Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Rubrik, a data security company and leader in cyber-recovery, completed its IPO and sold 23.5M Class A shares to the public at $32.00/share in May.</li>
<li>The technology company reported a mixed quarter pushing shares down over 8% during regular trading session. Q1 FY25 net loss was ~$732M due to massive stock-based comp.</li>
<li>However, subscription ARR increased 46% y/y and cloud ARR jumped 104% y/y indicating continued strength in the company’s Rubrik Security Cloud offering.</li>
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Rubrik, a data security company and leader in cyber-recovery, completed its IPO and sold 23.5M Class A shares to the public at $32.00/share in May.
The technology company reported a mixed quarter pushing shares down over 8% during regular trading session. Q1 FY25 net loss was ~$732M due to massive stock-based comp.
However, subscription ARR increased 46% y/y and cloud ARR jumped 104% y/y indicating continued strength in the company’s Rubrik Security Cloud offering.


Rubrik: Long Path To Profitability, Massive Stock-Based Comp in Q1 FY25, PT Reduced To $46.00

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

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Event-Driven

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<li>There are 3 changes for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/s-p-500-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:22886:1" rel="noopener">S&amp;P 500 INDEX</a>, 7 changes for the S&amp;P Midcap400 Index and 13 changes for the S&amp;P SmallCap600 Index at the June rebalance.</li>
<li>There is huge size to trade in <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kkr-co-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27333:1" rel="noopener">KKR &amp; Co (KKR US)</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/crowdstrike-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28117:1" rel="noopener">Crowdstrike Holdings (CRWD US)</a> and both stocks were up big in the after-hours market.</li>
<li>There has been positioning in some stocks recently but stocks including <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kkr-co-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:27333:1" rel="noopener">KKR &amp; Co</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/rb-global-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:25475:1" rel="noopener">RB Global</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/texas-pacific-land-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28693:1" rel="noopener">Texas Pacific Land</a> could see further positioning in the next week.</li>
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There are 3 changes for the S&amp;P 500 INDEX, 7 changes for the S&amp;P Midcap400 Index and 13 changes for the S&amp;P SmallCap600 Index at the June rebalance.
There is huge size to trade in KKR &amp; Co (KKR US) and Crowdstrike Holdings (CRWD US) and both stocks were up big in the after-hours market.
There has been positioning in some stocks recently but stocks including KKR &amp; Co, RB Global and Texas Pacific Land could see further positioning in the next week.


S&P500/400/600 Index Rebalance: Huge Size to Trade in a Few Stocks

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Rubrik, a leading VC-backed security software company, filed for a long-awaited IPO in the United States, with Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays and Wells Fargo leading the offering. </li>
<li>The technology company is focused on data protection and helps organizations to protect their data and recover it in case of cyberattacks.</li>
<li>Rubrik was founded by Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Arvind Jain and Soham Mazumdar, and backed by VC investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures.</li>
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Rubrik, a leading VC-backed security software company, filed for a long-awaited IPO in the United States, with Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Barclays and Wells Fargo leading the offering. 
The technology company is focused on data protection and helps organizations to protect their data and recover it in case of cyberattacks.
Rubrik was founded by Bipul Sinha, Arvind Nithrakashyap, Arvind Jain and Soham Mazumdar, and backed by VC investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Greylock Partners and Khosla Ventures.


Rubrik IPO Preview and Valuation Analysis: 2024’s Hottest SaaS Investment Opportunity

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<li>Freshworks, a cloud-based customer services software unicorn, held its first Investor Day on September 7, 2023. Management highlighted the long-term target to deliver the Rule of 40 by 2025. </li>
<li>The 2023 Investor Day agenda included company vision and strategy, solutions in action, strategy for durable growth, customer spotlight, and financial overview, among others. </li>
<li>Management plans to deliver a long-term balance of growth and profitability, with the 2026 model leading to an FCF margin of 20%+ and $1B+ revenue. </li>
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Freshworks, a cloud-based customer services software unicorn, held its first Investor Day on September 7, 2023. Management highlighted the long-term target to deliver the Rule of 40 by 2025. 
The 2023 Investor Day agenda included company vision and strategy, solutions in action, strategy for durable growth, customer spotlight, and financial overview, among others. 
Management plans to deliver a long-term balance of growth and profitability, with the 2026 model leading to an FCF margin of 20%+ and $1B+ revenue. 


Freshworks: 2023 Investor Day and Valuation Update

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.

<ul><li>CrowdStrike Holdings managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.</li><li>The company outperformed top and bottom line metrics expectations, achieving strong, scalable growth, amazing leverage, and operating within its target model overall.</li><li>CrowdStrike also successfully implemented a go-to-market strategy centered on cloud security this past quarter, hosting a virtual cloud security summit with over 12,500 security and DevOp attendees, followed by cloud-focused partner and sales plays.</li></ul>

CrowdStrike Holdings managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings.The company outperformed top and bottom line metrics expectations, achieving strong, scalable growth, amazing leverage, and operating within its target model overall.CrowdStrike also successfully implemented a go-to-market strategy centered on cloud security this past quarter, hosting a virtual cloud security summit with over 12,500 security and DevOp attendees, followed by cloud-focused partner and sales plays.

CrowdStrike Holdings: Can The Launch Of Counter Adversary Operations Become A Revenue Driver? - Major Drivers

United States

CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. provides cybersecurity products and services to stop breaches. The Company offers cloud-delivered protection across endpoints, cloud workloads, identity and data, and leading threat intelligence, managed security services, IT operations management, threat hunting, Zero Trust identity protection, and log management. CrowdStrike serves customers worldwide.

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Crowdstrike Holdings (CRWD US)

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S&P500/400/600 Index Rebalance: Huge Size to Trade in a Few Stocks

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Freshworks: 2023 Investor Day and Valuation Update

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Andrei Zakharov

CrowdStrike Holdings: Can The Launch Of Counter Adversary Operations Become A Revenue Driver? - Major Drivers

CrowdStrike Holdings managed to exceed analyst expectations in terms of revenue as well as earnings. The company outperformed top and bottom line...

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