BaiduBIDU
About: Baidu is the largest internet search engine in China with over 50% share of the search engine market in 2024 per web analytics firm, Statcounter. The firm generated 72% of core revenue from online marketing services from its search engine in 2023. Outside its search engine, Baidu is a technology-driven company and its other major growth initiatives are artificial intelligence cloud, video streaming services, voice recognition technology, and autonomous driving.
Employees: 45,500
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
82% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 100 | Existing positions closed: 55
25% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 152 | Existing positions reduced: 122
14% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $1.61B | Put options by funds: $1.41B
11% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.85B [Q4 2024] → $6.49B (+$639M) [Q1 2025]
9% more funds holding
Funds holding: 428 [Q4 2024] → 465 (+37) [Q1 2025]
7% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 15 [Q4 2024] → 16 (+1) [Q1 2025]
0.27% more ownership
Funds ownership: 3.04% [Q4 2024] → 3.31% (+0.27%) [Q1 2025]
Research analyst outlook
3 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
3 analyst ratings
Citigroup Alicia Yap | 60%upside $138 | Buy Maintained | 22 May 2025 |
Barclays Jiong Shao | 2%downside $84 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 22 May 2025 |
Benchmark Fawne Jiang | 40%upside $120 | Buy Maintained | 22 May 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 29 articles about BIDU published over the past 30 days









