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

Shake Shack Inc Class A / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Shake Shack Inc. delivered a year of measured expansion in 2025, balancing growth with operational discipline despite a challenging cost environment.</li><li>Total revenue rose over 15% to roughly $1.45 billion, supported by the addition of 85 new locations globally, marking the largest annual expansion in the company’s history.</li><li>Same-Shack sales in company-operated stores grew 2.3%, aided by targeted marketing and menu updates.</li></ul>

Shake Shack Inc. delivered a year of measured expansion in 2025, balancing growth with operational discipline despite a challenging cost environment.Total revenue rose over 15% to roughly $1.45 billion, supported by the addition of 85 new locations globally, marking the largest annual expansion in the company’s history.Same-Shack sales in company-operated stores grew 2.3%, aided by targeted marketing and menu updates.

Shake Shack Inc.: A $1.45 Billion Growth Story Meets Rising Beef Cost Pressure

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.

Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/guzman-y-gomez" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43656:1" rel="noopener">Guzman Y Gomez</a> plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO.</li>
<li>GYG is a quick service restaurant business with more than 200 restaurants globally. It mainly focuses on fresh, made-to-order, Mexican-inspired food.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Guzman Y Gomez plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO.
GYG is a quick service restaurant business with more than 200 restaurants globally. It mainly focuses on fresh, made-to-order, Mexican-inspired food.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


Guzman Y Gomez IPO - The Negatives - Lawsuits and Management Churn

<ul><li>Shake Shack's third quarter of 2025 demonstrated significant growth and operational improvements despite facing macroeconomic challenges.</li><li>The company's revenue grew by approximately 16% year-over-year, driven by both strong new Shack openings and the performance of its existing comp Shack base.</li><li>The licensing segment also showed robust performance, with revenue increasing by 21.1% year-over-year.</li></ul>

Shake Shack's third quarter of 2025 demonstrated significant growth and operational improvements despite facing macroeconomic challenges.The company's revenue grew by approximately 16% year-over-year, driven by both strong new Shack openings and the performance of its existing comp Shack base.The licensing segment also showed robust performance, with revenue increasing by 21.1% year-over-year.

Shake Shack Launches a Pricing Power Play — Can Smart Sourcing Crush Inflation Pressures?

Technical Analyst, Vermilion Research

Joe Jasper

Technical Analyst

Technical and Quantitative Research

Vermilion Research

Vermilion’s objective is to deliver timely, actionable, and unique technical research to professional investors through the application of our various technical indicators.

Our research strategists seek to highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various technical and quantitative indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. Our unique research methodology, centered on relative strength, enables our strategists to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing the universe of actively traded stocks into discrete sectors, then into industry groups. We then apply our technical and quantitative tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sector or group, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. We provide a historical perspective that often reveals, through our long-term charts, how price patterns often repeat themselves over time.

Technical Analysis

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<li>More restrictive Fed policy than expected is disproportionately hitting small/mid-caps which are more sensitive to higher interest rates. This suggests we could see further consolidation for small- and mid-caps.</li>
<li>Large-Caps (SPX, Nasdaq 100, DJI) remain bullish on continued strength from mega-caps (AMZN, META, NVDA,MSFT). Our bullish outlook remains appropriate, but we discuss what would lead us to get cautious.</li>
<li>1-, 2-, and 10-year Treasury yields testing resistance today and failing. U.S. dollar (DXY) also testing key resistance at $104.60. We also push back on the bad breadth argument (again).</li>
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More restrictive Fed policy than expected is disproportionately hitting small/mid-caps which are more sensitive to higher interest rates. This suggests we could see further consolidation for small- and mid-caps.
Large-Caps (SPX, Nasdaq 100, DJI) remain bullish on continued strength from mega-caps (AMZN, META, NVDA,MSFT). Our bullish outlook remains appropriate, but we discuss what would lead us to get cautious.
1-, 2-, and 10-year Treasury yields testing resistance today and failing. U.S. dollar (DXY) also testing key resistance at $104.60. We also push back on the bad breadth argument (again).


Monitoring Rising Treasury Yields & U.S. Dollar (DXY); What Would Lead Us to Get Cautious?

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We discuss how White Castle, which has one of the most loyal customer base for franchise burger chain in the United States, has been using robots to make French fries.</li>
<li>In February 2022, White Castle started to roll out Miso Robotics' Flippy 2 machine robots on about White Castle 100 restaurants in the United States.</li>
<li>In the next several years, there is a real chance for McDonald's, White Castle, and Burger King to replace human workers making French fries and burgers with robots.</li>
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We discuss how White Castle, which has one of the most loyal customer base for franchise burger chain in the United States, has been using robots to make French fries.
In February 2022, White Castle started to roll out Miso Robotics' Flippy 2 machine robots on about White Castle 100 restaurants in the United States.
In the next several years, there is a real chance for McDonald's, White Castle, and Burger King to replace human workers making French fries and burgers with robots.


White Castles' Kitchen Robots - Impact on McDonald's & Global Fast Food Franchises

United States

Shake Shack Inc is a modern day "roadside" burger stand known for its all-natural burgers. Shake Shack is part of Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG).

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Shake Shack Inc Class A (SHAK US)

Shake Shack Inc.: A $1.45 Billion Growth Story Meets Rising Beef Cost Pressure

Shake Shack Inc. delivered a year of measured expansion in 2025, balancing growth with operational discipline despite a challenging cost...

Baptista Research

Guzman Y Gomez IPO - The Negatives - Lawsuits and Management Churn

Guzman Y Gomez plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

Shake Shack Launches a Pricing Power Play — Can Smart Sourcing Crush Inflation Pressures?

Shake Shack's third quarter of 2025 demonstrated significant growth and operational improvements despite facing macroeconomic challenges. The...

Baptista Research

Monitoring Rising Treasury Yields & U.S. Dollar (DXY); What Would Lead Us to Get Cautious?

Monitoring Rising Treasury Yields & U.S. Dollar. 1-, 2-, and 10-year Treasury yields $TNX failing at shorter-term resistances today; $DXY below...

Vermilion Research

White Castles' Kitchen Robots - Impact on McDonald's & Global Fast Food Franchises

In the next several years, there is a real chance for McDonald's, White Castle, and Burger King to replace human workers making French fries and...

Douglas Kim

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