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Chesnot/Getty Images News What is wrong with Alibaba?","content":"<html><head></head><body><ul style=\"\"><li><p>Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.</p></li><li><p>At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.</p></li><li><p>In this article, I will highlight some of the key issues with Alibaba’s fundamentals, some of which matter even for the long term.</p></li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6e4c217125cad7f5bbbd4d153a9a7340\" tg-width=\"594\" tg-height=\"380\"/></p><p>Chesnot/Getty Images News</p><h2 id=\"id_4155765161\">What is wrong with Alibaba?</h2><p>In my last review of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) earnings I focused on &#34;hallucinations&#34;. However, already back in April 2023, when I had warned that Alibaba would remain cheap for a long time, I had asked myself whether it was me who maybe was hallucinating something, as the overwhelming majority of analysts took the other side of the trade.</p><p>But in the end, the stock became only cheaper and underperformed the S&amp;P 500 by a whopping 45%. Those bullish analysts were evidently missing something.</p><p>This time may be no different: Right after Alibaba&#39;s Q3/24 results, a lot of enthusiastic Buy ratings were issued.</p><p>When I look at Alibaba&#39;s earnings materials, I intuitively associate a famous Woody Allen scene from Take the Money and Run: He prepares for a date, showers, grooms himself at the mirror, leaves his apartment - but suddenly he comes right back in, and as the camera zooms out, it reveals he forgot his pants.</p><p>Alibaba ticks all the right boxes: Announces IPOs, buybacks, even a dividend, has great FCF, a gigantic net cash position, talks AI, future growth prospects, etc. - but once you consider the full picture something is still wrong.</p><h2 id=\"id_650007289\">Alibaba Q3/24 earnings review</h2><p>The company clearly felt the impact of a sluggish Chinese economy and, most importantly, of its growing competition. Key segments that make up over half of Alibaba&#39;s revenues and more than its entire net earnings like Cloud, Taobao and Tmall barely grew. In contrast, the strongly growing international commerce segment did so at a hefty cost, growing its losses almost 5-fold. As a result, total net profits were down 4% even on an adjusted basis and below consensus. After factoring in mark-to-market changes from equity investments and large impairments mainly relating to Sun Art and Youku, net profits were down 69%.</p><p>Adjusted EBITDA came in roughly flat, while free cash flow felt the impact of higher capex and working capital additions and was down 31% YoY. For the first nine months, FCF was flat at $20B. If Q4 brings in similar FCF as in Q4/23, for the full year Alibaba will rake in $25B of FCF, flat YoY, corresponding to 14% of its market cap.</p><p>In Q3, share-based compensation was down 30% YoY.</p><p>To assuage investor concerns, management increased its buyback authorization by a huge $25B, which means that over the next three years the total amount available for repurchases stands at over $35B or 20% of the company&#39;s market cap. (At least in theory - see below.)</p><p>As explained during the Alibaba Q3/24 earnings conference call, there are some limitations to buybacks, as the company&#39;s cash cannot be used entirely offshore. Still, management intends to use buybacks to bring total shareholder returns to roughly the same level of Treasury Bills: 1.4% of dividend yield plus about 3% of equity reduction.</p><p>At this point, we have Woody Allen nicely dressed up - not George Clooney, but, well, at least a clean look.</p><h2 id=\"id_323889540\"><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ZM\">Zoom</a> out on Alibaba&#39;s Q3/24 earnings</h2><p>Over the past few years, most investors have gone from expecting Alibaba to be George Clooney (or the Amazon (AMZN) of China) to being ok with getting Woody Allen. Now they seem to be preparing for being ok with Woody Allen without pants.</p><p>In fact, Alibaba was expected to grow earnings by the double-digits for many years, but it is not growing anymore.</p><p>Several of its manifold ventures have suffered large impairments. Competition is on the rise, and if competition managed to bother almighty Alibaba at home, it certainly has more than a shot to do so internationally as well. It is probably just a question of time.</p><p>In the meantime, Alibaba is trying to fortify its first-mover advantage by pouring more and more money into its international activities. A few years ago, in the ZIRP days, investors would have stopped reading the press release after the GMV and revenue data. Today, they look at net earnings as well. And they highly doubt the final result will justify those expenses.</p><p>For example, in Europe concerns regarding the large inflow of Chinese small-ticket items are growing: They are eluding import duties, often don&#39;t correspond to European safety standards and overall represent clearly unfair competition for Europe&#39;s own manufacturers. So tighter regulations might curb future growth for international Chinese e-commerce players.</p><p>We can always rationalize the current situation and put the blame on the general economy, geopolitical tensions, the need for growing AI investments to bolster future returns, etc. - but the fact is that Alibaba&#39;s Cloud and Chinese e-commerce businesses have lost market share. Actually, they have lost far more market share than (the few) sceptical investors had expected. - How can we be sure that the trend is reversible? Why shouldn&#39;t it accelerate?</p><p>There hasn&#39;t been a lack of distractions for Alibaba management, many of which self-inflicted: Think about the botched Ant Group IPO, the continuous management reshuffling, the first announced, then mostly retracted IPO plans. Management now says that market conditions are not right. But were they right one year ago? Chinese stocks and Alibaba were in the doghouse long before those multi-IPO plans were announced. So why is management backpedalling? We just don&#39;t know.</p><p>Many investors point to the huge FCF and the net cash position. How much of this cash will be actually given back to shareholders? In 2023, Alibaba spent $9.5B for a 3.3% net reduction of the share count. It currently has the equivalent of 2.5B ADS outstanding, which means the 3.3% reduction corresponds to 85m ADS. Yet the company repurchased a total of 112m ADS in 2023. The difference of 27m ADS were just neutralizing share issuance. Hence, we might argue that instead of paying ~$85 per ADS (9,500/112), the effective cost was $112 per ADS (9,500/85).</p><p>As a note aside, many investors overvalue the value-generating effect of share repurchases. If done at fair value, the net effect of share repurchases on intrinsic value per continuing share is exactly zero, as cash on hand owned by continuing shareholders is exchanged for a greater slice of the business.</p><p>Since I expect objections, just look at this simple example: Company Onehundred, Inc. has 100 shares outstanding, its business is worth $100 and it has net cash of $100. Therefore Onehundred&#39;s fair value and market cap is $200 or $2 per share. If the company repurchases 50% of shares outstanding for $100, the continuing shareholders still own the entire business worth $100, but no net cash anymore. Consequently, each of the remaining 50 shares is worth $2 - the same as before the massive buyback.</p><p>To be accretive, repurchases need to be done substantially below fair value. - But what if management effectively always pays 30% more than market value as in the case of Alibaba? Investors should probably consider that, over time, those share repurchases are more likely to destroy some value.