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Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<ul><li>For 1Q25E, we expect Baidu Core business revenue could reach RMB24.0bn, up 1% YoY, and would be 3% better than Bloomberg consensus, mainly driven by likely better-than-expected cloud revenue growth boosted by strong AIrelated demand.</li><li>Aided by solid cloud revenue growth, we are anticipating nonGAAP operating profit of RMB4.5bn for Baidu Core, 1% better than consensus.</li><li>Baidu is still proactively driving business transformation, embedding more GenAI related search results to enhance user experience and improve user activity. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

For 1Q25E, we expect Baidu Core business revenue could reach RMB24.0bn, up 1% YoY, and would be 3% better than Bloomberg consensus, mainly driven by likely better-than-expected cloud revenue growth boosted by strong AIrelated demand.Aided by solid cloud revenue growth, we are anticipating nonGAAP operating profit of RMB4.5bn for Baidu Core, 1% better than consensus.Baidu is still proactively driving business transformation, embedding more GenAI related search results to enhance user experience and improve user activity. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Baidu (BIDU US) - Expecting Steady Cloud Revenue Growth