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Equity Bottom-Up

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 <li>Legrand is a global leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, demonstrating a resilient business model with strong, consistent financial performance and robust cash flow generation.</li>
 <li>The company is strategically positioned to capitalize on long-term growth trends, including the increasing demand for energy efficiency, the proliferation of data centers, and the rise of connected/smart buildings.</li>
 <li>A dual-pronged growth strategy, combining organic innovation with a disciplined, long-standing approach to bolt-on acquisitions, allows Legrand to continuously enhance its product portfolio and expand its market presence in high-growth segments.</li>
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  Legrand is a global leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, demonstrating a resilient business model with strong, consistent financial performance and robust cash flow generation.
  The company is strategically positioned to capitalize on long-term growth trends, including the increasing demand for energy efficiency, the proliferation of data centers, and the rise of connected/smart buildings.
  A dual-pronged growth strategy, combining organic innovation with a disciplined, long-standing approach to bolt-on acquisitions, allows Legrand to continuously enhance its product portfolio and expand its market presence in high-growth segments.
This content is AI-generated and displayed for general informational purposes only. Please verify independently before use.

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.

<ul><li>Legrand, a leading player in the electrical and digital building infrastructure industry, presented its 2025 half-year results, highlighting robust sales growth and strong profitability.</li><li>In the first half of 2025, Legrand achieved a 15% increase in sales, excluding FX impacts.</li><li>This growth was driven by a significant 9% organic growth, particularly fueled by the performance in the data centers segment.</li></ul>

Legrand, a leading player in the electrical and digital building infrastructure industry, presented its 2025 half-year results, highlighting robust sales growth and strong profitability.In the first half of 2025, Legrand achieved a 15% increase in sales, excluding FX impacts.This growth was driven by a significant 9% organic growth, particularly fueled by the performance in the data centers segment.

Legrand SA’s Global Strategy: Is It Building the Backbone of Tomorrow’s Cloud?

MD, Leaf & Ledger Limited

Leaf & Ledger Limited

Formed in 2024, Leaf & Ledger is a European advisory and research firm serving institutional investors and managers. We focus on real assets and private markets, with public-market read-throughs where material. Our work emphasises valuation signals, market structure, and execution topics that translate technical assessment into underwriting and strategy.

Insight That Moves Capital

Cross Asset Strategy

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Set-Up and scale: 245 SLBs face 2025 KPI tests; applying a 19% 2024 miss rate implies ~50 step-ups of ~25 bps, worth ~20–60 bps PV. &gt;$80bn notional, heaviest in Q4.</li>
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Trade design, credit and equity: Pre-position where slippage exists and no pre-test calls; run structure pairs; trade post-print drift; for equities, SLB misses flag delivery shortfalls and funding-cost creep.</li>
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Why the market is inefficient: ESG KPIs hide in footnotes and annexes, overlooked by analysts. Verification lags and slow vendor updates delay repricing, so step-up structures stay mis-weighted and mispriced.</li>
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Set-Up and scale: 245 SLBs face 2025 KPI tests; applying a 19% 2024 miss rate implies ~50 step-ups of ~25 bps, worth ~20–60 bps PV. &gt;$80bn notional, heaviest in Q4.

Trade design, credit and equity: Pre-position where slippage exists and no pre-test calls; run structure pairs; trade post-print drift; for equities, SLB misses flag delivery shortfalls and funding-cost creep.

Why the market is inefficient: ESG KPIs hide in footnotes and annexes, overlooked by analysts. Verification lags and slow vendor updates delay repricing, so step-up structures stay mis-weighted and mispriced.


SLBs in 2025: Where Step-Ups Create Event-Driven Alpha

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

iShares MSCI ACWI ETF / Technical Analysis

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<li>The pullback in global equities continues with the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) testing 1.5-month downtrend resistance while the STOXX Europe 50 tests resistance at 3800-3840.</li>
<li>We expect a rejection at the 1.5-month downtrend and for the stair-step lower to continue, with our targets being $84 (December 2022 low) and potentially $75-77 (the 2022 lows).</li>
<li>If ACWI-US is able to reverse above the 1.5-month downtrend, we still expect $93 to cap upside in 2023. Remain overweight Europe. Also highlighting individual stock buys on pullbacks.</li>
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The pullback in global equities continues with the MSCI ACWI (ACWI-US) testing 1.5-month downtrend resistance while the STOXX Europe 50 tests resistance at 3800-3840.
We expect a rejection at the 1.5-month downtrend and for the stair-step lower to continue, with our targets being $84 (December 2022 low) and potentially $75-77 (the 2022 lows).
If ACWI-US is able to reverse above the 1.5-month downtrend, we still expect $93 to cap upside in 2023. Remain overweight Europe. Also highlighting individual stock buys on pullbacks.


MSCI ACWI and EAFE Testing 1.5-Month Downtrends; Remain OW EU; Buys in Leading Sectors on Pullbacks

Global equities are now breaking out to new highs amid positive technical developments -- something we noted was increasingly likely in last week’s Int’l Compass. These breakouts and other technical developments highlighted below argue that this is the beginning of a new leg higher. Now is the time to be playing offense. In today’s report we highlight our favorite setups within Industrials, spanning the Vermilion international Manufacturing, Services, and Transportation Sectors.

Global equities are now breaking out to new highs amid positive technical developments -- something we noted was increasingly likely in last week’s Int’l Compass. These breakouts and other technical developments highlighted below argue that this is the beginning of a new leg higher. Now is the time to be playing offense. In today’s report we highlight our favorite setups within Industrials, spanning the Vermilion international Manufacturing, Services, and Transportation Sectors.

Global Equity Strategy: Global Equities Beginning a New Leg Higher

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Legrand S.A. specializes in products and systems for electrical installations and information networks.  The company's products are offered for residential, commercial, and industrial use.

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αSK

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Baptista Research

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MSCI ACWI and EAFE Testing 1.5-Month Downtrends; Remain OW EU; Buys in Leading Sectors on Pullbacks

Pullback in global equities continues with MSCI $ACWI testing 1.5-month downtrend resistance as $STOXX Europe 50 tests 3800-3840 resistance....

Vermilion Research

Global Equity Strategy: Global Equities Beginning a New Leg Higher

Global equities are now breaking out to new highs amid positive technical developments -- something we noted was increasingly likely in last week’s...

Vermilion Research

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