Managing Partner, VRS (Valuation & Research Specialists)

VRS (Valuation & Research Specialists)

Managing Partner

Valuation & Research Specialists (VRS) is a boutique financial advisor with more than 17 years of experience in Corporate Valuation and Finance, and a diversified client base including some of the largest Companies in Greece.

Since 2002, VRS has completed more than 200 engagements in the areas of business valuation and financial analysis for more than 100 clients in a wide range of industries.

VRS has been honored to work with small and large private and publicly traded companies in Europe and overseas.

Boutique Financial Advisor

Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA.</li><li>Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and has since expanded to Internet services, cloud com- puting, artificial intelligence, video gaming, and other fields.</li><li>The company’s shares have been listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market since 1986 and are included among the companies with the highest market capitalization globally. </li></ul>

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA.Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and has since expanded to Internet services, cloud com- puting, artificial intelligence, video gaming, and other fields.The company’s shares have been listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market since 1986 and are included among the companies with the highest market capitalization globally. 

Stock Analysis: MICROSOFT CORPORATION Common Stock - November 17, 2025

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and funding this week: DeepSeek raised V4 pricing, while Anthropic showed profit before listing.</li>
<li>China labs pushed pricing, agents, and device subscriptions; US labs added OpenAI Ultrafast, Gemini Flash, Meta Glimmer, and Grok releases.</li>
<li>Nvidia lined up financing platforms, Anthropic signed compute capacity, DayOne filed for a US IPO, and OpenRouter revenue shifted toward Anthropic.</li>
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We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and funding this week: DeepSeek raised V4 pricing, while Anthropic showed profit before listing.
China labs pushed pricing, agents, and device subscriptions; US labs added OpenAI Ultrafast, Gemini Flash, Meta Glimmer, and Grok releases.
Nvidia lined up financing platforms, Anthropic signed compute capacity, DayOne filed for a US IPO, and OpenRouter revenue shifted toward Anthropic.


This Week in AI (Aug 9-15): DeepSeek Hikes V4 Prices; Anthropic Shows Profit Before Listing

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>The big story heading into 2026 is simple.</li><li>Microsoft looks like the early favorite to be the market’s biggest AI winner.</li><li>Every new budget cycle pushes more workloads, more data, and more everyday work into Azure and Copilot.</li></ul>

The big story heading into 2026 is simple.Microsoft looks like the early favorite to be the market’s biggest AI winner.Every new budget cycle pushes more workloads, more data, and more everyday work into Azure and Copilot.

Microsoft Is Turning The Fed’s Rate Cut Into A 2026 AI Spending Supercycle!

External broker reports(aggregated public sources), CMB International

CMB International

External broker reports(aggregated public sources)

Incorporated in Hong Kong, supported by the mainland and targeting in global market, CMB International Capital Corporation Limited (“CMBI”) is an integrated financial institution providing comprehensive and professional services. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Merchants Bank ("CMB"), by leveraging on the Group’s synergy and coordination in domestic and overseas markets, as well as CMB’s strong resources and outstanding social reputation, CMBI and its subsidiaries have been actively implementing diversified business strategies and set up an overall layout of main business segments including Corporate Finance, Asset Management, Wealth Management, Global Markets and Structured Finance, etc. Adhering to the philosophy of “being clients oriented and increasing our own values by the way of creating value for clients”, CMBI endeavors to provide quality and integrated financial services to institutional, corporate and individual customers both domestic and overseas including Hong Kong IPO sponsorship and underwriting, share placement and rights issue for listed companies, financial advisors, bonds issuance services, asset management, direct investment, wealth management, equity sales and trading, etc.

<ul><li>The latest 2Q26 results from major overseas cloud service providers (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) highlighted that ROI in AI-related investment showed continued improvement.</li><li>Despite unchanged CapEx guidance, or only modest increases due to higher memory costs and earlier capacity delivery, cloud revenue and OP growth came in materially ahead of expectations and prompted upgrades to group-level earnings outlooks.</li><li>Clear disclosure by mgmt. on cloud investment payback periods and backlog-implied demand, together with a stronger focus on cash flow and investment efficiency, was well received by the market. </li></ul><p><em>Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.</em></p>

The latest 2Q26 results from major overseas cloud service providers (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) highlighted that ROI in AI-related investment showed continued improvement.Despite unchanged CapEx guidance, or only modest increases due to higher memory costs and earlier capacity delivery, cloud revenue and OP growth came in materially ahead of expectations and prompted upgrades to group-level earnings outlooks.Clear disclosure by mgmt. on cloud investment payback periods and backlog-implied demand, together with a stronger focus on cash flow and investment efficiency, was well received by the market. Content is external broker report sourced from online content aggregator through publicly available sources and is displayed below for general informational purposes only. Refer full disclaimer below.

Internet - Implications from Earnings Beats by North American Cloud Majors

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

<ul>
<li>Microsoft has significantly course corrected on their compute capacity build out, demurred on their right of first refusal for OpenAI compute demand and adopted a risk off "fungible" compute strategy</li>
<li>Mr. Nadella thinks AGI as more hype than substance, "jagged" intelligence will remain problematic for a longer, and the true measure of AI success will be measured by GDP growth</li>
<li>Microsoft stopped reporting AI-driven ARR when the number hit $13 billion six months ago, but why? Broadly deploying AI into productivity tools is a marathon not a sprint.</li>
</ul>


Microsoft has significantly course corrected on their compute capacity build out, demurred on their right of first refusal for OpenAI compute demand and adopted a risk off "fungible" compute strategy
Mr. Nadella thinks AGI as more hype than substance, "jagged" intelligence will remain problematic for a longer, and the true measure of AI success will be measured by GDP growth
Microsoft stopped reporting AI-driven ARR when the number hit $13 billion six months ago, but why? Broadly deploying AI into productivity tools is a marathon not a sprint.


Microsoft. Acting Like There's An AI Bubble Without Saying There's An AI Bubble

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Microsoft Corporation operates as a software company. The Company offers applications, extra cloud storage, and advanced security solutions. Microsoft serves customers worldwide.

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Stock Analysis: MICROSOFT CORPORATION Common Stock - November 17, 2025

The company’s shares have been listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market since 1986 and are included among the companies with the highest market...

VRS (Valuation & Research Specialists)

This Week in AI (Aug 9-15): DeepSeek Hikes V4 Prices; Anthropic Shows Profit Before Listing

This week in AI: DeepSeek raised V4 pricing; Anthropic showed profit before listing; Nvidia financed data centers, and DayOne filed.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Microsoft Is Turning The Fed’s Rate Cut Into A 2026 AI Spending Supercycle!

The big story heading into 2026 is simple. Microsoft looks like the early favorite to be the market’s biggest AI winner. Every new budget cycle...

Baptista Research

Internet - Implications from Earnings Beats by North American Cloud Majors

The latest 2Q26 results from major overseas cloud service providers (Amazon, Microsoft and Google) highlighted that ROI in AI-related investment...

CMB International

Microsoft. Acting Like There's An AI Bubble Without Saying There's An AI Bubble

It could just be me, but I think Mr. Nadella is trying to tell us something about the state of AI. We should probably listen. Let’s see.

William Keating

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