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Baidu Stocks Plummet 7.5% as Q4 AI Cloud Boom Fails to Offset Advertising Fall
TMTPOST -- The American depositary receipts (ADRs) of Baidu, Inc. plummeted 7.5% on Tuesday, underperforming the U.S. stock market as the benchmark S&P 500 index finished 0.24% higher to its new record high. Shares of Chinese search engine behemoth were hampered as financial reports showed the artificial intelligence-buoyed cloud business failed to offset the fall in advertising revenue last quarter. Credit:Medium Baidu posted mixed results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. Revenue for the quarter fell 2% year-over-year (YoY) to RMB34.12 billion (US$4.68 billion), beating Wall Street anticipated RMB33.39 billion. On non-GAAP basis, adjusted earnings per American depositary share (ADS) was RMB19.18 with a 12% YoY decrease, still better than analysts estimated RMB14.37 per s