TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Pinterest has rallied 40% over the past 5 months on hopes that its new CEO Bill Ready will pivot the company from a pure advertising model to an ecommerce juggernaut.</li>
<li>Altering what consumers use online platforms for is exceedingly difficult and rarely succeeds: TripAdvisor, Yelp, Groupon, Stitchfix, eBay.</li>
<li>Ultimately, unless Pinterest convinces its users to more frequently utilize the platform, efforts to boost monetization will likely fall flat.</li>
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Pinterest has rallied 40% over the past 5 months on hopes that its new CEO Bill Ready will pivot the company from a pure advertising model to an ecommerce juggernaut.
Altering what consumers use online platforms for is exceedingly difficult and rarely succeeds: TripAdvisor, Yelp, Groupon, Stitchfix, eBay.
Ultimately, unless Pinterest convinces its users to more frequently utilize the platform, efforts to boost monetization will likely fall flat.


Founder & CEO Bond Angle, LLC, Bond Angle, LLC

Vicki Bryan

Founder & CEO Bond Angle, LLC

Bond Angle, LLC

Insightful commentary and analysis on bond markets and market movers, including financial, economic, and industry catalysts and management shenanigans. 

High yield market investment research

Credit

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<li>Elon Musk sold billions more of Tesla near 2-yr lows, signaling he &amp; Twitter need serious cash NOW. </li>
<li>His banks know why—they hold Elon's margin loans and they get Twitter's financial info every month.</li>
<li>And the banks want Elon to buy back from them Twitter's riskiest LBO debt, which they can't sell because of how fast he is destroying Twitter's business and prospects.</li>
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Elon Musk sold billions more of Tesla near 2-yr lows, signaling he &amp; Twitter need serious cash NOW. 
His banks know why—they hold Elon's margin loans and they get Twitter's financial info every month.
And the banks want Elon to buy back from them Twitter's riskiest LBO debt, which they can't sell because of how fast he is destroying Twitter's business and prospects.


Elon Sold More Falling Tesla Stock. Margin Calls? Twitter Failing? Bank Demands? Likely All Three.

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

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.

Event-Driven

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<li>PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US listed China companies.</li>
<li>The Hong Kong visit was on the back of the 26th Aug 2022 announcement by PCAOB and CSRC that they had entered into an agreement with US authorities for access.</li>
<li>In this note, we'll talk about the latest developments, possible outcomes and implications.</li>
</ul>


PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US listed China companies.
The Hong Kong visit was on the back of the 26th Aug 2022 announcement by PCAOB and CSRC that they had entered into an agreement with US authorities for access.
In this note, we'll talk about the latest developments, possible outcomes and implications.


China ADRs Delisting - Friday Could Be Judgment Day for over US$800bn Mcap of Stocks

Selected Quarterly & Annual Newsletters from Funds, Fund Newsletters

Fund Newsletters

Selected Quarterly & Annual Newsletters from Funds

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Merion Road Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. We focus on value-oriented investing through rigorous fundamental analysis of a company's operations.</li>
<li>Q3 2022 was a disappointing quarter.</li>
<li>We should extend our investment horizon exactly when others shorten theirs.</li>
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Merion Road Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. We focus on value-oriented investing through rigorous fundamental analysis of a company's operations.
Q3 2022 was a disappointing quarter.
We should extend our investment horizon exactly when others shorten theirs.


Merion Road Capital Q3 2022 Investor Letter

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.

<ul><li>Alphabet’s stock price has undergone a strong correction after the company delivered a disappointing third-quarter financial result, failing to meet Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.</li><li>Alphabet did have a decent underlying growth in Search and momentum in Cloud but the impact of currency conversion is reflected in their results.</li><li>Lapping the high growth levels from the previous year and the difficult macroeconomic environment also influenced the growth in their advertising revenues.</li></ul>

Alphabet’s stock price has undergone a strong correction after the company delivered a disappointing third-quarter financial result, failing to meet Wall Street expectations in terms of revenues as well as earnings.Alphabet did have a decent underlying growth in Search and momentum in Cloud but the impact of currency conversion is reflected in their results.Lapping the high growth levels from the previous year and the difficult macroeconomic environment also influenced the growth in their advertising revenues.

Alphabet Inc: The Alter Acquisition & Other Drivers

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Alphabet Inc. operates as a holding company. The Company, through its subsidiaries, provides web-based search, advertisements, maps, software applications, mobile operating systems, consumer content, enterprise solutions, commerce, and hardware products.

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TMT Short Idea: Pinterest

Pinterest has been a sneaky strong TMT long for the past 6 months on hopes its new CEO Bill Ready will deliver the holy grail of ecommerce to the...

Aaron Gabin

Elon Sold More Falling Tesla Stock. Margin Calls? Twitter Failing? Bank Demands? Likely All Three.

Elon sold billions more of Tesla near 2-yr lows, signaling he & Twitter need serious cash NOW. His banks know why & they want Elon to buy back from...

Vicki Bryan

China ADRs Delisting - Friday Could Be Judgment Day for over US$800bn Mcap of Stocks

PCAOB officials concluded their Hong Kong visit last month and PCAOB is due to announce its annual judgment on whether it had adequate access to US...

Sumeet Singh

Merion Road Capital Q3 2022 Investor Letter

Merion Road Capital Management LLC is a registered investment adviser. We focus on value-oriented investing through rigorous fundamental analysis...

Fund Newsletters

Alphabet Inc: The Alter Acquisition & Other Drivers

Alphabet’s stock price has undergone a strong correction after the company delivered a disappointing third-quarter financial result, failing to...

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