</p><p>At this point I would expect the objection that, during the past few quarters, share-based compensation has come down enormously (roughly 50% YTD). Right, but this is mainly due to the current lower market value of the awards granted. In other words: The same number of awards were granted, they were just worth less - at the moment of issuance. But if you are a bull and believe the stock will go up, the effective value of these grants will increase as well. To neutralize their effect, management will need to spend a growing part of its FCF.</p><h2 id=\"id_2598212957\">A look into Alibaba&#39;s future</h2><p>At this point we have the full picture of Woody Allen dressed up, but without pants. Sure, he can slide into a pair of trousers and meet the girl, but will the date be a success? - We certainly have many reasons to be doubtful.</p><p>Personally, instead of factoring in a 20% share count reduction over the next 3 years, I believe half of this number is probably more realistic - which is actually in line with management guidance of 3% per year.</p><p>Given the sickening volatility of the stock and the unpredictability of the business, coupled with general concerns regarding China, a total return of 4-5% is obviously not enough. Investors want far more, which means Alibaba needs to grow net earnings from here.</p><p>It has squandered a lot of money on ventures like Sun Art which it now wants to exit. But issues like these should be considered part of the game - and part of the reason why until a few years ago the fast evolving tech space used to trade for relatively low multiples compared to its growth rates. It was simply deemed to be too unpredictable and at least some huge capital allocation mistakes had to be factored in.</p><p>Investors don&#39;t need Alibaba to trade for 30x earnings to make a killing. If Alibaba traded for just 14x its FCF, it would double from here. The only question that matters is how it can get the multiple to expand.</p><p>First of all, as we have seen, a haircut to FCF is appropriate, as 25-50% of it (depending on the stock price) will simply go into the neutralization of share issuance.</p><p>Assuming no growth, but just steady FCF generation over the next three years, Alibaba will roughly generate $75B of FCF and use $35B of it to buy back 10% of its shares. In addition I assume it will pay in total ~$4 of dividends per share, for a total of $10B. Therefore, three years from now, net cash will have increased by $30B. If the stock traded for 10x FCF, it would stand at $111 per ADS, i.e. from today shareholders would get a very decent total return of roughly 50%.</p><p>The 10x FCF multiple actually is not that much of an expansion from today&#39;s 7.2x, since the projected accumulation of additional net cash would be worth 1.2x on its own.</p><p>Given the very conservative - if not outright bearish - assumptions underlying my projection, it is pretty evident that Alibaba is cheap. To improve its multiple, investors will need to see steadiness and predictability - not only of the general environment and Chinese regulations, but perhaps most importantly from the company itself. If management continues to act erratically and/or geopolitical tensions and/or regulatory interventions continue to weigh on sentiment, expect investors to stay cautious.</p><p>In order to make more than just a decent return, Alibaba also needs to grow earnings. Currently, investors have the impression that the company is embarking in a major investment phase and are not willing to pay up for the promise of later profits, given past experiences and the general geopolitical picture. I believe this attitude is unlikely to change quickly and therefore keep my Hold rating, although I acknowledge that the risk/reward is starting to look asymmetrical at the current valuation.</p><p>Given how intertwined the Alibaba story is with general political issues, I strongly advise against trading the stock on any kind of short-term &#34;signals&#34;. While in general a bad idea for any stock, in the case of Alibaba negative news of all sorts can surface any minute of every day and make you lose your pants for real.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>This Is What Is Wrong With Alibaba's Earnings</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThis Is What Is Wrong With Alibaba's Earnings\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2024-02-11 14:29 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.In this article, I will ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2410304642","content_text":"Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.In this article, I will highlight some of the key issues with Alibaba’s fundamentals, some of which matter even for the long term.Chesnot/Getty Images NewsWhat is wrong with Alibaba?In my last review of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) earnings I focused on \"hallucinations\". However, already back in April 2023, when I had warned that Alibaba would remain cheap for a long time, I had asked myself whether it was me who maybe was hallucinating something, as the overwhelming majority of analysts took the other side of the trade.But in the end, the stock became only cheaper and underperformed the S&P 500 by a whopping 45%. Those bullish analysts were evidently missing something.This time may be no different: Right after Alibaba's Q3/24 results, a lot of enthusiastic Buy ratings were issued.When I look at Alibaba's earnings materials, I intuitively associate a famous Woody Allen scene from Take the Money and Run: He prepares for a date, showers, grooms himself at the mirror, leaves his apartment - but suddenly he comes right back in, and as the camera zooms out, it reveals he forgot his pants.Alibaba ticks all the right boxes: Announces IPOs, buybacks, even a dividend, has great FCF, a gigantic net cash position, talks AI, future growth prospects, etc. - but once you consider the full picture something is still wrong.Alibaba Q3/24 earnings reviewThe company clearly felt the impact of a sluggish Chinese economy and, most importantly, of its growing competition. Key segments that make up over half of Alibaba's revenues and more than its entire net earnings like Cloud, Taobao and Tmall barely grew. In contrast, the strongly growing international commerce segment did so at a hefty cost, growing its losses almost 5-fold. As a result, total net profits were down 4% even on an adjusted basis and below consensus. After factoring in mark-to-market changes from equity investments and large impairments mainly relating to Sun Art and Youku, net profits were down 69%.Adjusted EBITDA came in roughly flat, while free cash flow felt the impact of higher capex and working capital additions and was down 31% YoY. For the first nine months, FCF was flat at $20B. If Q4 brings in similar FCF as in Q4/23, for the full year Alibaba will rake in $25B of FCF, flat YoY, corresponding to 14% of its market cap.In Q3, share-based compensation was down 30% YoY.To assuage investor concerns, management increased its buyback authorization by a huge $25B, which means that over the next three years the total amount available for repurchases stands at over $35B or 20% of the company's market cap. (At least in theory - see below.)As explained during the Alibaba Q3/24 earnings conference call, there are some limitations to buybacks, as the company's cash cannot be used entirely offshore. Still, management intends to use buybacks to bring total shareholder returns to roughly the same level of Treasury Bills: 1.4% of dividend yield plus about 3% of equity reduction.At this point, we have Woody Allen nicely dressed up - not George Clooney, but, well, at least a clean look.Zoom out on Alibaba's Q3/24 earningsOver the past few years, most investors have gone from expecting Alibaba to be George Clooney (or the Amazon (AMZN) of China) to being ok with getting Woody Allen. Now they seem to be preparing for being ok with Woody Allen without pants.In fact, Alibaba was expected to grow earnings by the double-digits for many years, but it is