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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.

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<ul><li>This is our first report on cosmetics player, e.l.f Beauty.</li><li>The company's third quarter 2022 earnings call ended with the company experiencing significant growth across the board.</li><li>CEO, Tarang Amin highlighted that net sales increased by 85%, gross margin by nearly 350 basis points and adjusted EBITDA by 61%, compared to the previous year.</li></ul>

This is our first report on cosmetics player, e.l.f Beauty.The company's third quarter 2022 earnings call ended with the company experiencing significant growth across the board.CEO, Tarang Amin highlighted that net sales increased by 85%, gross margin by nearly 350 basis points and adjusted EBITDA by 61%, compared to the previous year.

e.l.f. Beauty Inc.: Initiation Of Coverage - The 4 Fundamental Aspects Fueling Its Growth Uncovered! - Major Drivers

Equity Research Focusing on the Consumer Sector, Small Cap Consumer Research

Small Cap Consumer Research

Equity Research Focusing on the Consumer Sector

Small Cap Consumer Research, LLC is a leading company-sponsored equity research provider focusing on the consumer sector (apparel, brand licensing and specialty retailing segments).

<ul><li>We are reiterating our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for Starco Brands after the company announced basically inline preliminary 2023 results and provided initial 2024 guidance for Adjusted EBITDA which bracketed our projection; as such, we are tweaking higher both our 2023 and 2034 Adjusted EBITDA projections.</li><li>We believe Starco is ideally positioned to register material top and bottom line growth in 2024 (and beyond) and believe management has remained conservative on multiple levels in their guidance.</li><li>We continue to view Starco as ideally positioned to lever their unique characteristics in the packaged goods space to drive consistent top and bottom line growth, and we reiterate our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for STCB.</li></ul>

We are reiterating our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for Starco Brands after the company announced basically inline preliminary 2023 results and provided initial 2024 guidance for Adjusted EBITDA which bracketed our projection; as such, we are tweaking higher both our 2023 and 2034 Adjusted EBITDA projections.We believe Starco is ideally positioned to register material top and bottom line growth in 2024 (and beyond) and believe management has remained conservative on multiple levels in their guidance.We continue to view Starco as ideally positioned to lever their unique characteristics in the packaged goods space to drive consistent top and bottom line growth, and we reiterate our Buy rating and $0.25 price target for STCB.

STCB: Setting Up for Further 2024 Growth; Reiterate Buy Rating and $0.25 PT

<ul><li>We are initiating coverage of Starco Brands, Inc. ("Starco" or the "Company"), an emerging owner and marketer of branded consumer goods, with a Buy rating and price target of $0.25, or 26X our December 2024 Adjusted EBITDA.</li><li>Starco's stable of brands includes: Art of Sport body and skincare products, Skylar hypoallergenic fragrance and beauty products; Soylent plant-based food products, Whipshots vodka infused whipped cream aerosols and Winona butter flavored popcorn spray.</li><li>As such, we view STCB as a rapidly growing owner of highly differentiated brands, with the business model to register consistent and strong overall top and EBITDA returns and are initiating coverage of STCB with a Buy rating and $0.25 price target.</li></ul>

We are initiating coverage of Starco Brands, Inc. ("Starco" or the "Company"), an emerging owner and marketer of branded consumer goods, with a Buy rating and price target of $0.25, or 26X our December 2024 Adjusted EBITDA.Starco's stable of brands includes: Art of Sport body and skincare products, Skylar hypoallergenic fragrance and beauty products; Soylent plant-based food products, Whipshots vodka infused whipped cream aerosols and Winona butter flavored popcorn spray.As such, we view STCB as a rapidly growing owner of highly differentiated brands, with the business model to register consistent and strong overall top and EBITDA returns and are initiating coverage of STCB with a Buy rating and $0.25 price target.

STCB: Initiating Coverage of Starco Brands with a Buy Rating and $0.25 PT

Covering IPOs, Healthcare and Technology Stocks

Andrei Zakharov

Equity Capital Markets

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<li>Oddity Tech, the owner of popular and fastest-growing global brands IL MAKIAGE and SpoiledChild, set terms for an upcoming IPO. The company offers ~10.5M Class A shares. </li>
<li>Selling shareholders (private equity firm L. Catterton and Oran Holtzman, Co-founder &amp; CEO) offer ~8.77M Class A shares, while Oddity Tech offers ~1.75M Class A shares.</li>
<li>The net proceeds from the sale of Class A shares will be ~$41M. Oddity Tech will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling shareholders. </li>
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Oddity Tech, the owner of popular and fastest-growing global brands IL MAKIAGE and SpoiledChild, set terms for an upcoming IPO. The company offers ~10.5M Class A shares. 
Selling shareholders (private equity firm L. Catterton and Oran Holtzman, Co-founder &amp; CEO) offer ~8.77M Class A shares, while Oddity Tech offers ~1.75M Class A shares.
The net proceeds from the sale of Class A shares will be ~$41M. Oddity Tech will not receive any proceeds from the sale of shares by the selling shareholders. 


Oddity Tech IPO Valuation Analysis: Growth and Profitability, Solid Upside With Limited Risk

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>Last week we discussed potential for a 2-5% rally to the 1.5-month downtrend on SPX, or even the 4165-4200 range, which would set up an opportunity to get more defensive.</li>
<li>As long as the S&amp;P 500 is below Wednesdays high of 4040 we continue to believe the bears are in control -- stay defensive.</li>
<li>Even if there is a reversal, we still expect 4165-4200 on SPX to cap upside for 2023. We highlight many buy opportunities within Consumer Staples</li>
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Last week we discussed potential for a 2-5% rally to the 1.5-month downtrend on SPX, or even the 4165-4200 range, which would set up an opportunity to get more defensive.
As long as the S&amp;P 500 is below Wednesdays high of 4040 we continue to believe the bears are in control -- stay defensive.
Even if there is a reversal, we still expect 4165-4200 on SPX to cap upside for 2023. We highlight many buy opportunities within Consumer Staples


S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, DJIA All Testing Resistance; Downgrading Financials to Underweight; Buy Staples

United States

e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. operates as a cosmetic company. The Company offers beauty products for eyes, lips, and face. e.l.f. Beauty provides eyeliners, lipsticks, lip care and brushes, powder, and skin care products.

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Oddity Tech IPO Valuation Analysis: Growth and Profitability, Solid Upside With Limited Risk

In my insight, I dug deeper into the IPO valuation analysis of Oddity Tech, an Innovative consumer-tech unicorn that wants to disrupt the global...

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S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, DJIA All Testing Resistance; Downgrading Financials to Underweight; Buy Staples

Last week (3/21) we discussed the potential for a 2-5% rally to the 1.5-month downtrend on the $SPX, or even the 4165-4200 range, which we noted...

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