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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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Alibaba Group Holding  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>We expect Alibaba to deliver in-line-with-consensus revenue growth and adjusted EBITA for 4QFY25 (March year-end).</li><li>For core domestic e-commerce business, driven by healthy GMV growth and an increase in monetization rate aided by incremental technology service fee charges and the increase in penetration of Quanzhantui, Alibaba could sustain solid customer management revenue (CMR) growth and positive profitability growth of Taobao and Tmall (T&amp;T) Group in 4QFY25, in our view.</li><li>YoY revenue growth of cloud business could see further acceleration as expected driven by solid public cloud revenue growth and incremental contribution from AI cloud. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

We expect Alibaba to deliver in-line-with-consensus revenue growth and adjusted EBITA for 4QFY25 (March year-end).For core domestic e-commerce business, driven by healthy GMV growth and an increase in monetization rate aided by incremental technology service fee charges and the increase in penetration of Quanzhantui, Alibaba could sustain solid customer management revenue (CMR) growth and positive profitability growth of Taobao and Tmall (T&amp;T) Group in 4QFY25, in our view.YoY revenue growth of cloud business could see further acceleration as expected driven by solid public cloud revenue growth and incremental contribution from AI cloud. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Alibaba (BABA US) - Positive Profitability Growth of Core E-Commerce Business Likely to Sustain