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BIDU stock declines post first-quarter 2025 earnings release. Baidu Core's performance was promising, but iQIYI was soft.

Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU ) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 21, 2025 8:00 AM ET Company Participants Juan Lin - Director, IR Robin Li - Co-Founder & CEO Junjie He - Interim CFO Dou Shen - EVP Conference Call Participants Alicia Yap - Citigroup Lincoln Kong - Goldman Sachs Alex Yao - JPMorgan Gary Yu - Morgan Stanley Miranda Zhuang - Bank of America Securities Wei Xiong - UBS Thomas Chong - Jefferies Operator Hello, and thank you for standing by, for Baidu's First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode.

U.S.-listed shares of Baidu Inc  (NASDAQ: BIDU) and Xpeng Inc - ADR (NYSE:XPEV) are in focus this morning, after the  China-based companies beat revenue expectations for the first quarter.

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Baidu is transforming into a leading AI company, scaling cloud AI and autonomous driving with strong margins and free cash flow. AI Cloud and ERNIE platform are seeing rapid enterprise adoption, positioning Baidu for meaningful AI-driven growth and margin expansion by 2025. Apollo Go robotaxi is commercially viable, with improving economics and a real path to profitability, unlike many global competitors.

The Chinese search-engine giant snapped a three-quarter run of falling revenue, posting a rise for the first three months of the year as it develops new growth drivers in AI.

The Chinese tech company beat analysts' targets for first-quarter net income and revenue.

Search engine giant Baidu , on Wednesday reported its quarterly revenue rose by 3%, indicating some recovery in the Chinese advertising market.

BEIJING , May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU and HKEX: 9888 (HKD Counter) and 89888 (RMB Counter)) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, today announced its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. "Baidu Core revenue grew 7% year over year in the first quarter, driven by the accelerating momentum of AI Cloud, which surged 42% year over year.

Baidu, Inc. BIDU is scheduled to report first-quarter 2025 results on May 21, before the opening bell. In the last reported quarter, Baidu reported non-GAAP earnings per share (EPS) of $2.63, which significantly beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.78.