Independent Research, US Dominant Players, Investment Talk

Investment Talk

Independent Research, US Dominant Players

Investment Talk is for readers who wish to learn about companies that are potentially outside of their own circle of research, as well as those who are longing to become part of a community of like-minded investors and learn more about investment research. I would describe myself as a long-term investor who typically takes a 3Y to 5Y outlook, before reassessing once that period matures. I follow the adage that one should research, reach a conclusion, and then verify and continue to hold so long as the thesis remains intact. My own investing style is one that seeks to find dominant players within their respective market who have shown signs of monopoly or oligopolistic behaviour, unlikely to be disrupted, in tandem with discovering market disruptors who have a high likelihood of disrupting their respective market. Equally (and weighted accordingly) I seek to discover more nuanced, misunderstood, situations with a shorter time frame.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>A while ago I wrote a piece about share cannibals and where to find them. Since we introduced the ability to screen for share cannibals at Koyfin (the screener I use, if interested) I have been exploring aggressive share repurchasers more often.</li><li>Evident to me, is the disparity in attitudes towards share repurchases between US and European stocks.</li><li>When casting a wide geographical net in the screener and searching for the loftiest reduction in share count (as a %), the US companies proliferate the output.</li></ul>

A while ago I wrote a piece about share cannibals and where to find them. Since we introduced the ability to screen for share cannibals at Koyfin (the screener I use, if interested) I have been exploring aggressive share repurchasers more often.Evident to me, is the disparity in attitudes towards share repurchases between US and European stocks.When casting a wide geographical net in the screener and searching for the loftiest reduction in share count (as a %), the US companies proliferate the output.

Companies That are Fixated on Buying Back Stock

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 recent earnings call for Domino’s Pizza highlighted several key aspects of its financial performance, strategic initiatives, and market dynamics, revealing both promising areas and challenges.</li><li>The company’s Hungry for MORE strategy appears to be yielding positive results domestically, but international markets face significant hurdles.</li><li>Domestically, Domino’s Pizza has successfully leveraged its value-focused Hungry for MORE strategy.</li></ul>

The recent earnings call for Domino’s Pizza highlighted several key aspects of its financial performance, strategic initiatives, and market dynamics, revealing both promising areas and challenges.The company’s Hungry for MORE strategy appears to be yielding positive results domestically, but international markets face significant hurdles.Domestically, Domino’s Pizza has successfully leveraged its value-focused Hungry for MORE strategy.

Warren Buffett’s Domino’s Pizza Deal: The Possible Strategy Behind The Recent $550 Million Investment! - Major Drivers

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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bundl-technologies-private-limited-swiggy" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35630:1" rel="noopener">Swiggy</a> Limited raised around US$1.35bn in its India IPO, although the demand wasn't great.</li>
<li>Swiggy Limited is a business to commerce (B2C) marketplace company offering users a platform for ordering grocery and household items (Instamart) and food delivery, through its on-demand delivery network.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and valuations. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Swiggy Limited raised around US$1.35bn in its India IPO, although the demand wasn't great.
Swiggy Limited is a business to commerce (B2C) marketplace company offering users a platform for ordering grocery and household items (Instamart) and food delivery, through its on-demand delivery network.
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance and valuations. In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Swiggy IPO Trading - Decent Anchor but Tepid Overall Demand

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/bundl-technologies-private-limited-swiggy" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35630:1" rel="noopener">Swiggy</a> is looking to raise around US$1.35bn in its India IPO.</li>
<li>Swiggy Limited (Swiggy) is a business to commerce (B2C) marketplace company offering users a platform for ordering grocery and household items (Instamart) and food delivery, through its on-demand delivery network.</li>
<li>In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we will talk about valuations.</li>
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Swiggy is looking to raise around US$1.35bn in its India IPO.
Swiggy Limited (Swiggy) is a business to commerce (B2C) marketplace company offering users a platform for ordering grocery and household items (Instamart) and food delivery, through its on-demand delivery network.
In our previous notes, we looked at the company’s past performance. In this note, we will talk about valuations.


External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>What is new? Sales of shares by the 2nd largest shareholder of DPC Dash (1405 HK).</li><li>Domino’s Pizza (DPZ US), the 2nd largest shareholder of DPC Dash (1405 HK), has sold 10mn shares (about 7.66% of total shares issued), at the price of HK$ 65.0 per share, with a 12.8% discount to last closing price of HK$ 74.55.</li><li>After this trade, Domino’s Pizza’s ownership in DPC Dash will be reduced from around 18.1mn shares (13.87% of the total) to about 8.1mn shares</li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

What is new? Sales of shares by the 2nd largest shareholder of DPC Dash (1405 HK).Domino’s Pizza (DPZ US), the 2nd largest shareholder of DPC Dash (1405 HK), has sold 10mn shares (about 7.66% of total shares issued), at the price of HK$ 65.0 per share, with a 12.8% discount to last closing price of HK$ 74.55.After this trade, Domino’s Pizza’s ownership in DPC Dash will be reduced from around 18.1mn shares (13.87% of the total) to about 8.1mn sharesContent is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

DPC Dash (1405 HK) - Our View on Placement by Domino’s Pizza

United States

Domino's Pizza, Inc. operates a network of Company-owned and franchise Domino's Pizza stores, located throughout the United States and in other countries.  The Company also operates regional dough manufacturing and distribution centers in the contiguous United States and outside the United States.

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Companies That are Fixated on Buying Back Stock

Since we introduced the ability to screen for share cannibals at Koyfin (the screener I use, if interested) I have been exploring aggressive share...

Investment Talk

Warren Buffett’s Domino’s Pizza Deal: The Possible Strategy Behind The Recent $550 Million Investment! - Major Drivers

The recent earnings call for Domino’s Pizza highlighted several key aspects of its financial performance, strategic initiatives, and market...

Baptista Research

Swiggy IPO Trading - Decent Anchor but Tepid Overall Demand

Swiggy Limited raised around US$1.35bn in its India IPO, although the demand wasn't great with only instis having some interest in the listing.

Sumeet Singh

Swiggy IPO - Not as Cheap as It Looks

Swiggy is looking to raise around US$1.35bn in its India IPO. We have looked at its past performance earlier. In this note, we talk about valuations.

Sumeet Singh

DPC Dash (1405 HK) - Our View on Placement by Domino’s Pizza

After this trade, Domino’s Pizza’s ownership in DPC Dash will be reduced from around 18.1mn shares (13.87% of the total) to about 8.1mn shares

CMB International

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