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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>Entegris reported a solid financial start to 2026, reflecting modest improvement in a recovering semiconductor environment.</li><li>The company’s first-quarter revenue rose 5% year-over-year to $812 million, exceeding the midpoint of guidance.</li><li>Growth was led by a 7% increase in the Advanced Purity Solutions (APS) segment and a 3% rise in Material Solutions (MS), driven primarily by unit-demand linked to semiconductor manufacturing intensity (MSI).</li></ul>

Entegris reported a solid financial start to 2026, reflecting modest improvement in a recovering semiconductor environment.The company’s first-quarter revenue rose 5% year-over-year to $812 million, exceeding the midpoint of guidance.Growth was led by a 7% increase in the Advanced Purity Solutions (APS) segment and a 3% rise in Material Solutions (MS), driven primarily by unit-demand linked to semiconductor manufacturing intensity (MSI).

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<ul><li>The strategy seeks to invest in global companies with sustainable competitive advantages.</li><li>By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.</li><li>Previous portfolio returned 7.1% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 2.9%.</li></ul>

The strategy seeks to invest in global companies with sustainable competitive advantages.By adopting a portfolio of stocks instead of individual stocks, the strategy is diversified across countries and industries; and optimised with respect to their expected risks and returns.Previous portfolio returned 7.1% vs. MSCI World (4.2%) – outperformed the benchmark by 2.9%.

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<ul><li>Entegris has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2025, providing insight into the company's operational priorities and market positioning under its new CEO, David Reeder.</li><li>The semiconductor industry has been through significant changes, and Entegris is navigating these with varying degrees of success and challenge.</li><li>Entegris reported third-quarter revenues of $807 million, flat year-over-year, but up 2% sequentially, aligning with the midpoint of its guidance.</li></ul>

Entegris has reported its financial results for the third quarter of 2025, providing insight into the company's operational priorities and market positioning under its new CEO, David Reeder.The semiconductor industry has been through significant changes, and Entegris is navigating these with varying degrees of success and challenge.Entegris reported third-quarter revenues of $807 million, flat year-over-year, but up 2% sequentially, aligning with the midpoint of its guidance.

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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>We remain bullish (as of 4/21/26) on the SPX, Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM), and we recently recommended buying the pullback in our June 9 U.S. Macro Vision</li>
<li>As discussed June 9, we continue to expect roughly one pullback per month to test the 20-day MA on SPX, QQQ, IWM, and that was all the recent pullback was.</li>
<li>While price dipped below the 20-day MAs, the decisive reclaim of the 20-dayMAs late last week was exactly what we discussed to look for to confirm a brief, buyable pullback.</li>
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We remain bullish (as of 4/21/26) on the SPX, Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM), and we recently recommended buying the pullback in our June 9 U.S. Macro Vision
As discussed June 9, we continue to expect roughly one pullback per month to test the 20-day MA on SPX, QQQ, IWM, and that was all the recent pullback was.
While price dipped below the 20-day MAs, the decisive reclaim of the 20-dayMAs late last week was exactly what we discussed to look for to confirm a brief, buyable pullback.


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Vincent Fernando, CFA

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Founded in 2015, Zero One produces independent investment research and provides corporate finance advisory services with a focus on both listed and private technology companies. Founder Vincent Fernando has over 20 years of experience in US and Asia capital markets.

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<li>Kinik says its biggest challenge is accelerating factory expansion and automating production lines against a labor shortage, so it can deliver capacity ahead of schedule into high demand.</li>
<li>The capacity plan is dated: 12 inch wafer capacity goes from 330,000 pieces a month to 400,000 by the third quarter, all of the addition high grade reclaim.</li>
<li>Concentration at the leading node helps a high end supplier: gross margin reached 37.6% in the first half of 2026 against 32.5% for 2025 and 31.3% for 2024.</li>
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Kinik says its biggest challenge is accelerating factory expansion and automating production lines against a labor shortage, so it can deliver capacity ahead of schedule into high demand.
The capacity plan is dated: 12 inch wafer capacity goes from 330,000 pieces a month to 400,000 by the third quarter, all of the addition high grade reclaim.
Concentration at the leading node helps a high end supplier: gross margin reached 37.6% in the first half of 2026 against 32.5% for 2025 and 31.3% for 2024.


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Entegris Inc. provides materials management products and services to the microelectronics industry on a worldwide basis.  The Company provides products such as wafer shippers, wafer transport and process carriers, pods, and work-in-process boxes.  Entegris also provides chemical delivery products such as valves, fittings, tubing, pipe, and containers.

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