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Share price

82.56 USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026

Market capitalisation

28.11B USD Market dataClose of Oct 15, 2026
Market data
Oct 15, 2026
Filed accounts
FY2025, filed Mar 17, 2026
Ratios computed
Oct 15, 2026
Filed years
10, FY2016 to FY2025
Four kinds of sourceSEC filingCompany statementMarket dataComputedWhat each means
SEC filingFiled with the SEC
Read from a statement the company filed with the SEC, with the form, fiscal year, filing date and accession beside it.
Company statementCompany statement
What the company says about itself in a filing: an 8-K item, the auditor, its own segment names.
Market dataMarket data
Prices, market value and what analysts publish, with the date they are as of.
ComputedComputed by ValueScreener
Worked out by us from the other three, with the inputs and the formula one press away. A score is a research output, not a rating or a recommendation.
Reading

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Overview

What the business is, what it costs, and how it reads on four questions.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Four questions, at a glance

Quality

Return on invested capital, after tax

-1.4% Computed

From the FY2025 filing

Read quality

Valuation

Price to earnings

33.68x Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read valuation

Cash generation

Free cash flow yield

-8.0% Computed

FY2025 accounts, priced at the latest close

Read cash generation

Revenue and net income, as filed

FY2016 Revenue: 70.55B CNYFY2016 Net income: 11.63B CNYFY2017 Revenue: 84.81B CNYFY2017 Net income: 18.30B CNYFY2018 Revenue: 102.28B CNYFY2018 Net income: 27.57B CNYFY2019 Revenue: 107.41B CNYFY2019 Net income: 2.06B CNYFY2020 Revenue: 107.07B CNYFY2020 Net income: 22.47B CNYFY2021 Revenue: 124.49B CNYFY2021 Net income: 10.23B CNYFY2022 Revenue: 123.67B CNYFY2022 Net income: 7.56B CNYFY2023 Revenue: 134.60B CNYFY2023 Net income: 20.32B CNYFY2024 Revenue: 133.13B CNYFY2024 Net income: 23.76B CNYFY2025 Revenue: 129.08B CNYFY2025 Net income: 5.59B CNY
Revenue Net income10 filed fiscal years, from the annual reports; the table in Filings names each document.
Named tests met
2 of 30 Which tests
The business, and the score behind its five axes

The reading, in brief

Is it cheap

Price to earnings is 33.68x at the close of 2026-10-15 on FY2025 figures; the lines are 15.00x (Graham's defensive ceiling) and, by market convention, 10.00x, 25.00x and 40.00x, and this sits between 25.00x and 40.00x.

Today, against the Internet Content & Information industry (33 companies), 33.68x sits at the 72nd percentile; the middle half of that group runs from 5.74x to 36.60x.

Is it good

Return on invested capital was -1.4% in FY2025, in the band labelled "Likely below the cost of capital" (below 8.0%), on lines anchored on Damodaran's cost-of-capital data, suggesting returns below the usual cost of the capital employed.

Today, against the Communication Services sector (85 companies), -1.4% sits at the 26th percentile; the middle half of that group runs from -2.0% to 8.8%.

Is it safe

Net debt to EBITDA was 45.95x in FY2025, in the band labelled "High, covenant territory" (4.00x and above), on lines set by credit-analyst convention, suggesting debt in the range lenders write covenants around.

No peer distribution is published for net debt to EBITDA today; the year-by-year comparison uses the filed annual figures.

Year by year against peers
Whether Baidu, Inc.'s return on invested capital stayed above the median of the Communication Services sector, year by year. (FY2023 to FY2025, 3 fiscal years of Baidu, Inc. with a comparable figure)
The direction
Which way Baidu, Inc.'s return on equity has moved, and how steadily. (FY2016 to FY2025, 10 filed years of Baidu, Inc.)
What could explain it
What in Baidu, Inc.'s filed statements could explain the movements. (5 readings drawn from the statement lines Baidu, Inc. filed)
What to check next
What to check next on Baidu, Inc., and where in its filings. (6 questions for Baidu, Inc.)
In one paragraph
One paragraph on Baidu, Inc.'s returns, cash, balance sheet and price. (12 of sixteen figures read for Baidu, Inc.)

