Alibaba Moving Big In Pre-Market, 52 Week Highs On Open?

Alibaba's stock (NYSE: BABA) is a notable pre-market mover, pushing the price above $101, and indicating a 52 week high by the time the New York Stock Exchange opens. Markets have been casting a keen eye on the company as it makes inroads into the AI space, and continues with a restructure.

The firm released more than 100 new open-source AI models, and text-to-video AI tools on Thursday, as Alibaba aims to take a larger slice of the growing AI sphere. Sentiment has built off the back of this, with the stock already gaining 8.94% over the past 5 sessions as the bulls look to take charge.

As Alibaba carves out its business into six distinct units, each with a potential independent IPO trajectory, the company’s core commerce business remains robust, as demonstrated in its strong recent performance. Its cloud computing division continues to benefit from China's accelerated digital transformation, further bolstering Alibaba’s investment profile.

BABA is now closing in on the consensus analyst target price, and with China continuing to indicate additional support for the world's second largest economy, it seems only a matter of time before the stock looks to break out of this channel that has held for 2 years.