China stocks have whipsawed in recent months on stimulus hopes and disappointment, along with new tariffs under President Donald Trump. Still, several stocks are showing strength.
E-commerce giant JD.com, messaging and gaming titan Tencent and online entertainment concern Bilibili are all near buy points. So are travel plays Atour Lifestyle Holdings and Trip.com.
Investors should pay attention to many other Chinese stocks, including e-commerce titan Alibaba and search giant Baidu.
Don't forget EV makers, including Tesla rivals BYD, XPeng, Li Auto, Nio and Zeekr, as well as smartphone giant-turned-EV maker Xiaomi.
Online brokerages Futu Holdings and Up Fintech, fintech Qifu Technology as well as global retailer Miniso are also worth watching.
Several of these stocks are setting up as well, while a number are too extended to be actionable.
Top China ETFs
Investors wary of buying an individual Chinese stock could choose ETFs such as KraneShares CSI China Internet ETF, iShares China Large-Cap ETF and Xtrackers Harvest CSI 300 China A-Shares ETF. But these ETFs are prone to big gap-ups an-downs as well.
Top China Stocks To Buy Or Watch Now
| Company | Ticker | Industry Group | Composite Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trip.com | TCOM | Leisure-Travel Booking | 96 |
| Tencent | TCEHY | Internet-Content | n.a. |
| Bilibili | BABA | Internet-Content | 94 |
| JD.com | JD | Retail-Internet | 96 |
| Atour Lifestyle | ATAT | Leisure-Lodging | 98 |
Trip.com Stock
Trip.com is a China-based online travel site operator. It's benefited from a travel boom after China's long Covid restrictions were lifted in late 2022.
Q3 earnings rose 25% vs. a year earlier, the third straight quarter of decelerating growth, as comparisons get tougher. Revenue gained 20%, picking up from 13% in Q2. Travel seems be on the upswing globally.
Q4 earnings are due Feb. 24.
Trip.com stock ran up in late September to early October like many other China stocks on stimulus hopes. But unlike most of those names, TCOM stock largely held those gains. It now has a consolidation with a 77.18 buy point. Investors could use 74.15 as an early entry. Trip.com is currently just below its 50-day line.
Tencent Stock
Tencent is a mobile gaming giant while also operating key messaging apps, including the everything app WeChat, or Weixin.
WeChat is beta testing using DeepSeek.
Q3 earnings jumped 42% vs. a year earlier, though that ended a seven-quarter string of accelerating growth. Revenue rose 12% to $23.8 billion, the second straight quarter of faster gains and the biggest increase in years.
Tencent stock is trading just below a 61.60 cup base buy point, briefly hitting a three-year high on Feb. 14. Shares have run higher for five straight weeks, including a 12% spike in the week ended Feb. 14. The cup base forged right next to the top of two prior consolidations going back to early 2023.
The Chinese stock is Hong Kong listed and trades over the counter in the U.S., so its U.S. stock chart shows lots of gap-ups and -downs.
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Bilibili Stock
Bilibili is an online entertainment site.
The company finally turned profitable in Q3. Revenue grew 31% to $1.04 billion, the fourth straight quarter of accelerating growth.
Q4 results are due on Feb. 20. Analysts are expecting another quarter of positive earnings, with strong profitability in 2025.
Bilibili stock ran up up in late September to early October on broader stimulus hopes then corrected just over 50%. Shares are now trying to build the right side of a base with a 31.77 buy point. BILI stock recently rebounded back above their 50-day line. Arguably there was an early entry, but the wide-and-loose deep base, along with upcoming earnings, raised the risks considerably.
JD.com Stock
JD.com is a huge e-commerce firm, second only to Alibaba in China.
Q3 earnings jumped 35% vs. a year earlier after Q2's 73%. Sales which had barely risen or fell over several quarters, picked up to 9%.
JD.com likely will report Q4 results in early March. But rival Alibaba, which is extended from a buy point, reports Feb. 20.
JD.com skyrocketed from late September to early October amid government stimulus hopes. But as those hopes waned, so did JD's shares. JD.com is now working on a 31%-deep double-bottom base, with 42.73 buy point.
Atour Lifestyle Holdings
Atour Lifestyle owns and manages a hotel chain in China. As of Sept. 30, there were 1,533 hotels across Atour's hotel network. The company says it's the largest upper-midscale hotel chain in China in terms of rooms.
Chinese travel roared back in 2023 as Covid restrictions were lifted.
Atour earnings for Q3 rose 47% with revenue up 53%.
Shares of China stock Atour nearly doubled from early August to a 52-week high of 29.15 on Oct. 7. Shares largely held those gains and moving higher again.
Atour stock cleared a 28.82 early point on Feb. 11 from a handle that was fractionally too low to be proper. Shares cleared the traditional 29.90 buy point Feb. 14, marking a record high.
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