Comments on: Getting Alibaba IPO Stock: Not So Fast

By: joyce

joyce — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:38:34 +0000

would anybody tell me for his or her kind heart that the chinese meaning of the phrase”distribution compliance period” states in this article? many thanx and a happy spring festival!^^

By: Sun

Sun — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:19:34 +0000

LM: Actually, the freeze period expired on Dec. 17th and I bought some shares of Alibaba on Dec. 19th from E-Trade. From my understanding, the 40 days are calendar days.

By: LM

LM — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:56:32 +0000

Aren’t the 40 days up soon? By my calculations, it would be today, but that did not count for any holidays/off days on the Hang Seng. What is the day?

By: Saleem

Saleem — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:30:15 +0000

Hi,
I have been folowing Alibaba stock since the intial IPO, and I was hoping to buy some options, but didn't know how to do it. I personally think Alibaba shares should continue to go up, they are sitting at around 40 USD at the moment, but continue to rise. I may do a bit of financial spread betting on the stock, as my next best option.

Regards

Saleem

By: Sun

Sun — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:25:47 +0000

loulou: I don’t know that company you mentioned. So I am afraid I may not be able to provide you any input. Do you have the symbol? Where did it IPO? From what I observed in the past couple of years for Chinese IPOs, the stock usually goes up a lot in the first couple of days of trading, but it always come down a little bit in the following days/weeks after the initial hype cools off. I noticed a lot of stocks followed this pattern. So it may not hurt to wait some time before entering. And if the stock can’t deliver on the high expectation, it will eventually fall. Another thing I have noticed is that if the company has a dominate position in China, its stock usually does very well. And service related stocks, not technology stocks, are always good bet. If you plan to hold the stock for a long time and believe it can deliver the earning that supports its high price, then you can always buy it after the pull back.

RC: Yes, Yahoo owns 40% of Alibaba’s parent company, but I don’t know how much Yahoo will benefit from Alibaba and how Yahoo’s stock will react to Alibaba. I still plan to buy Alibaba directly instead of using Yahoo.