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>Newmont Corporation recently released its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings and 2024 guidance.</li><li>Operationally, the company managed to produce 5.5 million ounces of gold at an all-in sustaining cost of $1,444 an ounce with additional production of nearly 900,000 gold equivalent ounces from copper, silver, lead, and zinc in 2023.</li><li>This performance delivered adjusted EBITDA of $4.2 billion and allowed the company to return more than $1.4 billion to shareholders, ending the year with liquidity of above $6 billion.</li></ul>

Newmont Corporation recently released its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings and 2024 guidance.Operationally, the company managed to produce 5.5 million ounces of gold at an all-in sustaining cost of $1,444 an ounce with additional production of nearly 900,000 gold equivalent ounces from copper, silver, lead, and zinc in 2023.This performance delivered adjusted EBITDA of $4.2 billion and allowed the company to return more than $1.4 billion to shareholders, ending the year with liquidity of above $6 billion.

Newmont Corporation: Will Its Balanced Capital Allocation Strategy Work? - Major Drivers

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

<ul>
<li>Today saw 65mm shares of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/newcrest-mining-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:691:1" rel="noopener">Newcrest Mining (NCM AU)</a> print at the close and 85+mm shares crossed in blocks post-close. There was another 15mm shares traded in additional excess volume.</li>
<li>That suggests a certain lack of "risk taking" by passive managers, increasing today's trade in NY. </li>
<li>Furthermore, the settlement logistics <em>appear</em> to indicate an interesting trade to do 7 November (worth checking with your custodian/broker). </li>
</ul>


Today saw 65mm shares of Newcrest Mining (NCM AU) print at the close and 85+mm shares crossed in blocks post-close. There was another 15mm shares traded in additional excess volume.
That suggests a certain lack of "risk taking" by passive managers, increasing today's trade in NY. 
Furthermore, the settlement logistics appear to indicate an interesting trade to do 7 November (worth checking with your custodian/broker). 


Newcrest/Newmont - More Selling on the NCM Means More Buying on NEM, And Settlement Logistics Matter

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/allkem-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:3572:1" rel="noopener">Allkem Ltd (AKE AU)</a> saw its last day of trading on 21 December. There was large volume at the close as one major index provider gave it the boot. </li>
<li>Another delayed their treatment at the last minute, and eliminated a cross-flow.</li>
<li>But there is still a lot of net buy flow tomorrow (3 Jan) and the next day in the US. Perhaps more than I expected. </li>
</ul>



Allkem Ltd (AKE AU) saw its last day of trading on 21 December. There was large volume at the close as one major index provider gave it the boot. 
Another delayed their treatment at the last minute, and eliminated a cross-flow.
But there is still a lot of net buy flow tomorrow (3 Jan) and the next day in the US. Perhaps more than I expected. 


Allkem + Livent = Arcadium : Updated Expected Index Flows

APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Ethan Aw

APAC 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.

Equity Capital Markets

OceanaGold Philippines / Equity Capital Markets

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<li>
<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/oceanagold-philippines" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:40897:1" rel="noopener">OceanaGold Philippines (OGP PM)</a> is looking to raise up to US$106m in its Philippines IPO.</li>
<li>OceanaGold Philippines (OGPI) is a producer of gold and copper in the Philippines, and a subsidiary of OceanaGold Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed gold mining and exploration company.</li>
<li>In our previous note, we talked about the company’s historical performance and shared our quick thoughts on valuation. In this note, we share our updated thoughts on valuation.</li>
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OceanaGold Philippines (OGP PM) is looking to raise up to US$106m in its Philippines IPO.
OceanaGold Philippines (OGPI) is a producer of gold and copper in the Philippines, and a subsidiary of OceanaGold Corporation, a Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) listed gold mining and exploration company.
In our previous note, we talked about the company’s historical performance and shared our quick thoughts on valuation. In this note, we share our updated thoughts on valuation.


OceanaGold Philippines IPO - Updated Thoughts on Valuation - Too Expensive Even at This Price

Equity Analyst, Event-driven, Quiddity Advisors

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA

Equity Analyst, Event-driven

<ul>
<li>The results for the March 2024 index rebal event for ASX indices were announced after the close on Friday 1st March 2024.</li>
<li>There is one change for ASX 20, two changes for ASX 100, and four changes for ASX 200.</li>
<li>There are 14 ADDs and 10 DELs for ASX 300 and while most of these are small-size flow names some of them have more than 15x ADV to trade.</li>
</ul>


The results for the March 2024 index rebal event for ASX indices were announced after the close on Friday 1st March 2024.
There is one change for ASX 20, two changes for ASX 100, and four changes for ASX 200.
There are 14 ADDs and 10 DELs for ASX 300 and while most of these are small-size flow names some of them have more than 15x ADV to trade.


Quiddity ASX Mar 24 Index Rebal: Many High-Impact Names

United States

Newmont Mining Corporation acquires, explores, and develops mineral properties. The Company produces gold from operations in the United States, Australia, Peru, Indonesia, Ghana, Canada, New Zealand and Mexico. Newmont also mines and processes copper in Indonesia.

Newmont Mining (NEM US)

Newmont Corporation: Will Its Balanced Capital Allocation Strategy Work? - Major Drivers

Newmont Corporation recently released its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings and 2024 guidance. Operationally, the company managed to produce 5.5...

Baptista Research

Newcrest/Newmont - More Selling on the NCM Means More Buying on NEM, And Settlement Logistics Matter

The NCM selldown was larger than I expected as global passive avoids gap risk. That means a bigger arb risk and more action at the NEM close today....

Travis Lundy

Allkem + Livent = Arcadium : Updated Expected Index Flows

Flows for Livent-become-Arcadium Lithium over the next 3 days are relatively prodigious. This comes from upweights in US indices not matched by...

Travis Lundy

OceanaGold Philippines IPO - Updated Thoughts on Valuation - Too Expensive Even at This Price

OceanaGold Philippines (OGP PM) is looking to raise up to US$106m in its Philippines IPO. In this note, we share our updated thoughts on valuation.

Ethan Aw

Quiddity ASX Mar 24 Index Rebal: Many High-Impact Names

On average, the ADDs have 11x ADV to buy and DELs have 8x ADV to sell. The ADDs could outperform the DELs over the next two weeks.

Janaghan Jeyakumar, CFA