Baidu Inc ADR (NASDAQ: BIDU): Retirees Don’t Worry About Volatility

Baidu Inc ADR (NASDAQ:BIDU) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.55M but it saw 5221810 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 24.27B USD, the company’s current market price of $86.70 came falling about -4.97 while comparing to the previous closing price of $91.23. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $116.25 and as low as $74.71.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Baidu Inc ADR (BIDU) gives us an average price of $86.31, while its current price level is -25.42% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 16.05% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $89.72 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $89.14. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.37% during that period while stretching the period over a month that increases to 3.15%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 46.91 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

Over the week, BIDU’s stock price is moving -1.28% down while it is 8.70% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 2.83% up and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -23.55%.

Currently, Baidu Inc ADR’s total number of outstanding shares is 279.90M with 3.50% of that held by the insiders while 28.33% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 7.33% and return on equity (ROE) at 9.14%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 9.46 while having a 7.70 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.36. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 0.67 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.31. Its return on asset (ROA) is 5.56% on average.