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>Moody's Corporation showed a promising performance in their fourth quarter and full-year results of 2023.</li><li>The company ended the year with an 8% revenue growth and an increase in adjusted diluted EPS by 16%.</li><li>Within these achievements, Moody's has been highlighted as an early adopter and innovator of GenAI. A significant accomplishment was the launch of their first-ever GenAI-enabled product in December 2023.</li></ul>

Moody's Corporation showed a promising performance in their fourth quarter and full-year results of 2023.The company ended the year with an 8% revenue growth and an increase in adjusted diluted EPS by 16%.Within these achievements, Moody's has been highlighted as an early adopter and innovator of GenAI. A significant accomplishment was the launch of their first-ever GenAI-enabled product in December 2023.

<ul><li>Moodys delivered a positive result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter.</li><li>Amid a consistent improvement in issuance, Moody's Investor Services (MIS) had its first quarter of revenue gain in six quarters.</li><li>Its revenue growth exceeded issuance growth by growing by 6%.</li></ul>

Moodys delivered a positive result and managed an all-around beat in the last quarter.Amid a consistent improvement in issuance, Moody's Investor Services (MIS) had its first quarter of revenue gain in six quarters.Its revenue growth exceeded issuance growth by growing by 6%.

<ul><li>Moody's Corporation saw some quite strong upticks in usage in the quarter and delivered an all-around beat.</li><li>MA delivered ARR growth of 10% as Moody's continues enhancing and extending its mission-critical workflow solutions and data analytics.</li><li>Despite overall revenues down in the quarter, Moody's adjusted operating margin was up.</li></ul>

Moody's Corporation saw some quite strong upticks in usage in the quarter and delivered an all-around beat.MA delivered ARR growth of 10% as Moody's continues enhancing and extending its mission-critical workflow solutions and data analytics.Despite overall revenues down in the quarter, Moody's adjusted operating margin was up.

Moody's Corporation: How The Management Is Leveraging Its Data Analytics – Key Drivers

Alpha-Centric ESG Research

Kyle Rudden

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<li>The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently launched a public consultation regarding a Code of Conduct for ESG ratings providers and ESG data product providers in Singapore.</li>
<li>It is the right approach for Singapore – a <em>voluntary</em> best-practices framework furthering one of the world's most credible "green" economies, not a regulatory force-fix of something broken.</li>
<li>No surprise ratings methodology changes. No <em>en masse</em> upgrades/downgrades. No acute shocks to the system. Just slow and steady progress for ESG investing and finance in Singapore.</li>
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The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) recently launched a public consultation regarding a Code of Conduct for ESG ratings providers and ESG data product providers in Singapore.
It is the right approach for Singapore – a voluntary best-practices framework furthering one of the world's most credible "green" economies, not a regulatory force-fix of something broken.
No surprise ratings methodology changes. No en masse upgrades/downgrades. No acute shocks to the system. Just slow and steady progress for ESG investing and finance in Singapore.


Singapore Code of Conduct for ESG Ratings Is Less Risk and More Reward

Independent Asian Credit Research, Bondcritic

Warut Promboon

Independent Asian Credit Research

Asian Fixed Income/Frontier Market Research

Bondcritic

Bondcritic, established in 2009, is designed to be an independent credit research voice that helps investors gain insights and unbiased analyses on Asian fixed income market. Our mission is to discover deep-value Asian high-yield and distressed bonds with a bottom-up approach, together with the help of our proprietary ESG (Environmental, Social Development, and Governance) model. At the same time, we focus on bringing investment cases of unrated and unloved issuers to the general public.

Debt Capital Markets

THAI CDS USD SR 5Y D14 / Debt Capital Markets

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<li>Here we are revisiting the Thai bond market, as per requests from our Thai readers, to see the impact of the global rate trajectory on Thailand.</li>
<li>The Thai bond market will remain unattractive to foreign institutional investors, in our view.</li>
<li>The attempt to increase yield should involve a material change in Thailand’s financial structure and regulatory mindset.</li>
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Here we are revisiting the Thai bond market, as per requests from our Thai readers, to see the impact of the global rate trajectory on Thailand.
The Thai bond market will remain unattractive to foreign institutional investors, in our view.
The attempt to increase yield should involve a material change in Thailand’s financial structure and regulatory mindset.


Bond Market Monitor: Thai Bonds Are for Issuers

United States

Moody's Corporation is a credit rating, research, and risk analysis firm.  The Company provides credit ratings and related research, data and analytical tools, quantitative credit risk measures, risk scoring software, and credit portfolio management solutions and securities pricing software and valuation models.

Moody's Corp (MCO US)

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