Alibaba leads Chinese tech stocks lower after Q4 results, cloud spin-off
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Alibaba's (NYSE:BABA) announcements of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results and spin-off of its cloud group were not enough to keep most Chinese tech stocks from moving lower on Thursday.
Alibaba (BABA) shares fell around 3% in early trading after the company reported an adjusted $1.56 per share on $30.32B in revenue, topping expectations of $1.35 per share and $29.91B in sales.
Chairman and CEO Daniel Zhang said the company's board approved a full spin-off of the Cloud Intelligence Group to shareholders, with it eventually becoming an independent publicly listed company.
Despite the news, shares of other Chinese tech stocks were largely lower, including losses of 2% or more for Baidu (BIDU), Pinduoduo (PDD) and JD.com (JD).
Smaller Chinese tech stocks such as Bilibilii (BILI), Kingsoft Cloud Holdings (KC) and NetEase (NTES) were mixed, as Bilibili fell and NetEase and KingSoft rose.
The KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF (KWEB) also fell more than 2% in early trading.
In March, Alibaba (BABA) said it would split into six different units with a goal of boosting each group's individual business value, including its Taobao Tmall Business.
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