These are BIDU’s filed figures. The research desk says what they mean, against peers and its own years, with what to check next.

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What changed

The newest filing, what it moved, and when the next one is due.

SEC filingCompany statement

The newest accounts on file are the FY2025 annual report: 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-109289.

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Quality

The returns the business earns on its capital, and the margins behind them.

SEC filingComputed

Baidu, Inc: returns on capital and margins, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Return on invested capital, after tax-1.4% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on equity2.1% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on capital employed, pre-tax-1.6% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Return on assets1.2% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Gross margin43.9% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Operating margin-4.5% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Net margin4.3% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
BIDU 4.3%
TWLO 0.7%SNAP -7.8%DASH 6.8%NBIS 15.6%PINS 9.9%
-7.8%15.6%
Net margin: BIDU against the 5 companies named under Valuation context, each as filed for its own latest year. Placement only: no average is drawn.

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Financial strength

What it owes against what it owns, and whether it can meet what falls due.

SEC filingMarket dataComputedCompany statement

Baidu, Inc: leverage, liquidity and distress, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Debt to equity0.36 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Current ratio1.76 ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Quick ratio1.76 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Interest coverage
Why n/m

Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).

n/m ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Altman Z-score1.13 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Net debt-18.19B ComputedFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Total assets 449.16BTotal liabilities 159.43BShareholders' equity 266.33BOwnsOwes, and equity
Total assets Total liabilities Shareholders’ equity
The balance sheet, line by line

Financial health

What Baidu, Inc owned and owed at the end of fiscal 2025, from a copy of its balance sheet that names no SEC filing (market data).

Baidu, Inc: balance sheet position
Total assets449.16B Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named
Total liabilities159.43B Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named
Shareholders' equity266.33B Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named
Cash115.27B Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named
Total debt97.08B Market dataFY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named
Net debt-18.19B
Current ratio1.76
Debt to equity0.36
  • Interest cover: FY2025: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).

Read from the filed balance sheet for each year, with the income statement of the same year supplying operating profit where a ratio needs it. Nothing here is a view on whether this company is sound.

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Valuation context

What the market charges for it, against its own record and companies like it.

Market dataSEC filingComputed

Baidu, Inc: what the market charges, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Price to earnings33.68x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
P/E on trailing twelve months
Why n/a

A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · Trailing four quarters, each as known on the day; the quarterly filings are listed under Filings
Price to book0.71x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Price to sales1.46x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Enterprise value to EBIT
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Enterprise value to EBITDA165.31x ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Price to earnings over growth
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Diluted earnings per share
Why n/a

The FY2025 filing carries no diluted earnings per share we could read.

n/a FiledFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Graham number
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289

We publish no fair value or price target of our own. Value BIDU on your own assumptions in the DCF workbench, starting from the filed figures.

Its own record, and companies like it

Valuation

What the market charges for Baidu, Inc today, and the multiples it has carried. No value of ours: the figures are the filings’ and the market’s.

Baidu, Inc: valuation
Share price82.56 USD
Market capitalisation28.11B USD
Enterprise value to EBITDA165.31x
Graham numbern/a
Diluted earnings per sharen/a

Price to earnings on trailing twelve months: A trailing figure needs 4 filed quarters with the dates they were filed on, and we hold 0 for this company. Nothing is drawn rather than a line built from fewer.

Companies like Baidu, Inc

  1. Twilio Inc. (TWLO)Market cap 41.99B USD
  2. Snap Inc. (SNAP)Market cap 10.88B USD
  3. DoorDash, Inc. (DASH)Market cap 83.65B USD
  4. Nebius Group N.V. (NBIS)Market cap 45.22B USD
  5. Pinterest, Inc. (PINS)Market cap 12.85B USD

Same industry (Internet Content & Information) and size band (Large, 10B to 200B), nearest in market value, net margin and current ratio. Each of those counts equally, by how many of the companies considered sit between the two on it. Closest first: the order is likeness and nothing else.

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Cash generation

Whether profit arrives as cash, and what is paid back to shareholders.

