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

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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>Leggett & Platt's third quarter 2024 results reflect a challenging performance environment driven by several demand and operational pressures.</li><li>Overall sales amounted to $1.1 billion, representing a 6% decline year-over-year.</li><li>The decrease was primarily attributed to volume declines across all three business segments—Bedding Products, Specialized Products, and Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products—coupled with reductions in raw material-related selling prices.</li></ul>

Leggett & Platt's third quarter 2024 results reflect a challenging performance environment driven by several demand and operational pressures.Overall sales amounted to $1.1 billion, representing a 6% decline year-over-year.The decrease was primarily attributed to volume declines across all three business segments—Bedding Products, Specialized Products, and Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products—coupled with reductions in raw material-related selling prices.

Leggett & Platt’s Innovation Push: Will New Product Launches & Tech Upgrades Drive a Turnaround? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Leggett & Platt's Second Quarter 2024 earnings highlighted several key areas of performance and strategic initiatives, reflecting an environment of both challenges and transformation for the company under revised leadership with CEO Karl Glassman.</li><li>The company is focusing heavily on restructuring, with significant emphasis on operational efficiencies and reduction of general and administrative costs.</li><li>Key initiatives include consolidation of facilities and optimization of manufacturing processes particularly in their Bedding Products and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products segments.</li></ul>

Leggett & Platt's Second Quarter 2024 earnings highlighted several key areas of performance and strategic initiatives, reflecting an environment of both challenges and transformation for the company under revised leadership with CEO Karl Glassman.The company is focusing heavily on restructuring, with significant emphasis on operational efficiencies and reduction of general and administrative costs.Key initiatives include consolidation of facilities and optimization of manufacturing processes particularly in their Bedding Products and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products segments.

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Dealing With Market Dependency Challenges & Economic Sensitivity! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Leggett & Platt, a prominent engineered product manufacturer, recently revealed its financial and strategic direction in its first quarter 2024 earnings analysis.</li><li>The company is engaged in multiple business segments, notably Bedding Products, Specialized Products, and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products.</li><li>The reported period reflects a mix of strategic restructuring, operational challenges, and financial adjustments aimed at long-term sustainability and growth.</li></ul>

Leggett & Platt, a prominent engineered product manufacturer, recently revealed its financial and strategic direction in its first quarter 2024 earnings analysis.The company is engaged in multiple business segments, notably Bedding Products, Specialized Products, and Furniture, Flooring & Textile Products.The reported period reflects a mix of strategic restructuring, operational challenges, and financial adjustments aimed at long-term sustainability and growth.

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Will There Be A Negative Impact Of Broader Macro-Economic Trends? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>This is our first report on bedding and other specialty products manufacturer, Leggett & Platt.</li><li>The company has been facing some tough times but its management seems to remain optimistic amid challenging circumstances.</li><li>While lower volumes in residential end markets and certain pricing responses have elicited predictions of lower earnings for 2024 from the company, other factors like the advancement of key product growth and improvement in profitability, accompanying a refocused bedding strategy are cause for increased optimism.</li></ul>

This is our first report on bedding and other specialty products manufacturer, Leggett & Platt.The company has been facing some tough times but its management seems to remain optimistic amid challenging circumstances.While lower volumes in residential end markets and certain pricing responses have elicited predictions of lower earnings for 2024 from the company, other factors like the advancement of key product growth and improvement in profitability, accompanying a refocused bedding strategy are cause for increased optimism.

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Initiation Of Coverage - These 4 Pivotal Factors Are Driving Its Future Performance! - Financial Forecasts

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

United States

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated manufactures a wide range of engineered products. The Company's products include components for bedding, furniture, and other residential furnishings, as well as office and institutional furnishings components, retail store fixtures, and displays, specialty wire products, and automotive seating suspension and lumbar systems.

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Leggett & Platt (LEG US)

Leggett & Platt’s Innovation Push: Will New Product Launches & Tech Upgrades Drive a Turnaround? - Major Drivers

Leggett & Platt's third quarter 2024 results reflect a challenging performance environment driven by several demand and operational...

Baptista Research

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Dealing With Market Dependency Challenges & Economic Sensitivity! - Major Drivers

Leggett & Platt's Second Quarter 2024 earnings highlighted several key areas of performance and strategic initiatives, reflecting an...

Baptista Research

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Will There Be A Negative Impact Of Broader Macro-Economic Trends? - Major Drivers

Leggett & Platt, a prominent engineered product manufacturer, recently revealed its financial and strategic direction in its first quarter...

Baptista Research

Leggett & Platt Incorporated: Initiation Of Coverage - These 4 Pivotal Factors Are Driving Its Future Performance! - Financial Forecasts

This is our first report on bedding and other specialty products manufacturer, Leggett & Platt. The company has been facing some tough times...

Baptista Research

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

KKR, Crowdstrike and GoDaddy will be added to the SP500 at the close on 21 June. There are a bunch of changes for the SP400/600 indices too. There...

Brian Freitas

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