Baidu Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2018 Results

BEIJING, Feb. 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) ("Baidu" or the "Company"), the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, today announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2018^[1].

"We are excited to enter the new year on strong footing with Baidu 2018 revenues reaching RMB 102 billion^[2], up 28% annually. The growth rate of Baidu App DAUs has been accelerating over the past year, up 24% year over year to 161 million in December 2018, while Haokan short video app grew to 19 million DAUs from 1 million a year ago," stated Robin Li, CEO of Baidu. "2018 was a pivotal year for Baidu, as we worked on deploying AI technologies beyond search to feed, voice assistant, AI solutions and autonomous driving, to enable more users, customers and partners to benefit from Baidu's AI."

"The diversification of Baidu's business from mobile internet into the smart home, smart transportation, cloud and autonomous driving markets will require heavy investments," said Herman Yu, CFO of Baidu. "Nevertheless, these investments taken together give Baidu a balanced portfolio for short-term, medium-term and long-term returns, and we hope to see these investments bear fruit and accelerate Baidu's revenue growth in the coming years."

Fourth Quarter 2018 Financial Highlights

• Total revenues were RMB 27.2 billion ($3.96 billion), increasing 22% year over year, or 28% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures^[3]. Total revenues of Baidu Core were RMB 20.5 billion ($2.98 billion), increasing 14% year over year, or 20% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures.
• Operating income was RMB 1.1 billion ($162 million), decreasing 77% year over year, and operating margin was 4%, compared to 21% in Q4 2017. Operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 4.4 billion ($645 million), decreasing 26% year over year, and operating margin was 22%, compared to 33% in Q4 2017.
• Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 2.7 billion ($386 million), decreasing 54% year over year, and non-GAAP operating margin was 10%, compared to 26% in Q4 2017. Non-GAAP operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 5.8 billion ($837 million), decreasing 17% year over year, and non-GAAP operating margin of Baidu Core was 28%, compared to 38% in Q4 2017.
• Net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 2.1 billion ($303 million), decreasing 50% year over year, and diluted earnings attributable to Baidu per ADS was RMB 6 ($0.86), decreasing 52% year over year. Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 4.1 billion ($589 million), decreasing 22% year over year.
• Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu^[4] was RMB 4.6 billion ($672 million), decreasing 17% year over year, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS^[5] was RMB 13 ($1.92), decreasing 17% year over year. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 6.5 billion ($939 million), decreasing 1% year over year.

Fiscal Year 2018 Financial Highlights

• Total revenues were RMB 102.3 billion ($14.88 billion), increasing 28% from 2017, or 31% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures. Total revenues of Baidu Core were RMB 78.3 billion ($11.38 billion), increasing 22% from 2017, or 26% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures.
• Operating income was RMB 15.5 billion ($2.26 billion), decreasing 1% from 2017. Operating margin was 15%, compared to 20% in 2017.
• Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 20.2 billion ($2.94 billion), increasing 7% from 2017. Non-GAAP operating margin was 20%, compared to 24% in 2017. Non-GAAP operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 27.9 billion ($4.06 billion), increasing 23% year over year, and non-GAAP operating margin of Baidu Core was 36%, similar to 2017.
• Net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 27.6 billion ($4.01 billion), increasing 51% from 2017, and diluted earnings attributable to Baidu per ADS was RMB 78 ($11.35), increasing 49% from 2017. Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 33.6 billion ($4.89 billion), increasing 52% year over year.
• Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 23.3 billion ($3.39 billion), increasing 35% from 2017, and non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS was RMB 66 ($9.64), increasing 34% from 2017. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 28.5 billion ($4.14 billion), increasing 37% year over year.

Other Highlights

Corporate

• Baidu World was held in November 2018, with the conference theme "Yes, AI do" to highlight Baidu's efforts in bringing AI to everyday life in markets, such as smart home, smart transportation, cloud and autonomous driving.
• Baidu was the exclusive red envelop giveaway sponsor of the 2019 CCTV Chinese New Year Gala, which drove traffic to new highs for Baidu's family of apps, including Baidu App (flagship search plus feed), Haokan (short video), Quanmin (flash video), Baidu Maps and Baidu Drive.
• Baidu completed US$1.25 billion in bond offerings in the fourth quarter, consisting of US$850 million of 4.375% notes due 2024 and US$400 million of 4.875% notes due 2028, the proceeds from which will mostly be used to repay existing indebtedness.

