NASDAQ:BIDU - Baidu Stock Price, Forecast & News

Baidu trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BIDU."

Baidu declared that its board has approved a share repurchase program on Thursday, May 16th 2019, which permits the company to buyback $1,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy up to 1.9% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are generally an indication that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Baidu is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, February 6th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Baidu.

Baidu will be holding an earnings conference call on Thursday, February 6th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Baidu's stock. Their forecasts range from $118.00 to $221.00. On average, they anticipate Baidu's stock price to reach $145.89 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 15.3% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Baidu.

20 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Baidu in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Baidu.

News stories about BIDU stock have trended somewhat negative on Monday, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Baidu earned a daily sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news stories about the information services provider a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Baidu.

Baidu saw a increase in short interest in the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totalling 5,610,000 shares, an increase of 5.6% from the December 31st total of 5,310,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 3,720,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.5 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Baidu's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Baidu investors own include Alibaba Group (BABA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Tesla (TSLA), Micron Technology (MU), Alphabet (GOOG), Walt Disney (DIS), Intel (INTC), salesforce.com (CRM) and Starbucks (SBUX).

Baidu's stock is owned by a variety of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Marathon Asset Management LLP (0.41%), Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI (0.23%), Nepsis Inc. (0.02%), Zurcher Kantonalbank Zurich Cantonalbank (0.02%), Mercator Fund Cayman Master LP (0.02%) and Premier Asset Management LLC (0.01%).

BIDU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Marathon Asset Management LLP, Hexavest Inc., Advisors Capital Management LLC, First Hawaiian Bank, Valeo Financial Advisors LLC, Sanders Morris Harris LLC and KCS Wealth Advisory.

BIDU stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Mercator Fund Cayman Master LP, Premier Asset Management LLC, Acorn Financial Advisory Services Inc. ADV, Gateway Investment Advisers LLC, Patriot Financial Group Insurance Agency LLC, OLD National Bancorp IN, Nepsis Inc. and Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH.

Shares of BIDU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BIDU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $126.51.

Baidu has a market capitalization of $44.20 billion and generates $14.88 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $4.01 billion in net income (profit) each year or $7.80 on an earnings per share basis. Baidu employs 42,267 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Baidu.

The official website for Baidu is http://www.baidu.com/.

Baidu's mailing address is BAIDU CAMPUS NO. 10 SHANGDI 10TH STREET, BEIJING F4, 100085. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 86-10-5992-8888 or via email at [email protected]