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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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Guidewire Software Inc.'s recent financial results illustrate a blend of positive momentum and underlying challenges.</li><li>The company reported strong performance in its second fiscal quarter, exceeding expectations mainly due to robust sales activities and increased subscription adoption.</li><li>Annual recurring revenue (ARR) ended the quarter at $918 million, surpassing the high end of the projected range.</li></ul>

Guidewire Software Inc.'s recent financial results illustrate a blend of positive momentum and underlying challenges.The company reported strong performance in its second fiscal quarter, exceeding expectations mainly due to robust sales activities and increased subscription adoption.Annual recurring revenue (ARR) ended the quarter at $918 million, surpassing the high end of the projected range.

Guidewire Software: Cloud Migration Momentum to Drive Long-Term ARR Growth!

<ul><li>Guidewire Software's recent earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2025 provides insightful details on the company's strategic initiatives and financial performance.</li><li>The company reported a strong start to the fiscal year, emphasizing momentum in cloud adoption and strategic international growth.</li><li>On the positive side, Guidewire Software demonstrated robust performance with total revenue reaching $263 million, marking a 27% year-over-year increase.</li></ul>

Guidewire Software's recent earnings for the first fiscal quarter of 2025 provides insightful details on the company's strategic initiatives and financial performance.The company reported a strong start to the fiscal year, emphasizing momentum in cloud adoption and strategic international growth.On the positive side, Guidewire Software demonstrated robust performance with total revenue reaching $263 million, marking a 27% year-over-year increase.

Guidewire Software Inc.: These Are The 6 Biggest Factors Impacting Its Performance In 2025 & Beyond! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Guidewire Software Inc. concluded its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2024 financials with robust performance, spearheaded by a successful shift towards cloud-based services.</li><li>The transition to a vertical software-as-a service (SaaS) model from an on-premise system appears to capture significant market interest, marked by an annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth of 14% and fully-ramped ARR acceleration of 19%.</li><li>This transition underscores the company's strategic realignment towards offering more scalable and efficient cloud solutions.</li></ul>

Guidewire Software Inc. concluded its fiscal fourth quarter and full year 2024 financials with robust performance, spearheaded by a successful shift towards cloud-based services.The transition to a vertical software-as-a service (SaaS) model from an on-premise system appears to capture significant market interest, marked by an annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth of 14% and fully-ramped ARR acceleration of 19%.This transition underscores the company's strategic realignment towards offering more scalable and efficient cloud solutions.

Guidewire Software: A Bear's Perspective/ 4 Reasons Why We Are Not Too Optimistic! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Guidewire recently disclosed its results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, which exhibited a strong operational performance and positive strategic developments.</li><li>The company, which provides insurance software, expressed confidence in its cloud-based offerings and reported significant progress in both customer traction and financial metrics.</li><li>During this quarter, Guidewire saw substantial customer adoption, evidenced by the closure of eight InsuranceSuite Cloud deals, bringing the year-to-date tally to 24—an increase of 33% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Guidewire recently disclosed its results for the third quarter of fiscal year 2024, which exhibited a strong operational performance and positive strategic developments.The company, which provides insurance software, expressed confidence in its cloud-based offerings and reported significant progress in both customer traction and financial metrics.During this quarter, Guidewire saw substantial customer adoption, evidenced by the closure of eight InsuranceSuite Cloud deals, bringing the year-to-date tally to 24—an increase of 33% year-over-year.

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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>As discussed for two weeks, we see more and more signs leading us to believe SPX made a major bottom at 4800-4820, which was expected support from our 4/8/25 Compass.</li>
<li>We have been short-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass -- when the SPX was testing 5100-5120 support -- but now we are upgrading our intermediate-term outlook to bullish as well.</li>
<li>Our short- and intermediate-term outlook will remain bullish as long as the SPX is above 5500</li>
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As discussed for two weeks, we see more and more signs leading us to believe SPX made a major bottom at 4800-4820, which was expected support from our 4/8/25 Compass.
We have been short-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass -- when the SPX was testing 5100-5120 support -- but now we are upgrading our intermediate-term outlook to bullish as well.
Our short- and intermediate-term outlook will remain bullish as long as the SPX is above 5500


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United States

Guidewire Software Inc. develops and publishes enterprise software for the property and casualty insurance industry. The Company's software supports the workflow, collaboration with external partners, and rule-based decision-making that characterize modern underwriting and claims operations.

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