SEC filingComputed

Baidu, Inc: cash generation and what is paid out, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Free cash flow yield-8.0% ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Free cash flow-15.09B CNY ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Free cash flow margin-11.7% ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Dividend yield
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026 · FY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289
Payout ratio
Why n/a

We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

n/a ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
FY2016 Free cash flow: 18.29B CNYFY2016 Net income: 11.63B CNYFY2017 Free cash flow: 28.05B CNYFY2017 Net income: 18.30B CNYFY2018 Free cash flow: 27.20B CNYFY2018 Net income: 27.57B CNYFY2019 Free cash flow: 22.03B CNYFY2019 Net income: 2.06B CNYFY2020 Free cash flow: 19.12B CNYFY2020 Net income: 22.47B CNYFY2021 Free cash flow: 9.23B CNYFY2021 Net income: 10.23B CNYFY2022 Free cash flow: 17.88B CNYFY2022 Net income: 7.56B CNYFY2023 Free cash flow: 25.43B CNYFY2023 Net income: 20.32B CNYFY2024 Free cash flow: 13.10B CNYFY2024 Net income: 23.76B CNYFY2025 Free cash flow: -15.09B CNYFY2025 Net income: 5.59B CNY
Free cash flow Net incomeProfit that arrives as cash stands level with net income; a gap year after year is worth reading about.

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Filings

Every figure, the year it is for and the document it was read from.

SEC filingMarket data

The filed figures

Computed from the accounts this company filed with the SEC and, in a ratio with a price in it, the last close, dated on this page. Every filed figure below carries the fiscal year and the filing date its accounts were read from, and every blank carries the reason it is blank. Nothing here is a view on this company.

Baidu, Inc.: the eight ratios, with the fiscal year and filing date behind each.
FigureValueYearAs of
33.68xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
0.71xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a Operating profit is zero or negative, so there is no profit for a buyer's price to be a multiple of.
-8.0%FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-1.4%FY2025Mar 17, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed cash flow statement reports no dividend paid at all. That is not the same as a filed zero, and we will not read it as one.
0.36FY2025n/a
1.76FY2025n/a
1.46xFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/aFY2025Oct 15, 2026
n/a The filed income statement reports no earnings per share.
1.13FY2025Oct 15, 2026
-2.75FY2025Mar 17, 2026
1/9FY2025Mar 17, 2026

The figures are computed from the accounts for fiscal 2025, the newest full year on file. 10 filed fiscal years on record, FY2016 to FY2025, from SEC EDGAR. Prices as of Oct 15, 2026. Ratios recomputed Oct 15, 2026. Two facts, because a recompute is not a fresh quote.

The year and the filing date name the statement each figure’s accounts are read from, and they stand even where the figure itself could not be computed: the line beneath a blank says what that statement did not carry. A figure’s name opens its formula and the filings behind it; a statement that names no SEC filing has no filing date, and reads n/a.

Ten years of filed figures, year by year

Ten years of filed figures

10 filed fiscal years, FY2016 to FY2025, read from the annual reports Baidu, Inc filed with the SEC. Each year names its filing. Amounts in CNY, as filed.

Baidu, Inc: revenue, earnings, free cash flow and returns, by fiscal year, with the filing each year was read from
YearRevenueOperating incomeNet incomeEPS, dilutedFree cash flowOperating marginReturn on equityFiling
FY2025129.08B-5.82B5.59Bn/a-15.09B-4.5%2.1%20-F, Mar 17, 20260001193125-26-109289
FY2024133.13B21.27B23.76Bn/a13.10B16.0%9.0%20-F, Mar 28, 20250001193125-25-066199
FY2023134.60B21.86B20.32Bn/a25.43B16.2%8.3%20-F, Mar 15, 20240001193125-24-068527
FY2022123.67B15.91B7.56Bn/a17.88B12.9%3.4%20-F, Mar 22, 20230001193125-23-076192
FY2021124.49B10.52B10.23Bn/a9.23B8.4%4.8%20-F, Mar 28, 20220001193125-22-086036
FY2020107.07B14.34B22.47Bn/a19.12B13.4%12.3%20-F, Mar 9, 20210001193125-21-074038
FY2019107.41B6.31B2.06Bn/a22.03B5.9%1.3%20-F, Mar 13, 20200001193125-20-073092
FY2018102.28B15.53B27.57Bn/a27.20B15.2%16.9%20-F, Mar 15, 20190001193125-19-076779
FY201784.81B15.69B18.30Bn/a28.05B18.5%15.9%20-F, Mar 15, 20180001193125-18-084050
FY201670.55B10.05B11.63Bn/a18.29B14.2%12.6%20-F, Mar 31, 20170001193125-17-105041
  • Revenue, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: 6.9%
  • Earnings, compound annual growth FY2016 to FY2025: -7.8%
  • Earnings per share: Fewer than two filed years carry earnings per share.
  • Free cash flow: Free cash flow was not positive in both 2016 and 2025, so a compound rate across the window is not defined. Both figures are in the table.

