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>Alphabet Inc. reported its first quarter of 2026 results demonstrating continued momentum across key business segments driven largely by its investments in artificial intelligence (AI).</li><li>The company posted consolidated revenue of $109.9 billion, marking a 22% year-over-year increase (19% in constant currency), and achieved its 11th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth.</li><li>Operating income rose 30% to $39.7 billion, with operating margin increasing to 36.1%.</li></ul>

Alphabet Inc. reported its first quarter of 2026 results demonstrating continued momentum across key business segments driven largely by its investments in artificial intelligence (AI).The company posted consolidated revenue of $109.9 billion, marking a 22% year-over-year increase (19% in constant currency), and achieved its 11th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth.Operating income rose 30% to $39.7 billion, with operating margin increasing to 36.1%.

Why Alphabet's $180-$190 Billion CapEx Commitment Makes The Hold Rating Hard To Dismiss!

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.</li>
<li>OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.</li>
<li>Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.</li>
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DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash and hired underwriters for a Shanghai IPO. US agencies and Anthropic separately accused Chinese labs of extracting US model outputs.
OpenAI published a proposed Navier-Stokes proof and opened its Agents API beta. Xiaomi introduced MiMo Desktop for invited users.
Zhipu proposed USD 5bn of financing. Cognition announced a larger USD 2bn round, while Nvidia discussed an Anthropic IPO anchor investment.


This Week in AI (Sep 6-12): DeepSeek V4.1-Flash and IPO; OpenAI's Astra Solves NS Equation

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.</li>
<li>MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.</li>
<li>Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.</li>
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We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: OpenAI and Anthropic refreshed frontier models while Moonshot started its Hong Kong IPO process.
MiniMax powered HUMAIN's Arabic sovereign model, Alibaba refreshed Qwen, and Artificial Analysis kept new US frontier releases at the top of the ranking.
Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face, Anthropic expanded compute financing, and AI infrastructure demand flowed through hyperscalers, hardware vendors, chips and memory.


This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas, CrossASEAN Research

Henry Soediarko

Asian Insight Provider - Actionable ideas

CrossASEAN Research

At CrossASEAN Research we strive to produce unbiased and differentiated on the ground insights on companies across South East Asia. Our Research is produced for the most part after face to face meetings and conversations with company management to dig deep into the long term vision and strategy of the companies we cover. We seek to deliver investable and actionable themes on sectors and markets across SE Asia, often in collaboration with other Insight Providers across the region, pooling the vast experience of the analysts within the Smartkarma Ecosystem. We also offer bespoke work and tailor made trips for our clients. 

Insights across South East Asia

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/eeka-fashion-holdings-limited" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:17725:1" rel="noopener">EEKA Fashion (3709 HK)</a> has diversified away from only golf apparel and has successful on building apparel brands for other sports. </li>
<li>Their online sales only make up to 20% of the total sales, while the peers reached 30-40%; thus, the unit of profitability is lagging behind. </li>
<li>Currently, it lacks a catalyst for a buy while it is too risky to short sell Eeka after a period of underperformance to the peers. </li>
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EEKA Fashion (3709 HK) has diversified away from only golf apparel and has successful on building apparel brands for other sports. 
Their online sales only make up to 20% of the total sales, while the peers reached 30-40%; thus, the unit of profitability is lagging behind. 
Currently, it lacks a catalyst for a buy while it is too risky to short sell Eeka after a period of underperformance to the peers. 


Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Douglas Research Advisory

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<li>Samsung Electronics (005930 KS), SK Hynix (000660 KS), and Kioxia Holdings (285A JP)'s share prices declined by 4.7%, 6.2%, and 5.7% respectively on 26 March.</li>
<li>Concerns about Google's new TurboQuant technology was the major factor driving lower share prices for these leading semiconductor companies in Asia.</li>
<li><em><strong>TurboQuant is likely to put negative pressures on the global semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in the near term. However, the long-term outlook remains less clear.  </strong></em></li>
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Samsung Electronics (005930 KS), SK Hynix (000660 KS), and Kioxia Holdings (285A JP)'s share prices declined by 4.7%, 6.2%, and 5.7% respectively on 26 March.
Concerns about Google's new TurboQuant technology was the major factor driving lower share prices for these leading semiconductor companies in Asia.
TurboQuant is likely to put negative pressures on the global semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in the near term. However, the long-term outlook remains less clear.  


Google's TurboQuant - Negative Impact on SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the Near Term

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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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Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

This Week in AI (Aug 30-Sep 5): GPT-6 Astra and Fable 5.1 in Same Week; Moonshot Files IPO

This week in AI: GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 arrive together; Nvidia buys Hugging Face for USD 12.93bn; Moonshot files for a Hong Kong IPO.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Eeka Fashion (3709): Ladies Fashion

Good product, high gross profit margin but net margin is low due to the high cost compared to the peers. Unless they can increase their online...

Henry Soediarko

Google's TurboQuant - Negative Impact on SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the Near Term

TurboQuant is likely to put negative pressures on the global semiconductor companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in the near term....

Douglas Kim

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