(NYSE: BABA) was once considered a promising play on China's long-term growth. It owned the country's two largest e-commerce marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall; its largest public cloud infrastructure platform, Alibaba Cloud; and a broad range of other retail, digital media, and gaming businesses. 

But over the past five years, Alibaba's stock declined nearly 60% and broadly underperformed many other Chinese tech stocks. Let's see why Alibaba lost its luster -- and if its stock will bounce back over the next five years.

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