Baidu Undervalued At Current Levels, Piper Jaffray Says

June 9, 2011 njaiyo 0 Comments

Shares of Baidu (NASDAQ: BIDU – News), China’s largest provider of Internet search services, are fractionally higher after Piper Jaffray said the stock is “meaningfully undervalued” after a recent pullback caused by excessive concerns related to accounting and corporate governance issues. Baidu shares have slid 13% in the past week due to the negative headlines.

Piper Jaffray’s bullish comments on Baidu are not helping the Chinese Internet Stocks Index, which is down 0.7%. Still, the research firm sees accounting and corporate governance risk as low and reiterated an “overweight” rating and $181 price target on the stock, which represents almost 50% upside from where the shares currently trade.

Good to know! 🙂

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