not growing anymore.Several of its manifold ventures have suffered large impairments. Competition is on the rise, and if competition managed to bother almighty Alibaba at home, it certainly has more than a shot to do so internationally as well. It is probably just a question of time.In the meantime, Alibaba is trying to fortify its first-mover advantage by pouring more and more money into its international activities. A few years ago, in the ZIRP days, investors would have stopped reading the press release after the GMV and revenue data. Today, they look at net earnings as well. And they highly doubt the final result will justify those expenses.For example, in Europe concerns regarding the large inflow of Chinese small-ticket items are growing: They are eluding import duties, often don't correspond to European safety standards and overall represent clearly unfair competition for Europe's own manufacturers. So tighter regulations might curb future growth for international Chinese e-commerce players.We can always rationalize the current situation and put the blame on the general economy, geopolitical tensions, the need for growing AI investments to bolster future returns, etc. - but the fact is that Alibaba's Cloud and Chinese e-commerce businesses have lost market share. Actually, they have lost far more market share than (the few) sceptical investors had expected. - How can we be sure that the trend is reversible? Why shouldn't it accelerate?There hasn't been a lack of distractions for Alibaba management, many of which self-inflicted: Think about the botched Ant Group IPO, the continuous management reshuffling, the first announced, then mostly retracted IPO plans. Management now says that market conditions are not right. But were they right one year ago? Chinese stocks and Alibaba were in the doghouse long before those multi-IPO plans were announced. So why is management backpedalling? We just don't know.Many investors point to the huge FCF and the net cash position. How much of this cash will be actually given back to shareholders? In 2023, Alibaba spent $9.5B for a 3.3% net reduction of the share count. It currently has the equivalent of 2.5B ADS outstanding, which means the 3.3% reduction corresponds to 85m ADS. Yet the company repurchased a total of 112m ADS in 2023. The difference of 27m ADS were just neutralizing share issuance. Hence, we might argue that instead of paying ~$85 per ADS (9,500/112), the effective cost was $112 per ADS (9,500/85).As a note aside, many investors overvalue the value-generating effect of share repurchases. If done at fair value, the net effect of share repurchases on intrinsic value per continuing share is exactly zero, as cash on hand owned by continuing shareholders is exchanged for a greater slice of the business.Since I expect objections, just look at this simple example: Company Onehundred, Inc. has 100 shares outstanding, its business is worth $100 and it has net cash of $100. Therefore Onehundred's fair value and market cap is $200 or $2 per share. If the company repurchases 50% of shares outstanding for $100, the continuing shareholders still own the entire business worth $100, but no net cash anymore. Consequently, each of the remaining 50 shares is worth $2 - the same as before the massive buyback.To be accretive, repurchases need to be done substantially below fair value. - But what if management effectively always pays 30% more than market value as in the case of Alibaba? Investors should probably consider that, over time, those share repurchases are more likely to destroy some value.At this point I would expect the objection that, during the past few quarters, share-based compensation has come down enormously (roughly 50% YTD). Right, but this is mainly due to the current lower market value of the awards granted. In other words: The same number of awards were granted, they were just worth less - at the moment of issuance. But if you are a bull and believe the stock will go up, the effective value of these grants will increase as well. To neutralize their effect, management will need to spend a growing part of its FCF.A look into Alibaba's futureAt this point we have the full picture of Woody Allen dressed up, but without pants. Sure, he can slide into a pair of trousers and meet the girl, but will the date be a success? - We certainly have many reasons to be doubtful.Personally, instead of factoring in a 20% share count reduction over the next 3 years, I believe half of this number is probably more realistic - which is actually in line with management guidance of 3% per year.Given the sickening volatility of the stock and the unpredictability of the business, coupled with general concerns regarding China, a total return of 4-5% is obviously not enough. Investors want far more, which means Alibaba needs to grow net earnings from here.It has squandered a lot of money on ventures like Sun Art which it now wants to exit. But issues like these should be considered part of the game - and part of the reason why until a few years ago the fast evolving tech space used to trade for relatively low multiples compared to its growth rates. It was simply deemed to be too unpredictable and at least some huge capital allocation mistakes had to be factored in.Investors don't need Alibaba to trade for 30x earnings to make a killing. If Alibaba traded for just 14x its FCF, it would double from here. The only question that matters is how it can get the multiple to expand.First of all, as we have seen, a haircut to FCF is appropriate, as 25-50% of it (depending on the stock price) will simply go into the neutralization of share issuance.Assuming no growth, but just steady FCF generation over the next three years, Alibaba will roughly generate $75B of FCF and use $35B of it to buy back 10% of its shares. In addition I assume it will pay in total ~$4 of dividends per share, for a total of $10B. Therefore, three years from now, net cash will have increased by $30B. If the stock traded for 10x FCF, it would stand at $111 per ADS, i.e. from today shareholders would get a very decent total return of roughly 50%.The 10x FCF multiple actually is not that much of an expansion from today's 7.2x, since the projected accumulation of additional net cash would be worth 1.2x on its own.Given the very conservative - if not outright bearish - assumptions underlying my projection, it is pretty evident that Alibaba is cheap. To improve its multiple, investors will need to see steadiness and predictability - not only of the general environment and Chinese regulations, but perhaps most importantly from the company itself. If management continues to act erratically and/or geopolitical tensions and/or regulatory interventions continue to weigh on sentiment, expect investors to stay cautious.In order to make more than just a decent return, Alibaba also needs to grow earnings. Currently, investors have the impression that the company is embarking in a major investment phase and are not willing to pay up for the promise of later profits, given past experiences and the general geopolitical picture. I believe this attitude is unlikely to change quickly and therefore keep my Hold rating, although I acknowledge that the risk/reward is starting to look asymmetrical at the current valuation.Given how intertwined the Alibaba story is with general political issues, I strongly advise against trading the stock on any kind of short-term \"signals\". 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Chesnot/Getty Images News What is wrong with Alibaba?","content":"<html><head></head><body><ul style=\"\"><li><p>Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.</p></li><li><p>At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.</p></li><li><p>In this article, I will highlight some of the key issues with Alibaba’s fundamentals, some of which matter even for the long term.