Baidu (BIDU) +0.7% in 6 Days

Flagged BIDU pre-earnings at $77.98 on October 22, scored 82/100, with earnings due November 16. The scanner shows $78.52 — +0.7% six days into the trade.

The Setup Before Earnings

Baidu (BIDU) was flagged by the AI Market Cap scanner on October 22, twenty-five days ahead of its print, with a score of 82 out of 100 and a recorded entry price of $77.98. The target recorded with that call was $79.46. The picture the scanner carried on the morning of October 28 was:

• Scanner score: 82 of 100 on the October 22 call, and 87 of 100 on the October 28 scan
• Entry price: $77.98, recorded October 22, with a $79.46 target on the same record
• Analyst book: 30 analysts covering it — 6 strong buy, 18 buy, 5 hold and a single sell
• Earnings date: November 16 — the print lands nineteen days after the scan
• Implied volatility: 43.0% into the event, one of the lowest readings in the scanner's table of 100 names
• Short interest: 4.0% of float — not a crowded short, so there is no squeeze mechanic behind the move
• Sentiment: Positive, on a $26.73B market cap

Every price on this page is kept exactly as the scanner logged it. $77.98 is the entry recorded with the October 22 pick, and it is that day's close. $78.52 is the price carried in the scanner table on the morning of October 28, and the +0.7% is the move between them. In between, the stock closed at $77.20 on October 23, its low of the month, and at $78.27 on October 27.

Six Days In

What This Card Is, And What It Is Not

This is a pre-earnings run-up, not a closed post-earnings result. The print is due on November 16 and the +0.7% is the move into it, measured from the recorded call price to the price the scanner carried on the morning of the 28th. Six days have passed since the call, and a move this small is a setup working quietly rather than a result worth claiming.

Two day counts on this page measure different things, so they are worth separating. The call was made twenty-five days ahead of the November 16 print, which is the distance the tile counts. The trade itself has been open six days, from the October 22 entry to the October 28 scan, and that is the window the +0.7% is measured over.

The distinction is deliberate, because the case studies on this page are supposed to be checkable. The entry price, the score and the target on this card come from the dated call in the scanner's tracked-picks file — the same file that records every pick the scanner makes — and the current price comes from the same scanner table the rest of this site runs on. The other cards on this page are wins that have already been reported and settled, apart from the Seagate run-up that came before this one. This one is the setup working as expected so far, with the event still ahead of it, and it is labelled that way instead of dressed up as something it is not.

What This Setup Is Betting On

The interesting feature of this row is the gap between how quiet the event is priced and how firmly the street is leaning into it:

1. The event is priced quietly: implied volatility of 43.0% is one of the lowest readings on the board, so the options market is charging very little for what the November 16 print might do
2. The book is not quiet: 24 of 30 analyst ratings are on the buy side, 6 of them at strong buy, with earnings sentiment marked Positive, so consensus is already leaning one way before the print
3. There is no squeeze to lean on: short interest of 4.0% of float means any move has to come from the fundamentals rather than from a positioning unwind

That combination is what makes the card worth reading rather than celebrating. A cheap event with a heavily bought book is a setup where sentiment does more work than the print itself, and where the main risk is the quiet one: a name priced for a calm November can still drift lower for the six weeks before it reports, because there is no volatility premium paying the holder for the wait.

How To Find The Next One

The same inputs that scored BIDU 82 out of 100 on October 22 run on the scanner every morning, and every call it makes is written to a dated record you can check:

• Score 80 or higher on the published weighting
• A clean analyst book — strong buys, few holds, no sells
• An implied volatility reading you understand, because it is what you are paying for the event
• Short interest low enough that the move is about the fundamentals, not a squeeze

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