While we usually like to analyze for investors whether a stock is a buy or not, we also like to give you a quick rundown of the Alibaba stock information you need today, with key data on recent BABA moves. That's what you can get right here. Let's start with the last closing price for BABA stock, which was $152.44. Alibaba shares closed up 0.12% or $0.18 from the day before. So where does that put Alibaba stock relative to the past year of prices? BABA is now trading at a higher price than it was one-year ago, with the stock price having risen by 83.24% since then.

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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 10,649,101. That's more than Alibaba stock's average daily trading volume of 8,460,320. Let's look at Alibaba's market cap, which is shares outstanding multiplied by Alibaba's share price. Alibaba has a market cap of 390,421,696,000. That means Alibaba has a mega market cap, because it's over 200 billion. As 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 57.75. That's less 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. Money Morning gives you Alibaba stock news daily. We publish new info on BABA and dozens of other key companies we're watching now, every day, so investors will never miss an opportunity. As always, our content is free.

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