</p></li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/6e4c217125cad7f5bbbd4d153a9a7340\" tg-width=\"594\" tg-height=\"380\"/></p><p>Chesnot/Getty Images News</p><h2 id=\"id_4155765161\">What is wrong with Alibaba?</h2><p>In my last review of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) earnings I focused on &#34;hallucinations&#34;. However, already back in April 2023, when I had warned that Alibaba would remain cheap for a long time, I had asked myself whether it was me who maybe was hallucinating something, as the overwhelming majority of analysts took the other side of the trade.</p><p>But in the end, the stock became only cheaper and underperformed the S&amp;P 500 by a whopping 45%. Those bullish analysts were evidently missing something.</p><p>This time may be no different: Right after Alibaba&#39;s Q3/24 results, a lot of enthusiastic Buy ratings were issued.</p><p>When I look at Alibaba&#39;s earnings materials, I intuitively associate a famous Woody Allen scene from Take the Money and Run: He prepares for a date, showers, grooms himself at the mirror, leaves his apartment - but suddenly he comes right back in, and as the camera zooms out, it reveals he forgot his pants.</p><p>Alibaba ticks all the right boxes: Announces IPOs, buybacks, even a dividend, has great FCF, a gigantic net cash position, talks AI, future growth prospects, etc. - but once you consider the full picture something is still wrong.</p><h2 id=\"id_650007289\">Alibaba Q3/24 earnings review</h2><p>The company clearly felt the impact of a sluggish Chinese economy and, most importantly, of its growing competition. Key segments that make up over half of Alibaba&#39;s revenues and more than its entire net earnings like Cloud, Taobao and Tmall barely grew. In contrast, the strongly growing international commerce segment did so at a hefty cost, growing its losses almost 5-fold. As a result, total net profits were down 4% even on an adjusted basis and below consensus. After factoring in mark-to-market changes from equity investments and large impairments mainly relating to Sun Art and Youku, net profits were down 69%.</p><p>Adjusted EBITDA came in roughly flat, while free cash flow felt the impact of higher capex and working capital additions and was down 31% YoY. For the first nine months, FCF was flat at $20B. If Q4 brings in similar FCF as in Q4/23, for the full year Alibaba will rake in $25B of FCF, flat YoY, corresponding to 14% of its market cap.</p><p>In Q3, share-based compensation was down 30% YoY.</p><p>To assuage investor concerns, management increased its buyback authorization by a huge $25B, which means that over the next three years the total amount available for repurchases stands at over $35B or 20% of the company&#39;s market cap. (At least in theory - see below.)</p><p>As explained during the Alibaba Q3/24 earnings conference call, there are some limitations to buybacks, as the company&#39;s cash cannot be used entirely offshore. Still, management intends to use buybacks to bring total shareholder returns to roughly the same level of Treasury Bills: 1.4% of dividend yield plus about 3% of equity reduction.</p><p>At this point, we have Woody Allen nicely dressed up - not George Clooney, but, well, at least a clean look.</p><h2 id=\"id_323889540\"><a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/ZM\">Zoom</a> out on Alibaba&#39;s Q3/24 earnings</h2><p>Over the past few years, most investors have gone from expecting Alibaba to be George Clooney (or the Amazon (AMZN) of China) to being ok with getting Woody Allen. Now they seem to be preparing for being ok with Woody Allen without pants.</p><p>In fact, Alibaba was expected to grow earnings by the double-digits for many years, but it is not growing anymore.</p><p>Several of its manifold ventures have suffered large impairments. Competition is on the rise, and if competition managed to bother almighty Alibaba at home, it certainly has more than a shot to do so internationally as well. It is probably just a question of time.</p><p>In the meantime, Alibaba is trying to fortify its first-mover advantage by pouring more and more money into its international activities. A few years ago, in the ZIRP days, investors would have stopped reading the press release after the GMV and revenue data. Today, they look at net earnings as well. And they highly doubt the final result will justify those expenses.</p><p>For example, in Europe concerns regarding the large inflow of Chinese small-ticket items are growing: They are eluding import duties, often don&#39;t correspond to European safety standards and overall represent clearly unfair competition for Europe&#39;s own manufacturers. So tighter regulations might curb future growth for international Chinese e-commerce players.</p><p>We can always rationalize the current situation and put the blame on the general economy, geopolitical tensions, the need for growing AI investments to bolster future returns, etc. - but the fact is that Alibaba&#39;s Cloud and Chinese e-commerce businesses have lost market share. Actually, they have lost far more market share than (the few) sceptical investors had expected. - How can we be sure that the trend is reversible? Why shouldn&#39;t it accelerate?</p><p>There hasn&#39;t been a lack of distractions for Alibaba management, many of which self-inflicted: Think about the botched Ant Group IPO, the continuous management reshuffling, the first announced, then mostly retracted IPO plans. Management now says that market conditions are not right. But were they right one year ago? Chinese stocks and Alibaba were in the doghouse long before those multi-IPO plans were announced. So why is management backpedalling? We just don&#39;t know.</p><p>Many investors point to the huge FCF and the net cash position. How much of this cash will be actually given back to shareholders? In 2023, Alibaba spent $9.5B for a 3.3% net reduction of the share count. It currently has the equivalent of 2.5B ADS outstanding, which means the 3.3% reduction corresponds to 85m ADS. Yet the company repurchased a total of 112m ADS in 2023. The difference of 27m ADS were just neutralizing share issuance. Hence, we might argue that instead of paying ~$85 per ADS (9,500/112), the effective cost was $112 per ADS (9,500/85).</p><p>As a note aside, many investors overvalue the value-generating effect of share repurchases. If done at fair value, the net effect of share repurchases on intrinsic value per continuing share is exactly zero, as cash on hand owned by continuing shareholders is exchanged for a greater slice of the business.</p><p>Since I expect objections, just look at this simple example: Company Onehundred, Inc. has 100 shares outstanding, its business is worth $100 and it has net cash of $100. Therefore Onehundred&#39;s fair value and market cap is $200 or $2 per share. If the company repurchases 50% of shares outstanding for $100, the continuing shareholders still own the entire business worth $100, but no net cash anymore. Consequently, each of the remaining 50 shares is worth $2 - the same as before the massive buyback.</p><p>To be accretive, repurchases need to be done substantially below fair value. - But what if management effectively always pays 30% more than market value as in the case of Alibaba? Investors should probably consider that, over time, those share repurchases are more likely to destroy some value.</p><p>At this point I would expect the objection that, during the past few quarters, share-based compensation has come down enormously (roughly 50% YTD). Right, but this is mainly due to the current lower market value of the awards granted. In other words: The same number of awards were granted, they were just worth less - at the moment of issuance. But if you are a bull and believe the stock will go up, the effective value of these grants will increase as well. To neutralize their effect, management will need to spend a growing part of its FCF.