Shares of Alibaba jumped in premarket trade, as the company missed market expectations for revenue in the December quarter, but announced it is increasing the size of its share buyback program by $25 billion.
U.S.-listed shares in the Chinese e-commerce giant were more than 4% higher in pre-market trade.
Here's how Alibaba did in its fiscal third quarter, compared to LSEG estimates:Revenue: 260.35 billion Chinese yuan ($36.6 billion) versus 262.07 billion yuan expected.
On top of its structural changes, Alibaba also scrapped the hotly-anticipated spinoff of its cloud computing business last year.
More recently, two of Alibaba's co-founders, Jack Ma and Joe Tsai, in January bought shares worth around $200 million in the Chinese e-commerce giant.
Persons:
Alibaba, Pinduoduo, Eddie Wu, Daniel Zhang, Alibaba's, Jack Ma, Joe Tsai, Evelyn Cheng
Organizations:
Revenue, Alibaba
Locations:
Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, China, premarket, U.S, Beijing