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 Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Costco Wholesale Corporation reported its third quarter 2024 operating results, highlighting consistent growth and the manifestation of strategies driving member engagement and loyalty.</li><li>Notably, despite being beyond the typical five-year cycle for a membership fee increase, there are no immediate plans for such a move, suggesting continued confidence in the business’s performance.</li><li>Net income for the third quarter was $1.68 billion, or $3.78 per diluted share, a substantial increase from the previous year's third quarter results of $1.3 billion and $2.93 per diluted share.</li></ul>

Costco Wholesale Corporation reported its third quarter 2024 operating results, highlighting consistent growth and the manifestation of strategies driving member engagement and loyalty.Notably, despite being beyond the typical five-year cycle for a membership fee increase, there are no immediate plans for such a move, suggesting continued confidence in the business’s performance.Net income for the third quarter was $1.68 billion, or $3.78 per diluted share, a substantial increase from the previous year's third quarter results of $1.3 billion and $2.93 per diluted share.

Costco Wholesale Corporation: A Tale Of Value and Engagement through Core-on-Core Strategy! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Costco Wholesale Corporation, during its second quarter of fiscal year 2024 earnings, provided a detailed financial summary and highlighted its numerous operational changes.</li><li>CFO Richard Galanti expressed his positive outlook for the company's future, citing specific achievements and future plans.</li><li>From a fiscal perspective, net income for the Q2 2024 was $1.743 billion or $3.92 per diluted share, up from $1.466 billion or $3.30 last year, signifying solid growth.</li></ul>

Costco Wholesale Corporation, during its second quarter of fiscal year 2024 earnings, provided a detailed financial summary and highlighted its numerous operational changes.CFO Richard Galanti expressed his positive outlook for the company's future, citing specific achievements and future plans.From a fiscal perspective, net income for the Q2 2024 was $1.743 billion or $3.92 per diluted share, up from $1.466 billion or $3.30 last year, signifying solid growth.

Costco Wholesale Corporation: Are Its Efforts With Respect To E-commerce Penetration & Delivery Expansion Working Well? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Costco delivered an all-around beat in the most recent quarterly result.</li><li>The company reported net income for the 17-week fourth quarter came in at $2.16 billion or $4.86 per diluted share compared to $1.868 billion or $4.20 per diluted share in the 16-week fourth quarter last year.</li><li>In terms of sales, net sales for the 17-week fourth quarter were $77.43 billion, an increase of 9.4% from $70.76 billion in the 16-week fourth quarter last year.</li></ul>

Costco delivered an all-around beat in the most recent quarterly result.The company reported net income for the 17-week fourth quarter came in at $2.16 billion or $4.86 per diluted share compared to $1.868 billion or $4.20 per diluted share in the 16-week fourth quarter last year.In terms of sales, net sales for the 17-week fourth quarter were $77.43 billion, an increase of 9.4% from $70.76 billion in the 16-week fourth quarter last year.

Costco Wholesale Corp: Strategies for Consistent Membership Renewals! - Major Drivers

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors, Fabricated Knowledge

Douglas O'Laughlin

Equity Long-Short, Semiconductors

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Learn more about the world's most important manufactured product. Meaningful insight, timely analysis, and an occasional investment idea.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Markets always act erratically, but I thought I would highlight one aspect that disproportionately impacts semiconductors.</li><li>Factor investing is not new, but we are in a unique period where Momentum has quite a period of outperformance and short-term outperformance.</li><li>This matters because semiconductors are (as far as my memory holds) the most significant weight in Momentum I’ve ever witnessed. </li></ul>

Markets always act erratically, but I thought I would highlight one aspect that disproportionately impacts semiconductors.Factor investing is not new, but we are in a unique period where Momentum has quite a period of outperformance and short-term outperformance.This matters because semiconductors are (as far as my memory holds) the most significant weight in Momentum I’ve ever witnessed. 

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>Mega-Cap growth names such as AMZN, TSLA, MSFT, GOOGL, and META have picked up the slack as semiconductors (SMH, SOXX, NVDA, AVGO, etc.) are simply consolidating after getting extended.</li>
<li>This was a possibility we discussed in last week's Compass (6/25/24), which means we are not seeing any lasting rotation away from large-cap growth.</li>
<li>We remain bullish on all names listed (including the semiconductors), and we continue to recommend an overweight to large-cap growth (relative to value) as initially discussed in our 5/29/24 Compass</li>
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Mega-Cap growth names such as AMZN, TSLA, MSFT, GOOGL, and META have picked up the slack as semiconductors (SMH, SOXX, NVDA, AVGO, etc.) are simply consolidating after getting extended.
This was a possibility we discussed in last week's Compass (6/25/24), which means we are not seeing any lasting rotation away from large-cap growth.
We remain bullish on all names listed (including the semiconductors), and we continue to recommend an overweight to large-cap growth (relative to value) as initially discussed in our 5/29/24 Compass


Remain Overweight Large-Cap Growth; Downgrading Materials to Underweight; Software Buys $MSTR $CRWD

United States

Costco Wholesale Corporation operates wholesale membership warehouses in multiple countries.  The Company sells all kinds of food, automotive supplies, toys, hardware, sporting goods, jewelry, electronics, apparel, health and beauty aids, as well as other goods.

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Costco Wholesale (COST US)

Costco Wholesale Corporation: A Tale Of Value and Engagement through Core-on-Core Strategy! - Major Drivers

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Costco Wholesale Corporation: Are Its Efforts With Respect To E-commerce Penetration & Delivery Expansion Working Well? - Major Drivers

Costco Wholesale Corporation, during its second quarter of fiscal year 2024 earnings, provided a detailed financial summary and highlighted its...

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Costco Wholesale Corp: Strategies for Consistent Membership Renewals! - Major Drivers

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Factors and Semiconductors

A friendly warning. Momentum is outperforming all factors this year, and Semiconductors are a large part of that. Markets always act erratically,...

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Remain Overweight Large-Cap Growth; Downgrading Materials to Underweight; Software Buys $MSTR $CRWD

Remain Overweight Large-Cap Growth $IWF as discussed 5/29/24; Downgrading Materials $XLB to Underweight; Buy/Stay Long Software Stocks $IGV $MSFT...

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