Is Alibaba Group Holding Limited (BABA) a Joel Greenblatt Stock?
Partial match - either cheap or high-quality, but not both.
2/5 criteria passed
+2 sector-quality lift. Top-quintile within its sector on 1 of 5 quality metrics. Raw pillar score 60 → lifted to 62 before grade derivation.
Capped from C to D. ROIC under 10% on both TTM and 5y - Greenblatt's Magic Formula explicitly screens for high ROIC; EV/EBIT over 30 means EBIT yield below ~3% - too expensive to qualify for Magic Formula What are deal-breaker caps?
Joel Greenblatt's Criteria, Applied to BABA
EBIT/EV yield ≥ 10%
ROIC ≥ 25%
EV/EBIT ≤ 12
Gross margin ≥ 30%
How BABA Scores on Other Strategies
Live Financial Snapshot
Market cap
$271.68B
P/E (TTM)
18.2x
ROIC (TTM)
8.4%
Gross margin
39.81%
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