On the Record · Alibaba
Alibaba acquisitions, on the record
The businesses Alibaba bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.
Deals its annual reports describe
| Business | Deal | When | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
Sun Art and IntimeWord for word“We also made disciplined moves to streamline our portfolio, including the divestiture of non-core assets such as Sun Art and Intime.” 20-F for 2025 | divestiture | — | — |
| Fiscal year ended | Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired) |
|---|---|
| 2017-03-31 | $4.86 billion |
| 2018-03-31 | $83 million |
| 2019-03-31 | $5.28 billion |
| 2020-03-31 | $2.05 billion |
| 2021-03-31 | $2.92 billion |
| 2022-03-31 | $645 million |
| 2023-03-31 | $175 million |
| 2024-03-31 | $305 million |
| 2025-03-31 | −$49 million |
| 2026-03-31 | $176 million |
Read from Alibaba’s annual reports (20-F for 2026, 20-F for 2025, 20-F for 2024, 20-F for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-05-20. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.