BAIDU INC. ADS - Baidu’s share profits wiped in the first quarter - 05/11/2023 (GMT)

Baidu, Inc. shares (symbol ‘BIDU’) lost all of the profits made in the first quarter of the year and is currently trading almost exactly at the level of early January. The company is expected to report its earnings for the fiscal quarter ending March 2023 on Tuesday 16th of May, before market open. The consensus EPS is $1,57 compared to the result for the same quarter last year of $1,38. 
 
‘Xiaodu Technology, the artificial intelligence division of Chinese internet giant is set to release its inaugural mobile phone in late May which is great news for Baidu’s investors since they might be integrating their AI bot, ERNIEbot, into the smartphone. This would increase the revenue of the company and potentially support its share price by boosting it to the upside.‘’ said Antreas Themistokleous, an analyst at Exness.
 
From the technical analysis perspective the share is trading on a very strong technical support level which consists of the 50% of the weekly Fibonacci retracement level and also just above the lower band of the Bollinger bands. Even though the 50 day moving average is still above the 100 day moving average it is currently on the move to cross below which is the most probable scenario once the late aggressive sell off is taken into perspective. 

The Stochastic oscillator is not indicating any overbought or oversold levels allowing for a possibility of major movement happening in the coming sessions.