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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Alibaba (BABA US): How Will Generative AI Improve Its Efficiency?

Equity Bottom-Up

Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Alibaba’s core China marketplace GMV is on stable recovery track, aided by discretionary consumption recovery, macro recovery, and Alibaba’s strategy to enhance value proposition for both customers and merchants.</li><li>With the unveiling of reorganization plan on 28 March, we expect overall business agility and innovative capabilities would be better propelled, and improving shareholder return.</li><li>Taking into consideration of China e-commerce market and key business segments outlook, we adjust our forecasts and SOTP derived target price accordingly to US$154.0 (prior US$155.5), mainly reflecting near term revenue growth headwind on direct sales business due to high-base effect. Maintain BUY.</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

Alibaba’s core China marketplace GMV is on stable recovery track, aided by discretionary consumption recovery, macro recovery, and Alibaba’s strategy to enhance value proposition for both customers and merchants.With the unveiling of reorganization plan on 28 March, we expect overall business agility and innovative capabilities would be better propelled, and improving shareholder return.Taking into consideration of China e-commerce market and key business segments outlook, we adjust our forecasts and SOTP derived target price accordingly to US$154.0 (prior US$155.5), mainly reflecting near term revenue growth headwind on direct sales business due to high-base effect. Maintain BUY.Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Alibaba (BABA US) – A recovery year ahead with more to expect