This Alibaba stock price update gives you some of the most important numbers you need to evaluate BABA today, July 22, 2017. First, the most recent closing price of BABA was $151.89. The Alibaba stock price fell 0.14% or $0.22 from the day before. Here's how the current Alibaba stock price level compares to recent highs and lows... BABA is now trading above where it was one-year ago, with the share price up 80.43%.

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The Alibaba stock price 52-week high is $156.41. That was hit on 7/19/2017. The BABA stock 52-week low is $81.95, reached on 7/29/2016. And, take note - BABA trading volume yesterday was 16,739,701. That's higher than Alibaba stock's average daily trading volume of 11,452,829. Alibaba's market capitalization - the amount of shares outstanding times the share price - is 389,013,056,000. That gives Alibaba a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As of the start of April 2016, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Alibaba stock is 58.23. That's more than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare BABA to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of BABA is 2.49. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Alibaba is 2.62. Alibaba stock does not pay a dividend right now. Most income investors look for "dividend stocks" that have a yield of 2% or more, but there are different factors that affect the health of a company's payout. For more info on Alibaba stock, check out all the free content we give you at Money Morning. You'll find BABA stock news and coverage on dozens of other key stocks, updated daily.

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