Baidu Inc

Baidu Inc ADR is Baidu Inc is an Internet search provider in the Chinese language. Baidu Inc ADR offers a search engine on its Baidu.com Website that enables users to find information including Webpages, news, images, documents, and multimedia files, through links provided on its Website in the Chinese language.

Baidu Inc ADR provides its services mainly in China. The Baidu Core segment offers products like the Baidu App on mobile devices; Baidu Search, Baidu Feed, the Haokan short video app and the Quanmin flash video app. Other products include Baidu Knows – an online community where users can ask questions, Baidu Wiki, Baidu Healthcare Wiki, Baidu Wenku, Baidu Scholar, Baidu Experience, Baidu Post (a social media platform), Baidu Maps, Baidu Drive and more.

Baidu Inc ADR also offers online marketing services, various cloud services and solutions, and infrastructure services. Baidu Inc ADR’s iQIYI segment provides online original and licensed entertainment and video content and online advertising services.

Baidu Inc ADR has a rich history that dates to 2000 when Robin Li and Eric Xu founded it. Baidu Inc ADR has its headquarters in Beijing’s Haidian District. It is one of the largest AI and Internet companies in the world.

Baidu Inc ADR launched a news search engine and picture search engine in 2003, adopting a special identification technology that could identify and group articles. Baidu Inc ADR went public on Wall Street in 2005.

In 2012 Baidu Inc ADR announced a team up with Sina to provide mobile search results and later that year partnered with Qualcomm to offer free cloud storage to Android users with Snapdragon processors. In 2013, Baidu Inc ADR launched its Personal Assistant app, and in 2014 appointed Dr Andrew Ng as chief scientist to lead Baidu Research in Silicon Valley and Beijing.

In 2014, Baidu Inc ADR acquired Brazilian local e-commerce site Peixe Urbano and launched Baidu Busca, a Brazilian version of its search engine. In 2017 Baidu Inc ADR announced Apolong, a self-driving vehicle platform in a bid to help drive the development of autonomous cars and launched a $1.5 billion autonomous driving fund to invest in as many as 100 autonomous driving projects.

Also in 2017, Baidu Inc ADR partnered with Continental and Bosch, auto industry suppliers on automated driving and connected cars and rolled out a portable talking translator that can listen and speak in several different languages. At the same time Baidu Inc ADR led a joint investment of US$12 billion with Alibaba Group, Tencent, JD.com and Didi Chuxing, acquiring 35% of China Unicom’s stakes.

Baidu Inc ADR was listed on the NASDAQ since 2005 and is also listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) since March 2025. Baidu Inc ADR oversees a high-value product portfolio with its communications services and today is one of the most valuable Internet Content, Information and AI companies in the world with a market capitalization of US$ 60 billion recorded in July 2025. In 2025 the total staff compliment for Baidu Inc ADR was more than 41,000.

Baidu Inc ADR is a leading AI company with a strong Internet foundation, one of the few companies in the world that offers a full AI stack, encompassing an infrastructure of AI chips, deep learning framework, core AI capabilities, as well as an open AI platform to facilitate wide application and use.

Over the past two decades, Baidu Inc ADR has built a diversified portfolio of products and services with large excellent market opportunities. Baidu Inc ADR’s portfolio of products and services is accessed by over one billion devices monthly, and its business spans across an ecosystem of hundreds of millions of users, millions of developers, and hundreds of thousands of enterprises.

Baidu App is the top search-plus-feed app in China, reaching 544 million MAUs in December 2025. Baidu Inc ADR’s usage of a strong technology foundation to support an open platform business model adds richness and vibrancy to its ecosystem, strengthening the overall long-term prospect and vitality of the business.

Baidu Inc ADR’s services help communities connect and share knowledge and information. The growth initiatives include intelligent driving including self-driving services, HD Maps, automated valet parking and autonomous navigation pilot, intelligent electric vehicles and robotaxi fleets.

Baidu Inc ADR has strengthened its Internet foundation with Baidu App monthly active users (MAUs) reaching 558 million and daily logged in users reaching over 75% in March 2025. Baidu’s AI building blocks help creators, service providers and merchants to engage better with users. Baidu aims to capitalize on the growth of the Chinese Internet economy, with further progress in its mobile initiatives because of a major global movement toward mobile computing.

Baidu Inc ADR trades its shares on the NASDAQ Stock Market (NASDAQ) under the stock symbol BIDU. Baidu Inc ADR forms part of both the NASDAQ-100 and SEHK. An analysis on the market performance for the first quarter of 2025 indicated a total revenue of CNY 112,663,000,000 along with a gross profit of CNY 57,190,000,000 and EBITDA of CNY 54,311,000,000.

Baidu Inc ADR brings innovation across many sectors, including marketing cloud, enterprise cloud, smart transportation, autonomous driving, smart assistant, and AI chip. Baidu Core delivered a strong first quarter with revenue growing 34% year over year, powered by non-advertising revenue growing 70% year over year.

Baidu ranks Top 3 in cloud services and No.1 in the utilization of renewable energy for data centres, according to Greenpeace, a global environmental organization, based on its April 2025 report. Baidu Inc ADR listed on the HKEX (9888) through a global offering of 95,000,000 Class A ordinary shares, receiving $3.1 billion in net proceeds in March 2025.

Baidu Inc ADR returned US$300 million to shareholders under the 2025 Share Repurchase Programme this year, bringing the cumulative repurchase to $2.2 billion since 2025. Baidu Inc ADR partnered with China’s largest TV network CCTV to implement Baidu AI PaaS to automate video clip creation and tagging from live broadcasting and use a smart assistant to quickly locate desired video content.

Apollo Go begins to charge for robotaxi ride hailing in Cangzhou, based on the distance travelled starting with a minimum fare. The total addressable market for robotaxi ride hailing may reach US$224 billion in China by 2025. Guangzhou Automobile Group joined Apollo’s network of leading automakers to install Apollo Self Driving (ASD) services in its new vehicles.

Guidehouse Insights (previously Navigant Research) has rated Baidu Inc ADR in the “leader” category for the second consecutive year, the only Chinese company honoured among the four AI companies selected globally for this category. Data from this analysis should be weighed against forecasted performance during this pandemic, but for now, prices on shares and in turn dividends remain unaffected, which provides shareholders with assurance that they will have a strong buy-in on NASDAQ.

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