BIDU Stock Recent News

Once a neglected group, Chinese tech companies have recently captured the attention of investors thanks to a series of positive developments, such as the huge government stimulus and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) services like DeepSeek.

Barclays' Jiong Shao says that with the largest cloud infrastructure in Asia, Alibaba is just getting started on capitalizing from the AI trends. He also highlights the ‘innovator's dilemma' Baidu faces as it pursues a chatbot strategy in tandem with its search business.

Benchmark analyst Fawne Jiang reiterated Baidu BIDU with a Buy rating and a $130 price target.

Baidu's 4Q24 results were mixed, with Baidu Core revenue slightly beating estimates but iQIYI revenue missing expectations, leading to a cautious outlook. The company's AI leadership is under threat from competitors like DeepSeek and Apple's partnership with Alibaba, raising concerns about its future competitiveness. Advertising revenue continues to decline due to China's weak macro environment, with no visible turnaround expected, impacting Baidu's overall growth prospects.

Despite recent underperformance, I remain long-term bullish on Baidu due to its undervaluation and growth potential in AI, cloud, and autonomous driving. Baidu's Q4 and FY 2024 results showed mixed performance, with revenue declines but significant EPS growth driven by higher "other income.". Baidu faces challenges in its core search business, losing market share to Bing, but its AI Cloud and Apollo Go show promising growth.

Pre-market futures are starting a new holiday-shortened trading week higher, with all four major indexes currently riding in the green. The Dow is +81 points at this hour, the S&P 500 is +23, the Nasdaq +96 points and the small-cap Russell 2000 +9.

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU ) Q4 2024 Earnings Conference Call February 18, 2025 7:30 AM ET Company Participants Juan Lin - Director, Investor Relations Robin Li - Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer Junjie He - Interim CFO Conference Call Participants Alicia Yap - Citigroup Lincoln Kong - Goldman Sachs Alex Yao - JPMorgan Gary Yu - Morgan Stanley Wei Xiong - UBS Miranda Zhuang - Bank of America Securities Thomas Chong - Jefferies Operator Hello and thank you for standing by for Baidu's Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in listen-only mode.

Baidu (BIDU) shares are slumping after the company saw profits decline last quarter. Brendan Ahern of Kraneshares said that the company's outlook is being hurt by the lack of stimulus and growth in the Chinese economy.

The introduction of the cutting-edge, chip-efficient AI chat model DeepSeek sent markets into a frenzy in late January, sparking an American AI sell-off. Featuring twice the computing power at a fraction of the cost of models like ChatGPT, the introduction of DeepSeek was particularly painful for chip manufacturer NVIDIA Co. NASDAQ: NVDA, whose shares fell more than 14% on the date of DeepSeek's introduction.

Three of the biggest Chinese ADRs in the US are mixed in premarket trading, and at this point in time, the market seems to see mixed momentum.