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>AST SpaceMobile has quietly become one of the most talked-about stocks among retail investors, and the reason is fairly simple: it is trying to build something that has never existed before—a cellular broadband network in space that connects directly to everyday smartphones.</li><li>The ambition is enormous.</li><li>Instead of requiring specialized satellite phones, AST SpaceMobile aims to allow ordinary mobile devices to access voice, data, and video connectivity anywhere on Earth.</li></ul>

AST SpaceMobile has quietly become one of the most talked-about stocks among retail investors, and the reason is fairly simple: it is trying to build something that has never existed before—a cellular broadband network in space that connects directly to everyday smartphones.The ambition is enormous.Instead of requiring specialized satellite phones, AST SpaceMobile aims to allow ordinary mobile devices to access voice, data, and video connectivity anywhere on Earth.

AST SpaceMobile vs Starlink: The REAL Battle Wall Street Is Missing!

<ul><li>AST SpaceMobile's third quarter of 2025 business update revealed significant progress across several operational and financial dimensions, indicating both growth potential and ongoing challenges.</li><li>The company is focused on building the first global cellular broadband network in space, directly connecting with unmodified mobile devices—a venture targeting an extensive market with over 6 billion mobile phones globally, but with existing coverage gaps.</li><li>The company reported approximately $14.7 million in revenue, a substantial increase from previous quarters, primarily due to gateway equipment sales and service milestones with U.S. government and commercial partners.</li></ul>

AST SpaceMobile's third quarter of 2025 business update revealed significant progress across several operational and financial dimensions, indicating both growth potential and ongoing challenges.The company is focused on building the first global cellular broadband network in space, directly connecting with unmodified mobile devices—a venture targeting an extensive market with over 6 billion mobile phones globally, but with existing coverage gaps.The company reported approximately $14.7 million in revenue, a substantial increase from previous quarters, primarily due to gateway equipment sales and service milestones with U.S. government and commercial partners.

AST SpaceMobile: Reddit's Favorite Meme Stock Is Accelerating Satellite Production — But Can It Deliver 40 Units by 2026 & Stay Ahead of Competitors?

Market Intelligence, ORTEX

ORTEX Market Intel

Market Intelligence

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ORTEX

ORTEX is a global financial data and analytics platform providing real-time securities lending and short interest data, index rebalance data, holdings and insider transactions, trading signals, corporate actions and news,  stock machine learning and factor scores and other analytics. The majority of the data are downloadable and accessible through APIs.

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>Short interest built across cybersecurity names this week, with CRWD leading single-stock moves as analysts cut targets and insiders sold.</li><li>Broad ETF hedges unwound sharply — IJH and CIBR each posted double-digit short interest drops.</li><li>Borrow markets tightened in pockets, with MSFT seeing its sharpest SI spike in months.</li></ul>

Short interest built across cybersecurity names this week, with CRWD leading single-stock moves as analysts cut targets and insiders sold.Broad ETF hedges unwound sharply — IJH and CIBR each posted double-digit short interest drops.Borrow markets tightened in pockets, with MSFT seeing its sharpest SI spike in months.

Weekly Digest: Short Sellers Reload Into Cyber, Flee ETF Hedges

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

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<li>We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).</li>
<li>Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold</li>
<li>The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS</li>
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We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).
Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold
The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS


Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

Telco/Internet specialist

Kirk Boodry

Redex Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>The Japan telecom and Internet companies in our coverage universe held ¥1,253bn in public equities as of Q2(Sep) largely built through capital alliances tied to business collaboration</li>
<li>NTT has the largest portfolio at c. ¥958bn (7% of market cap) followed by KDDI. Toyota (¥354bn) and JTower (three strategic telcos) are the largest and most widely held </li>
<li>The P&amp;L impact of valuation changes in Q2 should be muted. We have included tables for all the companies in our coverage</li>
</ul>


The Japan telecom and Internet companies in our coverage universe held ¥1,253bn in public equities as of Q2(Sep) largely built through capital alliances tied to business collaboration
NTT has the largest portfolio at c. ¥958bn (7% of market cap) followed by KDDI. Toyota (¥354bn) and JTower (three strategic telcos) are the largest and most widely held 
The P&amp;L impact of valuation changes in Q2 should be muted. We have included tables for all the companies in our coverage


Japan Telecoms/Internet - A Quick Look at Public Equity Portfolios

United States

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. operates as a telecommunication company. The Company offers space bases broadband cellular network for mobile phones. AST SpaceMobile serves customers in the United States.

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AST SpaceMobile Inc (ASTS US)

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Baptista Research

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Baptista Research

Weekly Digest: Short Sellers Reload Into Cyber, Flee ETF Hedges

Short interest built across cybersecurity names this week, with CRWD leading single-stock moves as analysts cut targets and insiders sold. Broad...

ORTEX Market Intel

Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

Back to Near-Term Bullish on $SPX and Nasdaq 100 $NDX; Crucial Supports Held at 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on $QQQ, we are near-term bullish as...

Vermilion Research

Japan Telecoms/Internet - A Quick Look at Public Equity Portfolios

Public equity portfolios in our coverage represent 3% of total market cap, driven by capital alliances tied to business collaboration. We thought...

Kirk Boodry

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