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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>Group 1 Automotive reported a robust financial performance for the third quarter of 2025, achieving an all-time record in quarterly revenues.</li><li>This was driven by exceptional performances in parts and service, used vehicles, and strong financial services operations in both the U.S. and the U.K. The company saw a slight increase in new vehicle gross profit while the aftersales business continued to expand, yielding record revenues and gross profits.</li><li>In the U.S., the company maintained strong operational discipline with vehicle inventory levels balanced and steady consumer interest.</li></ul>

Group 1 Automotive reported a robust financial performance for the third quarter of 2025, achieving an all-time record in quarterly revenues.This was driven by exceptional performances in parts and service, used vehicles, and strong financial services operations in both the U.S. and the U.K. The company saw a slight increase in new vehicle gross profit while the aftersales business continued to expand, yielding record revenues and gross profits.In the U.S., the company maintained strong operational discipline with vehicle inventory levels balanced and steady consumer interest.

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<ul><li>Group 1 Automotive's recent quarterly results portray a company experiencing both growth and challenges across different markets.</li><li>In the U.S., the company reported impressive advancements with its performance metrics, growing its new car sales by 6% on a same-store basis, surpassing industry averages.</li><li>The inventory levels were held stable, with a healthy day's supply of 48 days, and used car volumes rose by nearly 4%, contributing to increased gross profits.</li></ul>

Group 1 Automotive's recent quarterly results portray a company experiencing both growth and challenges across different markets.In the U.S., the company reported impressive advancements with its performance metrics, growing its new car sales by 6% on a same-store basis, surpassing industry averages.The inventory levels were held stable, with a healthy day's supply of 48 days, and used car volumes rose by nearly 4%, contributing to increased gross profits.

Group 1 Automotive: Attempting To Accelerating Growth with Bold Dealership Acquisitions in High-Value Markets!

<ul><li>Group 1 Automotive's first-quarter 2025 financial results demonstrate a mixed performance across its U.K. and U.S. operations.</li><li>The company reported quarterly record gross profit of $892 million, with adjusted net income of $134.7 million, and an adjusted diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $10.17.</li><li>These figures reflect a combination of strategic moves, market dynamics, and operational efficiencies, as well as some challenges.</li></ul>

Group 1 Automotive's first-quarter 2025 financial results demonstrate a mixed performance across its U.K. and U.S. operations.The company reported quarterly record gross profit of $892 million, with adjusted net income of $134.7 million, and an adjusted diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $10.17.These figures reflect a combination of strategic moves, market dynamics, and operational efficiencies, as well as some challenges.

Group 1 Automotive: Expansion and Integration in the U.K. Market & Major Growth Drivers!

<ul><li>Group 1 Automotive concluded the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 with a mixture of robust performance in some areas and notable challenges in others, particularly related to its U.K. operations.</li><li>The company reported record quarterly and annual revenues, with the U.S. business showing strong execution across new and used vehicle sales, as well as parts and service.</li><li>However, the U.K. segment, heavily influenced by the integration of Inchcape’s retail dealerships, faced macroeconomic hurdles largely tied to government mandates on zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs), which disrupted the conventional sales pipeline.</li></ul>

Group 1 Automotive concluded the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2024 with a mixture of robust performance in some areas and notable challenges in others, particularly related to its U.K. operations.The company reported record quarterly and annual revenues, with the U.S. business showing strong execution across new and used vehicle sales, as well as parts and service.However, the U.K. segment, heavily influenced by the integration of Inchcape’s retail dealerships, faced macroeconomic hurdles largely tied to government mandates on zero emissions vehicles (ZEVs), which disrupted the conventional sales pipeline.

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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.

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<li>We are seeing signs that this 2+ month consolidation in the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) is ready to break out to the upside. Buy/stay long.</li>
<li>Part of that is the obvious; both the SPX and QQQ are breaking out to marginal new highs. </li>
<li>The other part that has kept us bullish this whole time is that market dynamics have remained risk-on, which we have discussed on a weekly basis.</li>
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We are seeing signs that this 2+ month consolidation in the S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq 100 (QQQ) is ready to break out to the upside. Buy/stay long.
Part of that is the obvious; both the SPX and QQQ are breaking out to marginal new highs. 
The other part that has kept us bullish this whole time is that market dynamics have remained risk-on, which we have discussed on a weekly basis.


S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 Breaking Out; Upside Resuming; DXY and Yields Forming Major Tops?

United States

Group 1 Automotive, Inc., through its subsidiaries, owns and operates automobile dealerships.  The Company sells new and used cars and light trucks, provides maintenance and repair services, and sells replacement parts.  The Company also arranges related financing, insurance, and extended service contracts.  Group 1 operates in Florida, Georgia, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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