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.

Credit

<ul><li>ExxonMobil has profited heavily from the rise in crude oil prices and had a solid 2021 like many of its integrated oil peers.</li><li>The company is working to leverage its competitive advantage, including its scales, for driving step changes in efficiency and cost.</li><li>Its low carbon emission business has made progress by making a huge inventory of innovative business opportunities with an aim on biofuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture.</li></ul>

ExxonMobil has profited heavily from the rise in crude oil prices and had a solid 2021 like many of its integrated oil peers.The company is working to leverage its competitive advantage, including its scales, for driving step changes in efficiency and cost.Its low carbon emission business has made progress by making a huge inventory of innovative business opportunities with an aim on biofuels, hydrogen, and carbon capture.

ExxonMobil Mobil Corp.: Detailed Credit Analysis & Financial Strength Evaluation Report

High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

High Quality Stock Setups

Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>This past week, we saw two notable “changes in character” in the energy and the bond market. </li><li>Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company in South America. It engages in farming crops and other agricultural products, dairy operations, and land transformation activities</li><li>The company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains and oilseeds,</li></ul>

This past week, we saw two notable “changes in character” in the energy and the bond market. Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company in South America. It engages in farming crops and other agricultural products, dairy operations, and land transformation activitiesThe company is involved in the planting, harvesting, and sale of grains and oilseeds,

Founder, BWS Financial Inc

Hamed Khorsand

Founder

Independent Stock Specific Research

BWS Financial Inc

BWS provides independent stock specific research focused on companies with distinct value that are going through a special situation where there is a tangible catalyst not priced in. The catalyst can be anything from new product, restructuring, M&A, management change, change in business strategy, etc. BWS’s focus is to understand the change and evaluate the potential return for investors.

BWS utilizes a self formed proprietary approach in discovering stocks by putting great emphasis on deep research. BWS does generate short recommendations following a similar criteria.

Global Clean Energy Holdings / Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We are initiating coverage of Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCEH) with a Buy Rating and $7.55 target.</li>
<li>GCEH is in the final stages of turning a crude oil refinery into a renewable fuel refinery utilizing camelina as its primary feedstock.</li>
<li>GCEH has also obtained a product offtake and purchase agreement with Exxon Mobil (XOM) for nearly all of the production from its under-construction refinery, scheduled for commercial production in 2022</li>
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We are initiating coverage of Global Clean Energy Holdings (GCEH) with a Buy Rating and $7.55 target.
GCEH is in the final stages of turning a crude oil refinery into a renewable fuel refinery utilizing camelina as its primary feedstock.
GCEH has also obtained a product offtake and purchase agreement with Exxon Mobil (XOM) for nearly all of the production from its under-construction refinery, scheduled for commercial production in 2022


Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>A record 42% of active Global managers have zero exposure to the Energy sector</li>
<li>It is the largest sector underweight and a minor allocation among active Global managers, held by fewer funds than the fringe Utilities and Real Estate sectors. </li>
<li>Value managers hold the larger allocations, whilst Aggressive Growth managers have all but abandoned the sector.</li>
</ul>


A record 42% of active Global managers have zero exposure to the Energy sector
It is the largest sector underweight and a minor allocation among active Global managers, held by fewer funds than the fringe Utilities and Real Estate sectors. 
Value managers hold the larger allocations, whilst Aggressive Growth managers have all but abandoned the sector.


Global Energy:  Conviction Underweight or Complacency?

Value Investing

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

<ul>
<li>ExxonMobil's stellar performance over the past year and a half has come as a surprise to many, given all the negative sentiment at the time.</li>
<li>Even as the company is about to dial-up its capital and exploration expenditures, forward free cash flow yield still remains attractive.</li>
<li>The dividend appears safe for now, however, investors should not rule out an adverse scenario going forward.</li>
</ul>


ExxonMobil's stellar performance over the past year and a half has come as a surprise to many, given all the negative sentiment at the time.
Even as the company is about to dial-up its capital and exploration expenditures, forward free cash flow yield still remains attractive.
The dividend appears safe for now, however, investors should not rule out an adverse scenario going forward.


ExxonMobil: Patience Pays Off, Excitement Doesn't

United States

Exxon Mobil Corporation operates petroleum and petrochemicals businesses on a worldwide basis.  The Company's operations include exploration and production of oil and gas, electric power generation, and coal and minerals operations. Exxon Mobil also manufactures and markets fuels, lubricants, and chemicals.

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Exxon Mobil (XOM US)

ExxonMobil Mobil Corp.: Detailed Credit Analysis & Financial Strength Evaluation Report

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Baptista Research

Weekly Stock Bullfinder- Week of 4/11

This past week, we saw two notable “changes in character” in the energy and the bond market. Adecoagro S.A. operates as an agro-industrial company...

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

GCEH: Almost Online, Initiating with Buy

GCEH is a vertically integrated renewable diesel producer expected to have its refinery online by the middle of 2022. It's patented camelina seed...

BWS Financial Inc

Global Energy: Conviction Underweight or Complacency?

Ownership in the Global Energy sectors is at record lows. Despite rising oil prices, it is the largest sector underweight and a minor allocation...

Steven Holden

ExxonMobil: Patience Pays Off, Excitement Doesn't

ExxonMobil's stellar performance over the past year and a half has come as a surprise to many, given all the negative sentiment at the time. Even...

Vladimir Dimitrov, CFA

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