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>The Chemours Company recently reported its fourth quarter 2025 results, providing a mixed overview of its financial and strategic outcomes.</li><li>On the positive side, Chemours saw notable success in its Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) segment, achieving record sales driven by the continued adoption of its Opteon refrigerants.</li><li>This was reflected in a 37% year-over-year increase in sales for the division, primarily due to enhanced pricing and volume increases, and the opportune sales pricing mix.</li></ul>

The Chemours Company recently reported its fourth quarter 2025 results, providing a mixed overview of its financial and strategic outcomes.On the positive side, Chemours saw notable success in its Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) segment, achieving record sales driven by the continued adoption of its Opteon refrigerants.This was reflected in a 37% year-over-year increase in sales for the division, primarily due to enhanced pricing and volume increases, and the opportune sales pricing mix.

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<ul><li>The Chemours Company reported its third-quarter 2025 financial results, emphasizing significant achievements and ongoing challenges.</li><li>The company surpassed its adjusted EBITDA expectations despite ongoing macroeconomic challenges, particularly in sectors sensitive to economic fluctuations.</li><li>A focal point of success was the Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) segment, where revenue from Opteon refrigerants surged by 80% compared to the previous year.</li></ul>

The Chemours Company reported its third-quarter 2025 financial results, emphasizing significant achievements and ongoing challenges.The company surpassed its adjusted EBITDA expectations despite ongoing macroeconomic challenges, particularly in sectors sensitive to economic fluctuations.A focal point of success was the Thermal & Specialized Solutions (TSS) segment, where revenue from Opteon refrigerants surged by 80% compared to the previous year.

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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 will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6824 on SPX (up from 6480-6520), $610 on QQQ, and $245 on IWM continue to hold.</li>
<li>Just last week (1/6/26 Compass) we discussed the many breakouts (most notably the Russell 2000) which led us to believe immediate upside was ahead. The breakouts just keep coming.</li>
<li>Latest breakouts include SPX, space exploration (ARKX), autonomous/robotics (ARKQ), Consumer Discretionary (XLY), retail (XRT), homebuilders (ITB, XHB), small-cap growth (IWO), quantum (QTUM), China (MCHI), and Staples (XLP).</li>
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We will stay near-term bullish as long as crucial support levels of 6824 on SPX (up from 6480-6520), $610 on QQQ, and $245 on IWM continue to hold.
Just last week (1/6/26 Compass) we discussed the many breakouts (most notably the Russell 2000) which led us to believe immediate upside was ahead. The breakouts just keep coming.
Latest breakouts include SPX, space exploration (ARKX), autonomous/robotics (ARKQ), Consumer Discretionary (XLY), retail (XRT), homebuilders (ITB, XHB), small-cap growth (IWO), quantum (QTUM), China (MCHI), and Staples (XLP).


Breakouts Just Keep Coming; Upgrading Materials to Market Weight; Still Bullish. Buys: ALB, ATI ++

Providing investors with a balanced perspective, Massif Capital

Massif Capital Research

Providing investors with a balanced perspective

Massif Capital

Research focused on providing investors with a balanced perspective on the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy for businesses within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial industries.

The Massif Capital Real Asset Strategy is a global long/short equity strategy built around bottom-up stock picking. We are focused on creating a portfolio of businesses from within the Energy, Basic Materials and Industrial sectors that balance the environmental and economic realities of achieving a carbon-neutral economy.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<div><p>This is the first edition of the Real Asset Chartbook.</p><p>This document arose from an internal need at Massif Capital to consolidate and streamline our process of monitoring liquid real asset markets. It remains a work in progress but is extremely useful in its present state. </p></div><div><p>The Chartbook will be released weekly, on Fridays, after the market closes.</p></div>

This is the first edition of the Real Asset Chartbook.This document arose from an internal need at Massif Capital to consolidate and streamline our process of monitoring liquid real asset markets. It remains a work in progress but is extremely useful in its present state. The Chartbook will be released weekly, on Fridays, after the market closes.

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<li>Last week we noted the S&amp;P 500 was testing support at 3800-3860 within its downtrend channel and that we were on watch for a potential bear market rally/oversold bounce.</li>
<li>This has officially begun following the break above 4030 on the S&amp;P 500, which was confirmed by bullish reversals on the Russell 2000, Nasdaq 100, DAX, Hang Seng, MCHI, KWEB.</li>
<li>As long as 3858 holds, it is possible the S&amp;P 500 breaks above the longer-term downtrend near the 200-day MA, which would mean the start of a new bull market.</li>
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Last week we noted the S&amp;P 500 was testing support at 3800-3860 within its downtrend channel and that we were on watch for a potential bear market rally/oversold bounce.
This has officially begun following the break above 4030 on the S&amp;P 500, which was confirmed by bullish reversals on the Russell 2000, Nasdaq 100, DAX, Hang Seng, MCHI, KWEB.
As long as 3858 holds, it is possible the S&amp;P 500 breaks above the longer-term downtrend near the 200-day MA, which would mean the start of a new bull market.


Bear Market Rally With Potential for More; Buy Ideas in Shipping, Land Drilling, Refining, Chemicals

United States

The Chemours Company manufactures and distributes performance chemicals. The Company produces titanium dioxide, refrigerants and industrial fluoropolymer resins, and industrial and specialty chemicals for gold producing, oil refining, agriculture, and other industries.

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