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Will These 3 Hot Chinese Techs Follow Alibaba Or JD With Earnings?

Alibaba rival JD.com ( JD ) was crumbling to a three-month low Monday after reporting light Q2 revenue guidance. Meanwhile, Alibaba ( BABA ) edged higher Monday intraday after jumping 4% last week on its earnings report, with the Chinese e-commerce giant now setting its sights on $1 trillion in gross merchandise volume in four years. Chinese stocks in general were getting hit hard in the stock market today amid a broad sell-off in Shanghai. JD shares were gapping down  9.7% in giant volume, hitting their lowest level since mid-February. The stock is now trading about 40% below its high reached last June. IBD Take: How to JD.com, Weibo and other Chinese Internet giants stack up? Find out at IBD Stock Checkup Alibaba is trading about 16% below its 52-week high. The stock was able to find support at its 50-day line ahead of its report and is now trading just under a 79.94 buy point within a larger pattern. Fellow Chinese tech stocks NetEase ( NTES ), Sina ( SINA ) and Weibo ( WB ) are all due to issue their quarterly reports after the close on Wednesday. Gaming company NetEase is expected to see earnings rise 56% in local currency, with revenue jumping 118%. NetEase is hitting resistance at its 50-day line. Shares are about 25% below their late December high, down about 1% in intraday trade. Internet portal Sina is expected to swing to a loss of 4 cents a share, while revenue edges up 2%. Shares are dropping back below buy range from a cup-with-handle base in intraday trade, losing 4.4%. The stock is about 20% below its June high. And social platform Weibo is projected to see earnings grow 300% to 4 cents a share, while revenue jumps 18%. Weibo was a part of Sina before its IPO in 2014. Sina remains a majority shareholder, while Alibaba owns a 30% stake. The stock was trading past the 20% profit-taking zone after breaking out of a cup-with-handle base a month ago. Shares are now extended about 13% from the buy point, dropping 5% Monday.

China Internet Giant JD.com Dives After Mixed Q1 Earnings

JD.com ( JD ), one of China’s four biggest Internet companies, posted mixed Q1 earnings early Monday and gave an outlook slightly short of views. Its shares were among the many U.S.-traded techs falling after Chinese markets retreated overnight on renewed concerns about that nation’s economic recovery. JD, China’s largest online direct sales company, similar to Amazon.com ( AMZN ), reported revenue of $8.4 billion, slightly above the consensus of $8.35 billion and up 48% in local currency year over year. Its revenue has grown at double- or triple-digit rates for more than 18 quarters. The company recorded a per-share loss of 2 cents minus items, matching the consensus estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. Its Q2 revenue guidance of $9.8 billion to $10.1 billion was slightly below the consensus of $10 billion at the midpoint. IBD Take: JD.com ranks just No. 17 in its group. IBD Stock Checkup can help explain why. JD stock was down 8.5%, near 23, in morning trading in the stock market today , but U.S. shares of Alibaba ( BABA ) and  Tencent Holdings ( TCEHY ) were flat. Baidu ( BIDU ) stock was down 3%, near 168, Monday morning after it announced new measures  in response to a student’s death and a government probe into its health care advertising Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu are China’s largest Internet companies, along with JD. Alibaba is China’s largest etail company, while Baidu is China’s largest search company, and Tencent leads in gaming and social networking. JD said its gross merchandise volume, which is the total value of goods sold on its website, rose 55% in local currency to the equivalent of $20 billion. “We had a solid first quarter of the year with healthy growth in revenues, new users and mobile traffic,” said JD CEO Richard Liu said in the company’s earnings release. Alibaba turned in a quarterly earnings report Thursday that largely eased concerns of slowing performance, despite a sluggish Chinese economy.

JD.Com Earnings Will Provide Clues On China Internet Economy

JD.com ( JD ), one of China four biggest Internet companies, early Monday is expected to post a 48% jump in Q1 revenue, despite the slowing economy in its home nation. JD, China’s largest online direct sales company, similar to Amazon.com ( AMZN ), is expected to report revenue of $8.36 billion, up 48% in local currency vs. Q1 2015. Its revenue has grown at double- or triple-digit rates for more than 17 quarters. On the bottom line, analysts expect a 2-cent per-shere loss, minus items, the same as in the year-earlier quarter. JD stock has been on a roller coaster ride since hitting an all-time high of 38 almost a year ago. It hit an all-time low of 22.55 in August. JD.com stock closed Friday at 25.20, up 1.4%. JD reported better than expected Q4 earnings on March 1, and its Q1 outlook then topped Wall Street expectations. The company offers a wide range of electronics, apparel, home appliances, food and beverages and other general merchandise. JD’s earnings follow that of China e-commerce giant Alibaba ( BABA ) on Thursday. Alibaba, for its fiscal fourth quarter , reported revenue of $3.75 billion, beating the Wall Street consensus of $3.58 billion. Sales rose 39% in local currency, the company’s highest growth rate in the past four quarters. Earnings per share minus items rose 88% to 33 cents, but that was far below the consensus of 55 cents.