</p><h2 id=\"id_2598212957\">A look into Alibaba&#39;s future</h2><p>At this point we have the full picture of Woody Allen dressed up, but without pants. Sure, he can slide into a pair of trousers and meet the girl, but will the date be a success? - We certainly have many reasons to be doubtful.</p><p>Personally, instead of factoring in a 20% share count reduction over the next 3 years, I believe half of this number is probably more realistic - which is actually in line with management guidance of 3% per year.</p><p>Given the sickening volatility of the stock and the unpredictability of the business, coupled with general concerns regarding China, a total return of 4-5% is obviously not enough. Investors want far more, which means Alibaba needs to grow net earnings from here.</p><p>It has squandered a lot of money on ventures like Sun Art which it now wants to exit. But issues like these should be considered part of the game - and part of the reason why until a few years ago the fast evolving tech space used to trade for relatively low multiples compared to its growth rates. It was simply deemed to be too unpredictable and at least some huge capital allocation mistakes had to be factored in.</p><p>Investors don&#39;t need Alibaba to trade for 30x earnings to make a killing. If Alibaba traded for just 14x its FCF, it would double from here. The only question that matters is how it can get the multiple to expand.</p><p>First of all, as we have seen, a haircut to FCF is appropriate, as 25-50% of it (depending on the stock price) will simply go into the neutralization of share issuance.</p><p>Assuming no growth, but just steady FCF generation over the next three years, Alibaba will roughly generate $75B of FCF and use $35B of it to buy back 10% of its shares. In addition I assume it will pay in total ~$4 of dividends per share, for a total of $10B. Therefore, three years from now, net cash will have increased by $30B. If the stock traded for 10x FCF, it would stand at $111 per ADS, i.e. from today shareholders would get a very decent total return of roughly 50%.</p><p>The 10x FCF multiple actually is not that much of an expansion from today&#39;s 7.2x, since the projected accumulation of additional net cash would be worth 1.2x on its own.</p><p>Given the very conservative - if not outright bearish - assumptions underlying my projection, it is pretty evident that Alibaba is cheap. To improve its multiple, investors will need to see steadiness and predictability - not only of the general environment and Chinese regulations, but perhaps most importantly from the company itself. If management continues to act erratically and/or geopolitical tensions and/or regulatory interventions continue to weigh on sentiment, expect investors to stay cautious.</p><p>In order to make more than just a decent return, Alibaba also needs to grow earnings. Currently, investors have the impression that the company is embarking in a major investment phase and are not willing to pay up for the promise of later profits, given past experiences and the general geopolitical picture. I believe this attitude is unlikely to change quickly and therefore keep my Hold rating, although I acknowledge that the risk/reward is starting to look asymmetrical at the current valuation.</p><p>Given how intertwined the Alibaba story is with general political issues, I strongly advise against trading the stock on any kind of short-term &#34;signals&#34;. While in general a bad idea for any stock, in the case of Alibaba negative news of all sorts can surface any minute of every day and make you lose your pants for real.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>This Is What Is Wrong With Alibaba's Earnings</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nThis Is What Is Wrong With Alibaba's Earnings\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2024-02-11 14:29 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings><strong>seekingalpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.In this article, I will ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"09988":"阿里巴巴-W","BABA":"阿里巴巴"},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/article/4669234-this-is-what-is-wrong-alibabas-earnings","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"2410304642","content_text":"Despite apparently ticking all the right boxes, Alibaba continues to drift lower.At first sight, the company is dirt cheap, but there is quite obviously something wrong.In this article, I will highlight some of the key issues with Alibaba’s fundamentals, some of which matter even for the long term.Chesnot/Getty Images NewsWhat is wrong with Alibaba?In my last review of Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) earnings I focused on \"hallucinations\". However, already back in April 2023, when I had warned that Alibaba would remain cheap for a long time, I had asked myself whether it was me who maybe was hallucinating something, as the overwhelming majority of analysts took the other side of the trade.But in the end, the stock became only cheaper and underperformed the S&P 500 by a whopping 45%. Those bullish analysts were evidently missing something.This time may be no different: Right after Alibaba's Q3/24 results, a lot of enthusiastic Buy ratings were issued.When I look at Alibaba's earnings materials, I intuitively associate a famous Woody Allen scene from Take the Money and Run: He prepares for a date, showers, grooms himself at the mirror, leaves his apartment - but suddenly he comes right back in, and as the camera zooms out, it reveals he forgot his pants.Alibaba ticks all the right boxes: Announces IPOs, buybacks, even a dividend, has great FCF, a gigantic net cash position, talks AI, future growth prospects, etc. - but once you consider the full picture something is still wrong.Alibaba Q3/24 earnings reviewThe company clearly felt the impact of a sluggish Chinese economy and, most importantly, of its growing competition. Key segments that make up over half of Alibaba's revenues and more than its entire net earnings like Cloud, Taobao and Tmall barely grew. In contrast, the strongly growing international commerce segment did so at a hefty cost, growing its losses almost 5-fold. As a result, total net profits were down 4% even on an adjusted basis and below consensus. After factoring in mark-to-market changes from equity investments and large impairments mainly relating to Sun Art and Youku, net profits were down 69%.Adjusted EBITDA came in roughly flat, while free cash flow felt the impact of higher capex and working capital additions and was down 31% YoY. For the first nine months, FCF was flat at $20B. If Q4 brings in similar FCF as in Q4/23, for the full year Alibaba will rake in $25B of FCF, flat YoY, corresponding to 14% of its market cap.In Q3, share-based compensation was down 30% YoY.To assuage investor concerns, management increased its buyback authorization by a huge $25B, which means that over the next three years the total amount available for repurchases stands at over $35B or 20% of the company's market cap. (At least in theory - see below.)As explained during the Alibaba Q3/24 earnings conference call, there are some limitations to buybacks, as the company's cash cannot be used entirely offshore. Still, management intends to use buybacks to bring total shareholder returns to roughly the same level of Treasury Bills: 1.4% of dividend yield plus about 3% of equity reduction.At this point, we have Woody Allen nicely dressed up - not George Clooney, but, well, at least a clean look.Zoom out on Alibaba's Q3/24 earningsOver the past few years, most investors have gone from expecting Alibaba to be George Clooney (or the Amazon (AMZN) of China) to being ok with getting Woody Allen. Now they seem to be preparing for being ok with Woody Allen without pants.In fact, Alibaba was expected to grow earnings by the double-digits for many years, but it is not growing anymore.Several of its manifold ventures have suffered large impairments. Competition is on the rise, and if competition