Baidu

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Market context

BIDU · NASDAQ · last close $88.55 (16 Sep 2026)

-20.3% over this window · S&P 500 +0.9% (dashed line)

Price moves around recent events

21 Jul Multiple AI model releases and regulatory developments across OpenAI, Anthropic, and competitors Other

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15 Jul Apple Intelligence receives regulatory approval to launch in China through partnerships with Alibaba and Baidu Feature update

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Price history

BIDU · daily closes

$88.55 -28.5% · 12 months 52-week high $165.30 · low $88.23

12-month span · monthly close · 16 Sep 2025–16 Sep 2026

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Previous 24 hours · 5-minute close +0.84%

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Read BIDU is down 28.5% over twelve months, trading -46.4% from its 52-week high ($165.30, 22 Jan) — the strongest month was January at +17.2%.

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Latest earnings

BIDU · quarterly EPS

Next report Mon 16 Nov · before market open Q3 FY2026 est EPS 8.17 est revenue $30.8B 1 month from now

Q2 2026 latest

7.22 EPS

est 10.12 -28.6%

Q1 2026

12.06 EPS

est 11.80 +2.2%

Q4 2025

10.62 EPS

est 9.43 +12.6%

Q3 2025

11.12 EPS

est 7.80 +42.6%

The TLDRocket take Q2 2026 · written 18 Aug 2026

Baidu just snapped a three-quarter beat streak with a thud: EPS of 7.15 against an estimate of 11.05, a 35% miss. That's a sharp reversal from Q1's modest beat and Q3 2025's blowout 42.6% surprise, and the swing is big enough that it's worth noting we don't have the underlying revenue or segment detail here to say whether this is an AI-spending crunch, a one-off writedown, or something else entirely — the estimate table alone doesn't explain the gap, and I won't guess.

What we do know is Baidu has been busy on the product side while this number cooked. It's the Apple partner for localized Apple Intelligence features in China, a deal that matters because Apple's $20.5 billion in Greater China sales gives Baidu a shot at default distribution most AI labs would kill for — though Apple hedged by also inking Alibaba's Qwen for the same rollout, so Baidu isn't the sole beneficiary. Baidu's also shipping smaller, practical tools: the 3-billion-parameter Unlimited-OCR model for document parsing, and its chatbot is one of several (alongside Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent's) that Chinese students are leaning on to pick colleges after the gaokao exam. None of that is small-scale hype — it's real usage — but it also hasn't been enough to stop this quarter's earnings miss, which is the more immediate story here.

The pattern to watch is whether this miss is a blip or a trend. Three straight beats followed by a 35% whiff is the kind of thing that either reflects lumpy AI infrastructure costs (common across the sector right now) or a genuine slowdown in whatever's driving Baidu's core ad and cloud business. With only four quarters of data and no revenue breakdown supplied, that's an open question rather than a conclusion.

Read alongside: Unlimited-OCR Apple

Not investment advice. TLDRocket's market and earnings analysis is automated editorial commentary on public information. It can be wrong or out of date, it is never a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, and it should not be relied on for investment decisions.