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Alibaba sets price in US$10.2b billion new share offer, drops 10% on market open
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Xinmei ShenPublished: 9:59am, 24 Aug 2026Updated: 10:11am, 24 Aug 2026Alibaba Group Holding has set the offer price for its new share placement at HK$112.70 each to raise HK$80 billion (US$10.2 billion), issuing 710 million shares in one of the largest artificial intelligence-dedicated fundraising efforts by a Chinese technology firm.
The price represented an 8.4 per cent discount to the stock’s closing price in Hong Kong on Friday and a 3.6 per cent discount to the Friday closing price of its New York-listed shares, the company said in a stock exchange filing on Monday. Alibaba is the owner of the South China Morning Post.
The 710 million newly issued shares represented around 3.7 per cent of the company’s 19.17 billion total outstanding shares.
Shares of the Chinese e-commerce and cloud computing giant fell more than 10 per cent after the market opened.
The Chinese e-commerce and AI giant announced the new share sale on Sunday, pledging to spend the entire HK$80 billion in proceeds to “invest in its full-stack AI capabilities” and “extend the company’s global AI leadership”.
Several banks had received pre-launch expressions of interest – in excess of the deal size – “on the back of strong interest received from sovereign wealth funds and global long-only investors”, a person familiar with the matter said.
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