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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>Sunrun reported a dynamic first quarter of 2024, marked by a strategic emphasis on storage installations complemented by solar capacity, reflecting a broader company transformation towards a storage-first business approach.</li><li>During the period, Sunrun surpassed its guidance expectations for both solar and storage installations, with storage systems installed on 50% of new residential customers, a significant increase from the prior year.</li><li>This surge in storage adoption has notably bolstered the company's margin profile since storage installations tend to carry higher margins compared to traditional solar-only setups.</li></ul>

Sunrun reported a dynamic first quarter of 2024, marked by a strategic emphasis on storage installations complemented by solar capacity, reflecting a broader company transformation towards a storage-first business approach.During the period, Sunrun surpassed its guidance expectations for both solar and storage installations, with storage systems installed on 50% of new residential customers, a significant increase from the prior year.This surge in storage adoption has notably bolstered the company's margin profile since storage installations tend to carry higher margins compared to traditional solar-only setups.

Sunrun Inc.: How Are They Expanding Storage Solutions? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Sunrun is a renewable energy company that had a strong fourth quarter and a full-year result in 2023.</li><li>The company exceeded its guidance on storage capacity installation and landed in its guidance range on installed solar capacity.</li><li>As a result, there were significant increases in its subscriber values, up 7% from Q3 and 18% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Sunrun is a renewable energy company that had a strong fourth quarter and a full-year result in 2023.The company exceeded its guidance on storage capacity installation and landed in its guidance range on installed solar capacity.As a result, there were significant increases in its subscriber values, up 7% from Q3 and 18% year-over-year.

Sunrun Inc: Improved Demand & Storage Adoption Changing The Game! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Sunrun Inc. delivered a mixed result in the recent quarter, with revenues below market expectations but surpassed the analyst consensus regarding earnings.</li><li>The storage attachment rate surged to over 33% of installations in Q3, a significant rise from 15% at the beginning of the year.</li><li>Despite challenges in the Californian market due to policy changes, Sunrun launched its new add-on storage product for solar clients in California.</li></ul>

Sunrun Inc. delivered a mixed result in the recent quarter, with revenues below market expectations but surpassed the analyst consensus regarding earnings.The storage attachment rate surged to over 33% of installations in Q3, a significant rise from 15% at the beginning of the year.Despite challenges in the Californian market due to policy changes, Sunrun launched its new add-on storage product for solar clients in California.

Sunrun Inc.: Expansion of Clean Energy Across the US - What's the Future Outlook? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Sunrun Inc. delivered mixed results in the quarter, with revenues below analysts' anticipations but above-par earnings.</li><li>In Q2, Sunrun added more than 100 megawatt hours of storage capacity, up 35% over the same quarter last year.</li><li>With a net subscriber value of $12,321 in the quarter, subscriber value was roughly 44,700, and creation cost was approximately $32,400.</li></ul>

Sunrun Inc. delivered mixed results in the quarter, with revenues below analysts' anticipations but above-par earnings.In Q2, Sunrun added more than 100 megawatt hours of storage capacity, up 35% over the same quarter last year.With a net subscriber value of $12,321 in the quarter, subscriber value was roughly 44,700, and creation cost was approximately $32,400.

Sunrun Inc.: Rising Solar Giant With A Thriving Subscription Model! - Major Drivers

Providing investors with a balanced perspective, Massif Capital

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Providing investors with a balanced perspective

Massif Capital

Research focused on providing investors with a balanced perspective on the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy for businesses within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial industries.

The Massif Capital Real Asset Strategy is a global long/short equity strategy built around bottom-up stock picking. We are focused on creating a portfolio of businesses from within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial sectors that balance the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<div><ul><li>Renewables as extractive industries: Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are extractive industries that depend on the “grade” of the natural resource to achieve sustainability, a three-dimensional concept that includes economics, social acceptance, and environmental considerations.</li><li>The problem of low-grade resources: Deploying renewables in areas where the resource grade is too low imposes macro-level costs on the electrical system and reduces its economic and environmental sustainability through the inefficient deployment of limited resources.</li><li>The problem of high-grade resources: Deploying too many renewables in areas where the resource grade is high causes value deflation, lowers the revenue of the projects, and impairs micro-level sustainability.</li></ul></div>

Renewables as extractive industries: Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are extractive industries that depend on the “grade” of the natural resource to achieve sustainability, a three-dimensional concept that includes economics, social acceptance, and environmental considerations.The problem of low-grade resources: Deploying renewables in areas where the resource grade is too low imposes macro-level costs on the electrical system and reduces its economic and environmental sustainability through the inefficient deployment of limited resources.The problem of high-grade resources: Deploying too many renewables in areas where the resource grade is high causes value deflation, lowers the revenue of the projects, and impairs micro-level sustainability.

United States

Encore Wire Corporation manufactures copper electrical building wire and cable. The Company supplies residential wire for interior wiring in homes, apartments, and manufactured housing.  Encore also manufactures wire for commercial and industrial buildings.  The Company's customers are wholesale electrical distributors that serve both the residential and commercial wire markets.

