Communication Services
Live Price
Offline$15.95
+11.97% today
1Y Change
+52.92%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Coverage: 250 bars · Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Baidu, Inc. (BAIDF) is a Communication Services stock with a market cap of $296.53B. The stock last traded around $15.95 and up 52.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 → Jun 24, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -5.5%, EPS growth of -79.8%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -5.5%, EPS -79.8%, free cash flow -212.2% with operating margin -4.6% and ROIC -1.2%. Valuation already assumes a fairly strong business story at P/E 63.7 and price/sales 2.4. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines BAIDF price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Communication Services peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
BAIDF
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
BAIDF Max Drawdown
-38.74%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for BAIDF and SPY.
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$124.5B
+0.7% YoY
FY Net Income
$10.2B
+35.3% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$8.9B
-50.0% YoY
Revenue Growth
-5.5%
EPS Growth
-79.8%
Gross Margin
43.9%
Net Margin
3.7%
Income statement
CNY
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 125.7B | 133.1B | 134.6B | 123.7B | 124.5B |
| Gross Profit | 55.2B | 67.0B | 69.6B | 59.7B | 60.2B |
| Operating Income | 10.1B | 21.3B | 21.9B | 15.9B | 10.5B |
| EBITDA | 17.8B | 35.9B | 36.5B | 30.7B | 27.1B |
| Net Income | 4.5B | 23.8B | 20.3B | 7.6B | 10.2B |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
CNY
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 24.8B | 24.8B | 25.2B | 53.2B | 36.9B |
| Total Assets | 449.4B | 427.8B | 406.8B | 391.0B | 380.0B |
| Total Liabilities | 159.5B | 144.2B | 144.2B | 153.2B | 156.1B |
| Shareholder Equity | 266.5B | 263.6B | 243.6B | 223.5B | 211.5B |
| Total Debt | 101.2B | 79.3B | 84.6B | 91.4B | 91.5B |
| Net Debt | 76.4B | 54.5B | 59.4B | 38.2B | 54.7B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
20.1B
-23.1% YoY
Capital Expenditures
11.2B
-33.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
8.9B
-50.0% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
43.9%
Operating Margin
-4.6%
Net Margin
3.7%
ROE
1.7%
Debt / Equity
0.38x
Next Step
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