Search and Feed

• Baidu App daily active users ("DAUs") reached 161 million in December 2018, increasing 24% year over year.
• Baijiahao, or BJH accounts, Baidu feed's content network, grew to 1.9 million publishers in December 2018, and includes People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, CCTV and multiple provincial media sources
• Baidu Smart Mini Program monthly active users ("MAUs") reached 147 million in December 2018, up 30% sequentially. Also in December, Baidu Smart Mini Program was open sourced to network partners.
• Haokan (short video) and Quanmin (flash video) DAUs reached 19 million and 4 million, respectively, in December 2018. According QuestMobile, Quanmin and Haokan were the two fastest growing apps among the Top 10 short video apps in China, across key metrics of total daily time spent, DAUs and MAUs over the three months ending December 2018.

DuerOS

• In December 2018, DuerOS voice assistant installed base surpassed 200 million, up 45% sequentially, and voice queries on DuerOS reached 1.6 billion, representing a sequential CAGR of over 100% for the last seven quarters.
• The DuerOS skills store has released over 1,000 skills in wide-ranging genres, such as Douyu (live video), Dragonfly FM (online radio) and CITIC Academy (online literature), and has a community of 27,000 developers.
• DuerOS for Apollo now enables Smart Mini Programs for Baidu App to operate in the DuerOS skills store in vehicles, positioning DuerOS as the cross-platform voice assistant preferred by users and software developers.
• Baidu released two smart devices powered by DuerOS in November 2018—Xiaodu Smart Speaker Pro (MSRP US$45) and Xiaodu Smartphone Car Mount (MSRP US$15), the latter serves as a smartphone charger with far-field microphones that allow users to operate DuerOS skills via conversational AI.
• Xiaodu Smart Speaker and Xiaodu Smart Display were the best-selling smart speakers on JD.com, Pinduoduo and GOME.com (a leading electronics retailer in China) during the 2018 Double 11 Shopping Festival.
• In the hospitality sector, DuerOS voice assistant is powering Baidu's smart display to offer personal concierge in over 2,000 rooms across a score of hotels in China, particularly in 5-star hotels, including the recently opened InterContinental Shanghai Wonderland.
• In December 2018, DuerOS and Xiaodu Smart Display received the prestigious 2018 China Red Star Design Award from the China Industrial Design Association, recognizing the two for innovation in user interaction and user design.

Apollo

• In January 2019, Baidu released Apollo v3.5, which supports complex urban-road autonomous driving. At CES, Baidu also introduced Apollo Open Platform, which is available to the developer community, and Apollo Enterprise, which encompasses solutions to support commercial production, including DuerOS for Apollo, valet parking, assisted highway driving and intelligent maps.
• Apollo has been granted over 50 licenses for open-road testing for autonomous vehicles, including in Beijing, Tianjin, Chongqing, Changsha and Baoding municipalities, as well as the Fujian province. The Company believes Apollo has received the largest number of open road testing licenses in China to date.
• Apollo signed strategic partnerships with First Automotive Works (FAW) and Volvo Car Corporation in November 2018 to support the commercial production of autonomous L4 passenger vehicles.
• Apollo has garnered over 135 OEMs, Tier 1 parts suppliers and other strategic partners to date, including recent additions of Volkswagen Automobile, China Unicom, Kalray, Quanta Computer and StarNeto Technology.

Cloud and Others

• On the eve of Chinese New Year, the day of the 2019 CCTV Chinese New Year Gala, Baidu Cloud infrastructure smoothly handled 20.8 billion user interactions, with peak volume reaching 10 million hits per second.
• Baidu launched OpenEdge, an open source edge computing platform, which allows developers to build light, secure and scalable edge applications, bringing AI processing to edge devices, like smart home devices, wearables and other IoTs. Baidu also unveiled two edge computing hardware solutions: BIE-AI-Box, a kit for in-vehicle computer vision designed in partnership with Intel, and BIE-AI-Board, a chipboard for mobile detection co-developed with NXP Semiconductor.
• Over 1 million developers have used Baidu's AI Open Platform, which provides developers with access to Baidu's comprehensive AI capabilities, including speech recognition, natural language processing and computer vision, from Baidu Cloud to build their products and solutions.
• Baidu is working with the Hainan province to broaden the adoption of blockchain by offering XuperChain, Baidu's blockchain technology, to a wide range of industries. XuperChain helps multiple parties execute transactions without the need for a trusted, central authority, addressing challenges commonly faced in information security, copyright verification, supply chain financing, online trading and other areas. XuperChain currently processes more than 55,000 transactions per second, far exceeding the industry average.
• Baidu is working with the Beijing Internet Court to develop an electronic-evidence platform using XuperChain. As of December 2018, over 93 million patents were stored and protected on XuperChain's copyright protection system.

