BIDU pre-earnings setup: Baidu reports earnings on Nov 16, 2026, 7 days out of our Nov 9 morning scan, and the row carries a score of 83 at rank 15 of the 51 names we track. The price on our scan was $79.76, the book is 30 analysts with 24 of them on the buy side, and the options market is pricing an 11.0% move over a fortnight.

That is a strong setup by the numbers this scanner measures, with two things worth knowing before the print. There is no trailing multiple on the row, and the stock gave back 2.58% of its Nov 6 close in the first minutes of this session.

When does BIDU report earnings, and is it a buy before the print?

Baidu reports on Nov 16, 2026, 7 days from the November 9 morning scan, and our table still carries it with the print date set to November 16 and 7 days left on it.

On the evidence this page collects, it is a candidate rather than a recommendation. The score, the book and the priced event all point the same way, and the price has been recovering out of a soft month. What argues against is the multiple the stock trades on and the fact that the recovery ran into the print rather than away from it.

The row, 7 days out

Score 83 at rank 15 of 51, sector Communication Services, print date November 16, earnings sentiment Positive, short interest 4.0% of float, market capitalization $27.15 billion, implied volatility 70.5, and a scan price of $79.76.

Decomposed, the 83 is 25 points for analyst coverage, 20 for buy-side conviction, 12 for the 6 strong buys, 11.0 for an 11.0% fourteen-day implied move, and the full 15 for a Positive sentiment reading. That totals 83.

Those are near-maximum marks in three of the five columns. Coverage is maxed out at 25 of 25, the 80% buy-side share earns the full 20 points of conviction, and the sentiment reading takes the last 15. The strong buys are worth 12 of the 20 available and the implied move adds 11.0 of a possible 15.

What the options are pricing

The chain cost $4.70 at the money on a four-day expiry, which puts implied volatility at 70.5 and the straddle at 5.9% of the share price before any scaling.

Scaled to the print, the market is pricing 5.1% over three days, 7.8% over seven and 11.0% over fourteen. Around the $79.76 scan price that is a band of $75.69 to $83.83 at three days, $73.54 to $85.98 at seven and $70.97 to $88.55 at fourteen.

That is a wide event for a $27.15 billion company with 4.0% of float short. It is also wide relative to what the stock has actually done: the whole of the past month ended 4.05% lower.

What the analyst book says

Thirty ratings, and 24 of them are buys or strong buys: 6 strong buys, 18 buys, 5 holds and a single sell. That is 80% on the buy side, level with CEG and behind BILI at 96.7% and NU at 82.6%.

The conviction column is worth the full 20 points because of the coverage as much as the direction. With 30 analysts on the name, the buy-side share is the one column where Baidu is close to the maximum the scanner can award.

Sentiment reads Positive, which on this scanner is the average earnings surprise across the last four quarters. Whatever the market thinks of the stock today, the company has been beating.

Where the price has been sitting this month

The month was a slide and then a sharp two-week recovery. Baidu closed at $85.33 on Oct 9, which was the high close of the month, and fell to $76.40 on Oct 30, the low.

From that low it came back hard: $76.97 on Nov 3, $80.43 on Nov 4, $79.48 on Nov 5 and $81.87 on Nov 6. The week into Nov 6 was the best week of the month at 7.16%, and the month overall is still 4.05% down.

Our 6:33 a.m. PT scan had the stock at $79.76, 2.58% below that Nov 6 close, so the recovery gave back a slice of itself before the session got going.

Baidu against the other China names on our table

Eight names in the universe are China listings. On forward earnings, Baidu at 11.5 times is not the cheapest of them: MOMO is at 4.5, JD at 7.1, ZTO and TME at 9.2, and BILI at 11.2.

On growth-adjusted earnings the order tightens. Baidu's PEG of 0.72 is the third cheapest among those eight, behind BILI at 0.31 and JD at 0.59, and well clear of IQ at 2.48 and TCEHY at 1.37. Fourteen names on the whole table carry a lower ratio.

The calendar matters more than the multiple here. Baidu and IQ print on the same day, JD, TME and ZTO on Nov 17, TCEHY on Nov 18, BILI on Nov 24 and MOMO on Dec 7, so Baidu's November 16 result is the first of the eight China names to report this autumn.

Baidu is also the third-strongest of that group on the score, behind BILI at 87 and JD at 85, and ahead of ZTO at 71, TME at 65, MOMO at 62, IQ at 53 and TCEHY at 42.

What has to change before the November 16 print

The one column that can still move on its own is the event. At 11.0 points the implied move is worth more than the 12 the strong buys earn, and a wider straddle on a 4.0% short base can widen it further before the print.

The price is the second lever. The stock is 7.16% higher on the week and 4.05% lower on the month, and it closed Nov 6 at $81.87 with the 3-day band bottoming at $75.69.

What is not a lever is the book or the sentiment reading. Twenty-four of thirty ratings on the buy side and a Positive sentiment reading are already in the score, and neither of them changes before Nov 16.

The table behind this page is rebuilt every morning at 6:33 a.m. PT and published row by row at our open data.

So BIDU pre-earnings setup is a score of 83 built on 30 ratings with 80% on the buy side, an 11.0% move priced over a fortnight, and a price that has recovered 7.16% in a week off the low of the month.

Whether that makes Baidu a buy in the seven days before the print is a decision the reader makes, and this page does not make it for them.

Questions on Baidu before the November 16 print

How strong is the analyst book on BIDU?

Thirty ratings: 6 strong buys, 18 buys, 5 holds and one sell. That is 80% on the buy side, which is worth the full 20 points the conviction column can award and puts Baidu level with CEG on that measure.

How much movement is priced into November 16?

5.1% over three days, 7.8% over seven and 11.0% over fourteen, off a $4.70 straddle on a four-day expiry. Around the $79.76 scan price that is $75.69 to $83.83 at three days and $70.97 to $88.55 at fourteen.

What is Baidu's multiple against the other China names?

11.5 times forward earnings, against 4.5 at MOMO, 7.1 at JD, 9.2 at ZTO and TME, and 11.2 at BILI. The PEG of 0.72 is the better comparison, cheaper than IQ at 2.48 and TCEHY at 1.37.