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>Mastercard Inc. delivered strong financial results for the second quarter of 2025, with net revenues increasing 16% and adjusted net income up 12% from the previous year on a non-GAAP currency-neutral basis.</li><li>This growth underscores the effectiveness of Mastercard's diversified business model and execution against strategic priorities.</li><li>The company experienced continued growth in both its payment network and value-added services and solutions, with acquisitions contributing 1 percentage point to revenue growth.</li></ul>

Mastercard Inc. delivered strong financial results for the second quarter of 2025, with net revenues increasing 16% and adjusted net income up 12% from the previous year on a non-GAAP currency-neutral basis.This growth underscores the effectiveness of Mastercard's diversified business model and execution against strategic priorities.The company experienced continued growth in both its payment network and value-added services and solutions, with acquisitions contributing 1 percentage point to revenue growth.

Mastercard’s $2 Billion Crypto Push: The Zerohash Acquisition Could Change Everything!

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

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<div><ul><li>Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, GMX, and Lido.</li><li>According to estimates from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Citi, transactions of tokenized assets could exceed $3 quadrillion annually by 2030. </li><li>While interbank settlement and payments account for the majority of this figure, $16 trillion of tokenized assets and $4 trillion of stablecoins (tokenized money) represent significant volume as well.</li><li>Institutions are tokenizing and transacting assets on blockchains at an accelerating rate, driven by the structural advantages of the onchain format, including global liquidity, instant settlement, and enhanced programmability, all operating on unified global rails. </li></ul></div>

Swift, Euroclear, Mastercard, Fidelity International, UBS, ANZ, and top protocols such as Aave, GMX, and Lido.According to estimates from the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Citi, transactions of tokenized assets could exceed $3 quadrillion annually by 2030. While interbank settlement and payments account for the majority of this figure, $16 trillion of tokenized assets and $4 trillion of stablecoins (tokenized money) represent significant volume as well.Institutions are tokenizing and transacting assets on blockchains at an accelerating rate, driven by the structural advantages of the onchain format, including global liquidity, instant settlement, and enhanced programmability, all operating on unified global rails. 

Tech Talk: Tokenization Tsunami : The $3 Quadrillion Tokenization Opportunity

Head of Research, Krungthai XSpring

Waraporn Wiboonkanarak

Head of Research

A full service Thai brokerage

Krungthai XSpring

Krungthai XSpring is a full service broker. The company provides a wide range of investment services such as Securities Brokerage, Derivative Agent Business, Securities Borrowing and Lending, Securities Trading, Underwriting, Financial Advisory, Wealth Advisory, Private Fund Management and International Markets Securities Trading. 

In terms of credibility, Fitch Ratings has assigned Krunghtai XSpring a long-term rating of AA- and a national short-term rating of F1+ with stable outlook.

Cross Asset Strategy

<ul><li>Technically, the SET Index is expected to move in a sideways-down pattern, with the support at 1,340/1,334 points and the resistance at 1,350/1,354 points.</li><li>The recommended investment strategy remains selling on rallies and buying at support levels until a new breakout signal emerges.</li><li>The market expects the ECB to continue cutting interest rates for the fifth consecutive time by another 25 bps, bringing the deposit facility rate down to 2.75% from 3.0% and the marginal lending rate to 3.15% from 3.4%.</li></ul>

Technically, the SET Index is expected to move in a sideways-down pattern, with the support at 1,340/1,334 points and the resistance at 1,350/1,354 points.The recommended investment strategy remains selling on rallies and buying at support levels until a new breakout signal emerges.The market expects the ECB to continue cutting interest rates for the fifth consecutive time by another 25 bps, bringing the deposit facility rate down to 2.75% from 3.0% and the marginal lending rate to 3.15% from 3.4%.

4Q24 GDP for the EU & US and FOMC & ECB Meetings

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning, Copley Fund Research

Steven Holden

Asset Allocation & Fund Positioning

Copley Fund Research

Copley Fund Research provide research and data on asset allocation among Global and Emerging Market equity funds.  The analysis details absolute and relative positioning across countries, sectors and industries together with highly granular data on single stock and single fund allocations.  The data is updated monthly with time series going back to January 2011.

Global Research - Analysis of 165 prominent Global equity funds, combined AUM $335bn
GEM Research - Analysis of 127 prominent global EM equity funds, combined AUM $250bn

Asset Allocation - Global and GEM Equity

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<li>AI boom reflected in record fund ownership in ASML Holding NV (ASML NA), NVIDIA Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) (2330 TT).</li>
<li>The 'Magnificent 7' group of stocks have hit a record underweight of -6.83% below the MSCI ACWI index.  They collectively account for 11.2% of the average Global fund.</li>
<li>Recovery Stocks: The old guard of At&amp;T Inc (T US), International Business Machines (IBM US) and General Electric (GE US) appear to be gathering some support from active Global funds.</li>
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AI boom reflected in record fund ownership in ASML Holding NV (ASML NA), NVIDIA Corp and Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) (2330 TT).
The 'Magnificent 7' group of stocks have hit a record underweight of -6.83% below the MSCI ACWI index.  They collectively account for 11.2% of the average Global fund.
Recovery Stocks: The old guard of At&amp;T Inc (T US), International Business Machines (IBM US) and General Electric (GE US) appear to be gathering some support from active Global funds.


Global Stock Positioning:  MSFT Dominates, Mag7 Record U/W, Apple Inflows, Tobacco Uninvestable?

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Sumeet Singh

Head of Research, IPOs & Placements

IPOs and Placements coverage across Asia Pacific

Aequitas Research

We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

We combine fundamental bottom-up views with our proprietary quantitative framework to provide a holistic coverage across new listings and placements. Our coverage includes pre-IPO notes before the deal is launched, follow-up analysis once the deal is live and post-listing trading analysis as well.

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/paypay-corporation" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35269:1" rel="noopener">PayPay (PAYP US)</a> (PP), a payments and financial services platform, raised around US$880m in its US IPO in March 2026, the lockup on its shareholders is set to expire soon.</li>
<li>PP operates a digital finance platform that serves as a payment solution for users and merchants, along with offering additional services.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.</li>
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PayPay (PAYP US) (PP), a payments and financial services platform, raised around US$880m in its US IPO in March 2026, the lockup on its shareholders is set to expire soon.
PP operates a digital finance platform that serves as a payment solution for users and merchants, along with offering additional services.
In this note, we will talk about the lockup dynamics and possible placement.


Aequitas: PayPay Lockup Expiry - US$10.5bn Lockup Release

United States

MasterCard, Inc. is a global payment solutions company that provides a variety of services in support of the credit, debit and related payment programs of financial institutions. The Company offers transaction processing services for credit and debit cards, electronic cash, automated teller machines, and travelers checks.

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Baptista Research

Tech Talk: Tokenization Tsunami : The $3 Quadrillion Tokenization Opportunity

While interbank settlement and payments account for the majority of this figure, $16 trillion of tokenized assets and $4 trillion of stablecoins...

Water Tower Research

4Q24 GDP for the EU & US and FOMC & ECB Meetings

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Krungthai XSpring

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The latest in stock-level investor positioning among over 300 active Global funds. We explore the AI boom, key over/underweights, Tobacco's...

Steven Holden

Aequitas: PayPay Lockup Expiry - US$10.5bn Lockup Release

PayPay (PAYP US) (PP), a payments and financial services platform, raised around US$880m in its US IPO in March 2026, the lockup on its...

Sumeet Singh

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