QualityDipStocks / Technology · Software & internet services
Baidu ADS BIDU
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 53% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen. No fair value estimate for now: its free cash flow is negative.
- Fair value est.
- n/a
- Market Value
- —
- Off 52-wk high
- −53%
- Risk vs market
- Highbeta 1.66
4 bullish · 5 bearish See why
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $76.40
- PriceFri Oct 30 close$76.40you are here
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$76.40at the price
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$162.52+112.7%
Fair value estimate
No estimate for BIDU: negative free cash flow. We’d rather show nothing than a made-up number.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 30 to Oct 30, 252 sessions). Beta = how much BIDU moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Swings much more than the market, and its own price swings are 3.7× the S&P 500’s.
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 1.66
- Volatility
- 47% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.45
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.44
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 4 of 5
Balance sheetNet cash of $10.0B: cash and short-term investments exceed debt (Dec 31, 2025).
GrowthDiluted EPS grew 136% in the last fiscal year, above the 18% median for the 118 Technology companies we cover.
ValuationPrice / book of 0.7×, below the 7.1× median for the 149 Technology companies we cover.
Balance sheetDebt / equity of 0.2×, below the 0.4× median for the 88 Technology companies we cover.
Top bearish points 5 of 5
ValuationFree cash flow is negative (−$2.3B over the last 12 months), so there’s no cash-flow value under the price.
ProfitabilityOperating margin narrowed to −4.5% in FY2025 from 16.2% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
Balance sheetOperating income covers interest only -2.1× over the last 12 months.
ProfitabilityLoses money at the operating line: −5% operating margin over the last 12 months.
QualityDoesn’t pass our quality screen: no positive free cash flow; ROE under 12% and ROIC under 10%; sales down vs the year-ago quarter.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Baidu ADS in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 1, 9:09 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Software & internet services
All fundamentals
P/E 38.2 · FCF yield -8.5% · ROE 2%
Valuation
- P/E
- 38.2×Technology median 33.9×
- Price / FCF
- n/anegative free cash flow
- FCF yield
- −8.5%
- EV / EBITDA
- 70.9×
- Price / sales
- 1.38×
- Price / book
- 0.67×
- Market cap
- $26.8Blisted
- Enterprise value
- $16.8B
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $19.4B
- Sales growth, 12 months
- −3.0%vs the 12 months before
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +1.4%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- EPS growth, last FY
- +136.4%
- Net income, 12 months
- $702M
- Net income growth
- −80%12 months vs before
Profitability
- Gross margin
- 43.9%
- Operating margin
- −4.5%
- Net margin
- 3.6%
- FCF margin
- −11.7%
- Return on equity
- 2%
- Return on invested capital
- −2%
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $17.3B
- Total debt
- $7.4B
- Net cash
- $10.0B
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
- Interest coverage
- -2.1×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- −$2.3B
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- $833M3.1% of market cap
- Share count, 1 year
- n/ano quarterly diluted share count
- Stock-based comp
- $543M
Trailing 12 months to Dec 31, 2025; balance sheet at Dec 31, 2025. From Baidu ADS’s SEC filings, reported in CNY and converted to US dollars. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
Valuation details
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 30 · 5 days −1.0%
The business
FCF $-14.1B · Sales −4%
- Free cash flow, 12 months−$14.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield−52.4%
- Free-cash-flow margin−11%
- Gross margin41%
- Operating margin7%
- Return on invested capital2%
- Return on equity−1%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)−4%
Next report
Nov 16
- DateMon Nov 16, before the open
- Consensus EPS$0.57
- Year-ago EPS$1.23
- QuarterSep/2026
From Nasdaq’s earnings calendar. A report resets Market Value.
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.
BIDU is outside our quality screen
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