Heavy AI Spending Weighs on Alibaba's Profits: Hold or Fold the Stock? [Yahoo! Finance]
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and the relentless rollout of frontier large language models. Yet the deeper the company wades into this spending cycle, the worse its financials appear. What was once a reliably profitable e-commerce giant now resembles a company sacrificing present earnings for a future that may take years to materialize. As profitability crumbles and free cash flow dries up under the weight of unprecedented capital expenditure, BABA is beginning to look like a stock investors would be wise to exit or avoid altogether in 2026. BABA's Profits Take a Severe Hit Alibaba's fiscal third-quarter 2026 results made clear just how painful this investment cycle has become. Total revenues grew a tepid 2% year over year to RMB 284.8 billion ($41.3 billion), or 9% on a like-for-like basis excluding divested businesses. However, profitability deteriorated sharply across every meaningful metric. Operating profit plunged 74% year over year to RMB 10.6 billion, non-GAAP net profit tumbled 67% to RMB 16.7 bil
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