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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>Texas Instruments managed to deliver an all-around beat in the last quarter even though revenue decreased sequentially.</li><li>Analog revenue declined, embedded processing grew, and its other segment declined in line with the cyclicality in the semiconductors market.</li><li>The industrial market was flat this quarter, the automotive market was up, and personal electronics declined.</li></ul>

Texas Instruments managed to deliver an all-around beat in the last quarter even though revenue decreased sequentially.Analog revenue declined, embedded processing grew, and its other segment declined in line with the cyclicality in the semiconductors market.The industrial market was flat this quarter, the automotive market was up, and personal electronics declined.

Texas Instruments: A Mixed Performer Across Different End Markets – Key Drivers

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist, Objective Analysis

Jim Handy

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs Specialist

Objective Analysis

Objective Analysis offers third-party independent market research and data for the semiconductor industry and investors in the semiconductor industry.

Semiconductors, Memory and SSDs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Semiconductor revenues remain in a decline, although that decline has slowed.</li>
<li>Prices appear to have reached cost.  They should follow cost declines until a shortage returns.</li>
<li>The timing of the next shortage is still in question.</li>
</ul>


Semiconductor revenues remain in a decline, although that decline has slowed.
Prices appear to have reached cost.  They should follow cost declines until a shortage returns.
The timing of the next shortage is still in question.


Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

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<li>Analog Devices has become one of the best-performing semiconductors stocks.</li>
<li>The company's strategy has certain weaknesses, but ADI remains among my top picks within the sector.</li>
<li>ADI's performance is not just a fluke and there are solid reasons behind it, such as high profitability, growth and competitive positioning.</li>
</ul>


Analog Devices has become one of the best-performing semiconductors stocks.
The company's strategy has certain weaknesses, but ADI remains among my top picks within the sector.
ADI's performance is not just a fluke and there are solid reasons behind it, such as high profitability, growth and competitive positioning.


Analog Devices: The Less Attention It Gets The Better

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>The upcoming rebalance of the MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index will be implemented on 17 March. There are no constituent changes, but there are float and capping changes.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/vaneck-vectors-semiconductor" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:32807:1" rel="noopener">VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US)</a> ETF tracks the index and has an AUM of US$7.2bn.</li>
<li>Estimated one-way turnover is 4.8% resulting in a one-way trade of US$356m. The stocks are extremely liquid, the impact on the stocks in terms of ADV to trade is small.</li>
</ul>


The upcoming rebalance of the MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index will be implemented on 17 March. There are no constituent changes, but there are float and capping changes.
The VanEck Vectors Semiconductor (SMH US) ETF tracks the index and has an AUM of US$7.2bn.
Estimated one-way turnover is 4.8% resulting in a one-way trade of US$356m. The stocks are extremely liquid, the impact on the stocks in terms of ADV to trade is small.


MVIS US Listed Semiconductor 25 Index Rebalance: Big Flow, Small Impact

<ul><li>Texas Instruments delivered a strong set of results in the quarter, with revenue of $4.7 billion and a gross profit of $3.1 billion resulting in an all-around beat.</li><li>The company’s gross profit fell from a year ago due to lower revenue, higher capital expenses, and the conversion of LFAB-related charges to the cost of revenue.</li><li>However, given the strong earnings, the company distributed $1.1 billion in dividends during the quarter and spent $848 million on stock repurchases.</li></ul>

Texas Instruments delivered a strong set of results in the quarter, with revenue of $4.7 billion and a gross profit of $3.1 billion resulting in an all-around beat.The company’s gross profit fell from a year ago due to lower revenue, higher capital expenses, and the conversion of LFAB-related charges to the cost of revenue.However, given the strong earnings, the company distributed $1.1 billion in dividends during the quarter and spent $848 million on stock repurchases.

Texas Instruments Inc: New Chip Launches & Other Drivers

United States

Texas Instruments Incorporated operates as a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. The Company develops analog ICs and embedded processors. Texas Instruments has manufacturing or sales operations worldwide.

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