(Bloomberg Opinion) — After its $11.2 billion Hong Kong share sale, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. will be sitting on $43 billion in cash. That sounds like a great problem to have. Only one publicly listed, non-financial company has more: Apple Inc., at $49 billion.Then you realize that management literally has more money than it knows what to do with. Chief Executive Officer Daniel Zhang and Maggie Wu, the chief financial officer, have three choices:Do nothing. Just sit on that cash in a low-interest-rate world. Spend it. On acquisitions and marketing; historically, this has depressed margins. Give it back. Dividends, maybe, …read more
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