Alibaba reports the first quarter loss of the group | Business and Financial Issues
Despite these losses, China’s largest e-commerce platform predicts a 2022-month market cap, betting that the epidemic-induced change in online shopping will remain strong.
China’s largest platform Platform in China Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Thursday recorded the first quarterly decline since the public outcry in 2014 due to severe sanctions imposed by domestic market regulators.
Shares cited in the United States fell nearly 3% in the non-consensual trade, as the company predicted by 2022 revenues, betting that the risk of an online coronavirus epidemic would not be strong.
The move was overshadowed by a breakdown in Chinese law that led to the initial suspension of $ 37bn from Ant Group and a $ 2.8bn fine in April for anti-competitive businesses.
The fine led to 7.66 billion yuan ($ 1.19bn) job losses in the fourth quarter ending March 31.
“The Penal Code encouraged us to consider the relationship between the platform’s economy and people, as well as our responsibilities in the workplace and our commitment,” Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang said in a statement.
Alibaba predicts an annual turnover of 930 billion yuan ($ 144.12bn) for the year ended March 2022, exceeding expectations of 928.25 billion yuan.
Commercial real estate prices rose 72% to 161.37 yuan ($ 25bn) in the fourth quarter. But growth in the power utility has declined by 37 percent to 16.8 billion yuan ($ 2.60bn) from 58% last year, the weakest since 2016.
Alibaba said this was due to a high-profile customer with “high availability outside China” ending his business “for non-commercial reasons.”
Total revenue rose to 187.4 billion yuan ($ 29.03bn) in the fourth quarter, reflecting a Refinitiv estimate of 180.41 billion euros ($ 27.95bn).
The shares that Alibaba wrote in the US have fallen by more than 30% since they performed well in late October when their founder Jack Ma spoke in Shanghai to criticize Chinese financial regulators.
The share price shown reflects the concerns of legal sellers, says Brock Silvers, chief financial officer at Adamas Asset Management in Hong Kong
“The company has been facing serious technical challenges, which threaten the entire technical sector.”
