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How to profit from Alibaba’s stakeholders

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We may be just hours away from the Alibaba IPO, but trader Serge Berger thinks there's real potential in Alibaba’s biggest stakeholders, Yahoo and Softbank.

Alibaba’s public offering could boost Yahoo by billions of dollars as it owns a 23% stake in Alibaba. Meanwhile, Japanese Internet and telecom firm Softbank, which has a 34.1% stake in Alibaba, or 798 million shares, would be worth between USD 47.9 billion and USD 52.6 billion at Alibaba's expected price range of USD 66-68. 

With a valuation of USD 153 billion, up from USD 120 billion in October, Alibaba is expected to be the largest initial public offering ever.

But on the other hand, Serge thinks that investors who have shares in Alibaba’s rivals, such as amazon or eBay, needn’t worry too much for now.