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.

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The Walt Disney Co / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Netflix and Disney are two of the world's largest players in online audiovisual content creation and streaming services.</li><li>While Disney operates a highly diversified conglomerate that goes far beyond just streaming, the fact remains that the company's biggest growth driver today is its Disney+ streaming business where it rivals Netflix.</li><li>While Netflix is the clear market leader in streaming with the largest global subscriber base, it has been growing slower than Disney and its Originals building capability is a work-in-progress.</li></ul>

Netflix and Disney are two of the world's largest players in online audiovisual content creation and streaming services.While Disney operates a highly diversified conglomerate that goes far beyond just streaming, the fact remains that the company's biggest growth driver today is its Disney+ streaming business where it rivals Netflix.While Netflix is the clear market leader in streaming with the largest global subscriber base, it has been growing slower than Disney and its Originals building capability is a work-in-progress.

Netflix vs. Disney - The Battle of the Streaming Behemoths (12/2021)

Analysis on GARP with strong economic moats, Moat Investing

Moat Investing

Analysis on GARP with strong economic moats

We are a group of experienced investors that like to dig deeper into stocks to find growth stories at a reasonable price with strong economic moats. We also aim to conduct high-quality analysis by doing deep dive on valuations, key business drivers, risk/reward, and different future scenarios.

GARP with strong economic moats

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>We believe Disney is currently overvalued, but that changes to structure might unlock future value for the Disney Direct-to-Consumer segment.</li>
<li>Disney+’s limited content library can be the cause of disappointing subscriber growth when compared to Netflix's metrics.</li>
<li>Our analysis shows that comparing Disney DTC to Netflix is not sustainable given Disney's limited content library, that much focuses on Marvel and Star Wars, compared to Netflix's wider range.</li>
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We believe Disney is currently overvalued, but that changes to structure might unlock future value for the Disney Direct-to-Consumer segment.
Disney+’s limited content library can be the cause of disappointing subscriber growth when compared to Netflix's metrics.
Our analysis shows that comparing Disney DTC to Netflix is not sustainable given Disney's limited content library, that much focuses on Marvel and Star Wars, compared to Netflix's wider range.


Comparing Disney+ Valuation Multiples To Netflix's

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.

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<li>Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>The company has obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.</li>
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Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO.
The company has obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.
In this note, we will talk about the trading dynamics.


Cloud Village (NetEase Music) IPO Trading - One of the Lowest Insti Subscriptions Yet

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<li>Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, plans to raise around US$450m in its Hong Kong IPO.</li>
<li>The company has also obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.</li>
<li>In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about valuations.</li>
</ul>


Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, plans to raise around US$450m in its Hong Kong IPO.
The company has also obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.
In this note, we will run the deal through our ECM framework and talk about valuations.


Cloud Village (NetEase Music) IPO - Cornered Deal but Offers Limited Upside

<ul>
<li>Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, now plans to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO. </li>
<li>The company has also obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the updates from the revised PHIP filing and relook at valuations.</li>
</ul>


Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, now plans to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO. 
The company has also obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other investors.
In this note, we will talk about the updates from the revised PHIP filing and relook at valuations.


Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Revised PHIP Updates, Along with Revised Valuation

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Netflix Inc. is an Internet subscription service for watching tv shows and movies. Subscribers can instantly watch unlimited TV shows and movies streamed over the Internet to their TVs, computers and mobile devices and in the United States, subscribers can receive standard definition DVDs and Blu-ray Discs delivered to their homes.

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Netflix vs. Disney - The Battle of the Streaming Behemoths (12/2021)

Netflix and Disney are two of the world's largest players in online audiovisual content creation and streaming services. While Disney operates a...

Baptista Research

Comparing Disney+ Valuation Multiples To Netflix's

We believe Disney is currently overvalued, but that changes to structure might unlock future value for the Disney Direct-to-Consumer...

Moat Investing

Cloud Village (NetEase Music) IPO Trading - One of the Lowest Insti Subscriptions Yet

Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we will talk about the trading...

Sumeet Singh

Cloud Village (NetEase Music) IPO - Cornered Deal but Offers Limited Upside

Cloud Village, also known as NetEase Music, plans to raise around US$450m in its Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we run the deal through our ECM...

Sumeet Singh

Cloud Village (NetEase Music) Pre-IPO - Revised PHIP Updates, Along with Revised Valuation

Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, now plans to raise around US$500m in its Hong Kong IPO. In this note, we talk about the...

Sumeet Singh

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