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>Microsoft Corporation reported strong financial performance for its second quarter fiscal year 2024.</li><li>The company attributed this success primarily to the continued growth of its Microsoft Cloud segment, which surpassed $33 billion in revenue, marking a 24% increase.</li><li>Microsoft Cloud's success largely stemmed from the efficient application of Artificial Intelligence across different sectors.</li></ul>

Microsoft Corporation reported strong financial performance for its second quarter fiscal year 2024.The company attributed this success primarily to the continued growth of its Microsoft Cloud segment, which surpassed $33 billion in revenue, marking a 24% increase.Microsoft Cloud's success largely stemmed from the efficient application of Artificial Intelligence across different sectors.

Microsoft Corporation: AI Infrastructure Investments & Growing Cloud Demand Are Indicators Of A Bright Future - Major Drivers

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

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<li>Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, collectively known as Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta, have recently announced their CY4Q23 results, unanimously claiming to increase investments in AI-related infrastructure from the current levels.</li>
<li>Per Bloomberg consensus, the capex of Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta will grow 22.6% in 2024, higher than prior forecasts of 16.6%.</li>
<li>This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.</li>
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Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Meta, collectively known as Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta, have recently announced their CY4Q23 results, unanimously claiming to increase investments in AI-related infrastructure from the current levels.
Per Bloomberg consensus, the capex of Hyperscaler 3 &amp; Meta will grow 22.6% in 2024, higher than prior forecasts of 16.6%.
This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.


Semi - Hyperscalers’ FY23 Results Review

Mostly Borrowed Ideas Deep Dives, MBI Deep Dives

MBI Deep Dives

Mostly Borrowed Ideas Deep Dives

MBI is the abbreviation for “Mostly Borrowed Ideas”. Why “Mostly Borrowed Ideas?” As a generalist, I do not have a background in any particular sector. I enjoy navigating across industries, businesses, and countries to learn, understand, and connect the dots. In any case, most ideas and innovations are incremental in nature. Very few of us are smart enough to come up with truly original or groundbreaking ideas. I am Abdullah Al-Rezwan. I was born and brought up in Bangladesh. I went to University of Dhaka for my undergrad and majored in Finance. After working three and half years in Equity Research (Sell-side) covering Financial Sector in Bangladesh, I left Bangladesh to pursue my MBA in the US. I graduated within top 10% of the class from Cornell University's two-year MBA program and worked on the buy-side following my graduation. During my time at Cornell, I won two stock pitch competitions and also became finalists in four other competitions. I thoroughly enjoyed my stint as a generalist in the US large cap team at Madison Investments and covered a wide range of companies from UnitedHealth to Amazon and Boeing before US immigration reality paused my career in investment management. As my work authorization expired, I moved to Canada in January, 2021. Then in early 2022, I was able to return to the US.

<ul><li>So I took this weekend to update my models on Meta and Amazon. I just wanted to leave some brisk thoughts on these updated models.</li><li>I will start with Meta today and will share my thoughts on Amazon tomorrow.</li><li>You can find the updated model on Meta here which I encourage you to download to play around with your own narrative as you see fit.</li></ul>

So I took this weekend to update my models on Meta and Amazon. I just wanted to leave some brisk thoughts on these updated models.I will start with Meta today and will share my thoughts on Amazon tomorrow.You can find the updated model on Meta here which I encourage you to download to play around with your own narrative as you see fit.

Fundamental Principles of the Stock Market, From 0 to 1 in the Stock Market

From 0 to 1 in the Stock Market

Fundamental Principles of the Stock Market

Fundamental principles of the stock market, earnings reviews and research. My name is Giuliano Mana, I’m 23 years old. I have a B.A Degree in Finance and I’m a Master’s candidate at Brandeis IBS. I’ve been thoroughly going over huge amounts of reading material regarding the stock market and hope to transmit some insights here.

<div data-attrs='{"url":"https://www.0to1stockmarket.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><div><ul><li><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">Microsoft reported results on January 30</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">. The company generated revenue in excess of 62bn dollars during the fourth quarter of 2023, increasing 17% on a yearly basis and exhibiting a 4yr CAGR of 13.8%. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">It’s worth highlighting that Activision contributed to 4pp of revenue growth. </span></li><li><span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);">During July, a court filing was leaked, which illustrated </span>management’s self-stated ambition<span style="font-size: var(--content-font-size);"> for the next decade.</span></li></ul></div></form></div></div>

Microsoft reported results on January 30th. The company generated revenue in excess of 62bn dollars during the fourth quarter of 2023, increasing 17% on a yearly basis and exhibiting a 4yr CAGR of 13.8%. It’s worth highlighting that Activision contributed to 4pp of revenue growth. During July, a court filing was leaked, which illustrated management’s self-stated ambition for the next decade.

Next Generation Financial Data Tools, Calcbench

Calcbench

Next Generation Financial Data Tools

Founded in 2011, based in New York and Cambridge, MA, Calcbench is a financial data platform designed for detailed fundamental research. Created by former analysts and supported by a team of financial experts with serious credentials in Finance, Accounting, and Applied Mathematics, Calcbench helps analysts looking to go a level deeper become more productive and accurate in their financial analysis. With Calcbench, analysts can systematically access all the data (numbers and text) in financial statements, including the details hidden within the footnotes.

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<li>Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday — giving us an excellent opportunity to showcase how Calcbench can help you dive into the details of their operating segment performance.</li>
<li>Lots of charts and tables coming up! For example, we looked at the segment-level disclosures in Microsoft’s earnings release , which Calcbench lets you export into Excel.</li>
<li>With just a few keystrokes that led to Figure 1, below, which lets us see which of Microsoft’s many lines of business grew the most year over year.</li>
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Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday — giving us an excellent opportunity to showcase how Calcbench can help you dive into the details of their operating segment performance.
Lots of charts and tables coming up! For example, we looked at the segment-level disclosures in Microsoft’s earnings release , which Calcbench lets you export into Excel.
With just a few keystrokes that led to Figure 1, below, which lets us see which of Microsoft’s many lines of business grew the most year over year.


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Microsoft Corporation operates as a software company. The Company offers applications, extra cloud storage, and advanced security solutions. Microsoft serves customers worldwide.

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Microsoft Corporation: AI Infrastructure Investments & Growing Cloud Demand Are Indicators Of A Bright Future - Major Drivers

Microsoft Corporation reported strong financial performance for its second quarter fiscal year 2024. The company attributed this success primarily...

Baptista Research

Semi - Hyperscalers’ FY23 Results Review

This capex boost further confirms our perspective on the ongoing AI momentum into 2024, driven by strong demand for building computing capacity.

CMB International

Meta Platforms: Model Update

So I took this weekend to update my models on Meta and Amazon. I just wanted to leave some brisk thoughts on these updated models.

MBI Deep Dives

Microsoft Q2 Earnings Review

The company generated revenue in excess of 62bn dollars during the fourth quarter of 2023, increasing 17% on a yearly basis and exhibiting a 4yr...

From 0 to 1 in the Stock Market

Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google

Quick Takes on Microsoft, Google Tech giants Microsoft ($MSFT) and Google ($GOOG) both filed their latest quarterly earnings releases on Tuesday

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