Baidu (NASDAQ:BIDU) has gained 5.9% in postmarket trading after its Q3 earnings topped expectations amid strong traffic growth.
Revenues were flat at 28.08B yuan (about 3.93B); excluding revenue from announced divestitures, they rose 3%. That marks a 7% gain from last quarter, adding on to 9% sequential growth before that.
Operating income fell to 2.355B yuan (about 329M). Baidu core operating income was 5.2B yuan (726M) with a margin of 25%.
The company swung to a loss of 6.37B yuan on a GAAP basis, from a gain of 12.4B yuan; that included a noncash impairment loss of 8.9B yuan on equity investment valuation.
Non-GAAP attributable net income was 4.4B yuan.
Daily active users rose 25% to 189M in September.
For Q4, it's guiding to revenues of 27.1B-28.7B yuan (3.78B-4.02B), marking a year-over-year change of -1% to +6%.
(source : Seekingalpha.com)
Baidu is diversifying its business facing aggressive competition for online revenue from Tencent. It's smart speaker system is receiving good reviews and only rank second to Amazon. Coming on strongly is its subsidiaries, IQIYI with a total subscribers base of more than 100 million.
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