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<li>Toyota announces June quarter results at 13:25 JST on Thursday, August 4th JST. We think any dip is a buying opportunity. </li>
<li>Contrary to consensus, Q1's constraints were due to supplier lockdowns in Shanghai, not the chip shortage. In fact, Toyota is seeing larger than expected chip supplies. </li>
<li>Toyota's full-year guidance is the most low-balled in the industry, which is why it's underperformed peers. Better Q2 chip supply should lead to a sharp upward revision after 1H FY3/23. </li>
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Toyota announces June quarter results at 13:25 JST on Thursday, August 4th JST. We think any dip is a buying opportunity. 
Contrary to consensus, Q1's constraints were due to supplier lockdowns in Shanghai, not the chip shortage. In fact, Toyota is seeing larger than expected chip supplies. 
Toyota's full-year guidance is the most low-balled in the industry, which is why it's underperformed peers. Better Q2 chip supply should lead to a sharp upward revision after 1H FY3/23. 


Toyota Motor's Bad Q1 Is a Buying Opportunity

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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.

<ul><li>Tesla had been in the process of carrying out upgrades which resulted in a lengthy shutdown of its Shanghai factory.</li><li>The company faced its fair share of challenges but had a highly resilient quarter and managed to produce an all-around beat.</li><li>The most significant accomplishment was setting production records in Shanghai and Fremont in June.</li></ul>

Tesla had been in the process of carrying out upgrades which resulted in a lengthy shutdown of its Shanghai factory.The company faced its fair share of challenges but had a highly resilient quarter and managed to produce an all-around beat.The most significant accomplishment was setting production records in Shanghai and Fremont in June.

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Sumeet Singh

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IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

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<li>WCP aims to raise around US$690m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.</li>
<li>WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the recent refiling updates, peer comparison and valuations.</li>
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WCP aims to raise around US$690m via selling a mix of primary and secondary shares in its Korean IPO.
WCP designs, manufactures, and sells separators, which are one of the four core materials for secondary Lithium-ion batteries
In this note, we talk about the recent refiling updates, peer comparison and valuations.


WCP IPO - Peer Comparison and Valuation - Needs a Price Cut Not a Timeline Extension

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<li>Tesla beat both our estimates and the Street's by a wide margin, but the earnings call had some cautiousness regarding order backlogs, production ramps &amp; 4680 cells.</li>
<li>Tesla sold 75% of their Bitcoin holdings at a gain in Q2, which largely accounts for the earnings beat. It is also a sign of larger cash needs than expected. </li>
<li>The stock was only +1.5% after hours and it was noteworthy that the biggest Tesla bull on the Street said this huge beat wasn't a "step change" to consensus. </li>
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Tesla beat both our estimates and the Street's by a wide margin, but the earnings call had some cautiousness regarding order backlogs, production ramps &amp; 4680 cells.
Tesla sold 75% of their Bitcoin holdings at a gain in Q2, which largely accounts for the earnings beat. It is also a sign of larger cash needs than expected. 
The stock was only +1.5% after hours and it was noteworthy that the biggest Tesla bull on the Street said this huge beat wasn't a "step change" to consensus. 


Tesla Q2 Results Beat, But Earnings Call Reveals Many Risks

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Delaware Chancery Court rejected Elon Musk's excessive demand for more time to support his dubious claims against Twitter than he took to create and ram through his hostile buyout.</li>
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Twitter's solid legal case against Musk improves odds the sale of the company could be court-ordered before year end.</li>
<li>If so, this is by far the best outcome for Twitter's wary bondholders.</li>
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Delaware Chancery Court rejected Elon Musk's excessive demand for more time to support his dubious claims against Twitter than he took to create and ram through his hostile buyout.

Twitter's solid legal case against Musk improves odds the sale of the company could be court-ordered before year end.
If so, this is by far the best outcome for Twitter's wary bondholders.


Finally, Hopeful News For Twitter Bondholders: Court Grants Fast-Track Trial Against Elon

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