iQIYI

• iQIYI added 36.6 million subscribers in 2018 to reach 87.4 million at year end, further solidifying their leadership in original entertainment blockbuster content.
• Baidu and iQIYI co-launched a hybrid OTT TV box with Sichuan Cable TV, enhancing the home entertainment experience through AI. This follows an earlier release of Gehua Little Fruit OTT TV box.
• In December 2018, iQIYI completed the offering of US$750 million of 3.75% convertible senior notes due 2023, the proceeds from which, net of capped call fees, will be used to expand and enhance iQIYI's content offerings and strengthen its technologies, as well as for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

Fourth Quarter 2018 Results

Total revenues reached RMB 27.2 billion ($3.96 billion), increasing 22% year over year, or 28% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures. Online marketing revenues were RMB21.2 billion ($3.08 billion), increasing 10% year over year. Baidu had approximately 529,000 active online marketing customers^[6], increasing 15% year over year. Revenue per online marketing customer was approximately RMB 40,100 ($5,800), decreasing 4% year over year. Other revenues were RMB 6.0 billion ($872 million), increasing 104% year over year, which was mainly due to the robust growth in iQIYI membership services, cloud and other businesses.

Revenue from Baidu Core reached RMB 20.5 billion ($2.98 billion), increasing 14% year over year, or 20% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures, while revenue from iQIYI reached RMB 7.0 billion ($1.02 billion), increasing 55% year over year.

Content costs were RMB 7.3 billion ($1.07 billion), increasing 96% year over year, mainly due to increased investments in iQIYI content and, to a lesser extent, in content for BJH accounts, Baidu feeds' content network.

Traffic acquisition cost was RMB 3.4 billion ($491 million), increasing 34% year over year, as a result of increasing TAC revenue and revenue derived from online TV and offline digitalized screens.

Bandwidth costs were RMB 1.8 billion ($258 million), increasing 27% year over year, mainly due to increasing demand from feed, video and cloud.

Other cost of revenues, which includes depreciation, operational costs and share-based compensation, was RMB 3.1 billion ($453 million), increasing 27% year over year.

Selling, general and administrative expenses were RMB 5.9 billion ($864 million), increasing 64% year over year, primarily due to increased investment in channel and promotional marketing, as well as in personnel related expenses.

Research and development expenses were RMB 4.5 billion ($659 million), increasing 22% year over year, primarily due to the increase in personnel related expenses.

Operating income was RMB 1.1 billion ($162 million), decreasing 77% year over year. Operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 4.4 billion ($645 million), decreasing 26% year over year. Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 2.7 billion ($386 million), decreasing 54% year over year. Non-GAAP operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 5.8 billion ($837 million), decreasing 17% year over year.

Total other loss was RMB 60 million ($9 million), compared to total other income of RMB 314 million in Q4 2017, mainly due to the loss from equity method investments.

Income tax expense was RMB 484 million ($70 million), compared to RMB 929 million in Q4 2017. Effective tax rate was 46%, compared to 18% last year, primarily due to iQIYI not being able to recognize tax benefit from its losses in the current period.

Net loss attributable to noncontrolling interests was RMB 1.5 billion ($220 million), which mainly consisted of losses from iQIYI allocated to noncontrolling interests subsequent to its IPO.

Net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 2.1 billion ($303 million), decreasing 50% year over year. Diluted earnings per ADS amounted to RMB 6 ($0.86). Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 4.1 billion ($589 million), decreasing 22% year over year. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 4.6 billion ($672 million), decreasing 17% year over year. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS amounted to RMB 13 ($1.92). Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 6.5 billion ($939 million), decreasing 1% year over year.

Adjusted EBITDA was RMB 4.0 billion ($577 million) and adjusted EBITDA margin was 15%. Adjusted EBITDA to Baidu Core was RMB 6.9 billion ($1.00 billion) and adjusted EBITDA margin to Baidu Core was 34%. 

