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>Block delivered a decent set of results with an all-around beat and good profitability during the last quarter.</li><li>Its BNPL platform produced $150 million in gross profit in the third quarter, distributed between Square and Cash App.</li><li>Inflows per active user have been improving in the third quarter compared to the first and second quarters and stable year over year.</li></ul>

Block delivered a decent set of results with an all-around beat and good profitability during the last quarter.Its BNPL platform produced $150 million in gross profit in the third quarter, distributed between Square and Cash App.Inflows per active user have been improving in the third quarter compared to the first and second quarters and stable year over year.

Block Inc (formerly Square Inc): Continuing Bullish Approach Towards Crypto

IPOs and Catalysts/Events, Global Equity Research Ltd

Arun George

IPOs and Catalysts/Events

Uncompromised, Independent, Conflict-Free Research

Global Equity Research Ltd

Global Equity Research was started in 2017 by a group of experienced research professionals. It was founded on a passionate belief in the importance and the need for uncompromised, independent, conflict-free research. We aim to provide differentiated and actionable primary and bottom up fundamental research.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tyro-payments-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28393:1" rel="noopener">Tyro Payments (TYR AU)</a> confirmed that it has “<em>received approaches from several parties expressing interest in a potential change of control transaction, including <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/westpac-banking-corp" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:444:1" rel="noopener">Westpac Banking (WBC AU)</a>.</em>”</li>
<li>Tyro previously rejected a A$1.27 offer from the Potentia consortium. Grok's get-out clause with Potentia sets the floor price of a competing bid at A$1.52 per share.</li>
<li>The last close of A$1.59 is higher than the floor price. Triangulating the value of a rival bid across several data points suggests a competing offer of around A$2.</li>
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Tyro Payments (TYR AU) confirmed that it has “received approaches from several parties expressing interest in a potential change of control transaction, including Westpac Banking (WBC AU).”
Tyro previously rejected a A$1.27 offer from the Potentia consortium. Grok's get-out clause with Potentia sets the floor price of a competing bid at A$1.52 per share.
The last close of A$1.59 is higher than the floor price. Triangulating the value of a rival bid across several data points suggests a competing offer of around A$2.


Tyro Confirms Westpac as One of the Interested Suitors

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.

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<li>Multiple new agencies have been reporting that <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tencent-holdings-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:26:1" rel="noopener">Tencent (700 HK)</a> plans to trim its investment portfolio over the remainder of the year. </li>
<li>The reports have been coming in since the second half of the year and the company has been duly denying these rumors.</li>
<li>In this note, we look at Tencent’s shareholding in various companies to try and gauge which ones it could sell out of and how.</li>
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Multiple new agencies have been reporting that Tencent (700 HK) plans to trim its investment portfolio over the remainder of the year. 
The reports have been coming in since the second half of the year and the company has been duly denying these rumors.
In this note, we look at Tencent’s shareholding in various companies to try and gauge which ones it could sell out of and how.


Tencent Investee Selldown - The US$120bn Global Overhang

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/tyro-payments-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:28393:1" rel="noopener">Tyro Payments (TYR AU)</a> rejected an indicative proposal from the Potentia consortium at A$1.27 per share as it was highly conditional and materially undervalued the business.</li>
<li>Grok, the largest shareholder will vote for a Potentia scheme unless there is a rival scheme which is A$0.25 per share higher than the value of the Potentia proposal.</li>
<li>Potentia's move puts Tyro in play, and Grok’s involvement will force the Board to get an improved offer and/or flush out a competing bidder. There is another round to go.</li>
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Tyro Payments (TYR AU) rejected an indicative proposal from the Potentia consortium at A$1.27 per share as it was highly conditional and materially undervalued the business.
Grok, the largest shareholder will vote for a Potentia scheme unless there is a rival scheme which is A$0.25 per share higher than the value of the Potentia proposal.
Potentia's move puts Tyro in play, and Grok’s involvement will force the Board to get an improved offer and/or flush out a competing bidder. There is another round to go.


Tyro in Play as It Rejects Potentia’s A$1.27 Offer

<ul><li>After a steep correction in the past few months, Block is trading sideways but continues to remain a highly volatile script.</li><li>The company delivered an all-around beat but the sideways trajectory has continued.</li><li>In the quarter, within Cash App, Block introduced an innovative investing feature named ‘Round Ups’ to make investing accessible and relatable to everyone.</li></ul>

After a steep correction in the past few months, Block is trading sideways but continues to remain a highly volatile script.The company delivered an all-around beat but the sideways trajectory has continued.In the quarter, within Cash App, Block introduced an innovative investing feature named ‘Round Ups’ to make investing accessible and relatable to everyone.

Block Inc (formerly Square Inc): The New Square Stand & Other Drivers

United States

Block, Inc. operates as a financial services and digital payments company. The Company develops a payments platform aimed at small and medium businesses that allows them to accept credit card payments and use tablet computers as payment registers for a point-of-sale system. Block also provides financial and marketing services.

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Tyro Confirms Westpac as One of the Interested Suitors

The floor price of a competing bid at A$1.52 per share. Triangulating the value of a rival bid across several data points suggests a competing...

Arun George

Tencent Investee Selldown - The US$120bn Global Overhang

There have been multiple reports that Tencent (700 HK) plans to trim its investment portfolio over the remainder of the year. We look at Tencent's...

Sumeet Singh

Tyro in Play as It Rejects Potentia’s A$1.27 Offer

Potentia's move puts Tyro in play, and Grok’s involvement will force the Board to get an improved offer and/or flush out a competing bidder. There...

Arun George

Block Inc (formerly Square Inc): The New Square Stand & Other Drivers

After a steep correction in the past few months, Block is trading sideways but continues to remain a highly volatile script. The company delivered...

Baptista Research

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