Alibaba Group Holding Limited BABA Chief Executive

What Yongming (Eddie) Wu says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Yongming (Eddie) Wu

Yongming (Eddie) Wu

Chief Executive Officer · Alibaba Group Holding Limited

Founding-era engineer who took over as group CEO in 2023 and also runs the core China e-commerce business; has made AI and cloud the company's stated first priority.

What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
37/ 100
Level 2Aligned

Wu owns about 1% of Alibaba Group Holding Limited, worth $1.50B at the last close.

SEC filings
5
Stake 13.8M reported shares ≈ 0.6% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 12/35
Founder No career file yet — the founder axis scores zero until one exists 0/15
Tenure Start date not on file — tenure scores zero until it is 0/10
Track record No career file yet — prior companies score zero until one exists 0/15
Direction Net buyer — 350,000 shares bought on the open market in the last year, no sales 15/15
Discipline No late Form 4s in 5 filings 10/10

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). Every input links to a filing or to the career file; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 13.8M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Aug 24, 2026
Last open-market trade Buy · $5.0M Aug 24, 2026 · 350,000 shares at $14.24 · no 10b5-1 plan
Paper trail Clean Nothing flagged in the filings since Aug 24, 2026
Reported Alibaba Group Holding Limited shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-08-24
05M10M15M 2026 Aug 24, 2026: buy of 350,000 sharesJul 1, 2026: exercise of 41,333 sharesApr 1, 2026: exercise of 13,333 shares 13.8M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for the filing.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Ordinary Sharestrust12,320,000
Ordinary SharesDirect1,364,418
Ordinary Sharesspouse108,000
Reported as of 2026-08-2413,792,418
Held directly
10%
Vehicles
2 trusts or entities
Last filing
Aug 24, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 3 events folded from 4 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Aug 24, 2026 Buy Open-market purchase · Ordinary Shares +350,000 $14.24 $5.0M no 10b5-1 plan
Jul 1, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion across 2 lots · Ordinary Shares +41,333
Apr 1, 2026 Exercise Option or RSU conversion · Ordinary Shares +13,333
Every issuer Yongming (Eddie) Wu files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd This page Chief Executive Officer 14M
2026-08-24

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail

Nothing flagged: every Form 4 inside the two-day window, no pledge footnotes, no SEC correspondence.

5 filings under CIK 0002121606 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. June quarter 2026 (fiscal Q1 2027) Aug 20, 2026 Wu argued that Alibaba's AI spending has stopped being a bet and started being a business: cloud external revenue grew 45%, a 22-quarter high, AI product revenue reached an annualised US$7.3 billion and, on his own forecast, will approach US$10 billion next quarter. His frame for the industry was that the super app everyone went looking for is compute itself, that inference demand has turned compute from a cost centre into the asset that generates the revenue, and that selling model access by the API call is a transitional business rather than the endgame. He put numbers on the parts Alibaba rarely quantifies — over 500,000 last-generation T-Head chips manufactured and shipped, model-serving ARR past RMB16 billion in August against a RMB30 billion year-end target — and restated the destination: US$100 billion of external cloud revenue by 2030 at a 20% gross margin. E-commerce got four minutes and a narrowing loss. Read the call · 10 quotes →
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