The stock of Baidu Inc ADR (BIDU) has seen a -1.81% decrease in the past week, with a 7.79% gain in the past month, and a 1.60% flourish in the past quarter. The volatility ratio for the week is 2.08%, and the volatility levels for the past 30 days are at 2.16% for BIDU. The simple moving average for the past 20 days is 0.04% for BIDU’s stock, with a 0.31% simple moving average for the past 200 days.
Is It Worth Investing in Baidu Inc ADR (NASDAQ: BIDU) Right Now?
Baidu Inc ADR (NASDAQ: BIDU) has a higher price-to-earnings ratio of 9.76x compared to its average ratio. BIDU has 36-month beta value of 0.35. Analysts have mixed views on the stock, with 17 analysts rating it as a “buy,” 3 as “overweight,” 12 as “hold,” and 1 as “sell.”
The public float for BIDU is 279.88M, and currently, short sellers hold a 2.82% ratio of that float. The average trading volume of BIDU on May 20, 2025 was 4.81M shares.
BIDU) stock’s latest price update
Baidu Inc ADR (NASDAQ: BIDU) has seen a rise in its stock price by 0.21 in relation to its previous close of 89.25. However, the company has experienced a -1.81% decline in its stock price over the last five trading sessions. https://247wallst.com reported 2025-05-19 that Michael Burry is a hedge fund manager renowned for founding Scion Capital and predicting the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. His foresight, detailed in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, which was made into an Oscar-winning film, earned him $100 million personally and $700 million for investors by shorting mortgage-backed securities. Burry’s contrarian approach, rooted in meticulous research and value investing inspired by Benjamin Graham, also sparked the GameStop (NYSE:GME) meme stock frenzy in 2021 through early investments. Known for spotting market bubbles, he has warned of risks in passive investing and inflation. His renamed Scion Asset Management hedge fund just filed its latest quarterly report, and Burry made headlines again because he sold 12 of the 13 stocks in his $77.4 million portfolio, including stakes in Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) and Molina Healthcare (NYSE:MOH). More to the point, Burry is once again aggressively shorting the market. 24/7 Wall St. Insights: Michael Burry runs the Scion Asset Management hedge fund who gained fame for shorting the housing market during the subprime mortgage debacle in 2008. Burry made a number of big bets on Chinese tech stocks that he started turning bearish on late last year. In Scion’s latest SEC filing, it showed Burry went extremely negative by selling off virtually all of his stocks and buying put options on many of them. Nvidia made early investors rich, but there is a new class of ‘Next Nvidia Stocks’ that could be even better. Click here to learn more. Going Negative Burry’s portfolio is typically fairly concentrated. Where many hedge funds hold dozens, if not hundreds of stocks, Scion Asset held just a baker’s dozen. In addition to Alibaba and Molina, Burry also owned several large positions in Chinese stocks, including e-commerce site JD.com (NASDAQ:JD), search engine giant Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU), and PDD Holdings (NASDAQ:PDD), the owner of online shopping platforms Temu and Pinduoduo. The sale of these companies suggests Burry had become more bearish, but not necessarily on the U.S. market. Rather, it is on China’s economy that his outlook became more pessimistic. He actually began selling down most of his Chinese holdings late last year, but he didn’t move to a cash position. Instead, he began betting heavily against them by buying put options on the stocks, also betting Trip.com (NASDAQ:TCOM), a Chinese online travel agent, would go down as well. A Bet Against Tech There was one U.S. company that Burry went negative on as well: Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA). In fact, the put options he holds on the artificial intelligence chipmaker are the largest position in Scion’s portfolio now, valued at over $97.5 million and accounting for 49% of the portfolio. Alibaba is the next closest position with a $26.4 million value, or 13% of the total. A put option is a financial contract giving the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying asset (in this case, the stock) at a specified price called the strike price before or on a set expiration date. Investors use puts to hedge against price declines or speculate on falling markets. If the asset’s price drops below the strike price, the buyer can sell at the higher strike, profiting from the difference. If the price rises, the buyer may let the