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

Baptista Research

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.

Credit

<ul><li>Textron is a large-scale aerospace and defense provider that is well known for its vast portfolio of brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, and others.<li></li>The company has managed to perform well since the start of 2022 and its aviation business is a key driver of margin growth.<li></li>The company also observed a strong quarter of new orders, which helped to fuel commercial demand across all of its product aircraft models and end markets.</li></ul>

Textron is a large-scale aerospace and defense provider that is well known for its vast portfolio of brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, and others.The company has managed to perform well since the start of 2022 and its aviation business is a key driver of margin growth.The company also observed a strong quarter of new orders, which helped to fuel commercial demand across all of its product aircraft models and end markets.

Textron Inc.: Detailed Credit Analysis & Financial Strength Evaluation Report

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>This is our first report on aerospace and defense major, Textron, that is renowned for its wide portfolio of brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, and others.</li><li>The company managed to deliver an all-around beat in its recent result as its aviation business is performing well.</li><li>The company also observed a strong quarter of new orders, which helped to fuel commercial demand across all of its product aircraft models and end markets.</li></ul>

This is our first report on aerospace and defense major, Textron, that is renowned for its wide portfolio of brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, and others.The company managed to deliver an all-around beat in its recent result as its aviation business is performing well.The company also observed a strong quarter of new orders, which helped to fuel commercial demand across all of its product aircraft models and end markets.

Textron Inc.: Initiation of Coverage – The Pipistrel Acquisition & Other Key Drivers

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

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

Large-cap aerospace and defense stocks remain leadership, emerging from recent market volatility to achieve new relative strength highs. Aero/defense-related names continue to be favorites of ours within the Manufacturing Sector.  In today’s report we highlight the following names: Lockheed Martin (LMT), General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), TransDigm (TDG), Textron (TXT), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Embraer S.A. ADR (ERJ), and L3 Technologies (LLL).

Large-cap aerospace and defense stocks remain leadership, emerging from recent market volatility to achieve new relative strength highs. Aero/defense-related names continue to be favorites of ours within the Manufacturing Sector.  In today’s report we highlight the following names: Lockheed Martin (LMT), General Dynamics (GD), Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), TransDigm (TDG), Textron (TXT), Teledyne Technologies (TDY), Embraer S.A. ADR (ERJ), and L3 Technologies (LLL).

Analyst

Alasdair Moody

Exposing Creative Accounting

Bucephalus Research Partnership

Bucephalus Research Partnership Limited. Exposing Creative Accounting.

At the Bucephalus Research Partnership (BRP) we analyse financial statements using our accountant's practical experience and our own quantitative algorithms for corporate governance, accounting risk and peer performance.

Our thematic research refines our unique algorithms while our single stock research focuses on examples where we discover a significant gap between published accounts and business reality.

​Bucephalus Research Partnership:
- Is an independent fee-based research service
- Does not take proprietary positions, long or short
- Does not solicit business or fees from the corporates we review

Forensic Accounting

Bombardier is our North American poster child for creative accounting. It scores very badly on each of our Governance, Accounting risk and Peer performance metrics and has one of the highest (worst) scores, 226, in our universe. Bombardier needs to spend to survive but negative cashflow means it is borrowing to fund its finance costs. Ever more desperate deals will not save the company. Worst case scenario, the debt holders take a haircut, best case, equity holders only lose 65%.The questions…

Bombardier is our North American poster child for creative accounting. It scores very badly on each of our Governance, Accounting risk and Peer performance metrics and has one of the highest (worst) scores, 226, in our universe. Bombardier needs to spend to survive but negative cashflow means it is borrowing to fund its finance costs. Ever more desperate deals will not save the company. Worst case scenario, the debt holders take a haircut, best case, equity holders only lose 65%.The questions…

We take a look at actionable stocks within the U.S. manufacturing sector, a Vermilion Research overweight.  The following industry groups are represented: Aero/Defense, Auto Parts , Industrial Rental Equipment, Building Products &amp; Fixtures.<ul><li>List of highlighted charts: ALV, BDC, BLDR, CW, EMR, HDNG, HEES, HII, HURC, HXL, ITT, KAMN, LCII, LNN, MGRC, MLR, MOD, NNBR, NPO, PCAR, SPAR, SSD, SXI, TEX, TRN, TRS, TXT, URI, VICR, VMI, WSO, WTS</li></ul>

We take a look at actionable stocks within the U.S. manufacturing sector, a Vermilion Research overweight.  The following industry groups are represented: Aero/Defense, Auto Parts , Industrial Rental Equipment, Building Products &amp; Fixtures.List of highlighted charts: ALV, BDC, BLDR, CW, EMR, HDNG, HEES, HII, HURC, HXL, ITT, KAMN, LCII, LNN, MGRC, MLR, MOD, NNBR, NPO, PCAR, SPAR, SSD, SXI, TEX, TRN, TRS, TXT, URI, VICR, VMI, WSO, WTS

U.S. Manufacturing Sector Breaking Out to All-Time Relative Strength Highs; Actionable Stocks

United States

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc. (HII) designs, builds, and maintains nuclear and non-nuclear ships for the United States Navy and Coast Guard. The Company also provides after-market services for military ships worldwide. HII consists of two primary business divisions, Newport News Shipbuilding and Ingalls Shipbuilding.

