancy versus the US. Alibaba is a consensus short as upside from closed-source AI looks illusory. x.com x.com
Alibaba is sitting on its 200-week moving average just as China announces a stimulus plan, timing that supports the shares. x.com
Anthropic's accusation that Alibaba's Qwen lab distilled its frontier models is optically bearish for Alibaba, though no penalties have been enforced. Per Anthropic, the lab used thousands of fake accounts and over 28.8 million exchanges. While penalties are absent, the rewards outweigh the risks for Alibaba if distillation lifts Qwen's market share, as many US AI startups already use Qwen for its cost-effectiveness versus Gemini and others. x.com x.com
Alibaba should be taken seriously within the next three months, trading at just 10 times 2028 earnings. x.com x.com