As of December 31, 2018, cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments were RMB 141.5 billion ($20.57 billion). Excluding iQIYI, cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and short-term investments were RMB 128.7 billion ($18.71 billion), as of December 31, 2018. Free cash flow was RMB 5.9 billion ($852 million). Excluding iQIYI, free cash flow was RMB 5.5 billion ($801 million).

Fiscal Year 2018 Results

Total revenues reached RMB 102.3 billion ($14.88 billion), increasing 28% year over year, or 31% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures. Online marketing revenues were RMB 81.9 billion ($11.91 billion), increasing 19% year over year. Baidu had approximately 856,000 active online marketing customers, increasing 10% year over year. Revenue per online marketing customer was approximately RMB 95, 800 ($13,900), an 8% increase from 2017. Other revenues reached RMB 20.4 billion ($2.96 billion), increasing 86% year over year, which was mainly due to the robust growth in iQIYI membership services , cloud and other businesses.

Revenue from Baidu Core reached RMB 78.3 billion ($11.38 billion), increasing 22% year over year, or 26% year over year excluding the impact of announced divestures, while revenue from iQIYI reached RMB 25.0 billion ($3.63 billion), increasing 52% from 2017.

Content costs were RMB 23.5 billion ($3.42 billion), increasing 75% year over year, mainly due to increased investment in iQIYI content and, to a lesser extent, in content for BJH accounts, Baidu feeds' content network.

Traffic acquisition costs were RMB 11.4 billion ($1.66 billion), increasing 18% year over year.

Bandwidth costs were RMB 6.5 billion ($944 million), increasing 17% year over year.

Other cost of revenues, which includes depreciation, operational costs and share-based compensation, was RMB 10.3 billion ($1.51 billion), increasing 7% year over year.

Selling, general and administrative expenses were RMB 19.2 billion ($2.80 billion), increasing 46% year over year, primarily due to increased investment in channel and promotional spending.

Research and development expenses totaled RMB 15.8 billion ($2.29 billion), increasing 22% year over year, primarily due to the increase in personnel related expenses.

Operating income was RMB 15.5 billion ($2.26 billion), decreasing 1% from 2017. Operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 23.8 billion ($3.46 billion), increasing 21% year over year. Non-GAAP operating income was RMB 20.2 billion ($2.94 billion), increasing 7% year over year. Non-GAAP operating income of Baidu Core was RMB 27.9 billion ($4.06 billion), increasing 23% year over year.

Total other income was RMB 11.8 billion ($1.72 billion), increasing 111% from 2017, mainly due to gains from the disposal of Du Xiaoman, (financial services), and fair value gains on private company investments in accordance with ASC 321, adopted on January 1, 2018.

Income tax expense was RMB 4.7 billion ($690 million), compared to RMB 3.0 billion in 2017. Effective tax rate was 17%, compared to 14% in 2017, primarily due to iQIYI not being able to recognize tax benefit from its losses in the current period.

Net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 27.6 billion ($4.01 billion), increasing 51% year over year. Diluted earnings attributable to Baidu per ADS amounted to RMB 78 ($11.35). Net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 33.6 billion ($4.89 billion), increasing 52% year over year. Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu was RMB 23.3 billion ($3.39 billion), a 35% increase from 2017. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS was RMB 66 ($9.64). Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu Core was RMB 28.5 billion ($4.14 billion), increasing 37% year over year.

Adjusted EBITDA reached RMB 24.3 billion ($3.54 billion) and adjusted EBITDA margin was 24%. Adjusted EBITDA to Baidu Core reached RMB 31.5 billion ($4.58 billion) and adjusted EBITDA margin to Baidu Core was 40%. 

Free cash flow was RMB 27.2 billion ($3.96 billion). Excluding iQIYI, free cash flow was RMB 24.9 billion ($3.62 billion).

Financial Guidance

For the first quarter of 2019, Baidu expects revenues to be between RMB 23.5 billion ($3.42 billion) and RMB 24.7 billion ($3.60 billion), representing a 12% to 18% increase year over year, or 18% to 24% excluding revenues from announced divestures.

Previously announced divestures together generated approximately RMB 1.1 billion in Q1 2018, and no revenue from announced divestures is expected in the Q1 2019, as these transactions have been consummated. This forecast reflects Baidu's current and preliminary view, which is subject to substantial uncertainty.

