Baidu is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an artificial intelligence (AI) company. Baidu Brain, Co.'s main AI technology engine, has enabled it to develop new AI businesses. Co.'s operations are organized into two segments, consisting of Baidu Core and iQIYI. Within Baidu Core, Co.'s product and services offerings are categorized as follows: Mobile Ecosystem, Baidu Cloud and Apollo Intelligent Driving and Other Growth Initiatives. iQIYI is an online entertainment service. iQIYI's platform features iQIYI original content, as well as a library of other professionally produced content, professional user generated content and user-generated content. We show 1 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our BIDU shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute BIDU market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing BIDU market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing BIDU's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of BIDU versus a peer is one thing; comparing
BIDU market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like BIDU can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching BIDU by allowing them to research the BIDU market cap history. |
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