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>In a dramatic turn of events, Cloudflare faced a significant but short-lived service outage this week due to an unprecedented surge in traffic.</li><li>This unexpected spike overwhelmed parts of its global network, temporarily disrupting key customer workloads.</li><li>Yet, what stands out is Cloudflare’s rapid containment and resolution of the incident.</li></ul>

In a dramatic turn of events, Cloudflare faced a significant but short-lived service outage this week due to an unprecedented surge in traffic.This unexpected spike overwhelmed parts of its global network, temporarily disrupting key customer workloads.Yet, what stands out is Cloudflare’s rapid containment and resolution of the incident.

Cloudflare’s Traffic Overload Sparks Outage & $3B Stock Selloff!

<ul><li>Cloudflare's Q3 2025 results show a strong financial and operational performance, marked by a year-over-year revenue increase of 30.7% to $562 million.</li><li>The company attributes this growth to effective innovation and execution, particularly in transitioning from a product-led growth model to a full-fledged enterprise sales strategy.</li><li>Large customers, defined as those contributing more than $100,000 annually, increased by 23%, making up 73% of the total revenue.</li></ul>

Cloudflare's Q3 2025 results show a strong financial and operational performance, marked by a year-over-year revenue increase of 30.7% to $562 million.The company attributes this growth to effective innovation and execution, particularly in transitioning from a product-led growth model to a full-fledged enterprise sales strategy.Large customers, defined as those contributing more than $100,000 annually, increased by 23%, making up 73% of the total revenue.

Cloudflare Q3 Earnings: How Its AI Edge Network & SASE Focus Could Be the Game Changer Wall Street Missed!

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>50-Day MAs have held on SPX and QQQ, but we're concerned of a prolonged consolidation--primarily for QQQ and likely through mid-to-late-August--following the latest stumble for semiconductors, memory, and optical equipment.</li>
<li>The IWM and equal-weighted S&amp;P 500 (RSP) remain leadership while Technology has continued to consolidate, and support remains at the 20-day MAs on IWM and RSP.</li>
<li>IWM and RSP leadership tells us this remains a healthy and broad-based bull market, and we believe the current "rotation trade" is likely to continue for at least another month.</li>
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50-Day MAs have held on SPX and QQQ, but we're concerned of a prolonged consolidation--primarily for QQQ and likely through mid-to-late-August--following the latest stumble for semiconductors, memory, and optical equipment.
The IWM and equal-weighted S&amp;P 500 (RSP) remain leadership while Technology has continued to consolidate, and support remains at the 20-day MAs on IWM and RSP.
IWM and RSP leadership tells us this remains a healthy and broad-based bull market, and we believe the current "rotation trade" is likely to continue for at least another month.


Prolonged Consolidation to Continue for QQQ; Semiconductors/Memory Violating 20-Day MA

High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

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Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Tech Heavyweights Shouldering the Load- Caution Flags Waving Since the end of 2022, few and fewer big cap tech names are now carrying the overall S&amp;P 500 index performance.</li><li>As of last Friday’s close, the S&amp;P 500 is up about 2% YTD. However, without the contribution of chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) it would be flat YTD.</li><li>Since the end of 2022, few and fewer big cap tech names are now carrying the overall S&amp;P 500 index performance.</li></ul>

Tech Heavyweights Shouldering the Load- Caution Flags Waving Since the end of 2022, few and fewer big cap tech names are now carrying the overall S&amp;P 500 index performance.As of last Friday’s close, the S&amp;P 500 is up about 2% YTD. However, without the contribution of chip maker Nvidia (NVDA) it would be flat YTD.Since the end of 2022, few and fewer big cap tech names are now carrying the overall S&amp;P 500 index performance.

iShares Russell 2000 ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>The market continues to send mixed signals - some neutral or healthy signals but some risk-off signals as well.</li>
<li>As long as the Russell 2000 index (IWM) is above $208, Russell Micro Cap index (IWC) is above $134-$135, and the S&amp;P 500 is above 4495, we cannot be bearish.</li>
<li>Treasury yields are not breaking down below 1.40%-1.45% support on the 10-year Treasury yield and 1.76% support on the 30-year Treasury yield.</li>
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The market continues to send mixed signals - some neutral or healthy signals but some risk-off signals as well.
As long as the Russell 2000 index (IWM) is above $208, Russell Micro Cap index (IWC) is above $134-$135, and the S&amp;P 500 is above 4495, we cannot be bearish.
Treasury yields are not breaking down below 1.40%-1.45% support on the 10-year Treasury yield and 1.76% support on the 30-year Treasury yield.


Continued Absence Of Breakdowns Is A Positive Sign; Many Bottoms-Up Stock Recommendations

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Cloudflare, Inc. designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers platform for load balancing, video streaming, security, analysis, and domain registration. Cloudflare serves customers worldwide.

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Baptista Research

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Vermilion Research

Weekly Stock Bullfinder - Week of 3/27

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Weekly Stock Bull Finder

Continued Absence Of Breakdowns Is A Positive Sign; Many Bottoms-Up Stock Recommendations

As long as the Russell 2000 index (IWM) is above $208, the Russell Micro Caps index (IWC) is above $134-$135, and the S&P 500 is above 4495, we...

Vermilion Research

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