????首發上市前的阿里巴巴集團(Alibaba Group Holding Ltd)財源滾滾。

????中國最大的電子商務企業阿里巴巴在提交給美國證監會（SEC）的公告中稱，得益于移動平臺銷售額強勁增長，今年第二季度公司實現收入25.4億美元，同比增長46%。移動業務占阿里巴巴當季總交易額的33%，高于第一季度的27%。雅虎（Yahoo）持有阿里巴巴22.4%的股份。

????阿里巴巴實現季度凈利潤19.9億美元，增長逾兩倍；每股收益0.84美元；自由現金流17.1億美元。

????不過，阿里巴巴也表示增長有代價：該公司現已消耗了80億美元信貸額度，而且又已經安排了30億美元的循環信貸額度，不過后者尚未投入使用。

????這應該是阿里巴巴在上市前最后一次公布業績。該公司初步定于9月份首發，從而可能成為美國歷史上規模最大的科技公司IPO。媒體報道稱，阿里巴巴最快可能會在本周公布詢價區間。

????分析師預計的最大首發規模為200億美元，這將完全抵消（并超過）該公司的負債。但阿里巴巴表示，它將把IPO所得資金用于“公司一般運營”，而不是專門償還債務，同時也不會把這些資金轉移到中國大陸。

????據報道，阿里巴巴的美國電子商務平臺最近啟動，欲和亞馬遜（Amazon）一較高下。阿里巴巴還迅速進行了一系列收購，以便實現業務多元化，不過有些收購標的出現了問題。8月初，阿里巴巴稱，公司發現所收購的影視公司文化中國存在會計違規行為。文化中國現已更名為阿里巴巴影業。

????阿里巴巴遞交給SEC的IPO申請花大量筆墨描述了中國電子商務市場的增長潛力。阿里巴巴稱，目前它有2.79億名活躍買家，比上年同期提高了9%，單個買家每年平均下單數量為52筆。

????這只是中國電子商務市場潛力的冰山一角。阿里巴巴指出，中國有13.5億人，其中互聯網用戶6.18億，而在線購物目前只占中國消費總額的8%。（財富中文網）

????譯者：Charlie

????The money keeps pouring in to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ahead of its initial public offering.

????China’s largest e-commerce company, in which Yahoo has a 22.4% stake, said in an SEC filing that its revenue rose 46% on the year in the second quarter of this year to $2.54 billion, thanks to strong growth in sales through mobile platforms. Mobile devices accounted for 33% of overall gross merchandise value in the quarter, up from 27% in the first quarter.

????Net income more than tripled to $1.99 billion, or 84 cents a share, while free cash flow was $1.71 billion.

????However, the company also said is growth had come at a price: it has now fully drawn down an $8 billion credit facility and has arranged another $3 billion revolving credit line that it hasn’t yet used.

????The results are likely to be the last Alibaba disclosed ahead of its IPO, which is tentatively scheduled for September and is likely to be the largest ever by a tech company. A target price range for the shares may be published as early as next week, according to media reports.

????Analysts have touted an IPO size of up to $20 billion, which would wipe out the company’s debt (and more) at a stroke. But the company said it intends to use the proceeds of the share sale for “general corporate purposes”, rather than specifically to pay down debt, and said it wouldn’t transfer the funds to mainland China.

????As reported, the company has recently launched an e-commerce platform in the U.S., with a view to ultimately taking on Amazon.com Inc. It has also made a flurry of acquisitions to diversify its business, but has run into problems with some of them. It said earlier in August that it had discovered accounting irregularities at film production company ChinaVision, now renamed Alibaba Pictures.

????Alibaba’s filing plays heavily to the growth potential of the Chinese e-commerce market. The company said it now has 279 million active buyers, up 9% on the year, placing an average of 52 orders a year.

????That is still only a fraction of the Chinese market’s overall potential. The company reckons that China has 618 million internet users out of a total population of 1.35 billion, while online shopping still only accounts for 8% of total Chinese consumption.