The Alibaba.com IPO is set to price imminently with trading scheduled to begin on November 6th. One beneficiary of the mounting investor enthusiasm for the company is Yahoo, which holds a 39 percent stake in its parent company Alibaba Group, and is set to invest another $100 million directly into Alibaba.com. A research note from Rob Sanderson, an analyst at American Technology Research, attempts to put a value on Alibaba’s other assets, most notably Taobao, an eBay-like business and AliPay, which is like PayPal. The basic theme of the report is that both of these units are in a similar spot to where eBay (EBAY) and PayPal were 6-7 years ago, while showing similar growth trajectory.

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