EnerSys manufactures, markets, and distributes industrial batteries.  The Company also manufactures, markets, and distributes related products such as chargers, power equipment, and battery accessories.  EnerSys provides related after-market and customer-support services for lead-acid industrial batteries.

AZZ Incorporated manufactures specialty electrical equipment and components for the global power generation, power transmission, and distribution markets.  The Company also provides hot dip galvanizing services to the steel fabrication industry across the United States.

Atkore Inc. manufactures and supplies metal products and electrical raceway solutions. The Company offers steel tubes and pipes, electrical conduit, armored wire and cable, cable trays, metal framing systems, and building components. Atkore International Group serves customers globally.

Array Technologies, Inc. designs and manufactures solar tracking systems. The Company offers solar tracking equipment to utilities, corporations, small businesses, and homeowners. Array Technologies serves customers worldwide.

Vicor Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets modular power components and complete power systems.  The Company's products are used in electronic products to convert power from a primary power source into the direct current required by electronic circuits.  Vicor sells its products in North and South America, as well as internationally through independent distributors.

Powell Industries, Inc. designs, manufactures, and packages equipment and systems for the distribution, control, and management of electrical energy and process control systems.  The Company serves industrial customers such as oil and gas producers, refineries, petrochemical plants, transportation facilities, and public and private utilities.

Plug Power, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and commercializes fuel cell systems for electric lift trucks and materials handling equipment.  The Company offers its products globally to retail, grocery, and institutional food distribution centers as well as manufacturing facilities.

Sensata Technologies Holding plc manufactures and distributes electronic components. The Company offers automotive sensors, motor protectors, circuit breakers, thermostats, pressure sensors, and switches. Sensata Technologies Holding serves energy, aerospace, agriculture, automotive, and construction industries worldwide.

Thermon Group Holdings, Inc. provides engineered thermal solutions for process industries. The Company offers thermal solutions that also referred as heat tracing, provide an external heat source to pipes, vessels, and instruments for the purposes of freeze protection, temperature and flow maintenance, environmental monitoring, and surface snow and ice melting.

Shanghai Electric Group Company Limited manufactures power generation equipment. The Company produces and sells thermal generator set, nuclear power units, wind power equipment, power transmission and distribution equipment, and other products. Shanghai Electric Group also manufactures environmental protection equipment.

Shanghai Electric Group Company (601727 CH)

Henan Pinggao Electric Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets electrical equipment. The Company produces high pressure plates, high voltage equipment, circuit breakers, switches, insulated switchgears, and other products. Henan Pinggao Electric also operates import and export businesses.

Teco Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. manufactures household appliances, industrial motors, and smart cards.  The Company produces air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, dryers, single-phase motors, three-phase motors, inverters, rotary compressors, stepping motors, gear motors, and generators.

Alstom T&D India Limited manufactures a range of power transmission and distribution equipment. The Company builds high- and medium-voltage substations and develop technologies to manage power grids worldwide.

LS Electric Co., Ltd. manufactures and distributes electrical power equipment. The Company produces smart power equipment, smart automation equipment, smart railway equipment, and other related products. LS Electric also develops smart grid, micro grid, energy storage systems, and metal products.

Sunwoda Electronic Company Limited develops, designs, produces and sells li-ion battery module.  The company also produces membrate switches and precision structures.

KEI Industries Limited manufactures cables and stainless steel wires for the building and construction, defense, telecommunications, and other industries.

Shanghai Zhixin Electric Co., Ltd. manufactures and markets electric equipment, including bus line slots, switch boxes, transformers, electric cables, and other related products.

Shanghai Zhixin Electric Co, Ltd. (600517 CH)

Amara Raja Batteries Limited specializes in the manufacture of industrial and automotive batteries. The Company manufactures industrial batteries primarily for the telecom and UPS sectors. Amara Raja manufactures automotive batteries for the original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology Co., Ltd. manufactures wind generator sets, provides consulting service in building and operating wind generating plants, builds and operates middle-sized wind generating plants.

Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Technology (2208 HK)

Sunrun Inc. provides solar energy solutions. The Company installs, monitors, and maintains solar panels on homeowners' roofs to supply solar electricity. Sunrun serves customers in the United States.

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Sunrun Inc.: How Are They Expanding Storage Solutions? - Major Drivers

Sunrun reported a dynamic first quarter of 2024, marked by a strategic emphasis on storage installations complemented by solar capacity,...

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Sunrun Inc: Improved Demand & Storage Adoption Changing The Game! - Major Drivers

Sunrun is a renewable energy company that had a strong fourth quarter and a full-year result in 2023. The company exceeded its guidance on storage...

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Sunrun Inc.: Expansion of Clean Energy Across the US - What's the Future Outlook? - Major Drivers

Sunrun Inc. delivered a mixed result in the recent quarter, with revenues below market expectations but surpassed the analyst consensus regarding...

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Sunrun Inc.: Rising Solar Giant With A Thriving Subscription Model! - Major Drivers

Sunrun Inc. delivered mixed results in the quarter, with revenues below analysts' anticipations but above-par earnings. In Q2, Sunrun added more...

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Renewable Energy And "Grade"

Renewables as extractive industries: Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are extractive industries that depend on the “grade” of the...

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