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>Johnson & Johnson's first quarter 2025 results present a multifaceted picture of a robust yet intricately challenged healthcare company.</li><li>The operational sales growth stood at 4.2%, even as they faced significant pressure due to the loss of exclusivity for STELARA, a multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical product.</li><li>Despite an 810 basis point headwind from STELARA, the Innovative Medicine sector showed resilience with an equal 4.2% growth, supported by strength in other key pharmaceuticals such as DARZALEX, which achieved a notable growth of over 20%.</li></ul>

Johnson & Johnson's first quarter 2025 results present a multifaceted picture of a robust yet intricately challenged healthcare company.The operational sales growth stood at 4.2%, even as they faced significant pressure due to the loss of exclusivity for STELARA, a multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical product.Despite an 810 basis point headwind from STELARA, the Innovative Medicine sector showed resilience with an equal 4.2% growth, supported by strength in other key pharmaceuticals such as DARZALEX, which achieved a notable growth of over 20%.

Johnson & Johnson Buys Halda: The Cancer Deal Wall Street Didn’t See Coming!

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Garvit Bhandari

Founder, CEO

Leading Provider of Equity and Investment Research

GSBR Research

We are an independent equity research provider focused on covering global markets. The aim of the research is to provide an unbiased view of the fundamentals of the company.

Event-Driven

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<li>Separation should unlock value by allowing J&amp;J to double-down on high-growth, higher-margin MedTech and pharma businesses.</li>
<li>SpinCo will emerge as one of the world’s largest pure-play orthopaedics firm with ~$9B revenue and global leadership across hips, knees, and trauma.</li>
<li>We see valuation upside. Transaction is likely to enhance JNJ’s sum-of-the-parts value.</li>
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Separation should unlock value by allowing J&amp;J to double-down on high-growth, higher-margin MedTech and pharma businesses.
SpinCo will emerge as one of the world’s largest pure-play orthopaedics firm with ~$9B revenue and global leadership across hips, knees, and trauma.
We see valuation upside. Transaction is likely to enhance JNJ’s sum-of-the-parts value.


Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) To Spin Off Orthopaedics Business

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Richard Howe

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Stock Spin-Off Investing

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Stock Spin-offs

<ul><li>There is a good amount of froth in the market.</li><li>The “Fear &amp; Greed Index” has slipped into “Extreme Fear” which is usually a good contra-indicator.</li><li>For what it’s worth, I’m still finding plenty of ideas that look attractive from a “bottom up” perspective.</li></ul>

There is a good amount of froth in the market.The “Fear &amp; Greed Index” has slipped into “Extreme Fear” which is usually a good contra-indicator.For what it’s worth, I’m still finding plenty of ideas that look attractive from a “bottom up” perspective.

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 remain bullish (as of our 4/21/26 Compass) on the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM). </li>
<li>With that said, QQQ violated $695 support, a concerning sign; $681-$686 support must hold on QQQ or we will downgrade it.</li>
<li>We continue to believe a consolidation or a continuation of short-term downtrends is likely through mid-to-late-August amid choppy price action for semiconductors (SOXX), memory (DRAM), and optical equipment/photonics (EUV) names.</li>
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We remain bullish (as of our 4/21/26 Compass) on the S&amp;P 500 (SPX), Nasdaq 100 (QQQ), and Russell 2000 (IWM). 
With that said, QQQ violated $695 support, a concerning sign; $681-$686 support must hold on QQQ or we will downgrade it.
We continue to believe a consolidation or a continuation of short-term downtrends is likely through mid-to-late-August amid choppy price action for semiconductors (SOXX), memory (DRAM), and optical equipment/photonics (EUV) names.


Upgrading Health Care and Consumer Staples to Market Weight; Monitoring Tech for a Downgrade

Quality-first, Business-perspective, Long-term, Urbem (HK) Limited

Urbem Capital

Quality-first, Business-perspective, Long-term

Quality-first, Business-perspective Strategy

Urbem (HK) Limited

<ul>
<li>Eighteen S&amp;P 500 giants earned 20%-plus ROE through the 1990s; fourteen then trailed the index into 2026, the median by about 2.7 points a year.</li>
<li>Rich starting multiples, maturing runways, eroding moats and costly deals did the damage, while leverage and buybacks had flattered some of the returns on capital.</li>
<li>Microsoft renewed its runway and Altria started cheap; today's high-return screens should ask whether returns are still rising and whether the price still allows low-teens returns.</li>
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Eighteen S&amp;P 500 giants earned 20%-plus ROE through the 1990s; fourteen then trailed the index into 2026, the median by about 2.7 points a year.
Rich starting multiples, maturing runways, eroding moats and costly deals did the damage, while leverage and buybacks had flattered some of the returns on capital.
Microsoft renewed its runway and Altria started cheap; today's high-return screens should ask whether returns are still rising and whether the price still allows low-teens returns.


After They Were Giants: Why 2000's High-Return Stocks Mostly Lagged for 25 Years

United States

Johnson & Johnson manufactures health care products and provides related services for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices and diagnostics markets. The Company sells products such as skin and hair care products, acetaminophen products, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment, and surgical equipment in countries located around the world.

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