--- title: "\"Commercial Real Estate Monopoly Plus AI Computing Power Base: Reconstructing Alibaba's Intrinsic Value and Heavy-Hitting Investment Zone\"" type: "Topics" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/topics/40204485.md" description: "Looking at $BABA-WR(89988.HK) is the easiest way to fall into macro pessimism and the stereotype of "being beaten down by competitors' low prices." Many people, upon seeing the rise of Pinduoduo and Douyin, immediately think Alibaba's core business is collapsing. We need to cut through the highly deceptive static appearance and see how this super oligopoly, which firmly controls China's digital commerce and underlying computing power infrastructure, manages to sit tight and quietly reap excess profits in the industry-wide stock grinder. Cash flow and moat: Do you think Alibaba is a grocery store fighting for pennies in the front line with "9.9 yuan free shipping"? Dead wrong..." datetime: "2026-04-26T14:46:15.000Z" locales: - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/topics/40204485.md) - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/topics/40204485.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/topics/40204485.md) author: "[软](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/14338716.md)" --- # "Commercial Real Estate Monopoly Plus AI Computing Power Base: Reconstructing Alibaba's Intrinsic Value and Heavy-Hitting Investment Zone" Looking at $BABA-WR(89988.HK) is the easiest way to fall into macro pessimism and the stereotype of "**being crushed by competitors' low prices**". Many people see the rise of Pinduoduo and Douyin and immediately think Alibaba's core business is collapsing. We need to look past the extremely deceptive static surface and see how this **super oligopoly**, which firmly controls **China's digital commerce and underlying computing power infrastructure**, manages to sit comfortably in the industry-wide stock grinder and continuously harvest excess profits quietly. **Cash Flow & Moat**: Do you think Alibaba is a grocery store fighting for a few cents' margin on the front lines with "$1.40 free shipping"? Dead wrong. Its core trump card is the irreplaceable "**China's No.1 online commercial real estate and traffic tax collection right**" of Taobao and Tmall. No matter how other platforms trade losses for scale, the main battlefield where global top brands and key large merchants truly solidify assets and make the bulk of their profits is still only Taotian, because it is home to **tens of millions of 88VIP high-net-worth users with the strongest purchasing power across the entire internet**. Its core business model is CMR (Customer Management Revenue), which is the advertising fees and transaction commissions charged to a massive number of merchants. This is an extremely powerful "**digital toll**" model. No matter how badly merchants are caught in price wars, if they want to get guaranteed conversions and brand exposure, they have to obediently top up cash for Alibaba. This absolute hegemony in underlying traffic distribution makes Alibaba completely immune to the grinder battles of low-end supply chain price cuts. What's left is nothing but **top-tier operating cash flow of hundreds of billions in scale annually, unimpeded by any bad debts**. **Balance Sheet & Interest-Free Leverage**: Examining its balance sheet and interest-free leverage, this company has taken control of the internet giant's financial turnover to a suffocating level. As the absolute chain master of China's e-commerce, Alibaba has **extremely strong dominance over the logistics system, upstream OEM factories, and a massive number of ecosystem service providers**. The **deposits** from large merchants, consumer prepayments, and the huge payable settlement cycles for service providers are all "**super interest-free leverage**" it uses for free. With such terrifying self-generating cash capability, Alibaba's books are perennially parked with hundreds of billions in real net cash. Even more shrewdly, management is using this bottomless cash to frantically conduct epic-scale massive buybacks and cancellations at the bottom—the denominator keeps shrinking, which means even if net profit is flat, **the intrinsic value per share (EPS) for retained shareholders** and the **dividend** payout ratio are passively skyrocketing. This is the top-tier capital defense chassis. **Second Growth Engine**: Exploring its second growth engine to break the ceiling, the high-growth logic is already completely clear: it's the dual-dimensional strike of the highly explosive "**Alibaba Cloud AI Foundation**" and "Alibaba International Digital Commerce (AIDC) Global Expansion". When the growth of the traditional e-commerce market slows, Alibaba Cloud has quietly locked in the neck of computing power and cloud infrastructure for China's AI large model era. With the explosion of society-wide AI inference demand, this high-margin public cloud service is ushering in an inflection point for profit release. Meanwhile, with the **wild surge of AliExpress and Trendyol overseas**, Alibaba's cross-border business is sweeping the globe with its domestic extreme supply chain and semi-managed infrastructure advantages. This is absolutely not a pipe dream, but a real high-energy engine currently driving the group's overall revenue. Many people find this company's current valuation expensive or hard to understand. But for this kind of \[rare oligopoly sitting on China's core e-commerce tax collection rights and AI computing power foundation\], staring at static indicators is not very meaningful. Let's use the old method to calculate its intrinsic value (sum-of-the-parts valuation): **\[Core Foundation Business\]**: **Taobao Tmall core e-commerce and local services foundation**. As an unshakable cash-printing machine with strong brand stickiness and providing massive free cash flow, assuming a steady net profit contribution of around 130 billion in a normal year, and giving it an extremely conservative **10x P/E** under this extremely pessimistic macro sentiment, this part is worth **1.3 trillion**; **\[High-Growth / Overseas / New Businesses\]**: Alibaba Cloud Intelligence (AI computing power foundation) and Alibaba International Digital Commerce (AIDC). This segment is in the wild surge period of AI 红利爆发 and overseas high growth, with huge future profit elasticity. Assuming that with cloud business profit release and overseas business scale effects becoming prominent in the next year or two, core profit contribution reaches 30 billion, and considering the high tech premium of AI computing infrastructure, giving it a higher **20x P/E** growth premium, this part is worth **600 billion**; **\[Net Cash on Books\]**: After deducting short-term interest-bearing debt and daily restricted funds, and adding its holdings of highly liquid, high-quality non-core asset equity, the healthy net cash and equivalents readily available on the books are conservatively estimated to be about **500 billion**. The sum equals 1.3 trillion + 600 billion + 500 billion = **2.4 trillion (in RMB, approximately 2.6 trillion HKD)**. Compared to its current market cap, this valuation we calculated is backed by strong performance and real cash. 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