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>Deckers Brands experienced a robust fiscal second quarter of 2025 under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Stefano Caroti.</li><li>The company continues to uphold its long-standing strategy while integrating four core principles to drive future growth: consumer-first mindset, brandless philosophy, innovation forward, and a globally driven approach.</li><li>These principles have significantly contributed to Deckers Brands' performance, positioning it for sustained success in the long term.</li></ul>

Deckers Brands experienced a robust fiscal second quarter of 2025 under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Stefano Caroti.The company continues to uphold its long-standing strategy while integrating four core principles to drive future growth: consumer-first mindset, brandless philosophy, innovation forward, and a globally driven approach.These principles have significantly contributed to Deckers Brands' performance, positioning it for sustained success in the long term.

Deckers Brands' Bold Global Expansion: How Innovation & Sustainability Drive Market Leadership! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Deckers Brands delivered a commendable performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, with a commendable revenue growth of 22% reaching $825 million.</li><li>This surge in revenue is significantly supported by the enhanced gross margin, which impressively improved to 56.9%, accompanied by a robust 87% increase in diluted earnings per share to $4.52, compared to the same period last year.</li><li>Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.</li></ul>

Deckers Brands delivered a commendable performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, with a commendable revenue growth of 22% reaching $825 million.This surge in revenue is significantly supported by the enhanced gross margin, which impressively improved to 56.9%, accompanied by a robust 87% increase in diluted earnings per share to $4.52, compared to the same period last year.Baptista Research looks to evaluate the different factors that could influence the company's price in the near future and attempts to carry out an independent valuation of the company using a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) methodology.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation: What Are Its Latest Brand and Market Expansion Strategies? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>In the fourth quarter fiscal of 2024, Deckers Brands achieved record revenue growth of 18% compared to the previous year, almost reaching $4.3 billion of annual revenue.</li><li>Gross margin increased by a considerable 530 basis points from last year to 55.6%, and earnings per share rose by 51% to $29.16.</li><li>These results reflect Deckers' successful long-term strategies and the hard work of its employees.</li></ul>

In the fourth quarter fiscal of 2024, Deckers Brands achieved record revenue growth of 18% compared to the previous year, almost reaching $4.3 billion of annual revenue.Gross margin increased by a considerable 530 basis points from last year to 55.6%, and earnings per share rose by 51% to $29.16.These results reflect Deckers' successful long-term strategies and the hard work of its employees.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation: These Are The 5 Fundamental Factors Driving Its Performance! - Financial Forecasts

Independent Investment Research & Investor, Maverick Equity Research

Maverick Equity Research

Independent Investment Research & Investor

Independent Investment Research & Investor: value, dividend and growth stocks. Risk management & hedging for an all weather portfolio.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>Zooming out first for a big picture perspective - helpful away from the news &amp; chatter:</li><li>Bears Make Headlines &amp; Lose Money, Bulls Make Money! As always … !</li><li>The bear case sounds very smart very often, only problem is, it’s quite rarely right … !</li></ul>

Zooming out first for a big picture perspective - helpful away from the news &amp; chatter:Bears Make Headlines &amp; Lose Money, Bulls Make Money! As always … !The bear case sounds very smart very often, only problem is, it’s quite rarely right … !

The S&P 500 Report: Performance, Profitability, Sentiment & More - #Ed 5

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One, Periscope Analytics

Brian Freitas

Pan-Asia Index Rebalances/ Events/ Delta One

Periscope Analytics

Periscope Analytics focuses on event-driven trades across Asia Pacific and provides comprehensive, timely and systematic coverage of index changes to major Asia Pacific indices in a structured manner.

The analysis includes forecasted inclusions and exclusions to all major Asian indices that have significant amount of tracking assets, including estimates of passive buy/sell flow on the stocks. The service also provides commentary and impact of market consultations, ground rule changes, and other events (IPOs, spin-offs, M&A) that could lead to index changes and passive flow.

Periscope Analytics works with multi-strategy hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, stat arb trading groups and long-only investors that invest and trade in the Asia Pacific region with the data being used to trade index rebalances, avoid pre-positioning and passive flow, and to time entry into and exit from stocks.

Event-Driven Trades Across Asia Pacific

Index Rebalance

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<li>The last week was a very busy one. The coming week has some announcements and implementations but is a relatively quieter one.</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/sse-science-and-technology-innovation-board-50-index" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:29279:1" rel="noopener">SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX)</a> and STAR100 Index changes for March will be implemented at the close on Friday, the 8th.</li>
<li>Another week of inflows for the <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/ishares-msci-emerging-markets-223f5da3-7054-4e4f-bc55-b7f0852c2581" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:31998:1" rel="noopener">iShares Emerging Markets ex-China (EMXC US)</a> ETF as creations cross US$2bn for 2024. ETF AUM has gone from US$420m in 2021 to US$11bn now!</li>
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The last week was a very busy one. The coming week has some announcements and implementations but is a relatively quieter one.
The SSE STAR50 (STAR50 INDEX) and STAR100 Index changes for March will be implemented at the close on Friday, the 8th.
Another week of inflows for the iShares Emerging Markets ex-China (EMXC US) ETF as creations cross US$2bn for 2024. ETF AUM has gone from US$420m in 2021 to US$11bn now!


Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: STAR50/100, FXI, NIFTY/NEXT50, S&P500, KOSPI, Goodman, Ecopro BM

United States

Deckers Outdoor Corporation designs and markets footwear and accessories.  The Company offers footwear for men, women and children. Deckers sells its products including accessories such as handbags, headwear, and outerwear, through domestic retailers and international distributors and directly to end-user consumers, through call centers, retail concept stores and retail outlet stores.

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Deckers Brands' Bold Global Expansion: How Innovation & Sustainability Drive Market Leadership! - Major Drivers

Deckers Brands experienced a robust fiscal second quarter of 2025 under the leadership of newly appointed CEO, Stefano Caroti. The company...

Baptista Research

Deckers Outdoor Corporation: What Are Its Latest Brand and Market Expansion Strategies? - Major Drivers

Deckers Brands delivered a commendable performance in the first quarter of fiscal 2025, with a commendable revenue growth of 22% reaching $825...

Baptista Research

Deckers Outdoor Corporation: These Are The 5 Fundamental Factors Driving Its Performance! - Financial Forecasts

In the fourth quarter fiscal of 2024, Deckers Brands achieved record revenue growth of 18% compared to the previous year, almost reaching $4.3...

Baptista Research

The S&P 500 Report: Performance, Profitability, Sentiment & More - #Ed 5

Zooming out first for a big picture perspective - helpful away from the news & chatter: Bears Make Headlines & Lose Money, Bulls Make Money! As...

Maverick Equity Research

Index Rebalance & ETF Flow Recap: STAR50/100, FXI, NIFTY/NEXT50, S&P500, KOSPI, Goodman, Ecopro BM

This recap highlights Insights covering Asian index rebalances (announcements/ forecasts/ IPO Fast Entry/ M&A driven changes). We also highlight...

Brian Freitas

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