option expire, losing only the premium paid. Puts are key tools for managing risk or betting on bearish trends. Delayed Reaction Because 13F-HR filings — the equivalent of a quarterly report for institutional investment managers — are looking in the rearview mirror, they only tell us what happened in the past. In Scion Asset Management’s case, it reflects its first quarter activity. All of these trades could have occurred in early January, and despite only just filing the report, Burry’s portfolio could look markedly different today. For example, Alibaba’s stock tumbled sharply in March and early April, before bouncing higher again. BABA stock is up 47% so far in 2025. Both JD.com and Baidu followed a similar pattern, though not to the same degree. JD stock is down 3% year-to-date while BIDU is up 6%. Although the Chinese stocks rallied early in the year due to the DeepSeek AI breakthrough development, its purported low-cost challenge to large language models caused Nvidia to plunge. Nvidia suffered the steepest decline, falling as low as $86 a share, or 30% below where it started the year, before rebounding. It is essentially flat in 2025, having surged 55% from its low point. Burry may have sold all of his put options on these stocks when their prices were below the strike price. Key Takeaway It’s interesting that Burry sold all the stocks in his portfolio, except one. The hedge fund operator held onto his position in cosmetics giant Estee Lauder (NYSE:EL), and actually doubled his stake in its stock, buying another 100,000 shares for a total value of $13.2 million. Yet Burry bet so heavily against the Chinese stocks that EL now represents less than 7% of Scion Asset Management’s holdings, whereas before it represented nearly 10%. This is not the same as Burry’s Big Short bet 17 years ago that brought him fame and fortune, but his moves last quarter were notable because of their obvious negative implications for China. 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BIDU Trading at -0.28% from the 50-Day Moving Average
After a stumble in the market that brought BIDU to its low price for the period of the last 52 weeks, the company was unable to rebound, for now settling with -23.06% of loss for the given period.
Volatility was left at 2.16%, however, over the last 30 days, the volatility rate increased by 2.08%, as shares surge +5.22% for the moving average over the last 20 days. Over the last 50 days, in opposition, the stock is trading -3.34% lower at present.
During the last 5 trading sessions, BIDU fell by -1.75%, which changed the moving average for the period of 200-days by +3.56% in comparison to the 20-day moving average, which settled at $89.41. In addition, Baidu Inc ADR saw 6.08% in overturn over a single year, with a tendency to cut further gains.
Insider Trading
Reports are indicating that there were more than several insider trading activities at BIDU starting from James Ding, who proposed sale 7,000 shares at the price of $104.20 back on Mar 18 ’25. After this action, James Ding now owns shares of Baidu Inc ADR, valued at $729,400 using the latest closing price.
Callinicos Brent, the Director of Baidu Inc ADR, proposed sale 2,986 shares at $90.16 during a trade that took place back on Feb 19 ’25, which means that Callinicos Brent is holding shares at $269,218 based on the most recent closing price.
Stock Fundamentals for BIDU
Current profitability levels for the company are sitting at:
- 0.16 for the present operating margin
- 0.5 for the gross margin
The net margin for Baidu Inc ADR stands at 0.15. The total capital return value is set at 0.06. Equity return is now at value 9.14, with 5.56 for asset returns.
Based on Baidu Inc ADR (BIDU), the company’s capital structure generated 0.23 points at debt to capital in total, while cash flow to debt ratio is standing at 0.27. The debt to equity ratio resting at 0.3. The interest coverage ratio of the stock is 9.67.
Currently, EBITDA for the company is 35.95 billion with net debt to EBITDA at 1.63. When we switch over and look at the enterprise to sales, we see a ratio of 2.06. The receivables turnover for the company is 9.56for trailing twelve months and the total asset turnover is 0.32. The liquidity ratio also appears to be rather interesting for investors as it stands at 2.09.
Conclusion
To put it simply, Baidu Inc ADR (BIDU) has had a mixed performance in recent times. Analysts have a bullish opinion on the stock, with some rating it as a “buy” and others as a “hold”. It’s important to note that the stock is currently trading at a significant distance from its 50-day moving average and its 52-week high.