BWX Technologies, Inc. supplies nuclear components and fuel to the U.S. government. The Company offers precision manufactured components and services for the commercial nuclear power industry. BWX Technologies also provides technical, management, and site services to support governments in the operation of complex facilities and environmental remediation activities.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation designs, manufactures, and overhauls precision components and systems. The Company's systems provides engineered services to the aerospace, automotive, shipbuilding, oil, petrochemical, agricultural equipment, power generation, metal working, and fire and rescue industries.

Axon Enterprise, Inc. is a public safety technology company. The Company offers law enforcement, military, and self defense solutions. Axon Enterprise serves customers worldwide.

HEICO Corporation designs, manufactures, and sells aerospace products and services through its subsidiaries. The Company's customers include airlines and airmotive, as well as defense contractors and military agencies worldwide, including the United States Air Force, the United States Navy, and the National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA).

Teledyne Technologies Inc. provides electronic subsystems and instrumentation. The Company provides aerospace and defense electronics, digital imaging products & software, monitoring instrumentation for marine & environmental applications, harsh environment interconnect products, and subsystems for satellite communications.  Teledyne also provides engineered systems.

Moog Inc. manufactures precision motion control components and systems. The Company's actuation products control military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, missiles, launch vehicles, automated industrial machinery, and medical equipment.

Hexcel Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets reinforcement products, composite materials, and engineered products.  The Company's products are used in the commercial aerospace, space and defense, electronics, general industrial, and recreation markets for a variety of end products.  Hexcel operates around the world.

Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. operates as a defense contractor and security systems integrator for the federal government and for state and local agencies. The Company offers services in weapon systems lifecycle support, military weapon range, security and surveillance systems, IT engineering, etc.

AeroVironment, Inc. designs, develops, and produces small unmanned aircraft and fast charge systems for electric industrial vehicle batteries. The Company offers long range tracking antenna, sensors, and missile systems. AeroVironment markets its products in the United States.

Hanwha Aerospace Co., Ltd. operates as an aircraft parts manufacturing company. The Company produces and sells aircraft gas turbine engine products, aircraft compressors, low pressure turbines, and other products. Hanwha Aerospace markets its products worldwide.

ST Engineering is a global technology, defence and engineering group with offices across Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the U.S., serving customers in more than 100 countries. The Group uses technology and innovation to solve real-world problems and improve lives through its diverse portfolio of businesses across the aerospace, smart city, defence and public security segments. Headquartered in Singapore, ST Engineering reported revenue of $7.9b in FY2019 and it ranks among the largest companies listed on the Singapore Exchange. It is a component stock of the FTSE Straits Times Index, MSCI Singapore, iEdge SG ESG Transparency Index and iEdge SG ESG Leaders Index.

AECC Aviation Power Co. Ltd. manufactures and distributes aerospace products. The Company produces aircraft power devices, aerospace turbines, aerospace engines, and other products. AECC Aviation Power also provides equipment testing, equipment maintenance, and other services.


AVIC Shenyang Aircraft Company Limited manufactures aviation products. The Company mainly develops, produces, and sells aircrafts. AVIC Shenyang Aircraft also offers foreign investment, electronic products development, and other services.

AVIC Aircraft Co., Ltd. manufactures large and mid size aircraft components and aluminum materials. The Company primarily contracts and produces vertical stable board, horizontal stable board, front inspection door for Boeing 737, and components for Boeing 747 and ATR-42. AVIC Aircraft also produces decorating materials and automobile parts.

Leonardo SpA operates as a technology company. The Company provides its services to the aerospace, defense, and security sectors globally. Leonardo works on helicopters, aircrafts, aerostructures, airborne and space systems, land and naval defense electronics, and defense systems.

MTU Aero Engines AG develops and manufactures engines and offers commercial engine services and support.  The Company sells to manufacturers and operators of engines and industrial gas turbines across the world.

Melrose Industries PLC operates as a global aerospace business. The Company acquires and holds securities of under performing businesses primarily in the manufacturing sector.

Kongsberg Gruppen ASA develops, manufactures and markets high-technology aerospace and defense products, as well as systems for armed forces in Norway and other countries.  The Company produces anti-ship missiles, launchers, missile control systems, weapon control systems, and maritime and air traffic surveillance systems.

Saab AB is a high technology company.  The Company develops, manufactures, and delivers advanced products for the defense market.  Saab's operations include defense technology, command and control systems, military and commercial aircraft, and technical services, as well as missiles, space equipment, and aviation services.  The Company sells and markets its products internationally.

Textron Inc. is a global, multi-industry company with operations in aircraft, defense, industrial products, and finance.  The Company's products include airplanes, helicopters, weapons, and automotive products. Textron's finance division offers asset based lending, aviation, distribution, golf, and resort finance, as well as structured capital.

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