1. Alibaba started as an e-commerce platform in China and has since expanded internationally and into cloud computing. It has experienced exponential growth in transaction volumes on its platforms like Taobao and Tmall.
2. Alibaba utilizes a variable interest entity (VIE) structure to gain access to the Chinese market while being publicly listed in the US. However, there remains uncertainty around this structure and China's stance on foreign ownership.
3. Key executives and board members include Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai, Jonathan Lu, and Daniel Zhang who have led the company's expansion into new business areas beyond e-commerce.
1. Alibaba started as an e-commerce platform in China and has since expanded internationally and into cloud computing. It has experienced exponential growth in transaction volumes on its platforms like Taobao and Tmall.
2. Alibaba utilizes a variable interest entity (VIE) structure to gain access to the Chinese market while being publicly listed in the US. However, there remains uncertainty around this structure and China's stance on foreign ownership.
3. Key executives and board members include Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai, Jonathan Lu, and Daniel Zhang who have led the company's expansion into new business areas beyond e-commerce.
1. Alibaba started as an e-commerce platform in China and has since expanded internationally and into cloud computing. It has experienced exponential growth in transaction volumes on its platforms like Taobao and Tmall.
2. Alibaba utilizes a variable interest entity (VIE) structure to gain access to the Chinese market while being publicly listed in the US. However, there remains uncertainty around this structure and China's stance on foreign ownership.
3. Key executives and board members include Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai, Jonathan Lu, and Daniel Zhang who have led the company's expansion into new business areas beyond e-commerce.
1. Alibaba started as an e-commerce platform in China and has since expanded internationally and into cloud computing. It has experienced exponential growth in transaction volumes on its platforms like Taobao and Tmall.
2. Alibaba utilizes a variable interest entity (VIE) structure to gain access to the Chinese market while being publicly listed in the US. However, there remains uncertainty around this structure and China's stance on foreign ownership.
3. Key executives and board members include Jack Ma, Joseph Tsai, Jonathan Lu, and Daniel Zhang who have led the company's expansion into new business areas beyond e-commerce.
From the Nov 11 in 2009, the Single's Day evolved from a campaign on Taobao Mall to a promotion in Tmall, and later it became a nationwide shopping carnival of various major shopping websites in China, and also a grand festival of shopping for all customers. The volume of transaction during the Double 11 shopping carnival also increased exponentially, from less than 100 million at the beginning, to 91.2 billion in 2015, and further to more than 100 billion this year. The technologies supporting the rising volumes of transaction are the result of efforts by tens of thousands of technicians in Alibaba Group. In general, the peak requests during the Double 11 shopping carnival will be dozens of times of that in the normal period. You can imagine the tremendous ordeal imposed on the entire internet infrastructure when tens of millions of users visit the same website at the same time. However, with Alibaba Cloud's CDN service, the website weathered the peak periods of Double 11 shopping carnival stably.
Alibaba Ownership Issues:
Alibaba’s first round of outside funding came in 1999 for Alibaba.com and consisted of $3.3 million from Goldman Sachs plus an additional $1.2 million from Fidelity Capital, Investor AB, Transpac Capital, and Singapore’s Venture TDF.59 Japan’s Softbank led a second round of $20 million in financing in January 2000.
Alibaba’s IPO would entitle its shareholders to the profits, but not the ownership of, Chinese- domiciled restricted assets.
Although Chinese companies created VIEs to avoid Chinese law barring foreign ownership, substantial uncertainty remained because the Chinese government had previously asserted its right to prohibit and to unwind such structures.
Board Members:
He is our lead founder and, since May 2013, has served as our executive chairman. From our founding in 1999 and until May 2013, Jack served as our chairman and chief executive officer. Joseph C. TSAI
joined our company in 1999 as a member of the Alibaba founding team and has served as our executive vice-chairman since May 2013.
Joe previously served as our chief financial officer and has been a member of our board of directors since its inception.
Jonathan Zhaoxi LU
joined our company in 2000 and succeeded Jack Ma as chief executive officer in May 2013, and has at different points served as the top executive officer of almost all of our key business units. Prior to his current role, he served as our chief data officer and also oversaw the Alibaba Mobile Operating System division. Before that, he served as chief executive officer of Alibaba.com from February 2011 until its privatization in 2012. He joined Taobao in January 2008 and served as its chief executive officer from January 2010 to June 2011. In September 2004, he led a dedicated team to establish Alipay and became Alipay’s president. From 2000 to 2004, Jonathan held several leadership roles at Alibaba.com and managed its South China sales region.
Daniel Yong ZHANG
Has been our chief operating officer since September 2013.
J. Michael EVANS
Serves as an independent director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and as Senior Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Evans has more than 20 years in leadership positions at Goldman Sachs.
Walter Teh Ming KWAUK
Serves as Independent Director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited and as an Independent Non- Executive Director of Alibaba.com Limited.
Chee Hwa TUNG
Serves Independent Director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited.
Jerry YANG He served as a Director of Alibaba Group Holding Limited from October 2005 to January 17, 2012.
