Alibaba Group Holding Ltd
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Annual Revenue
FY2025 Revenue
$148.4B
▲ 14.2% vs FY2024 ($130.0B)
Source: Annual report / company filing
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd reported $148.4B in revenue for fiscal year 2025. This represents a growth of 14.2% compared to the 2024 figure of $130.0B.
In late 2020, Chinese regulators blocked what would have been the world's largest IPO — Ant Group's $37 billion listing — and launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba that resulted in a record $2.8 billion fine in 2021. For the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, the company reported Total revenues of approximately 941.17 billion Chinese yuan — roughly $130 billion USD at prevailing exchange rates — and net income attributable to ordinary shareholders of approximately 71.3 billion yuan. For fiscal year 2024, Alibaba recorded revenues of approximately 941.17 billion yuan (roughly $130 billion USD) and employed approximately 204,891 people. Alibaba Group Holding Ltd stands as one of the defining corporate entities of the 21st century — a company whose rise from a Hangzhou apartment in 1999 to a $220 billion publicly traded conglomerate mirrors the broader transformation of China from manufacturing workshop to digital economy powerhouse. Total revenues for fiscal year 2024 reached 941.17 billion Chinese yuan — approximately $130 billion USD — representing a 8% increase over the prior year's 868.69 billion yuan. Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders was approximately 71.3 billion yuan ($9.8 billion USD) for fiscal 2024, though this figure includes significant investment gains and impairment charges that make period-to-period comparison complex. Free cash flow generation remained solid at approximately 160 billion yuan, providing substantial capacity for the ongoing $25 billion share buyback program that has been one of management's primary capital allocation tools since 2023. Alibaba's balance sheet as of March 31, 2024 held approximately 437.7 billion yuan ($60 billion USD) in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments, giving the company exceptional financial flexibility despite the scale of its capital expenditure commitments in cloud and AI infrastructure. The $2.8 billion antitrust fine in April 2021 — then the largest in Chinese history — was painful financially but more significant as a signal that Alibaba's era of regulatory light-touch was definitively over. With over $50 billion in cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments on its balance sheet as of fiscal year 2024, Alibaba has the financial capacity to sustain multi-year investments in cloud AI infrastructure, international market development, and platform fee reductions without existential risk — a buffer that smaller competitors lack. In October 1999, Alibaba received $5 million from Goldman Sachs's technology fund and an additional $20 million from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son — a meeting that lasted approximately five minutes and resulted in one of the most profitable venture investments in history.
| Year | Revenue | Net Income | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | $148.4B | — | +14.2% |
| FY2024 | $130.0B | $9.8B | +8.7% |
| FY2023 | $119.7B | — | +1.9% |
| FY2022 | $117.4B | — | +7.2% |
| FY2021 | $109.5B | — | +52.1% |
| FY2020 | $72.0B | — | — |
Source: SEC EDGAR filings, annual earnings releases, and verified financial disclosures.