managed to bother almighty Alibaba at home, it certainly has more than a shot to do so internationally as well. It is probably just a question of time.In the meantime, Alibaba is trying to fortify its first-mover advantage by pouring more and more money into its international activities. A few years ago, in the ZIRP days, investors would have stopped reading the press release after the GMV and revenue data. Today, they look at net earnings as well. And they highly doubt the final result will justify those expenses.For example, in Europe concerns regarding the large inflow of Chinese small-ticket items are growing: They are eluding import duties, often don't correspond to European safety standards and overall represent clearly unfair competition for Europe's own manufacturers. So tighter regulations might curb future growth for international Chinese e-commerce players.We can always rationalize the current situation and put the blame on the general economy, geopolitical tensions, the need for growing AI investments to bolster future returns, etc. - but the fact is that Alibaba's Cloud and Chinese e-commerce businesses have lost market share. Actually, they have lost far more market share than (the few) sceptical investors had expected. - How can we be sure that the trend is reversible? Why shouldn't it accelerate?There hasn't been a lack of distractions for Alibaba management, many of which self-inflicted: Think about the botched Ant Group IPO, the continuous management reshuffling, the first announced, then mostly retracted IPO plans. Management now says that market conditions are not right. But were they right one year ago? Chinese stocks and Alibaba were in the doghouse long before those multi-IPO plans were announced. So why is management backpedalling? We just don't know.Many investors point to the huge FCF and the net cash position. How much of this cash will be actually given back to shareholders? In 2023, Alibaba spent $9.5B for a 3.3% net reduction of the share count. It currently has the equivalent of 2.5B ADS outstanding, which means the 3.3% reduction corresponds to 85m ADS. Yet the company repurchased a total of 112m ADS in 2023. The difference of 27m ADS were just neutralizing share issuance. Hence, we might argue that instead of paying ~$85 per ADS (9,500/112), the effective cost was $112 per ADS (9,500/85).As a note aside, many investors overvalue the value-generating effect of share repurchases. If done at fair value, the net effect of share repurchases on intrinsic value per continuing share is exactly zero, as cash on hand owned by continuing shareholders is exchanged for a greater slice of the business.Since I expect objections, just look at this simple example: Company Onehundred, Inc. has 100 shares outstanding, its business is worth $100 and it has net cash of $100. Therefore Onehundred's fair value and market cap is $200 or $2 per share. If the company repurchases 50% of shares outstanding for $100, the continuing shareholders still own the entire business worth $100, but no net cash anymore. Consequently, each of the remaining 50 shares is worth $2 - the same as before the massive buyback.To be accretive, repurchases need to be done substantially below fair value. - But what if management effectively always pays 30% more than market value as in the case of Alibaba? Investors should probably consider that, over time, those share repurchases are more likely to destroy some value.At this point I would expect the objection that, during the past few quarters, share-based compensation has come down enormously (roughly 50% YTD). Right, but this is mainly due to the current lower market value of the awards granted. In other words: The same number of awards were granted, they were just worth less - at the moment of issuance. But if you are a bull and believe the stock will go up, the effective value of these grants will increase as well. To neutralize their effect, management will need to spend a growing part of its FCF.A look into Alibaba's futureAt this point we have the full picture of Woody Allen dressed up, but without pants. Sure, he can slide into a pair of trousers and meet the girl, but will the date be a success? - We certainly have many reasons to be doubtful.Personally, instead of factoring in a 20% share count reduction over the next 3 years, I believe half of this number is probably more realistic - which is actually in line with management guidance of 3% per year.Given the sickening volatility of the stock and the unpredictability of the business, coupled with general concerns regarding China, a total return of 4-5% is obviously not enough. Investors want far more, which means Alibaba needs to grow net earnings from here.It has squandered a lot of money on ventures like Sun Art which it now wants to exit. But issues like these should be considered part of the game - and part of the reason why until a few years ago the fast evolving tech space used to trade for relatively low multiples compared to its growth rates. It was simply deemed to be too unpredictable and at least some huge capital allocation mistakes had to be factored in.Investors don't need Alibaba to trade for 30x earnings to make a killing. If Alibaba traded for just 14x its FCF, it would double from here. The only question that matters is how it can get the multiple to expand.First of all, as we have seen, a haircut to FCF is appropriate, as 25-50% of it (depending on the stock price) will simply go into the neutralization of share issuance.Assuming no growth, but just steady FCF generation over the next three years, Alibaba will roughly generate $75B of FCF and use $35B of it to buy back 10% of its shares. In addition I assume it will pay in total ~$4 of dividends per share, for a total of $10B. Therefore, three years from now, net cash will have increased by $30B. If the stock traded for 10x FCF, it would stand at $111 per ADS, i.e. from today shareholders would get a very decent total return of roughly 50%.The 10x FCF multiple actually is not that much of an expansion from today's 7.2x, since the projected accumulation of additional net cash would be worth 1.2x on its own.Given the very conservative - if not outright bearish - assumptions underlying my projection, it is pretty evident that Alibaba is cheap. To improve its multiple, investors will need to see steadiness and predictability - not only of the general environment and Chinese regulations, but perhaps most importantly from the company itself. If management continues to act erratically and/or geopolitical tensions and/or regulatory interventions continue to weigh on sentiment, expect investors to stay cautious.In order to make more than just a decent return, Alibaba also needs to grow earnings. Currently, investors have the impression that the company is embarking in a major investment phase and are not willing to pay up for the promise of later profits, given past experiences and the general geopolitical picture. I believe this attitude is unlikely to change quickly and therefore keep my Hold rating, although I acknowledge that the risk/reward is starting to look asymmetrical at the current valuation.Given how intertwined the Alibaba story is with general political issues, I strongly advise against trading the stock on any kind of short-term \"signals\". While in general a bad idea for any stock, in the case of Alibaba negative news of all sorts can surface any minute of every day and make you lose your pants for real.