Masayoshi SON
Vision Has been our director since 2000 and is the founder, chairman and chief executive officer of WeSoftBank Corp. aim to build the future Mission infrastructure of commerce. We envision that our customers will meet, As part of the Alibaba Group, our mission is to work and live at Alibaba. We do not make it easy to do business anywhere. pursue size or power; we aspire to be a We do this by giving suppliers the tools good company that will last for 102 necessary to reach a global audience for their years. products, and by helping buyers find products and suppliers quickly and efficiently. Revenue Streams ◦ China Commerce ◦ International Commerce ◦ Cloud Computing and Internet Infrastructure ◦ Others
Comprehensive stress testing, rapid elastic scaling, and cloud native full-stack technology have been widely applied in Internet, finance, retail, manufacturing, industries. These practices lower the threshold for application development, enabling enterprises to make full use of the technical benefits of cloud native.
Cloud native architectures can streamline drills and practices in a cloud-based
environment, improving efficiency and reliability even during unexpected traffic spikes. Alibaba Cloud ACK provides high elasticity of businesses at the container application layer. Furthermore, PolarDB offers capabilities of database scaling. PTS implements full- link stress testing by simulating actual business traffic.
Successful container-based applications include the following:
The 2020 Olympic Games will use ACK to empower its Olympic Channel Services in Europe for agile development and efficient O&M. Siemens currently uses ACK to provide MindSphere's microservice architecture, and to allow DevOps and other related services to have high availability. Xunlei Limited deploys a container-based hybrid cloud solution for deployment and scheduling purposes, which has allowed for greater elasticity and lower management costs. Financial ratio Analysis 1.Liquidity ratio: Ratio Equation Year2012 Year2013 Year2014
Current ratio Current assets /
(As at 30 March Current 2.37 1.80 1.81 each year- Liabilities Values are in RBM millions)
Quick or Acid (Current assets
ratio (As at 30 – Inventory) / 2.37 1.80 1.81 March each Current year-Values are Liabilities RBM millions)
Liquidity of Average selling Not Valid as
Inventory Period (ASP) + Alibaba like eBay (As at 30 Average but unlike March each Collection Amazon didn’t Period (ACP) year-Values own the ASP = (Inventory are RBM merchandise X 360) / COGS millions) sold on its website Liquidity Ratios Current = Current Asset / Current Liabilities Acid = (Current Asset - Inventories)/ Current Liabilities 2.50 2.37
2.00 1.80 1.81 1.50
1.00
0.50
0.00 2012 2103 2014
2-Debt Ratios: Ratio Equation Year2012 Year201 Year2014 3
Debt-to-Total Asset 0.27 0.83 0.63
Debt ratio = Total Liabilities / Toatal Assets
Debt / Equity ratio Debt-to-Equity =
Total Liabilities / Total Equity 0.37 102.81 2.33
Capitalization Captitalization=Long Term Liabilities + Total Equity = (Total Liabilities - 35429.00 29258.00 63764.00 Current liabilities) + Total Equity
Total Capitalization Total Capitalization 0.36 1.80 1.11
= Total Liabilities / (LT Liabilities + Total Equity) 3-Assets utilization / management (activity ratios):
Ratio Equation Year2012 Year2013 Year2014
Purchase >>Cogs Purchase = COGS
only in this case as + End Inventory 6554.00 9719.00 13369.00 no inventory as -Beginning mentioned above Inventory Total Accounts Total Account Payable payable= Income tax payable + 5373.00 10535.00 15813.00 Escrow payable+ Other account payable Avg. Account Avg. Account payable payable 5373.00 7954.00 10573.67
Profitability = Net profit 0.23 0.25 0.45 after tax / Net Sales ROI Return on Investment (ROI) = Net profit after tax 0.10 0.14 0.21 / Total asset ROE Return on Equity (ROE) = Net profit after tax / Total 0.14 16.86 0.77 eqyity Earning Earning power = Sales Power Profitability*Asset 0.10 0.14 0.21 Efficiency = ROI EM Equity Multiplier = Total Asset / Total Equity = 1.37 124.34 3.67 Degree of Leverage Return on ROE = Net Profit Margin * Equity (ROE) Asset Turnover * Equity Multiplier = 0.14 16.86 0.77 Earning power(ROI)* Equity Multiplier Leverage Ratios 120.00
Total Asset Turnover = Asset Efficiency = Net Sales / Total Asset
0.60
0.50
0.40
0.30
0.20
0.10
0.00 2012 2103 2014 Operation Cycles in day = Average selling period + Avg. Collection Period As Ali Baba has no Inventory so Operation Cycle in day similar to Avg.collection period 72.00 70.00 68.00 66.00 64.00 62.00
60.00 58.00 2012 2103 2014
EBIT/GrossProfit 0.70
0.60
0.50
0.40
0.30
0.20
0.10
0.00 2012 2103 2014 Equity Multiplier = Total Asset / Total Equity = Degree of Leverage 140.00
