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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.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Kering's first half of 2025 results reflected both challenges and strategic shifts as the luxury goods conglomerate navigates a complex global economic environment.</li>
<li>The company's financial performance showcased significant efforts in cost management and strategic store network optimization, albeit against a backdrop of declining revenues.</li>
<li>Kering reported a revenue of EUR 7.6 billion for the first half, a 16% decrease on a reported basis and 15% on a comparable basis, reflecting ongoing challenges, particularly in Asian markets and wholesale channels.</li>
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Kering's first half of 2025 results reflected both challenges and strategic shifts as the luxury goods conglomerate navigates a complex global economic environment.
The company's financial performance showcased significant efforts in cost management and strategic store network optimization, albeit against a backdrop of declining revenues.
Kering reported a revenue of EUR 7.6 billion for the first half, a 16% decrease on a reported basis and 15% on a comparable basis, reflecting ongoing challenges, particularly in Asian markets and wholesale channels.


Kering’s Secret to Staying Ahead in Luxury—Inside Its Bold Brand Revitalization Plan!

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 near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass), with Int’l Compass reports all echoing this sentiment.</li>
<li>Our bullish near-term outlook will remain in place as long as the 4+ month uptrend continues on ACWI-US. Remain aggressively long/continue to expect more upside into year-end and the early2026.</li>
<li>Europe's EURO STOXX 50 is breaking out from its 7-month base, above the crucial 5500 level, and RS is attempting to reverse its 5-month downtrend -- buy.</li>
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We remain near-term bullish since our 4/22/25 Compass, and our intermediate-term outlook remains bullish as well (as of our 5/14/25 Compass), with Int’l Compass reports all echoing this sentiment.
Our bullish near-term outlook will remain in place as long as the 4+ month uptrend continues on ACWI-US. Remain aggressively long/continue to expect more upside into year-end and the early2026.
Europe's EURO STOXX 50 is breaking out from its 7-month base, above the crucial 5500 level, and RS is attempting to reverse its 5-month downtrend -- buy.


Europe Breaking Out From 7-Month Base -- Buy; Remain Overweight Taiwan, China, Korea, and the U.S.

Julie Lee

Luxury brand companies raised price by 2~4% again in January again after raising price by 10~15% in 2020.  Luxury fashion industry is one of a few industries which has shown strong pricing power even during the pandemic.  The core personal luxury goods market is expected to be contracted for the first time since 2009, falling by 23 percent to hit EUR217 billion, according to Bain&amp;Company.  But it has been showing strong recovery since 2H20. Even though the prolonged pandemic and lock-down can still weigh on the luxury industry, it will continue to show resilience given increasing disposable incomes of high-end consumers thanks to wealth effect and lack of spending on travels.  <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/prada-s-p-a" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:889:1" rel="noopener">Prada S.P.A. (1913 HK)</a>  is one of a few luxury brands which has been improving its brand equity by appointing the new co-creative director, Raf Simons, enhancing its online marketing and changing its distribution model.We will review details of Prada's strategies and its long term growth potentials in the below section.

Luxury brand companies raised price by 2~4% again in January again after raising price by 10~15% in 2020.  Luxury fashion industry is one of a few industries which has shown strong pricing power even during the pandemic.  The core personal luxury goods market is expected to be contracted for the first time since 2009, falling by 23 percent to hit EUR217 billion, according to Bain&amp;Company.  But it has been showing strong recovery since 2H20. Even though the prolonged pandemic and lock-down can still weigh on the luxury industry, it will continue to show resilience given increasing disposable incomes of high-end consumers thanks to wealth effect and lack of spending on travels.  Prada S.P.A. (1913 HK)  is one of a few luxury brands which has been improving its brand equity by appointing the new co-creative director, Raf Simons, enhancing its online marketing and changing its distribution model.We will review details of Prada's strategies and its long term growth potentials in the below section.  

PRADA (1913. HK): Improving Brand Equity to Fuel Its Long Term Growth

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Kering designs, manufactures, and markets fashion and leather goods. The Company specializes in ready-to-wear products, sports goods, shoes, jewelry, and watches. Kering serves customers worldwide.

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