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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

Bio-Rad Laboratories A / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Bio-Rad Laboratories' financial performance for the third quarter of 2025 was characterized by modest revenue growth, constrained by headwinds in various segments.</li><li>The company reported net sales of approximately $653 million, a slight increase from $650 million in the third quarter of 2024 on a reported basis but a 1.7% decrease on a currency-neutral basis.</li><li>This outcome was primarily influenced by challenges in the academic research and biotech funding sectors, which impacted the Life Science segment.</li></ul>

Bio-Rad Laboratories' financial performance for the third quarter of 2025 was characterized by modest revenue growth, constrained by headwinds in various segments.The company reported net sales of approximately $653 million, a slight increase from $650 million in the third quarter of 2024 on a reported basis but a 1.7% decrease on a currency-neutral basis.This outcome was primarily influenced by challenges in the academic research and biotech funding sectors, which impacted the Life Science segment.

Bio-Rad Laboratories Just Supercharged Its PCR Portfolio—Is This a Game-Changer in Oncology?

Global Healthcare Analyst

Tina Banerjee

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>New Covid cases across the world is surging. New Covid-19 variant found in South Africa and Botswana is adding to fears.</li>
<li>This will bring the focus back to molecular diagnostic companies due to increasing demand for Covid testing.</li>
<li>We have listed few global diagnostic companies, which should benefit from this backdrop.</li>
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New Covid cases across the world is surging. New Covid-19 variant found in South Africa and Botswana is adding to fears.
This will bring the focus back to molecular diagnostic companies due to increasing demand for Covid testing.
We have listed few global diagnostic companies, which should benefit from this backdrop.


New Covid Variant Raises Fear: Stocks to Own to Buck the Trend

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

Despite the bulls still being in control, we have several ongoing concerns and we cannot rule out the potential for a pullback. Below we highlight developments that are inconsistent with a major bottom in equities that suggests the broad equity market is not yet out of the woods.  In fact, during today's action, the 2760 support level on the S&amp;P 500 briefly held but ultimately gave way. With the SPX holding below 2760 today, we are looking for downside targets of 2650 first, and then potentially 2470 if that fails to hold.

Despite the bulls still being in control, we have several ongoing concerns and we cannot rule out the potential for a pullback. Below we highlight developments that are inconsistent with a major bottom in equities that suggests the broad equity market is not yet out of the woods.  In fact, during today's action, the 2760 support level on the S&amp;P 500 briefly held but ultimately gave way. With the SPX holding below 2760 today, we are looking for downside targets of 2650 first, and then potentially 2470 if that fails to hold.

U.S. Equity Strategy: Several Indicators Suggest a Pullback Likely

S&amp;P 500 Potential Support Levels. Current logical support levels we are monitoring include the December 2018 low of 2,346 and prior resistance in 2015-2016 at 2,130-2,200. The 2,346 level would make a lot of sense, however there is nothing that says we can’t be down 35% (coinciding with the 2,130-2,200 level) or more from the highs. Ultimately, COVID-19 is holding the market hostage and it likely will stay that way until the virus spread diminishes.

S&amp;P 500 Potential Support Levels. Current logical support levels we are monitoring include the December 2018 low of 2,346 and prior resistance in 2015-2016 at 2,130-2,200. The 2,346 level would make a lot of sense, however there is nothing that says we can’t be down 35% (coinciding with the 2,130-2,200 level) or more from the highs. Ultimately, COVID-19 is holding the market hostage and it likely will stay that way until the virus spread diminishes.

S&P 500 Technical Appraisal and Support Levels

As the S&amp;P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we remain constructive overall, our expectations are tempered as the market finds itself a crossroad.  In today’s report we provide our U.S. equity strategy synopsis, and also highlight attractive stocks within the Health Care Sector.

As the S&amp;P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we remain constructive overall, our expectations are tempered as the market finds itself a crossroad.  In today’s report we provide our U.S. equity strategy synopsis, and also highlight attractive stocks within the Health Care Sector.

S&P 500: Outlook Constructive but Concerns Remain

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. is a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products, clinical diagnostics, and analytical instrumentation.  The Company's products and systems separate complex chemical and biological materials, as well as identify, analyze, and purify their components.

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Bio-Rad Laboratories Just Supercharged Its PCR Portfolio—Is This a Game-Changer in Oncology?

Bio-Rad Laboratories' financial performance for the third quarter of 2025 was characterized by modest revenue growth, constrained by headwinds in...

Baptista Research

New Covid Variant Raises Fear: Stocks to Own to Buck the Trend

Amidst the rising fear for the new Covid variant, investors can focus on molecular diagnostic stocks, as testing demand will be increasing again.

Tina Banerjee

U.S. Equity Strategy: Several Indicators Suggest a Pullback Likely

Despite the bulls still being in control, we have several ongoing concerns and we cannot rule out the potential for a pullback. Below we highlight...

Vermilion Research

S&P 500 Technical Appraisal and Support Levels

S&P 500 Potential Support Levels. Current logical support levels we are monitoring include the December 2018 low of 2,346 and prior resistance...

Vermilion Research

S&P 500: Outlook Constructive but Concerns Remain

As the S&P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we...

Vermilion Research

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