I sold them because BIDU went up 40% in four months, which my target.

According to my “New free stock strategy” and to my “Sell earn and cry strategy”, this is what I did:

  1. Feb 19, 2007 I bough 10 Baidu (BIDU) shares. I paid $105 per share. I spent a total of $1050.
  2. today I sold 8 BIDU shares at $ 147.51 per share. I made a total sum of $1180.
  3. I still own 2 Baidu shares. They are worth $295.02 now. I got them for free and I plan to hold forever (if I will not have to sell them because I fall in poverty!).

Those 2 BIDU shares could go a long way… Or fall like rotten apples from their tree!


Baidu is a wonderful Internet company. Maybe perfect knowledge of Chinese navigators can allow Baidu to continue defeating Google’s superior technology. Maybe Google will end up prevailing on Chinese market, using Chinese people’s ability to use English and their great desire to know the entire World.

If Baidu wins the price for its shareholders will be great.

Now BIDU has P/E: 111.56, and Forward P/E 48.87. It is expensive now, but it is worth it if it can keep its amazing growth rate:

Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy):103.30%

Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy):142.60%

I do consider Google a better bargain than Baidu at these prices, but I may be wrong and I like to still have those 2 Baidu shares to make wrong but happy 🙂

5 responses to “Just sold 8 Baidu (ticker: BIDU) shares”

  1. witek Avatar
    witek

    what companies do you have “free shares” in ?

    can you give us a list?

  2. deminvest Avatar

    sure Witek! Here is the list:
    Name Symbol
    Baidu BIDU (eh eh new Entry!)
    Google GOOG
    Idearc IAR
    General Motors Corporation GM
    Altria Group MO
    Palm PALM
    ActivIdentity Corp. ACTI
    AT&T T
    Entergy Corporation ETR
    Infosys Technologies Limited (ADR) INFY
    Pfizer PFE
    Caterpillar CAT
    Expedia EXPE
    The AES Corporation AES
    Merck & Co. MRK
    CDC Corporation CHINA
    Ford Motor Company F
    Kraft Foods KFT
    Trina Solar Limited (ADR) TSL
    Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (ADR) RIO
    Aluminum Corp. of China Limited (ADR) ACH
    SourceForge LNUX
    Exxon Mobil Corporation XOM
    Satyam Computer (ADR) SAY
    JPMorgan Chase & Co. JPM
    Comcast Corporation CMCSA
    Southern Copper Corporation (USA) PCU
    iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index (ETF) FXI
    Unilever plc (ADR) UL
    Norsk Hydro ASA (ADR) NHY
    Luminent Mortgage Capital LUM
    BP plc (ADR) BP
    DaimlerChrysler AG (USA) DCX
    The Greater China Fund GCH
    BAYER BAY
    ENI ENI
    HSCEI China ASI
    FTSE/Xinhua China 25-IS FXC
    PERMASTEELISA PMS
    UNICREDITO ITALIANO UC
    FORTIS FO4
    LANXESS LXS
    ALITALIA AZA
    VODAFONE GRP VODE
    ABN AMRO AAR
    First 35 in the list are traded on Wall Street
    Last ten are traded on european markets

  3. deminvest Avatar

    eh eh, you can add 2 more:
    NOK Nokia
    IRBT Irobot

  4. rien Avatar

    hi there,may i know how do you trade baidu stocks online?

    thanks!

  5. deminvest Avatar

    It is a Nasdaq stock. ticker is BIDU

    I use http://www.zecco.com to trade on Nasdaq

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