What Baidu (BIDU) Investors Need to Know

By Emilio Sanchez • Wednesday, December 21 15:00 • Permanent Link

Shares of Internet Content & Information company Baidu climbed 4.3% this afternoon. Here are some quick facts to get you started if you are interested in the stock:

Baidu has logged a -24.6% 52 week change, compared to -18.6% for the S&P 500
BIDU has an average analyst rating of buy and is -31.26% away from its mean target price of $164 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (Eps) is $-7.16, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to -15.7. The Communication Services sector's average P/E ratio is 18.65
The company's forward earnings per share (Eps) is $9.38 and its forward P/E ratio is 12.0
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 0.2 in contrast to the Communication Services sector's average P/B ratio is 2.62
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $8,882,000,000.00 and the average free cash flow growth rate is 5.9%
Baidu's revenues have an average growth rate of 7.0% with operating expenses growing at 13.2%. The company's current operating margins stand at 8.4%

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