What Experts Think About The Alibaba Group Holding Ltd IPO

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA) is mere hours away from going public, and understandably, traders and investors are excited. The e-commerce giant is set to become the largest IPO in US history.

Wedbush, CRT Capital and Cantor Fitzgerald have all initiated coverage on the stock, with price targets of $80.00, $95.00 and $90.00, respectively.

So, what are financial experts and pundits saying about Alibaba pre-IPO? 

Some are talking about other Chinese IPOs:

Baidu, the Chinese Google: Up 354% on its first day (2005), up 8,000% since. 8,000%! Helps explain why BABA is such a huge deal.

— John Walters (@jdubs88) September 19, 2014

On $BABA trading day, here's how other Chinese IPOs have performed on IPO day and since then $BIDU $RENN $LEJU $VIPS pic.twitter.com/xgj9xpa2E2

— Elizabeth Schulze (@eschulze9) September 19, 2014

Others are discussing Jack Ma:

All kidding aside, Jack Ma may be the closest thing China has to a Walt Disney. Trillest CEO in the game right now. $BABA

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) September 19, 2014

As if the rise of Chinese tech wasn't clear enough, Ma makes his debut on the day Ellison paves his exit. $BABA

— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) September 19, 2014

Jack Ma $BABA and Jet Li outside the NYSE pic.twitter.com/8RHUytpP6P

— Bob Pisani (@BobPisani) September 19, 2014

Related Link: CRT Capital Initiates Coverage On Alibaba

And Yahoo:

Unsurprisingly, traders are using $YHOO as a proxy for $BABA's debut. The stock is our top trending: http://t.co/FPy6Q3EtrG

— Pierce Crosby (@CrosbyVenture) September 19, 2014

"@businessinsider: Yahoo could make nearly $10 billion on Alibaba IPO http://t.co/MPDK1319Mm" < it invested $1bn back in 2005

— Fabiane Goldstein (@fabi_gold) September 19, 2014

People don't realize that every share of $YHOO below $43 is below book value after $BABA deal. Where can you get a better deal in tech?

— Toni Gajtani (@DeliverAlpha) September 19, 2014

In honor of the color that $YHOO is famous for and the reason it's up #premarket, I give you this. $BABA Ganoush.

— Paul R. La Monica (@LaMonicaBuzz) September 19, 2014

And some are just having fun:

For round-number watchers, $BABA needs to get to $81.14 to hit a $200B market cap.

— Kevin Kingsbury (@KevinKingsbury) September 19, 2014

Do they think it's an Apple Store? RT @CNBCnow: Outside @NYSE, large crowd is already forming ahead of Alibaba IPO: pic.twitter.com/JjQRy7CsXz

— Henry Blodget (@hblodget) September 19, 2014

A $BABA selfie for @JoeSquawk pic.twitter.com/qY7oXDtbzG

— Kayla Tausche (@kaylatausche) September 19, 2014

Disclosure: At the time of this writing, the author had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.