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Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) Q1 FY2027 6-K Filings and Company Events

CIK 0001577552 · NYSE · Latest period: Q1 FY2027 (ended 2026-06-30, 6-K accession 0001104659-26-099220) · Annual report: FY2026 20-F (filed 2026-05-20, accession 0001193125-26-231755) · Next expected filing: 6-K ~2026-11-24

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PeriodQ1 FY2027

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This page digests the material Form 6-K filings Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) has made over roughly the trailing five quarters: earnings releases, management and board changes, capital returns, financing, and governance actions. Each item cites the SEC accession number of the filing it came from. It is current through Q1 FY2027, the period ended 2026-06-30, as reported in the 6-K filed with the SEC.

Alibaba is a foreign private issuer and reports on Form 6-K. Amounts below are converted from the company's currencies (Renminbi and Hong Kong dollars) into US dollars at average rates for the period concerned, or the period-end rate for balances. Percentages the company states are in its own currency terms.

Filings that contain financial statements

  • Form 6-K filed August 20, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-099220 (Exhibit 99.1, "Alibaba Group Announces June Quarter 2026 Results"). It covers the three months ended June 30, 2026, which is the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, against the same quarter of 2025. It holds unaudited consolidated income statements, unaudited consolidated balance sheets (as of March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026), and unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows, plus segment revenue and adjusted EBITA tables, a cost and expense breakdown, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures.
  • No other 6-K filed after June 30, 2026 carries financial statements. The remaining filings are Hong Kong exchange returns, announcements, shareholder-meeting materials and the share placing documents described below. The most recent annual report is the Form 20-F filed May 20, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-231755, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2026.

Earnings: June quarter 2026 (6-K filed August 20, 2026; accession 0001104659-26-099220)

  • Revenue was RMB268,953 million ($39.52 billion), up 9% year over year. Customer management revenue fell 7%; excluding the contra-revenue effect of a new business development program it would have grown 1%.
  • Income from operations fell 57% to RMB15,161 million ($2.23 billion). The company attributes the decline to lower adjusted EBITA, a goodwill impairment of RMB4,458 million ($655.13 million) in businesses within "All others", and a provision for a European Commission fine under the Digital Services Act of EUR550 million ($639.75 million).
  • Adjusted EBITA, a non-GAAP measure, fell 30% to RMB27,329 million ($4.02 billion), which the company ties mainly to investment in technology. Net income was RMB10,444 million ($1.53 billion), down 75%. Diluted earnings per ADS were $0.55 (RMB3.71) and non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS were $1.25 (RMB8.52, down 42%), converting the per-ADS amounts Alibaba prints; each ADS represents eight ordinary shares.
  • AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue was RMB48,437 million ($7.12 billion), up 45%, with external customer revenue growth also 45%. AI-related product revenue was RMB12,376 million ($1.82 billion), the twelfth consecutive quarter of triple-digit growth. Segment adjusted EBITA rose 133% to $827.06 million (RMB5,628 million).
  • AI Labs and Applications posted an adjusted EBITA loss of RMB13,861 million ($2.04 billion), compared with a loss of $445.73 million (RMB3,224 million) a year earlier, on higher AI investment and inference costs for the Qwen app. China Quick Commerce revenue rose 45% to $7.83 billion (RMB53,295 million); China E-commerce revenue fell 8% to $16.30 billion (RMB110,900 million).
  • Capital expenditures were RMB67,678 million ($9.95 billion), up 75%. Net cash from operating activities was RMB22,945 million ($3.37 billion); free cash flow, a non-GAAP measure, was an outflow of RMB44,670 million ($6.56 billion). Cash and other liquid investments were RMB474,505 million ($69.93 billion) at June 30, 2026, down from $75.50 billion (RMB520,824 million) at March 31, 2026.
  • The company repurchased 13.4 million ordinary shares (about 1.7 million ADSs) for $162 million in the quarter.
  • Segment change: beginning this quarter, reporting is organized as Alibaba E-commerce Group, AI Cloud and Compute Services, AI Labs and Applications, and All others, with prior periods recast. No numerical guidance is given in the release.

