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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>Dropbox has been showing good resilience in its business especially against the challenging macroeconomic backdrop and managed to deliver an all-around beat, surpassing Wall Street expectations on all counts.</li><li>Two of their more recent products, Dropbox Backup and Capture, have seen increased usage.</li><li>In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.</li></ul>

Dropbox has been showing good resilience in its business especially against the challenging macroeconomic backdrop and managed to deliver an all-around beat, surpassing Wall Street expectations on all counts.Two of their more recent products, Dropbox Backup and Capture, have seen increased usage.In this report, we have carried out a fundamental analysis of the historical financial statements of the company.

<ul><li>This is our first report on Dropbox, a major player within the cloud storage, file transfer, and e-signature domain.</li><li>Dropbox is continuing to evolve its core FSS business to drive monetization and improve attention.</li><li>This quarter, Dropbox has launched its newest version of Dropbox backup that has upgraded management settings and restoration flow.</li></ul>

This is our first report on Dropbox, a major player within the cloud storage, file transfer, and e-signature domain.Dropbox is continuing to evolve its core FSS business to drive monetization and improve attention.This quarter, Dropbox has launched its newest version of Dropbox backup that has upgraded management settings and restoration flow.

Dropbox Inc.: Initiation of Coverage – The DocSend Acquisition & Other Drivers

President, Vision Research

Robert C Prather Jr

President

Vision Research

Vision Research was formed in 2004 with the vision of generating the best possible fundamental analysis and investment research for smid cap US equities. In 2008, we broadened our coverage to include mid/large cap US stocks.  After researching a  few ideas outside the US each year for a number of years, we launched a dedicated non-US equity product at the end of 2015.  This was followed by the introduction of a product focused on IPOs in mid-2017.

Fundamental Insight

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<li>Enterprise storage hardware market faces numerous headwinds and increasing commoditization</li>
<li>STaaS is cannibalistic, facing increasing competition, and decelerated in the MRQ</li>
<li>Each of the last 2 quarters have seen some meaningful, non-recurring revenues lead to PSTG beating estimates</li>
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Enterprise storage hardware market faces numerous headwinds and increasing commoditization
STaaS is cannibalistic, facing increasing competition, and decelerated in the MRQ
Each of the last 2 quarters have seen some meaningful, non-recurring revenues lead to PSTG beating estimates


Pure Storage (PSTG): Market Leader Facing Commoditization of Its Products

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Algosun Global

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<li>During the #1 product and growth conference Amplify 2022 in Las Vegas, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/amplitude-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:34148:1" rel="noopener">Amplitude (AMPL US)</a>  introduced the Customer Data Platform (CDP) with integrated product analytics.  </li>
<li>The company expanded partner integration with <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/snowflake-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29254:1" rel="noopener">Snowflake Inc (SNOW US)</a>  to improve data connectivity while Amplitude Experiment sees strong traction with customers. </li>
<li>With shares down ~65% YTD, Amplitude has underperformed the Nasdaq Composite (-23%). Our PT is $28.00, implying ~14x EV/2022E revenue and ~10x EV/2023E revenue. </li>
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During the #1 product and growth conference Amplify 2022 in Las Vegas, Amplitude (AMPL US)  introduced the Customer Data Platform (CDP) with integrated product analytics.  
The company expanded partner integration with Snowflake Inc (SNOW US)  to improve data connectivity while Amplitude Experiment sees strong traction with customers. 
With shares down ~65% YTD, Amplitude has underperformed the Nasdaq Composite (-23%). Our PT is $28.00, implying ~14x EV/2022E revenue and ~10x EV/2023E revenue. 


Amplitude: Valuations Look Attractive and Growth Catalysts May Materialize in CY22

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

<p>We continue to see signs of improving risk appetites alongside healthy market dynamics. As a result, our outlook remains constructive. A breakout to new highs in the Russell 2000 (IWM) and Russell Micro-Caps (IWC), above $234.50 and $159, would likely cause us to shift to an outright bullish stance. In today’s report we highlight attractive Groups and stocks within Consumer Discretionary, Technology, and Health Care.</p>

We continue to see signs of improving risk appetites alongside healthy market dynamics. As a result, our outlook remains constructive. A breakout to new highs in the Russell 2000 (IWM) and Russell Micro-Caps (IWC), above $234.50 and $159, would likely cause us to shift to an outright bullish stance. In today’s report we highlight attractive Groups and stocks within Consumer Discretionary, Technology, and Health Care.

U.S. Yields Testing Support Ahead Of FOMC Meeting

United States

Dropbox, Inc. operates as a platform as a service company. The Company offers a platform that enables users to store and share files, photos, videos, songs, and spreadsheets. Dropbox serves customers worldwide.

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Dropbox Inc (DBX US)

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Pure Storage (PSTG): Market Leader Facing Commoditization of Its Products

Market share losses are likely occurring and the "recurring revenue STaaS" story may be decelerating amidst competition, pricing pressure, and...

Robert C Prather Jr

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Amplitude remains well-positioned as one of the leaders in product analytics with an opportunity to convert more GA enterprise customers to...

Andrei Zakharov

U.S. Yields Testing Support Ahead Of FOMC Meeting

We continue to see signs of improving risk appetites alongside healthy market dynamics. As a result, our outlook remains constructive.

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