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 Capital Markets

<ul><li>Microsoft delivered a record third quarter which was driven by the persistent strength of the Microsoft Cloud.</li><li>Microsoft has built a large client base for Azure with international giants ranging from Lufthansa to Bridgestone to BlackRock.</li><li>Microsoft is viewing more strategic and larger Azure commitments from Westpac, U.S.</li></ul>

Microsoft delivered a record third quarter which was driven by the persistent strength of the Microsoft Cloud.Microsoft has built a large client base for Azure with international giants ranging from Lufthansa to Bridgestone to BlackRock.Microsoft is viewing more strategic and larger Azure commitments from Westpac, U.S.

Microsoft Corporation: The Gaming Upside & Other Drivers

High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

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High Quality Stock Setups

Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>I mentioned a few weeks ago that the current market correction would likely begin to pickup speed when the mega caps like Apple and Microsoft began their corrections and re-rated lower below their 200 day moving averages like most of the Nasdaq index.</li><li>On Friday, we saw a significant bounce off extreme oversold conditions but many charts still need significant time to base and repair themselves.</li><li>If we are truly entering a new bear market, relief bounces like these will become common which is something investors likely haven’t seen in awhile after years of “buy the dip” bull market mentality was in full force.</li></ul>

I mentioned a few weeks ago that the current market correction would likely begin to pickup speed when the mega caps like Apple and Microsoft began their corrections and re-rated lower below their 200 day moving averages like most of the Nasdaq index.On Friday, we saw a significant bounce off extreme oversold conditions but many charts still need significant time to base and repair themselves.If we are truly entering a new bear market, relief bounces like these will become common which is something investors likely haven’t seen in awhile after years of “buy the dip” bull market mentality was in full force.

Chart based progressive global trading strategies, Chart Partners

Thomas Schroeder

Chart based progressive global trading strategies

Chart Partners

Chart Partners objective is to discover medium-term cycle turns and profit opportunities before they unfold, within structural trends while preserving capital with clear degrees of risk. We have real return ideas. 

Markets are dynamic and trading systems must reflect this. It is crucial to determine underlying correlations and lead-lag relationships within global markets and the impact on linked instruments. Our weekly Chartonics product gives you short-term trading strategies that can be applied within the medium and longer term macro trends that are mapped out in our strategy updates. 

Our methodology fuses global market variables and isolates drivers in trends. We specialize in FX, index trade in NY and Asia with a focus on Asian stocks. 

Technical Analysis

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<li>Apple and Microsoft are pressing on pivotal supports that would weigh on the US equity cycle after the April 26 red flag for defensives and resource stocks to sell off.</li>
<li>Mounting to break AAPL and MSFT key supports at 150 and 270 that would inflection the SPX cycle further given the SPX is flirting with a key break below 4,100/4,030.</li>
<li>AAPL and MSFT support breaks target AAPL 120 and MSFT 220.</li>
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Apple and Microsoft are pressing on pivotal supports that would weigh on the US equity cycle after the April 26 red flag for defensives and resource stocks to sell off.
Mounting to break AAPL and MSFT key supports at 150 and 270 that would inflection the SPX cycle further given the SPX is flirting with a key break below 4,100/4,030.
AAPL and MSFT support breaks target AAPL 120 and MSFT 220.


AAPL and MSFT Support Breaks that Would Implode the US Cycle

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Promised operating leverage is pushed out until likely 3Q22, but only higher employee RSUs is a permanent inflationary impact.</li>
<li>Overcapacity is almost certainly transitory, as long as the retail business grows, this will be soaked up in a quarter or two.</li>
<li>AWS backlog is booming again. Amazon's current valuation = 12x forward AWS sales.</li>
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Promised operating leverage is pushed out until likely 3Q22, but only higher employee RSUs is a permanent inflationary impact.
Overcapacity is almost certainly transitory, as long as the retail business grows, this will be soaked up in a quarter or two.
AWS backlog is booming again. Amazon's current valuation = 12x forward AWS sales.


Amazon 1Q22: (Some) Cost Inflation Is Transitory, The Moat Is Not

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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<li>Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$2.7bn via selling a 3.5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO. </li>
<li>This is less than half of its initial plans in terms of fundraising target and comes at less than half of its initial valuation target.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the likely final deal terms and the likelihood of fast entry in the various indices.</li>
</ul>


Government of India (GoI) is looking to raise around US$2.7bn via selling a 3.5% stake in Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in its upcoming India IPO. 
This is less than half of its initial plans in terms of fundraising target and comes at less than half of its initial valuation target.
In this note, we will talk about the likely final deal terms and the likelihood of fast entry in the various indices.


Life Insurance Corporation of India Pre-IPO - India’s Largest IPO Will Not Get Any Passive Support

United States

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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