Alibaba share price falls on premarket and trades below 2014 IPO levels

24.10.2022

Alibaba shares fell sharply in the market on Monday, falling below its initial public offering price for the first time since 2016.

The Chinese e-commerce giant’s U.S. depositary receipts recently fell 12.7 percent to $63.03, well below its initial public offering price of $68 in 2014.

The sell-off echoed a significant drop in Alibaba shares listed in Hong Kong on Monday. The decline in Hong Kong came after the end of a meeting in which Xi Jinping consolidated his control of China’s ruling Communist Party and the release of weak Chinese GDP data.

Alibaba ADRs last traded below $68 in 2016, after China’s stock market bubble burst. A multi-year bullish rally then began, peaking in October 2020 at $317.14.

Shortly thereafter, the company’s stock began to fall as Beijing halted the IPO of its financial-technology subsidiary Ant and launched an antitrust investigation into Alibaba. These actions were followed by a widespread crackdown on China’s largest Internet companies.