Baidu Inc

BIDU

Not Compliant
Exchange
Sector
Headquarters
Group
China
Large cap

Baidu Inc is not Shariah Compliant because it fails the financial ratios.

5.64%

Impure Income*

-

Purification*

-

Zakat*

Financials

Market cap Group
Analysts' Rating
Price Target (Mean)
Price Target (Low)
Price Target (High)
Total Analysts
Large cap
BUY
$99.70
$71.00
$144.67
32
Revenue Growth
Operating Margin
Net Profit Margin
Quick Ratio
Current Ratio
EPS Growth
-3.59%
15.98%
17.41%
2.01
2.09
-26.49%

Shariah Compliance

  • Updated on October 23, 2025
Debt
31.30%
✗
Non-Compliant Assets
93.16%
✗
Impure Income
5.64%
✗

AAOIFI Rulebook:

  • Non-compliant Liabilities (like Interest-based Debt) < 30% of Market cap
  • Non-compliant Assets (like Interest-based Investments) < 30% of Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: AAOIFI SS21

Debt
31.17%
✓
Impure Income
5.64%
✗

S&P Sharia Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 36-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: S&P Shariah Methodology

Debt
34.70%
✗
Impure Income
5.64%
✗

Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33% of 24-mo avg. Market cap
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: DJIM Methodology

Debt
18.59%
✓
Cash
6.67%
✓
Cash & AR
9.24%
✓
Impure Income
5.64%
✗

FTSE Shariah Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 50% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: FTSE RUSSELL

Debt
18.59%
✓
Cash
6.67%
✓
Cash & AR
9.24%
✓
Impure Income
5.64%
✗

MSCI Islamic Rulebook:

  • Interest-based Debt < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Cash and interest-bearing items < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Accounts receivable and cash < 33.33% of Total Assets
  • Impure Revenues (incl. Interest Income) < 5% of Total Revenues

Source: MSCI Islamic Indexes

Impure Income Breakdown

-
-
Interest Income
5.64%

Note on Purification and Zakat:

  • Purification and Zakat (for long-term investing) calculations are in USD per share and based on AAOIFI methodology. AAOIFI requires purification every financial period (e.g. quarterly). 
  • If you follow S&P Shariah’s Dividend-only purification, then remove the impure income % from the dividends you receive. No purification required for non-dividend paying stocks, according to S&P Shariah.
  • For Zakat, if you did not invest in a company from a long term perspective, then consider the shares as trading goods and give 2.5% of the total value if a year has passed on them. 

Company Profile

Baidu Inc is a Chinese language Internet search provider. The Company operates its businesses through two segments, Baidu Core segment and iQIYI segment. Baidu Core segment mainly provides search-based, feed-based, and other online marketing services, as well as products and services from the Company’s new artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives, such as display advertisement and based on performance criteria other than cost-per-click, cloud services, smart devices and services, non-marketing consumer-facing services such as membership, and intelligent driving. iQIYI segment produces, aggregates and distributes a wide variety of professionally produced content, as well as a broad spectrum of other video content, in a variety of formats, including a variety of products and services encompassing online video, online games, online literature, comics and others.

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