Top China Companies To Own For 2016

Top China Companies To Own For 2016: Baidu Inc.(BIDU)

Baidu, Inc. provides Chinese and Japanese language Internet search services. Its search services enable users to find relevant information online, including Web pages, news, images, multimedia files, and blogs through the links provided on its Websites. The company also offers online community-based products and entertainment platforms; an instant messaging service; and a consumer-oriented e-commerce platform. In addition, it designs and delivers online marketing services and auction-based P4P services that enable its customers to reach users who search for information related to their products or services. The company serves online marketing customers consisting of small and medium sized enterprises, large domestic corporations, and Chinese divisions or subsidiaries of multinational corporations primarily operating in the medical, machinery, education, franchising, electronic products, e-commerce, ticketing, tourism, information technology, consumer products, real estate, entertainment, and financial services industries. It sells its online marketing services directly, as well as through its distribution network. The company was formerly known as Baidu.com, Inc. and changed its name to Baidu, Inc. in December 2008. Baidu, Inc. was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People?s Republic of China.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Rich Smith]

  Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU  ) -- the so-called "Google of China" -- announced today that it has agreed to pay $160 million cash to purchase a 59% interest in the Groupon-like Nuomi Holdings subsidiary of Chinese social networking company Renren (NYSE: RENN  ) .

• [By MONEYMORNING]

  Then there's Baidu Inc. (ADR) (Nasdaq: BIDU), China's largest search engine with a market share of more than 60%. Baidu also ranks as the world's second-largest search firm behind Google and handles 19% of the world's online search traffic.

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  This is where many savvy investors would expect to hear the name Baidu Inc. (NASDAQ:BIDU)... China's web-search giant, which owns about 63% of that nation's search market in addition to a good-sized piece of its growing mobile search market. BIDU isn't the stock you're going to hear touted as the next Google today, however. No, the next Google - or as close to it - as you're going to get anyway - worth some speculative investment dollars is a company called Yandex NV (NASDAQ:YNDX).

• [By Jason Moser and Brendan Mathews]

  Looking back at Baidu's (NASDAQ: BIDU  ) most recent earnings it reached 160 million daily active mobile search users for the quarter, up from 130 million two quarters ago, and advertisers are spending more. With features like Baidu Maps and Baidu Cloud, this is a Google-like company. However, if we compare the two valuation-wise, Baidu trades for around 10 times sales versus Google's 6 times sales. One of the concerns today is that Baidu's sales growth is coming at a cost of investing in the business. Add that to the fact that it is a Chinese company, which means that there is less transparency and a far greater risk of government intervention, and it's going to be a volatile holding.

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