Independent research on the U.S. markets, Baptista Research

Baptista Research

Independent research on the U.S. markets

Baptista Research is an independent financial research house focused on the U.S. markets. We provide equity research as well as credit research reports on the top-listed U.S. companies with most of our focus on technology, consumer goods and services, automobiles, industrials, oil and gas, pharma, and healthcare. Our research has served more than 3000 institutional investors including mutual funds, hedge funds, banks, family offices, and various buy-side firms. We operate a research subscription service where institutions, as well as retail investors, can have priority access to all our research. We also have a wide distribution of our research reports across some of the top global financial platforms. Apart from equity research and credit research, we also provide advisory services with respect to mergers & acquisitions (M&A), private equity/ venture capital fundraising, valuation reports, and investment management services for corporates.
Baptista Research is owned and managed by Ishan Majumdar, an ex-Venture Capitalist/ Investment Banker, a Chartered Accountant, and a Masters’ degree holder in Management from HEC Paris. Ishan has nearly a decade of experience in Mergers and Acquisitions, Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), Venture Capital Investing, Corporate Strategy, and Valuation in front-office roles at the likes of BNP Paribas CIB, Credit Agricole CIB, Groupe Danone, and TIW Private Equity. He has worked on and closed multiple acquisition deals, leveraged buyouts, and start-up investment transactions.

Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Alphabet and Microsoft have traditionally been two of the most reliable tech blue-chips that most technology investors have in their long-term portfolios.</li><li>Both companies are also pushing their respective UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) offerings, Teams and Meet respectively and challenge Zoom.</li><li>At the current juncture, it would be interesting to compare them side-by-side from a financial perspective and evaluate their robustness.</li></ul>

Alphabet and Microsoft have traditionally been two of the most reliable tech blue-chips that most technology investors have in their long-term portfolios.Both companies are also pushing their respective UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) offerings, Teams and Meet respectively and challenge Zoom.At the current juncture, it would be interesting to compare them side-by-side from a financial perspective and evaluate their robustness.

Alphabet vs Microsoft - A Comparative Analysis Of The Public Cloud Battle & Key Financial Metrics (12/2021)

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Event-Driven

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<li>There are 6 inclusions and 6 exclusions for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/nasdaq-100-stock-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26197:1" rel="noopener">Nasdaq-100 Stock Index (NDX INDEX)</a> at the annual December reconstitution. The estimated one-way trade is US$11.05bn.</li>
<li>Impact on the inclusions ranges from 0.25-2.22 days of ADV to buy, while the impact on the deletions varies from 1.4-3.38 days of ADV to sell.</li>
<li>There will be large inflows on <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/meta-platforms-inc-class-a-facebook" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:665:1" rel="noopener">Meta Platforms (FB US)</a> and large outflows on Tesla, Apple, NVidia, Amazon and Google.</li>
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There are 6 inclusions and 6 exclusions for the Nasdaq-100 Stock Index (NDX INDEX) at the annual December reconstitution. The estimated one-way trade is US$11.05bn.
Impact on the inclusions ranges from 0.25-2.22 days of ADV to buy, while the impact on the deletions varies from 1.4-3.38 days of ADV to sell.
There will be large inflows on Meta Platforms (FB US) and large outflows on Tesla, Apple, NVidia, Amazon and Google.


NASDAQ 100 Index Rebalance: Six Changes at the Annual Reconstitution

Equity Long-Short Analyst

Pyari Menon

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the 5G growth are a mix of equipment vendors, chipset companies, device makers, and enterprise solution providers. </li>
<li>The top ten companies to benefit from 5G rollout based on innovation and citation count are <strong>Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm, LG Electronics, AT&amp;T, Huawei, Intel, Google, Ericsson, Apple,</strong> and <strong>Nokia </strong>
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<li>A stand-out in 5G technology rankings is <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/lg-electronics-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:8814:1" rel="noopener">LG Electronics (066570 KS)</a> which is punching well above its current market share in the industry. </li>
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The companies that are best positioned to take advantage of the 5G growth are a mix of equipment vendors, chipset companies, device makers, and enterprise solution providers. 
The top ten companies to benefit from 5G rollout based on innovation and citation count are Samsung Electronics, Qualcomm, LG Electronics, AT&amp;T, Huawei, Intel, Google, Ericsson, Apple, and Nokia 

A stand-out in 5G technology rankings is LG Electronics (066570 KS) which is punching well above its current market share in the industry. 


Stock Ideas from Data Mining Technical Publications: A Look at 5G

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Digital Core REIT / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO.</li>
<li>The company is sponsored by Digital Realty, one of the largest REITs in the US, and over 60% of the deal is already spoken for by cornerstone investors.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the deal background</li>
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Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO.
The company is sponsored by Digital Realty, one of the largest REITs in the US, and over 60% of the deal is already spoken for by cornerstone investors.
In this note, we will talk about the deal background


Digital Core REIT IPO - Hot Sector, Strong Backing but Has More than a Few Peculiar Points

<ul><li>Alphabet managed to crush earnings yet again as the company delivered a phenomenal result with a 41% revenue growth year over year.</li><li>With around $5 billion in revenues, Google Cloud continues to be a fast growing segment with around 40% growth albiet a loss-making one.</li><li>However, the company has continued its investments in areas like infrastructure, security, data management, analytics and artificial intelligence in order to diversify its revenue base.</li></ul>

Alphabet managed to crush earnings yet again as the company delivered a phenomenal result with a 41% revenue growth year over year.With around $5 billion in revenues, Google Cloud continues to be a fast growing segment with around 40% growth albiet a loss-making one.However, the company has continued its investments in areas like infrastructure, security, data management, analytics and artificial intelligence in order to diversify its revenue base.

United States

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Alphabet vs Microsoft - A Comparative Analysis Of The Public Cloud Battle & Key Financial Metrics (12/2021)

Alphabet and Microsoft have traditionally been two of the most reliable tech blue-chips that most technology investors have in their long-term...

Baptista Research

NASDAQ 100 Index Rebalance: Six Changes at the Annual Reconstitution

There are 6 changes for the NASDAQ-100 index at the annual December reconstitution. Apart from the flows on the adds and deletes, there will be...

Brian Freitas

Stock Ideas from Data Mining Technical Publications: A Look at 5G

5G connectivity is expected to spawn new business and services across sectors. We review the technological positioning of companies competing in...

Pyari Menon

Digital Core REIT IPO - Hot Sector, Strong Backing but Has More than a Few Peculiar Points

Digital Core REIT (DCREIT), a data center REIT, aims to raise up to US$600m in its Singapore IPO. In this note, we will talk about the positive and...

Sumeet Singh

Alphabet Inc - Investment Thesis

Alphabet managed to crush earnings yet again as the company delivered a phenomenal result with a 41% revenue growth year over year. With around $5...

Baptista Research

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