After Merrill Lynch and RBC Capital gave Alibaba (NYSE: BABA) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from Nomura. Analyst Jialong Shi maintained a Buy rating on Alibaba yesterday and set a price target of $249.00. The company’s shares closed last Friday at $199.70.
According to TipRanks.com, Shi is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 16.5% and a 64.1% success rate. Shi covers the Technology sector, focusing on stocks such as Tencent Holdings, Bilibili, and NetEase.
Alibaba has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $254.50, a 25.2% upside from current levels. In a report issued on May 18, Merrill Lynch also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $250.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $231.14 and a one-year low of $147.95. Currently, Alibaba has an average volume of 19.86M.
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. engages in providing online and mobile marketplaces in retail and wholesale trade. It operates through the following business segments: Core Commerce; Cloud Computing; Digital Media and Entertainment; and Innovation Initiatives and Others. The Core Commerce segment comprises of platforms operating in retail and wholesale. The Cloud Computing segment consists of Alibaba Cloud, which offers elastic computing, database, storage and content delivery network, large scale computing, security, management and application, big data analytics, a machine learning platform, and other services provide for enterprises of different sizes across various industries. The Digital Media and Entertainment segment relates to the Youko Tudou and UC Browser business. The Innovation Initiatives and Others segment includes businesses such as AutoNavi, DingTalk, Tmall Genie, and others. The company was founded by Chung Tsai and Yun Ma on June 28, 1999 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.
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