BIDUBaidu, Inc.

$93.25

Is it safe?

Can BIDU take a bad year?

Baidu, Inc. holds $86.6B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.

$86.6B

Net cash

Net debt / EBITDA
net cash

Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings

Interest cover
7.47×

Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over

Annualised volatility
49%

Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market

Details
Total debtQ4 2018
$52.7B
Cash and short-term investments
$139.3B
Net cash
$86.6B
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$19.1B
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$15.0B
Debt / equity
0.32×
Total debt / EBITDA
2.76×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
49%
Worst drawdown on file
−77%
Below its 52-week high
−43%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.