Every figure in this section is a line of a filed annual statement or a ratio of two of them. Nothing here is estimated or smoothed. Earnings per share filed before a share split are put on today's share count, and say so. Nothing here is a verdict on the company.

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Risks and guardrails

The accounting screens, the published tests, and the lines you can set to be told.

ComputedCompany statement

Baidu, Inc: accounting screens and published tests, each with its source
FigureValue, source and document
Beneish M-score-2.75 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Piotroski F-score1/9 ComputedFY2025 20-F, filed Mar 17, 2026, 0001193125-26-109289 · FY2025 market data, supplied Mar 8, 2026, no SEC filing named, accession n/a
Named tests met2 of 30 Computed
Beta1.34 ComputedClose of Oct 15, 2026

The named tests

Of 30 tests value investors published: 2 met, 26 not met, 2 we could not complete. Counts, never a score: a single figure would have to decide that meeting one investor’s criteria and meeting another’s are worth the same.

Which tests, by name(all 30)
Meets
Book or below, low debt (Walter Schloss); Cheapest quarter on P/B (David Dreman)
Does not
Defensive investor (Benjamin Graham); Deep value; Large cap, low P/E; Earnings yield and ROIC (Joel Greenblatt); High F-score, low P/B (Joseph Piotroski); Three forensic scores; Low PEG, low debt (Peter Lynch); High returns and growth; Gross margin, turnover (Robert Novy-Marx); EV/EBITDA and coverage; High yield, low payout; Dividends and buybacks; Low beta, profitable; ROIC at or above WACC; Near the 52-week low; Z-score and coverage (Edward Altman); Two thirds of NCAV (Benjamin Graham); High returns, low debt; Owner earnings yield; High return on tangibles; Low P/S, rising earnings (James O'Shaughnessy); Tangible book or below; Cash-flow yield and ROIC; Clean books, high ROIC; Cheapest quarter on P/E (David Dreman); Low P/E, growth, yield (John Neff)
Not measured
P/E times P/B (Benjamin Graham); Cash-covered dividend. A test with a figure we could not read is incomplete, never met and never failed.
Figures we could not read(11)
  • Positive Earnings Streak: The latest filed year has no per-share earnings we can read; the test needs 10.
  • EV/EBIT: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • PEG Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Eps Growth 5Y: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Interest Coverage: Operating income is zero or below, so there is no operating profit to cover the interest bill and coverage is not meaningful (n/m).
  • Dividend Yield: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Payout Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Share Count Change Yoy: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Price To Graham: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Coverage Ratio: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.
  • Dividend Streak: We do not hold this figure for this company, so there is nothing to show.

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Declared positions

Whether anybody here owns this company.

Positions declared by Javier Sanz Alvarez: no holding in any company shown here, as of October 3, 2026.

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Next step

What to do with what you have read.

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What this cannot tell you

  • 11 figures could not be read on this company, among them Positive Earnings Streak, EV/EBIT, PEG Ratio. Each blank in the table above names the rest, with its reason. 2 named tests come back incomplete because of them, which is neither met nor missed.

And the one that is true of all of it: This is what the numbers say today. It cannot tell you the day one of them stops being true. Nothing here can, because the reasons are not written down.

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