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.

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>IonQ’s latest financial results and strategic developments signal a bold push toward cementing its role as a dominant player in the emerging quantum computing industry.</li><li>The company reported first-quarter revenue of $7.6 million, matching last year’s figure but exceeding analyst expectations.</li><li>Despite the flat top-line performance, IonQ remains aggressive in its vision to become the "Nvidia of quantum computing," as CEO Niccolo de Masi described.</li></ul>

IonQ’s latest financial results and strategic developments signal a bold push toward cementing its role as a dominant player in the emerging quantum computing industry.The company reported first-quarter revenue of $7.6 million, matching last year’s figure but exceeding analyst expectations.Despite the flat top-line performance, IonQ remains aggressive in its vision to become the "Nvidia of quantum computing," as CEO Niccolo de Masi described.

IonQ’s $8.75 Billion Dream Collides With Doubts: Can Acquisitions Outpace Losses?

<ul><li>IonQ, Inc. reported strong financial and operational results for the full year 2024, highlighting both achievements and challenges.</li><li>The company recorded the best fiscal year in its history, with a 47% increase in full-year bookings, amounting to $95.6 million, and nearly doubling its revenue to $43.1 million, surpassing its guidance range.</li><li>Such financial milestones demonstrate IonQ's growing influence and capacity within the quantum computing market.</li></ul>

IonQ, Inc. reported strong financial and operational results for the full year 2024, highlighting both achievements and challenges.The company recorded the best fiscal year in its history, with a 47% increase in full-year bookings, amounting to $95.6 million, and nearly doubling its revenue to $43.1 million, surpassing its guidance range.Such financial milestones demonstrate IonQ's growing influence and capacity within the quantum computing market.

IonQ's Revenue Skyrockets 95% – Is This the Next Quantum Giant?

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist, Ingenuity

William Keating

Semiconductor & Technology Specialist

Ingenuity

Our focus is exclusively on in-depth research & consulting in the broader semiconductor industry. We focus on the key players, namely Intel, Micron, Qualcomm, Apple, Samsung, NVIDIA, AMD, TSMC & Global Foundries - as well as some of the lesser known, but nonetheless critical, companies such as ASML (for EUV), Mellanox, Cavium, Xilinx etc. We specialise in their products, roadmaps, process technologies, competitive advantages & threats etc. We also help our clients understand the implications of new and emerging technologies, e.g. 3D X-Point, 3D NAND, Carbon Nanotubes, Autonomous Driving, Graphene, Silicon Photonics, Wafer-Level Optics, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, GPU, ASIC etc. 

Semiconductor Analysis & Research

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>Alphabet subsidiary, Google Quantum AI, launched its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, which can solve a specific problem in &lt;5 mins that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years</li>
<li>Share prices of quantum computing related companies soared in December, ranging from 4.5x in the case of IonQ to ~17x for Quantum Computing Inc. </li>
<li>D-Wave &amp; Rigetti, both threatened with delisting in November, got their Christmas miracle with their share prices surging by 8x and 11x respectively. </li>
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Alphabet subsidiary, Google Quantum AI, launched its latest quantum computing chip, Willow, which can solve a specific problem in &lt;5 mins that would take a supercomputer 10 septillion years
Share prices of quantum computing related companies soared in December, ranging from 4.5x in the case of IonQ to ~17x for Quantum Computing Inc. 
D-Wave &amp; Rigetti, both threatened with delisting in November, got their Christmas miracle with their share prices surging by 8x and 11x respectively. 


Quantum Computing Part 1. Christmas Miracles & Multiverse Musings

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>We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).</li>
<li>Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold</li>
<li>The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS</li>
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We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).
Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold
The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS


Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

Research from Water Tower Research, Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research

Research from Water Tower Research

Water Tower Research is a leading equity research firm that provides research on micro, small and mid cap companies.

Water Tower Research was founded by Wall Street veterans after witnessing a fundamental shift in the investment research industry with the result being a declining knowledge base among investors, a lack of awareness and a shrinking pool of fundamental research being conducted on companies across the small-cap and micro-cap spectrum. The same issues are now increasingly occurring in the mid-cap space. This sea change within the investment community is impacting not only the companies themselves but also current shareholders and potential investors. With significantly less active sell-side sponsorship by Wall Street, a substantial information gap has developed between companies and various constituents in the financial community. The net result is fewer channels for insight and information to flow between companies and investors.

Equity Research Firm

<ul><li>Methodology. We reviewed 50 under-covered, AI-involved public companies (~$2.7 billion average market cap; about five analysts each) and their respective one-year market-cap changes.</li><li>We then mapped them to one or more of 11 AI application areas.</li><li>We also assigned each company a subjective “AI Centricity” score (1 to 10 scale) based on each company’s level of focus on AI. </li></ul>

Methodology. We reviewed 50 under-covered, AI-involved public companies (~$2.7 billion average market cap; about five analysts each) and their respective one-year market-cap changes.We then mapped them to one or more of 11 AI application areas.We also assigned each company a subjective “AI Centricity” score (1 to 10 scale) based on each company’s level of focus on AI. 

AI Industry Primer A Survey of 50 Under-Covered Companies in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

United States

IonQ, Inc. operates as a computing hardware and software company. The Company develops a general-purpose trapped ion quantum computer and software to generate, optimize, and execute quantum circuits. IonQ serves customers worldwide.

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IonQ (IONQ US)

IonQ’s $8.75 Billion Dream Collides With Doubts: Can Acquisitions Outpace Losses?

IonQ’s latest financial results and strategic developments signal a bold push toward cementing its role as a dominant player in the emerging...

Baptista Research

IonQ's Revenue Skyrockets 95% – Is This the Next Quantum Giant?

IonQ, Inc. reported strong financial and operational results for the full year 2024, highlighting both achievements and challenges. The company...

Baptista Research

Quantum Computing Part 1. Christmas Miracles & Multiverse Musings

The recent launch of Google Quantum AI's latest quantum computing chip Willow has sparked a frenzy of interest by investors that's seen the share...

William Keating

Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

Back to Near-Term Bullish on $SPX and Nasdaq 100 $NDX; Crucial Supports Held at 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on $QQQ, we are near-term bullish as...

Vermilion Research

AI Industry Primer A Survey of 50 Under-Covered Companies in Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Methodology. We reviewed 50 under-covered, AI-involved public companies (~$2.7 billion average market cap; about five analysts each) and their...

Water Tower Research

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