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>Darling Ingredients Inc. recently shared its third-quarter results for 2025, presenting a mixed picture of its financial and operational performance.</li><li>The company's Global Ingredients business showed resilience with solid demand driving its strongest performance in over 18 months.</li><li>The core ingredients segment, consisting of Feed, Food, and the Global Ingredients division, exhibited improved year-over-year performance, but operational challenges in the renewables sector, especially in the Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) joint venture, weighed down the overall picture.</li></ul>

Darling Ingredients Inc. recently shared its third-quarter results for 2025, presenting a mixed picture of its financial and operational performance.The company's Global Ingredients business showed resilience with solid demand driving its strongest performance in over 18 months.The core ingredients segment, consisting of Feed, Food, and the Global Ingredients division, exhibited improved year-over-year performance, but operational challenges in the renewables sector, especially in the Diamond Green Diesel (DGD) joint venture, weighed down the overall picture.

Darling Ingredients: Is a Tightening RIN Market About to Rewrite the Company’s Future?

<ul><li>Darling Ingredients Inc. reported its second-quarter 2025 financial results, offering a mixed picture of performance and outlook.</li><li>On the positive side, the company demonstrated resilience across its core businesses amid a challenging renewable fuel environment, maintaining strong earnings and capital discipline.</li><li>Darling locked in borrowing costs for the next five years, enhancing financial flexibility through a successful refinancing process.</li></ul>

Darling Ingredients Inc. reported its second-quarter 2025 financial results, offering a mixed picture of performance and outlook.On the positive side, the company demonstrated resilience across its core businesses amid a challenging renewable fuel environment, maintaining strong earnings and capital discipline.Darling locked in borrowing costs for the next five years, enhancing financial flexibility through a successful refinancing process.

Darling Ingredients: Initiation Of Coverage- How Its Recent Acquisitions Are Powering Global Expansion!

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>The SPX, Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM) continue to hold above short-term support at their respective 20-day MAs (currently 5966 on SPX, $526.50 on QQQ, $208.75 on IWM)</li>
<li>As long as 20-day MA supports hold, our near-term bullish outlook that we have had since our 4/22/25 Compass remains intact.</li>
<li>We will need to see breakdowns below 20-day MA supports in order to expect any meaningful near-term downside.</li>
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The SPX, Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM) continue to hold above short-term support at their respective 20-day MAs (currently 5966 on SPX, $526.50 on QQQ, $208.75 on IWM)
As long as 20-day MA supports hold, our near-term bullish outlook that we have had since our 4/22/25 Compass remains intact.
We will need to see breakdowns below 20-day MA supports in order to expect any meaningful near-term downside.


20-Day MA Supports Holding on SPX, QQQ, IWM; Bullish Outlook Intact

External reports (aggregated public sources), Value Investors Club

Value Investors Club (VIC)

External reports (aggregated public sources)

Value Investors Club

<ul><li>Darling Ingredients is a well-established company in the rendering industry with a market cap of $6.5 billion and enterprise value of $11 billion.</li><li>Completion of a large capital expenditure project is expected to significantly boost earnings, leading to increased free cash flow and potential capital returns to shareholders.</li><li>Insiders have been buying stock, indicating confidence in the company's future prospects, with projections of doubling free cash flow over the next two years and driving a potential 50-100% upside with strong downside protection.</li></ul><p><em>This content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.</em></p>

Darling Ingredients is a well-established company in the rendering industry with a market cap of $6.5 billion and enterprise value of $11 billion.Completion of a large capital expenditure project is expected to significantly boost earnings, leading to increased free cash flow and potential capital returns to shareholders.Insiders have been buying stock, indicating confidence in the company's future prospects, with projections of doubling free cash flow over the next two years and driving a potential 50-100% upside with strong downside protection.This content is sourced through publicly available sources and has been machine generated. Information displayed is for general informational purposes only. This article was originally published 3 months ago on Value Investors Club.

Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) - Thursday, Aug 29, 2024

iShares Russell 2000 ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>We remain bearish as long as the YTD downtrends remain intact on the SPX and NDX (QQQ), and as long as the 7.5-month downtrend remains intact on the Russell 2000(IWM).</li>
<li>There is potential for a bounce given the SPX, QQQ, and IWM are all at downtrend channel supports.</li>
<li>The continued rise of the U.S. dollar (DXY), 10-yr Treasury yield, and WTI crude oil is what we believe is fueling the bear market in equities.</li>
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We remain bearish as long as the YTD downtrends remain intact on the SPX and NDX (QQQ), and as long as the 7.5-month downtrend remains intact on the Russell 2000(IWM).
There is potential for a bounce given the SPX, QQQ, and IWM are all at downtrend channel supports.
The continued rise of the U.S. dollar (DXY), 10-yr Treasury yield, and WTI crude oil is what we believe is fueling the bear market in equities.


Downgrading Materials; SPX, NDX, Russell 2000 Testing Downtrend Channel Support; Biotech Buys

United States

Darling Ingredients Inc. collects and recycles animal processing by-products and used restaurant cooking oil.  The Company also provides grease trap collection services to restaurants.  Darling processes such raw materials into finished products such as tallow, meat and bone meal, and yellow grease for sale in the United States and overseas.

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Darling Ingredients (DAR US)

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Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) - Thursday, Aug 29, 2024

Darling Ingredients is a well-established company in the rendering industry with a market cap of $6.5 billion and enterprise value of $11 billion.

Value Investors Club (VIC)

Downgrading Materials; SPX, NDX, Russell 2000 Testing Downtrend Channel Support; Biotech Buys

We remain bearish as long as the 6-8 month downtrends remain intact on the SPX, NDX (QQQ), and RUT (IWM). Bounce potential given SPX, QQQ, and IWM...

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