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BIDU vs. NTES, RBLX, INFY, SNOW, CRWV, NET, TEAM, DDOG, VEEV, and ZS

Should you be buying Baidu stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Baidu include NetEase (NTES), Roblox (RBLX), American Noble Gas (INFY), Snowflake (SNOW), CoreWeave (CRWV), Cloudflare (NET), Atlassian (TEAM), Datadog (DDOG), Veeva Systems (VEEV), and Zscaler (ZS). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Baidu vs. Its Competitors

Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) and NetEase (NASDAQ:NTES) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.

11.1% of NetEase shares are held by institutional investors. 16.7% of Baidu shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 54.7% of NetEase shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Baidu currently has a consensus target price of $105.09, suggesting a potential upside of 13.67%. NetEase has a consensus target price of $119.38, suggesting a potential downside of 14.42%. Given Baidu's higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Baidu is more favorable than NetEase.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Baidu
0 Sell rating(s)
11 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.39
NetEase
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.88

NetEase has a net margin of 30.12% compared to Baidu's net margin of 19.45%. NetEase's return on equity of 23.08% beat Baidu's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Baidu19.45% 8.35% 5.29%
NetEase 30.12%23.08%16.90%

Baidu has a beta of 0.33, suggesting that its share price is 67% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NetEase has a beta of 0.69, suggesting that its share price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Baidu had 19 more articles in the media than NetEase. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for Baidu and 5 mentions for NetEase. NetEase's average media sentiment score of 0.98 beat Baidu's score of 0.44 indicating that NetEase is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Baidu
6 Very Positive mention(s)
6 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
5 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
NetEase
4 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

NetEase has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Baidu. Baidu is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NetEase, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Baidu$18.24B1.75$3.26B$10.089.17
NetEase$14.43B6.13$4.07B$6.9520.07

Summary

NetEase beats Baidu on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding BIDU and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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BIDU vs. The Competition

MetricBaiduINTERNET SERVICES IndustryComputer SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$31.94B$103.09B$28.37B$9.41B
Dividend YieldN/A2.53%3.06%4.03%
P/E Ratio9.1737.8733.7919.89
Price / Sales1.7510.591,759.14195.77
Price / Cash5.1124.4434.3128.17
Price / Book0.853.347.545.73
Net Income$3.26B$4.40B$781.12M$258.18M
7 Day Performance-0.91%2.35%2.77%3.92%
1 Month Performance10.56%12.08%11.08%14.31%
1 Year Performance0.20%32.83%52,800.07%17.29%

Baidu Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BIDU
Baidu
4.7442 of 5 stars
$92.45
+4.1%
$105.09
+13.7%
-1.7%$30.68B$18.24B9.1735,900
NTES
NetEase
4.172 of 5 stars
$129.96
+1.3%
$119.38
-8.1%
+50.4%$82.34B$107.27B18.7026,028
RBLX
Roblox
2.7477 of 5 stars
$111.92
+5.9%
$86.45
-22.8%
+207.2%$75.91B$3.60B-83.522,474Analyst Forecast
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INFY
American Noble Gas
2.4456 of 5 stars
$18.01
-1.0%
$17.48
-3.0%
-16.0%$74.62B$19.28B23.70323,578Positive News
SNOW
Snowflake
3.8411 of 5 stars
$213.22
+1.1%
$225.36
+5.7%
+66.0%$71.19B$3.63B-50.657,834Positive News
CRWV
CoreWeave
N/A$132.46
+5.3%
$81.56
-38.4%
N/A$63.58BN/A0.00881Trending News
Analyst Forecast
NET
Cloudflare
4.0366 of 5 stars
$182.73
+0.7%
$148.92
-18.5%
+151.5%$63.34B$1.67B-794.494,263Analyst Forecast
TEAM
Atlassian
4.7327 of 5 stars
$191.61
+2.5%
$285.75
+49.1%
+10.1%$50.30B$4.36B-115.4312,157Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
DDOG
Datadog
4.2541 of 5 stars
$138.82
+1.1%
$144.27
+3.9%
+22.0%$47.94B$2.68B301.786,500Analyst Forecast
VEEV
Veeva Systems
3.9101 of 5 stars
$282.49
+2.4%
$274.17
-2.9%
+53.6%$46.16B$2.86B59.857,291Positive News
ZS
Zscaler
4.1653 of 5 stars
$291.07
+0.5%
$296.82
+2.0%
+53.0%$45.32B$2.17B-1,119.517,348Positive News

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This page (NASDAQ:BIDU) was last updated on 7/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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