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":314,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":269121859334200,"gmtCreate":1706738093031,"gmtModify":1706738333831,"author":{"id":"4087955336166300","authorId":"4087955336166300","name":"Ken Chew","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/743ae5e770fde3bd80178e9bf7553eab","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"4087955336166300","idStr":"4087955336166300"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Noted&nbsp;","listText":"Noted&nbsp;","text":"Noted","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":4,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://ttm.financial/post/269121859334200","repostId":"1196185091","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1196185091","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1706732400,"share":"https://ttm.financial/m/news/1196185091?lang=&edition=fundamental","pubTime":"2024-02-01 04:20","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Fed Rate Cut Not Likely in March, Powell Says at Press Conference","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1196185091","media":"Seeking Alpha","summary":"Inflation has eased from its highs without a significant increase in unemployment— \"that is very good news,\" Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday after the central bank kept its policy r","content":"<html><head></head><body><p>Inflation has eased from its highs without a significant increase in unemployment— &#34;that is very good news,&#34; Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday after the central bank kept its policy rate unchanged for the fourth straight meeting. But he followed that up with inflation still remains above the Fed&#39;s 2% goal.</p><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8b6c0be9ac3ffdb3b780aa7358fb95ed\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" tg-width=\"750\" tg-height=\"500\"/></p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">It will likely be appropriate to dial back the Fed&#39;s policy rate at some point this year, he said.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Powell said he doesn&#39;t think that the FOMC is likely to cut at the March meeting, repeating that the Fed needs to move &#34;carefully.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3:15 PM ET:</strong> After the comment that the Fed won&#39;t likely cut in March, the equity indexes dropped. The Nasdaq -1.7%, S&amp;P -1.2%, and the Dow -0.5%.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3:10 PM ET:</strong> &#34;Balance sheet runoff so far has gone very well,&#34; Powells aid. Questions are starting to come into greater focus on slowing the runoff. The Fed plans a more in-depth discussion at the next meeting. The committee sees rates and balance sheet run-off as independent tools.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>3:00 PM ET: </strong>&#34;We do expect growth to moderate. We have been expecting it, but it hasn&#39;t happened yet... Overall this is a pretty good picture.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:57 PM ET:</strong> While he sees some risk that inflation reaccelerates, &#34;the greater risk is that inflation will stabilize at a rate over 2%.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:55 PM ET: </strong>&#34;The labor market is rebalancing&#34; from the shocks of the pandemic. &#34;2022 was a disappointing year,&#34; then labor came back in 2023. It may take years for the rebalancing to work out, he said.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:51 PM ET: </strong>He declined to say the economy has achieved a soft landing. &#34;We&#39;re not declaring victory at this point. We have a ways to go.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:49 PM ET:</strong> &#34;There was no proposal to cut rates,&#34; Powell said. Some members did discuss their rate path. Also, he said there was a broad range of views.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:46 PM ET:</strong> &#34;If we saw an unexpected weakening in the labor market, that would weigh on cutting sooner.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>2:44 PM ET: </strong>&#34;We&#39;re really in a risk management mode,&#34; Powell said. The Fed needs to manage the risk of moving too soon with the risk of moving too late.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Updated at 2:40 PM ET:</strong> &#34;We do have confidence&#34; that inflation is receding, he said, but the central bankers want to get &#34;greater confidence&#34; that inflation is sustainably moving to 2%. Generally, the Federal Open Market Committee needs to see more evidence.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#34;We need more evidence to confirm what we think we&#39;re seeing,&#34; Powell said.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">At 2:41 PM ET, the Nasdaq (-0.9%) and S&amp;P 500 (-0.5%) pared their losses and the Dow (+0.2%) poked back into positive territory.</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">For 2023 as a whole GDP expanded at 3.1%, housing activity was subdued due to high interest rates, and labor market remains tight. The pace of job gains has declined from a year ago, but still remains strong, he said. &#34;Labor demand still exceeds available supply of workers.&#34;</p><p style=\"text-align: left;\">Longer-term inflation expectations appear to remain well-anchored, he noted.</p></body></html>","source":"seekingalpha","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Fed Rate Cut Not Likely in March, Powell Says at Press Conference</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nFed Rate Cut Not Likely in March, Powell Says at Press Conference\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2024-02-01 04:20 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://seekingalpha.com/news/4060872-dialing-back-policy-rate-may-be-appropriate-later-this-year-powell-press-conference><strong>Seeking Alpha</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Inflation has eased from its highs without a significant increase in unemployment— \"that is very good news,\" Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday after the central bank kept its policy ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://seekingalpha.com/news/4060872-dialing-back-policy-rate-may-be-appropriate-later-this-year-powell-press-conference\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://seekingalpha.com/news/4060872-dialing-back-policy-rate-may-be-appropriate-later-this-year-powell-press-conference","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/5a36db9d73b4222bc376d24ccc48c8a4","article_id":"1196185091","content_text":"Inflation has eased from its highs without a significant increase in unemployment— \"that is very good news,\" Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday after the central bank kept its policy rate unchanged for the fourth straight meeting. But he followed that up with inflation still remains above the Fed's 2% goal.It will likely be appropriate to dial back the Fed's policy rate at some point this year, he said.Powell said he doesn't think that the FOMC is likely to cut at the March meeting, repeating that the Fed needs to move \"carefully.\"3:15 PM ET: After the comment that the Fed won't likely cut in March, the equity indexes dropped. The Nasdaq -1.7%, S&P -1.2%, and the Dow -0.5%.3:10 PM ET: \"Balance sheet runoff so far has gone very well,\" Powells aid. Questions are starting to come into greater focus on slowing the runoff. The Fed plans a more in-depth discussion at the next meeting. The committee sees rates and balance sheet run-off as independent tools.3:00 PM ET: \"We do expect growth to moderate. We have been expecting it, but it hasn't happened yet... Overall this is a pretty good picture.\"2:57 PM ET: While he sees some risk that inflation reaccelerates, \"the greater risk is that inflation will stabilize at a rate over 2%.\"2:55 PM ET: \"The labor market is rebalancing\" from the shocks of the pandemic. \"2022 was a disappointing year,\" then labor came back in 2023. It may take years for the rebalancing to work out, he said.2:51 PM ET: He declined to say the economy has achieved a soft landing. \"We're not declaring victory at this point. We have a ways to go.