The company had 4,400 permanent employees in 2007, and the number of employees rose to around 66,500 by 2018. At the company u. a. Yahoo and Softbank involved. Sales on Alibaba Group's Chinese retail platforms totaled over 4.8 trillion yuan ($677 billion) in 2017.
In the Forbes Global 2000 of the world's largest companies, the Alibaba Group ranks 59th (as of 2019). Alibaba had a market value of approximately USD 500 billion in mid-2018, making it one of the world's financially strongest companies.
Alibaba (stock symbol: BABA) made a total of 2 dividend payments.The sum of all dividends (adjusted for stock splits) is : HK$20.70Dividend yield (TTM) : 3.07% See Alibaba dividend yield history