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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

Palantir Technologies  / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Palantir Technologies had its first profitable quarter following years of investment.</li><li>The company earned $509 million in sales and $79 million in operating cash flow and delivered an all-around beat.</li><li>While their U.S. commercial business slowed, their commercial business generated $215 million.</li></ul>

Palantir Technologies had its first profitable quarter following years of investment.The company earned $509 million in sales and $79 million in operating cash flow and delivered an all-around beat.While their U.S. commercial business slowed, their commercial business generated $215 million.

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APAC IPOs & Placements, Aequitas Research

Clarence Chu

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

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/zjld-group" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:36734:1" rel="noopener">ZJLD Group (ZJLD HK)</a> is looking to raise up to US$400m in its Hong Kong IPO. The deal will be run by Goldman Sachs and China Securities. </li>
<li>ZJLD Group (ZJLD) is a Chinese liquor company primarily producing baijiu.</li>
<li>As per F&amp;S, the firm was the fourth largest privately-owned baijiu company and ranked third among all baijiu companies with three or more aroma types in terms of FY21 sales. </li>
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ZJLD Group (ZJLD HK) is looking to raise up to US$400m in its Hong Kong IPO. The deal will be run by Goldman Sachs and China Securities. 
ZJLD Group (ZJLD) is a Chinese liquor company primarily producing baijiu.
As per F&amp;S, the firm was the fourth largest privately-owned baijiu company and ranked third among all baijiu companies with three or more aroma types in terms of FY21 sales. 


Qingdao Ainnovation Technology Group / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/qingdao-ainnovation-technology-group-co-ltd" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:35405:1" rel="noopener">Qingdao Ainnovation Technology Group (2121 HK)</a> was listed on 27th Jan 2022, with its one-year lockup expiring on 27th January 2023.</li>
<li>Qingdao AInnovation Technology Group is an AI solutions provider offering full-stack AI-based products and solutions.</li>
<li>Coming up for one-year lockup expiry are the pre-IPO shareholders. Bulk of them are in the money as some have invested as early as 2018.</li>
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Qingdao Ainnovation Technology Group (2121 HK) was listed on 27th Jan 2022, with its one-year lockup expiring on 27th January 2023.
Qingdao AInnovation Technology Group is an AI solutions provider offering full-stack AI-based products and solutions.
Coming up for one-year lockup expiry are the pre-IPO shareholders. Bulk of them are in the money as some have invested as early as 2018.


AInnovation Technology Lock-Up - US$670m Worth of Pre-IPO Investment Is Still Well in the Money

Fundamental Short Selling Research

Eric Fernandez, CFA

TwoRiversAnalytics

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<li>This model looks for slowing growth, margin declines, sales and/or earnings disappointments, troubling working capital trends, poor estimate trends or lowered guidance, among other characteristics.</li>
<li>The key judgement is whether a slowdown is temporary or the beginning of a trend.  These shorts tend to have high valuations and betas.  Multiple compression accelerates the stock’s decline.</li>
<li>Today we are flagging Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, and Roblox</li>
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This model looks for slowing growth, margin declines, sales and/or earnings disappointments, troubling working capital trends, poor estimate trends or lowered guidance, among other characteristics.
The key judgement is whether a slowdown is temporary or the beginning of a trend.  These shorts tend to have high valuations and betas.  Multiple compression accelerates the stock’s decline.
Today we are flagging Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, and Roblox


Breaking Growth Short Candidates: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

<ul><li>Palantir delivered a mixed set of results in the last quarter.</li><li>Its $478 million in revenue surpassed Wall Street expectations but the company missed out on the earnings expectations of analysts.</li><li>U.S. commercial business expanded for the ninth consecutive quarter, up 53% yearly.</li></ul>

Palantir delivered a mixed set of results in the last quarter.Its $478 million in revenue surpassed Wall Street expectations but the company missed out on the earnings expectations of analysts.U.S. commercial business expanded for the ninth consecutive quarter, up 53% yearly.

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Palantir Technologies Inc. develops software to analyze information. The Company offers solutions support many kinds of data including structured, unstructured, relational, temporal, and geospatial. Palantir Technologies serves customers worldwide.

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Breaking Growth Short Candidates: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

Breaking Growth stocks combine declining fundamentals with a multiple compression. This week we flag: Plug Power, Nvidia, Palantir, Roblox

Eric Fernandez, CFA

Palantir Inc: Major Drivers

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