\"2:49 PM ET: \"There was no proposal to cut rates,\" Powell said. Some members did discuss their rate path. Also, he said there was a broad range of views.2:46 PM ET: \"If we saw an unexpected weakening in the labor market, that would weigh on cutting sooner.\"2:44 PM ET: \"We're really in a risk management mode,\" Powell said. The Fed needs to manage the risk of moving too soon with the risk of moving too late.Updated at 2:40 PM ET: \"We do have confidence\" that inflation is receding, he said, but the central bankers want to get \"greater confidence\" that inflation is sustainably moving to 2%. Generally, the Federal Open Market Committee needs to see more evidence.\"We need more evidence to confirm what we think we're seeing,\" Powell said.At 2:41 PM ET, the Nasdaq (-0.9%) and S&P 500 (-0.5%) pared their losses and the Dow (+0.2%) poked back into positive territory.For 2023 as a whole GDP expanded at 3.1%, housing activity was subdued due to high interest rates, and labor market remains tight. The pace of job gains has declined from a year ago, but still remains strong, he said. \"Labor demand still exceeds available supply of workers.\"Longer-term inflation expectations appear to remain well-anchored, he noted.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":262,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":296502167286072,"gmtCreate":1713425832239,"gmtModify":1713426710796,"author":{"id":"4087955336166300","authorId":"4087955336166300","name":"Ken Chew","avatar":"https://community-static.tradeup.com/news/743ae5e770fde3bd80178e9bf7553eab","crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":1,"followedFlag":false,"authorIdStr":"4087955336166300","idStr":"4087955336166300"},"themes":[],"title":"Guess the winner，Earn Tiger Coins","htmlText":"Find out more here: <a 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Store.Apple Inc. will face a European Unio","content":"<html><head></head><body><ul style=\"\"><li><p>First fine the bloc has levied against the US tech giant</p></li><li><p>Separately, EU will accept settlement offer in Apple Pay spat</p></li></ul><p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/e79468681889e90ea40b8a3c3f2956fb\" alt=\"The Spotify application in the Apple App Store.\" title=\"The Spotify application in the Apple App Store.\" tg-width=\"2000\" tg-height=\"1334\"/><span>The Spotify application in the Apple App Store.</span></p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Apple Inc. will face a European Union fine close to €500 million ($539 million) over the regulator’s investigation into allegations it silenced music-streaming rivals, including Spotify Technology SA, on its platforms.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The penalty — Apple’s first ever from the bloc — will be set after the EU watchdog found that it fell foul of competition rules in thwarting rival music services from informing users that cheaper alternatives existed outside of its App Store, according to people familiar with the matter.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Apple, when contacted for comment, referred to a previous statement, which said that the “App Store has helped Spotify become the top music streaming service across Europe.” The European Commission declined to comment. The Financial Times reported the fine earlier.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The EU’s investigation into Apple’s App Store was sparked by a complaint nearly four years ago from Spotify, which claimed it was forced to ramp up the price of its monthly subscriptions to cover costs associated with Apple’s alleged stranglehold on how the App Store operates.</p><p>In a closed-door meeting between EU officials and Apple in June last year, the tech firm told regulators it had already addressed any possible competition concerns arising from Spotify’s complaint.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">In a separate probe, Apple is set to have its settlement proposal in the EU’s investigation into its tap-and-pay tech accepted, according to people familiar with the matter.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">The commission is poised to accept a 10-year offer from Apple to open up access to its coveted near-field communication chip on iPhones to rival digital wallets, after a market test received largely positive feedback, the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private, said.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Apple’s move to settle the case came after the EU watchdog earlier raised formal concerns that the company had restricted access to the technology, amounting to an alleged abuse of its market power.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager has made it a core strategy to attempt to dismantle Big Tech’s dominance in the bloc. She’s slapped Alphabet Inc.’s Google with fines of more than €8 billion ($8.6 billion) and also ordered Apple to repay €13 billion in allegedly unfair tax breaks from Ireland.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Her regulators are now readying for enforcement of the bloc’s flagship Digital Markets Act — set to come into play on March 7. The sweeping new rules are intended to head off competition violations by tech firms before they take root.</p><p style=\"text-align: start;\">Under the DMA, it will be illegal for the most powerful firms to favor their own services over those of rivals. They’ll be barred from combining personal data across their different services, prohibited from using data they collect from third-party merchants to compete against them, and will have to allow users to download apps from rivals platforms.</p></body></html>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Apple Set to Face Near €500 Million EU Fine in Spotify Row</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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The Financial Times reported the fine earlier.The EU’s investigation into Apple’s App Store was sparked by a complaint nearly four years ago from Spotify, which claimed it was forced to ramp up the price of its monthly subscriptions to cover costs associated with Apple’s alleged stranglehold on how the App Store operates.In a closed-door meeting between EU officials and Apple in June last year, the tech firm told regulators it had already addressed any possible competition concerns arising from Spotify’s complaint.In a separate probe, Apple is set to have its settlement proposal in the EU’s investigation into its tap-and-pay tech accepted, according to people familiar with the matter.The commission is poised to accept a 10-year offer from Apple to open up access to its coveted near-field communication chip on iPhones to rival digital wallets, after a market test received largely positive feedback, the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private, said.Apple’s move to settle the case came after the EU watchdog earlier raised formal concerns that the company had restricted access to the technology, amounting to an alleged abuse of its market power.EU competition chief Margrethe Vestager has made it a core strategy to attempt to dismantle Big Tech’s dominance in the bloc. She’s slapped Alphabet Inc.’s Google with fines of more than €8 billion ($8.6 billion) and also ordered Apple to repay €13 billion in allegedly unfair tax breaks from Ireland.Her regulators are now readying for enforcement of the bloc’s flagship Digital Markets Act — set to come into play on March 7. The sweeping new rules are intended to head off competition violations by tech firms before they take root.Under the DMA, it will be illegal for the most powerful firms to favor their own services over those of rivals. They’ll be barred from combining personal data across their different services, prohibited from using data they collect from third-party merchants to compete against them, and will have to allow users to download apps from rivals platforms.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":118,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}