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BABAF (Alibaba Group Holding) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate : -8.20% (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Alibaba Group Holding 3-Year FCF Growth Rate?

Alibaba Group Holding's Free Cash Flow per Share for the three months ended in Sep. 2024 was $0.23.

During the past 12 months, Alibaba Group Holding's average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -26.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was -8.20% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 5.10% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate was 18.30% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Free Cash Flow per Share Growth Rate of Alibaba Group Holding was 189.30% per year. The lowest was -8.20% per year. And the median was 30.00% per year.


Competitive Comparison of Alibaba Group Holding's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate

For the Internet Retail subindustry, Alibaba Group Holding's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year FCF Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Alibaba Group Holding's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Distribution in the Retail - Cyclical Industry

For the Retail - Cyclical industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Alibaba Group Holding's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Alibaba Group Holding's 3-Year FCF Growth Rate falls into.



Alibaba Group Holding 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Calculation

This is the 3-year average growth rate of Free Cash Flow per Share. The growth rate is calculated using exponential compounding based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average Free Cash Flow per Share growth rate.


Alibaba Group Holding  (OTCPK:BABAF) 3-Year FCF Growth Rate Explanation

Free Cash Flow per Share is the amount of Free Cash Flow per outstanding share of the company's stock. Free Cash Flow is considered one of the most important parameters to measure a company's earnings power by value investors because it is not subject to estimates of Depreciation, Depletion and Amortization (DDA). However, when we look at the Free Cash Flow, we should look from a long term perspective, because any year's Free Cash Flow can be drastically affected by the spending on Property, Plant, & Equipment (PPE) of the business in that year. Over the long term, Free Cash Flow should give pretty good picture on the real earnings power of the company. It's used in the calculation of Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %.


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Alibaba Group Holding Business Description

Address
1 Matheson Street, Causeway Bay, 26th Floor, Tower One, Times Square, Hong Kong, HKG
Alibaba is the world's largest online and mobile commerce company as measured by gross merchandise volume. It operates China's online marketplaces, including Taobao (consumer-to-consumer) and Tmall (business-to-consumer). The China commerce retail division is the most valuable cash flow-generating business at Alibaba. Additional revenue sources include China commerce wholesale, international commerce retail/wholesale, local consumer services, cloud computing, digital media and entertainment platforms, Cainiao logistics services, and innovation initiatives/other.