Conference Call Information

Baidu's management will hold an earnings conference call at 8:15 PM on February 21, 2019, U.S. Eastern Time (9:15 AM on February 22, 2019, Beijing/Hong Kong Time). Dial-in details for the earnings conference call are as follows:

A replay of the conference call may be accessed by phone at the following number until March 1, 2019:

Additionally, a live and archived webcast of this conference call will be available at http://ir.baidu.com.

About Baidu

Baidu, Inc. is the leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to make a complex world simpler through technology. Baidu's ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol "BIDU." Currently, ten ADSs represent one Class A ordinary share.

Contacts

Investors Relations, Baidu, Inc.
Tel: +86-10-5992-4958
Email: ir@baidu.com

Safe Harbor Statement

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Non-GAAP Financial Measures

To supplement Baidu's consolidated financial results presented in accordance with GAAP, Baidu uses the following non-GAAP financial measures: non-GAAP operating income/loss, non-GAAP operating margin, non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu, non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS, adjusted EBITDA, adjusted EBITDA margin and free cash flow. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for the financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP.

Baidu believes that these non-GAAP financial measures provide meaningful supplemental information regarding its performance and liquidity by excluding certain items that may not be indicative of its recurring core business operating results, such as operating performance excluding not only non-cash charges, but also other items that are infrequent or unusual in nature. The Company believes that both management and investors benefit from referring to these non-GAAP financial measures in assessing its performance and when planning and forecasting future periods. These non-GAAP financial measures also facilitate management's internal comparisons to Baidu's historical performance and liquidity. The Company believes these non-GAAP financial measures are useful to investors in allowing for greater transparency with respect to supplemental information used by management in its financial and operational decision making. A limitation of using these non-GAAP financial measures is that these non-GAAP measures exclude certain items that have been and will continue to be for the foreseeable future a significant component in the Company's results of operations. These non-GAAP financial measures presented here may not be comparable to similarly titled measures presented by other companies. Other companies may calculate similarly titled measures differently, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures to the Company's data.

Non-GAAP operating income represents operating income excluding share-based compensation expenses.

Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu represents net income attributable to Baidu excluding share-based compensation expenses, the gain or loss associated with the issuance of shares by Baidu's equity method investees at a price higher or lower than the carrying value per share, accretion relating to equity method investments, disposal gain or loss, impairment of long-term investments, fair value change of long-term investments, as adjusted for related income tax effects. Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS represents diluted earnings per ADS calculated based on non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu. Adjusted EBITDA represents operating income excluding depreciation, amortization (excluding the amortization of licensed copyrights and produced content of iQIYI) and share-based compensation expenses. Free cash flow represents net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures.

For more information on non-GAAP financial measures, please see the tables captioned "Reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the nearest comparable GAAP measures."

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[1] This announcement contains translations of certain RMB amounts into U.S. dollars at specified rates solely for the convenience of the reader. Unless otherwise noted, all translations from RMB to U.S. dollars are made at a rate of RMB6.8755 to US$1.00, the effective noon buying rate as of December 31, 2018, in The City of New York for cable transfers of RMB as certified for customs purposes by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

[2] Starting from January 1, 2018, Baidu adopted the new revenue accounting standard ASC 606, which reclassifies value added tax from the cost of revenues to net against revenues. To increase comparability of operating results and help investors better understand our business performance and operating trends, 2017 net revenues have been used to calculate all percentage changes in revenues, percentage changes in revenues per online marketing customer, operating margin, non-GAAP operating margin, and adjusted EBITDA margin. 2017 net revenues are defined as gross revenues under legacy GAAP after the deduction of value added taxes, which is presented on the same basis as 2018 and going forward.

[3] From 2017 through Q3 2018, certain non-core businesses were divested, including Baidu Mobile Games, Baidu Deliveries, Global DU businesses and Du Xiaoman (financial services), which together generated approximately RMB 4.1 billion and RMB 3.1 billion in revenues in 2017 and 2018, respectively.

[4] Non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu represents net income attributable to Baidu excluding share-based compensation expenses, the gain or loss associated with the issuance of the shares by our equity method investees at a price higher or lower than our carrying value per share, accretion relating to equity method investments, disposal gain or loss, impairment of long-term investments and fair value change of long-term investments, as adjusted for the tax effects on non-GAAP adjustments.

[5] Non-GAAP diluted earnings per ADS represents diluted earnings per ADS calculated based on non-GAAP net income attributable to Baidu.     

[6] The number of active online marketing customers and revenue per online active customer exclude group-buying and delivery related businesses, which is consistent with prior reporting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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