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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Thales Group has reported its financial results for the first half of 2025, showcasing a strong performance despite facing challenges in certain segments.</li><li>The company experienced notable sales growth, particularly in avionics and defense, driven by increased global defense spending and robust order intake.</li><li>The defense sector, buoyed by significant contracts such as the order of Rafale fighter jets from the Indian Navy and a missile supply contract with the UK Ministry of Defense, contributed substantially to the positive revenue trajectory.</li></ul>

Thales Group has reported its financial results for the first half of 2025, showcasing a strong performance despite facing challenges in certain segments.The company experienced notable sales growth, particularly in avionics and defense, driven by increased global defense spending and robust order intake.The defense sector, buoyed by significant contracts such as the order of Rafale fighter jets from the Indian Navy and a missile supply contract with the UK Ministry of Defense, contributed substantially to the positive revenue trajectory.

Thales Group’s Defense Boom: How Rising Military Budgets Could Supercharge 2025 Profits!

<ul><li>Thales reported its full-year 2024 earnings, showcasing a robust financial performance with significant achievements across its portfolio.</li><li>The company's strategic focus on strengthening its global technology leadership in Defence, Aerospace, Cyber, and Digital sectors, as well as integrating recent acquisitions, contributed to these results.</li><li>Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.</li></ul>

Thales reported its full-year 2024 earnings, showcasing a robust financial performance with significant achievements across its portfolio.The company's strategic focus on strengthening its global technology leadership in Defence, Aerospace, Cyber, and Digital sectors, as well as integrating recent acquisitions, contributed to these results.Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.

Thales SA: Initiation of Coverage- Strategic Gains in Defense

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

Index Rebalance

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bigbear-ai-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36863:1" rel="noopener">BigBear.ai Holdings</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/next-vision-stabilized-systems-ltd-nextvision" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44223:1" rel="noopener">NextVision Stabilized Systems</a>, <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ondas-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:33321:1" rel="noopener">Ondas Holdings Inc</a> and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/planet-labs-pbc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35253:1" rel="noopener">Planet Labs</a> will be added to the MarketVector Global Defense Industry Index at the close on 19 December.</li>
<li>The 4 adds, float changes and capping changes will result in an estimated one-way turnover of 5.8% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$846m.</li>
<li>The adds have all run up over the last year and the passive buying could give the stocks another leg up in the short-term.</li>
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BigBear.ai Holdings, NextVision Stabilized Systems, Ondas Holdings Inc and Planet Labs will be added to the MarketVector Global Defense Industry Index at the close on 19 December.
The 4 adds, float changes and capping changes will result in an estimated one-way turnover of 5.8% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$846m.
The adds have all run up over the last year and the passive buying could give the stocks another leg up in the short-term.


MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: 4 Adds; 5.8% Turnover; US$850m Trade

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hanwha-systems-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28308:1" rel="noopener">Hanwha Systems Co Ltd (272210 KS)</a> will be added to the MarketVector Global Defense Industry Index at the close on 19 September.</li>
<li>The constituent change, float changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 3.1% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$437m.</li>
<li>Inflows to the tracking ETF have slowed down but there could be more inflows after a period of consolidation in the underlying stocks.</li>
</ul>



Hanwha Systems Co Ltd (272210 KS) will be added to the MarketVector Global Defense Industry Index at the close on 19 September.
The constituent change, float changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 3.1% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$437m.
Inflows to the tracking ETF have slowed down but there could be more inflows after a period of consolidation in the underlying stocks.


MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: Hanwha Systems Added as Stocks Play Offence

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/hyundai-rotem-company" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:1554:1" rel="noopener">Hyundai Rotem</a>, RENK Group and <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/karman-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:44289:1" rel="noopener">Karman Holdings</a> will be added to the MV Global Defense Industry Index after the close of trading on 20 June.</li>
<li>Constituent changes, float changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 8.8% and a round-trip trade of US$1.1bn.</li>
<li>The index has moved up steadily over the last few years and the ETF has taken in a big chunk of money over the last 6 months.</li>
</ul>



Hyundai Rotem, RENK Group and Karman Holdings will be added to the MV Global Defense Industry Index after the close of trading on 20 June.
Constituent changes, float changes and capping changes result in an estimated one-way turnover of 8.8% and a round-trip trade of US$1.1bn.
The index has moved up steadily over the last few years and the ETF has taken in a big chunk of money over the last 6 months.


MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: US$1.1bn Round-Trip Trade as Stocks Soar

France

Thales SA manufactures aerospace systems and industrial electronics products. The Company manufactures radar and countermeasure systems, optronics and electron tubes, communications, navigation, and identification systems, air traffic management systems, computer hardware and software, missile defense systems, and semiconductors.  Thales serves the civilian and military markets.

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Thales Group’s Defense Boom: How Rising Military Budgets Could Supercharge 2025 Profits!

Thales Group has reported its financial results for the first half of 2025, showcasing a strong performance despite facing challenges in certain...

Baptista Research

Thales SA: Initiation of Coverage- Strategic Gains in Defense

Thales reported its full-year 2024 earnings, showcasing a robust financial performance with significant achievements across its portfolio. The...

Baptista Research

MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: 4 Adds; 5.8% Turnover; US$850m Trade

There are 4 adds for the index in Dec. Estimated one-way turnover is 5.8% resulting in a round-trip trade of US$846m. The adds have run up a lot...

Brian Freitas

MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: Hanwha Systems Added as Stocks Play Offence

Hanwha Systems will be added to the index. One-way turnover is 3.1% and the round-trip trade is US$437m. Most stocks are at or near new highs and...

Brian Freitas

MV Global Defense Industry Index Rebalance: US$1.1bn Round-Trip Trade as Stocks Soar

There are 3 adds to the index. Estimated turnover is 8.8% and round-trip trade is US$1.1bn. The index has moved up a lot and stocks have soared....

Brian Freitas

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