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Short answer is yes, he likes it. He was selling into strength a few months ago. Now he's looking to reload. On a 5-year chart, you can see the massive bottoming pattern. Won't see numbers like the previous highs again. Probably worth $125-150 over the next few years, if they can stimulate the consumer and the consumer responds.
Chinese consumers have tons of savings, so the potential is there. Buy on pullbacks. One of the best value retail names out there. But you have to be OK with China exposure.
Like Amazon, they dominate key secular growth areas in e-commerce, are in cloud computer though trade at only one third of Amazon's PE. Is a modest grower, but has a huge margin of safety. There's so much pessimism about tariffs now. Wait and see, but would be an opportunity if the tariffs are more bark than bite.
He doesn’t think that Alibaba has dropped very much compared to its volatility. He sees this stock as defensible: he likes the market, the industry and the name. He sees the technical action of the stock as a consolidation pattern. The company is growing rapidly. It’s PE ratio is high but its PEG ratio (price/earnings relative to growth) is not far from 1, which is a reasonable level. Compared to other momentum stocks, like Netflix, a stock with a PEG of 1 is priced much less aggressively. (Analysts’ price target is $241.14)