The $43B Big Pharma Story is Starting Over-With a New Player
Big Pharma once paid $43B for a small biotech with a similar platform. Now, a new company is following that same playbook, leveraging its patented delivery technology to attract partnerships and near-term revenue potential.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 278,230,000 |
| Shares Float | 277,860,000 |
| Shares Short | 7,670,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 350% |
| Institution Holdings | 22.40% |
About Baidu Inc ADR
Baidu, Inc. provides online marketing and non-marketing value added services through an internet platform in the People's Republic of China. It operates in two segments, Baidu Core and iQIYI. The Baidu Core segment offers search-based, feed-based, and other online marketing services; cloud services; and other products and services based on AI. This segment operates Baidu App that enables users to access search, feed, content, and other services through mobile devices; and Haokan, which allows users to upload, view, search, rate, share, favorite, comment, and follow, as well as offers a range of various user generated and professionally produced short videos. It also provides a portfolio of knowledge and information products, including Baidu Wiki, which features columns and videos, such as encyclopedia of intangible cultural heritage, digital museum and recorder of history; Baidu Knows, an online community where users can pose questions to other users, such as individuals, professionals, and enterprises; Baidu Experience, an online platform where users share daily knowledge and experience; ERNIE Bot; and Baidu Post, a social media that allows users to post text, image, audio and video content, and reply to original curation forming valuable discussion groups. In addition, the company offers Baidu Apollo auto solutions; DuerOS smart assistant for the Chinese language; Apollo Go autonomous ride-hailing service; online marketing services; Baidu Maps, a voice-enabled mobile app providing users with travel-related services; and AI chips. The iQIYI segment operates an online entertainment video platform that offers original, professionally produced, and professional user generated and user-generated content. The company was incorporated in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People's Republic of China.
General
| Name | Baidu Inc ADR |
| Ticker | BIDU |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Communication Services |
| Industry | Internet Content & Information |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 35,900 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 152.94 |
| Market Cap | 32,973,000,000 |
| PE Ratio | 36.65 |
| PEG Ratio | 2.59 |
| EBITDA | 28,821,999,616 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 53.92 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 10.76 |
| Profit Margin | 6.28% |
| Operating Margin | 9.78 |
| Return on Assets | 0.02 |
| Return on Equity | 0.03 |
| Revenue | 18.1B |
| Earnings Per Share | 11.01 |
| Revenue Per Share | 380.98 |
| Gross Profit | 58,384,998,400 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | -0.07 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 10.87 |
| Forward PE | 17.92 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 0.32 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 1.08 |
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