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  <li>GitLab is a comprehensive, single-application DevSecOps platform, positioning it as a key player in the rapidly expanding software development lifecycle market. Its integrated approach is a primary differentiator against competitors who often offer a suite of disparate tools.</li>
  <li>The company is demonstrating a strong growth trajectory with a 3-year revenue CAGR of 44.31% and a clear path toward profitability, marked by improving margins and a recent turn to positive operating and free cash flow. The introduction of AI-powered features like GitLab Duo is a key catalyst for future growth and increased revenue per user.</li>
  <li>Despite its strong market position and growth, GitLab faces significant risks, including intense competition from larger, well-capitalized companies like Microsoft (GitHub) and Atlassian, high uncertainty around sustained differentiation, and concerns over recent executive turnover.</li>
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  GitLab is a comprehensive, single-application DevSecOps platform, positioning it as a key player in the rapidly expanding software development lifecycle market. Its integrated approach is a primary differentiator against competitors who often offer a suite of disparate tools.
  The company is demonstrating a strong growth trajectory with a 3-year revenue CAGR of 44.31% and a clear path toward profitability, marked by improving margins and a recent turn to positive operating and free cash flow. The introduction of AI-powered features like GitLab Duo is a key catalyst for future growth and increased revenue per user.
  Despite its strong market position and growth, GitLab faces significant risks, including intense competition from larger, well-capitalized companies like Microsoft (GitHub) and Atlassian, high uncertainty around sustained differentiation, and concerns over recent executive turnover.
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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.

<ul><li>GitLab recently reported its third-quarter fiscal year 2026 results, revealing a mixed performance.</li><li>The company achieved a notable 25% year-over-year revenue growth to $244 million, which exceeded its guidance by 2 points.</li><li>This growth highlights GitLab's resilient market position, especially in the DevSecOps domain, underscored by a substantial portion of its revenue being driven by its Ultimate tier, accounting for 54% of total annual recurring revenue (ARR).</li></ul>

GitLab recently reported its third-quarter fiscal year 2026 results, revealing a mixed performance.The company achieved a notable 25% year-over-year revenue growth to $244 million, which exceeded its guidance by 2 points.This growth highlights GitLab's resilient market position, especially in the DevSecOps domain, underscored by a substantial portion of its revenue being driven by its Ultimate tier, accounting for 54% of total annual recurring revenue (ARR).

GitLab Is Scaling Its Platform, Pricing, & Sales—A High-Conviction Growth Setup!

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<li>GitLab Inc. is a complete DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development.</li>
<li>In October 2021, one the largest all-remote companies in the world completed an initial public offering at $77/share, raising $801M at ~$11B valuation.</li>
<li>The stock peaked at $137 in 2021 and fell ~71% over the next 4 years. The underperformance was driven by investor concerns around slowing revenue growth, competition and AI monetization.</li>
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GitLab Inc. is a complete DevSecOps platform delivered as a single application that empowers organizations to maximize the overall return on software development.
In October 2021, one the largest all-remote companies in the world completed an initial public offering at $77/share, raising $801M at ~$11B valuation.
The stock peaked at $137 in 2021 and fell ~71% over the next 4 years. The underperformance was driven by investor concerns around slowing revenue growth, competition and AI monetization.


2026 High Conviction: GitLab Inc., Undervalued With Duo Agent Platform Growth Upside/M&A Optionality

<ul><li>GitLab shares surged sharply — up roughly 11 % in intra day trading — after market rumors surfaced that Datadog is exploring a potential acquisition offer above $60 per share.</li><li>The news emerged from financial media reports, citing insiders that Datadog is working with bankers to evaluate a bid over $60.</li><li>The spike reflects renewed investor speculation about a takeover possibility, following a prior wave of M&A interest in 2024 when GitLab was reported to have entertained sale discussions.</li></ul>

GitLab shares surged sharply — up roughly 11 % in intra day trading — after market rumors surfaced that Datadog is exploring a potential acquisition offer above $60 per share.The news emerged from financial media reports, citing insiders that Datadog is working with bankers to evaluate a bid over $60.The spike reflects renewed investor speculation about a takeover possibility, following a prior wave of M&A interest in 2024 when GitLab was reported to have entertained sale discussions.

GitLab Rockets On M&A Chatter: What A Datadog Deal Could Mean!

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

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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>Since early November 2023 we have laid out our bullish expectations for a year-end rally that we anticipated would continue into the early part of 2024. </li>
<li>Here we are in the early part of 2024, and we see every reason to continue riding this bull market higher. We see small- and mid-caps resuming uptrends $IWM $VXF</li>
<li>Downgrading Staples (XLP) to underweight after brief stint at market weight. Highlighting several buys within Financials: Property &amp; Casualty Insurance BRK.B, PGR, CB, TRV, ALL, CINF, ERIE, and more</li>
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Since early November 2023 we have laid out our bullish expectations for a year-end rally that we anticipated would continue into the early part of 2024. 
Here we are in the early part of 2024, and we see every reason to continue riding this bull market higher. We see small- and mid-caps resuming uptrends $IWM $VXF
Downgrading Staples (XLP) to underweight after brief stint at market weight. Highlighting several buys within Financials: Property &amp; Casualty Insurance BRK.B, PGR, CB, TRV, ALL, CINF, ERIE, and more


Continue Riding This Bull Market Higher; Small- And Mid-Caps Resuming Uptrends; Downgrading Staples

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GitLab Inc. designs and develops software solutions. The Company offers platform for authentication, authorization, devops score, audit, and value stream management. GitLab serves customers worldwide.

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GitLab Is Scaling Its Platform, Pricing, & Sales—A High-Conviction Growth Setup!

GitLab recently reported its third-quarter fiscal year 2026 results, revealing a mixed performance. The company achieved a notable 25%...

Baptista Research

2026 High Conviction: GitLab Inc., Undervalued With Duo Agent Platform Growth Upside/M&A Optionality

GitLab Inc., the leading DevSecOps platform provider that delivers software faster and efficiently, is my 2026 high conviction idea in the U.S....

Andrei Zakharov

GitLab Rockets On M&A Chatter: What A Datadog Deal Could Mean!

GitLab shares surged sharply — up roughly 11 % in intra day trading — after market rumors surfaced that Datadog is exploring a potential...

Baptista Research

Continue Riding This Bull Market Higher; Small- And Mid-Caps Resuming Uptrends; Downgrading Staples

Continue Riding This Bull Market Higher; Small- and Mid-Caps Resuming Uptrends $IWM $RTY $VXF; Downgrading Consumer Staples $XLP to Underweight...

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