Hangzhou, China, November 5, 2020 – Alibaba Group Holding Limited (NYSE: BABA and HKEX: 9988, “Alibaba” or “Alibaba Group”) today announced its financial results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020. “Alibaba had another strong quarter. We continued to help businesses recover and find new opportunities for growth through digitalization in the post-pandemic landscape. The solid performance of our core commerce and robust growth of Alibaba Cloud are the direct results of our commitment to value creation for customers,” said Daniel Zhang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba Group. “We remain focused on our three long-term growth engines – domestic consumption, cloud computing and data intelligence, and globalization – to effectively capture opportunities from the ongoing changes in consumer demand and acceleration of digitalization of businesses across our digital economy.” “We delivered another solid quarter, with revenue growth of 30% year-over-year and adjusted EBITDA up 28% year-over-year,” said Maggie Wu, Chief Financial Officer of Alibaba Group. “Our domestic core commerce business continued to grow steadily during the post-COVID-19 environment in China through higher purchase frequency and consumer spending, while cloud computing revenue grew 60% year-over-year, driven by the acceleration in digitalization across all industries and businesses of all sizes in China. We are happy to see that our strategic investments are starting to see improving operational efficiencies and the effect of scale.” BUSINESS HIGHLIGHTS In the quarter ended September 30, 2020: Revenue was RMB155,059 million (US$22,838 million), an increase of 30% year-over-year. Annual active consumers on our China retail marketplaces reached 757 million, an increase of 15 million from the twelve months period ended June 30, 2020. Mobile MAUs on our China retail marketplaces reached 881 million in September 2020, an increase of 7 million over June 2020. Income from operations was RMB13,634 million (US$2,008 million), a decrease of 33% year-over-year due to a RMB15,753 million increase in share-based compensation expense related to Ant Group share-based awards granted to our employees. Excluding this impact, our income from operations would have increased 44% year-over-year, from RMB20,667 million in the quarter ended September 30, 2019 to RMB29,690 million (US$4,373 million) in the quarter ended September 30, 2020. Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 28% year-over-year to RMB47,525 million (US$7,000 million). Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measurement, increased 28% year-over-year to RMB41,216 million (US$6,070 million).
2 Net income attributable to ordinary shareholders was RMB28,769 million (US$4,237 million),and net income was RMB26,524 million (US$3,907 million), which represent decreases of 60% and 63%, respectively, over the same period last year, when we booked a significant one-time gain upon the receipt of the 33% equity interest in Ant Group. In addition, the increase in share-based compensation expense described in “Income from operations” above also negatively affected the year-on-year comparison. Excluding this one-time gain, share-based compensation expense and certain other items, non-GAAP net income was RMB47,088 million (US$6,935 million), an increase of 44% year-over-year.Diluted earnings per ADS was RMB10.48 (US$1.54) and non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADSwas RMB17.97 (US$2.65), an increase of 37% year-over-year. Diluted earnings per share was RMB1.31 (US$0.19 or HK$1.49) and non-GAAP diluted earnings per share was RMB2.25 (US$0.33 or HK$2.56), an increase of 37% year-over-year. Net cash provided by operating activities was RMB54,296 million (US$7,997 million) and non-GAAP free cash flow was RMB40,540 million (US$5,971 million). Reconciliations of GAAP measures to non-GAAP measures presented above are included at the end of this results announcement