Capital actions

  • HK$80 billion share placing (signed August 23, 2026; completed August 26, 2026). On August 23, 2026 the company agreed to place 710,000,000 newly issued ordinary shares to non-U.S. persons outside the United States at HK$112.70 per share ($14.38), for gross proceeds of HK$80.0 billion ($10.21 billion). The price was about 3.6% below the August 21 NYSE-implied reference price and about 9.0% below the five-day average. The announcements were furnished in a Form 6-K filed August 24, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-361715. A Form 6-K filed August 26, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-365894, states that the placing completed on August 26, 2026. The 710,000,000 shares were 3.70% of shares in issue before the placing and 3.57% after, and net proceeds were about HK$79.7 billion ($10.17 billion). The company says it will use all net proceeds for full-stack AI, about 60% (HK$47,871 million, or $6.11 billion) for global computing infrastructure and about 40% (HK$31,914 million, or $4.07 billion) for hyperscale AI data centers and cloud infrastructure upgrades. Issued shares rose from 19,174,988,918 to 19,884,988,918, as confirmed in Hong Kong disclosure returns filed August 26, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-101020) and September 4, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-105208).
  • Share repurchase program. The proxy materials furnished on August 6, 2026 (accession 0001193125-26-336936) state that the board upsized the program to $65.0 billion in February 2024, effective through March 2027. They list ADS purchases on the NYSE between June 22 and July 9, 2026. Hong Kong disclosure returns furnished July 10, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-082647) report NYSE repurchases of shares for cancellation on trading days from July 1 to July 9, 2026.
  • Exchangeable bonds. On August 14, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-096226) the company announced that the exchange price of its HK$12.023 billion ($1.53 billion) zero coupon exchangeable bonds due 2032, which are exchangeable into Alibaba Health shares, was adjusted from HK$6.23 to HK$5.92 per share following Alibaba Health's dividends, effective August 14, 2026.
  • Equity awards. On August 24, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-099873) the company announced awards over 1,932,300 shares granted on August 22, 2026 to employees under its 2024 plan, about 0.01% of shares in issue, with no director or substantial shareholder among the grantees.
  • Partial sale of ZTO Express stake (September 21, 2026). Two Alibaba entities sold 25,000,000 Class A shares of ZTO Express (Cayman) Inc., in ADS form, at $20.02 per ADS in broker transactions on the NYSE (23,391,178 shares by Alibaba ZT Investment Limited and 1,608,822 by New Retail Strategic Opportunities Investments 2 Limited). Alibaba entities still hold 46,941,287 ZTO Class A shares, about 6.1% of ZTO's Class A and Class B shares. The Schedule 13D/A was filed September 22, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-109479; it states no total proceeds.

Governance

  • Annual general meeting, September 22, 2026 (voting results furnished September 22, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-109625). Shareholders approved a general mandate to issue up to 10% of shares (97.6% in favor), a general mandate to repurchase up to 10% of shares (99.8% in favor), and the election of Maggie Wei Wu, Kabir Misra and Weijian Shan as Group III directors to terms ending at the 2029 meeting. The reappointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers Zhong Tian LLP and PricewaterhouseCoopers as auditors passed with 71.2% in favor and 28.7% against. The notice and proxy statement were furnished August 6, 2026 (accession 0001193125-26-336936), and the record date was announced July 22, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-085556).
  • Chinese Military Companies list (June 9, 2026; Form 6-K, accession 0001104659-26-071542). Alibaba disclosed that the US Department of Defense had included it on the list of Chinese Military Companies. Alibaba called the inclusion a mistake, said it would take all available legal action, and said the listing prohibits only Department of Defense procurement and does not bar others from dealing with the group or in its securities.
  • On August 7, 2026 (accession 0001104659-26-092284) the company set the board meeting to approve the June quarter results for August 19 to 20, 2026.

Routine filings

The Hong Kong monthly returns on share capital (accessions 0001104659-26-081265 for June 2026, 0001104659-26-091990 for July 2026 and 0001104659-26-105208 for August 2026) and the September 29, 2026 disclosure return (accession 0001104659-26-111915) report routine share issuances under the equity incentive plans; the September 29 return lists 7,599,312 shares issued for options exercised or RSUs vested under the 2014 plan.

Not reflected in filings

No acquisition, merger, dividend change, guidance figure or senior management departure appears in the filings for the period. The September 21, 2026 sale of ZTO Express shares is reported above as a disposal.

FAQ · Alibaba 6-K filings and events

What has Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) reported in its recent 6-K filings?

Form 6-K filed August 20, 2026, accession 0001104659-26-099220 (Exhibit 99.1, "Alibaba Group Announces June Quarter 2026 Results"). It covers the three months ended June 30, 2026, which is the first quarter of fiscal year 2027, against the same quarter of 2025. It holds unaudited consolidated income statements, unaudited consolidated balance sheets (as of March 31, 2026 and June 30, 2026), and unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows, plus segment revenue and adjusted EBITA tables, a cost and expense breakdown, and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures.

When does Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) next file with the SEC?

Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) is expected to file its next Form 6-K with the SEC on or around November 24, 2026. That date is a projection rather than a company-announced date: it is derived from Alibaba Group Holding Limited's own filing history with the SEC, by taking the date the company filed the same fiscal period a year earlier and adding 52 weeks. The most recent periodic report on file is the 6-K for Q1 FY2027, the period ended 2026-06-30, SEC accession 0001104659-26-099220.

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