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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>The Progressive Corporation delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street.</li><li>At the corporate level, these incidents have increased their combined ratio by 4.5 points, 1.7 points more than the impact catastrophe events had on their combined ratio in the first half of 2022.</li><li>However, there are segmentation opportunities within the new-to-renewal loss ratio performance as not all policy characteristics at new businesses have the same predicted lifetime loss ratio performance.</li></ul>

The Progressive Corporation delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue and earnings expectations of Wall Street.At the corporate level, these incidents have increased their combined ratio by 4.5 points, 1.7 points more than the impact catastrophe events had on their combined ratio in the first half of 2022.However, there are segmentation opportunities within the new-to-renewal loss ratio performance as not all policy characteristics at new businesses have the same predicted lifetime loss ratio performance.

The Progressive Corporation: Exclusive Inside Look into Policy Lifetime Performance! - Major Drivers

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

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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>We've expected to see 4300-4325 act as major support on SPX, while also expecting consolidation between 4300-4325 support and 4600 resistance until the end of September, and possibly longer.</li>
<li>Still possible this 4300-4325 support holds, but odds of a deeper pullback to SPX 4165-4200/the 200-day MA have increased following major breakouts in the U.S. dollar (DXY) and Treasury yields </li>
<li>Also adding to concerns: 1+ year uptrend violations on $IWO/$IWP, and breakdowns below 34,280 on the Dow, $180 on IWM, $472 on SOXX, $81 on ITB, and $104-$105 on XLI</li>
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We've expected to see 4300-4325 act as major support on SPX, while also expecting consolidation between 4300-4325 support and 4600 resistance until the end of September, and possibly longer.
Still possible this 4300-4325 support holds, but odds of a deeper pullback to SPX 4165-4200/the 200-day MA have increased following major breakouts in the U.S. dollar (DXY) and Treasury yields 
Also adding to concerns: 1+ year uptrend violations on $IWO/$IWP, and breakdowns below 34,280 on the Dow, $180 on IWM, $472 on SOXX, $81 on ITB, and $104-$105 on XLI


U.S. Dollar (DXY) And Treasury Yields Breaking Out; Growing Number of Index/Sector Breakdowns

<ul><li>Progressive Corp delivered a mixed set of results in its most recent result, with revenues above Wall Street expectations but below-par earnings.</li><li>The growth in new applications represents an increase in quotes from the current shopping in the marketplace as well as an increase in the convention.</li><li>This resulted in increasing reserves as well as reach with increases in rate.</li></ul>

Progressive Corp delivered a mixed set of results in its most recent result, with revenues above Wall Street expectations but below-par earnings.The growth in new applications represents an increase in quotes from the current shopping in the marketplace as well as an increase in the convention.This resulted in increasing reserves as well as reach with increases in rate.

Progressive Corp.: A Closer Look at The Biggest Catalysts For Future Growth – Financial Forecasts

<ul><li>This is our first report on auto insurance major, Progressive Corp.</li><li>The company had a disappointing quarter and failed to meet Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.</li><li>This quarter, the company increased personal auto rates in 20 states at an average of around 5% each day for an overall countrywide premium impact of +2%.</li></ul>

This is our first report on auto insurance major, Progressive Corp.The company had a disappointing quarter and failed to meet Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.This quarter, the company increased personal auto rates in 20 states at an average of around 5% each day for an overall countrywide premium impact of +2%.

Progressive Corp: Initiation of Coverage – Technological Superiority & Other Drivers

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<li>We currently see the market indexes as consolidating within broad horizontal trading ranges, and we expect these ranges to continue for months, and quite possibly for the entirety of 2023.</li>
<li>We see the top-end of the range at 4100-4165 on the S&amp;P 500, while the bottom-end is at the 2022 lows (3490).</li>
<li>With yesterday's break above 3910 it tells us a tradable rally has begun, with 4100-4165 our target</li>
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We currently see the market indexes as consolidating within broad horizontal trading ranges, and we expect these ranges to continue for months, and quite possibly for the entirety of 2023.
We see the top-end of the range at 4100-4165 on the S&amp;P 500, while the bottom-end is at the 2022 lows (3490).
With yesterday's break above 3910 it tells us a tradable rally has begun, with 4100-4165 our target


Awaiting CPI Thursday; Expect 4100-4165 SPX to Cap Upside; Buy Ideas Within Gold Miners, Insurance

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The Progressive Corporation is an insurance holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provide personal and commercial automobile insurance and other specialty property-casualty insurance and related services throughout the United States.

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The Progressive Corporation: Exclusive Inside Look into Policy Lifetime Performance! - Major Drivers

The Progressive Corporation delivered a disappointing set of results as the company was unable to meet the revenue and earnings expectations of...

Baptista Research

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Odds of a deeper pullback to $SPX 4165-4200/the 200-day MA have increased following major breakouts in the U.S. dollar $DXY and Treasury yields...

Vermilion Research

Progressive Corp.: A Closer Look at The Biggest Catalysts For Future Growth – Financial Forecasts

Progressive Corp delivered a mixed set of results in its most recent result, with revenues above Wall Street expectations but below-par...

Baptista Research

Progressive Corp: Initiation of Coverage – Technological Superiority & Other Drivers

This is our first report on auto insurance major, Progressive Corp. The company had a disappointing quarter and failed to meet Wall Street...

Baptista Research

Awaiting CPI Thursday; Expect 4100-4165 SPX to Cap Upside; Buy Ideas Within Gold Miners, Insurance

With yesterday's break above 3910 in $SPX we see a tradable rally, but 4100-4165 is likely to cap upside; reduce risk into that area. Buy ideas...

Vermilion Research

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