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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.
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The Walt Disney Co / Equity Capital Markets

<ul><li>Disney delivered a result higher than market expectations and the biggest relief for Wall Street after the Netflix results debacle was the jump in Disney+ subscribers.</li><li>The company saw Disney+ subscriptions rise to 137.7 million and around 205 million total subscriptions, up 9.2 million from the previous quarter.</li><li>This includes 7.9 million Disney+ subscribers, putting them on track to reach 230 million to 260 million Disney+ subscribers by the end of fiscal 2024.</li></ul>

Disney delivered a result higher than market expectations and the biggest relief for Wall Street after the Netflix results debacle was the jump in Disney+ subscribers.The company saw Disney+ subscriptions rise to 137.7 million and around 205 million total subscriptions, up 9.2 million from the previous quarter.This includes 7.9 million Disney+ subscribers, putting them on track to reach 230 million to 260 million Disney+ subscribers by the end of fiscal 2024.

The Walt Disney Company: Is The Subscriber Growth Here To Stay? Check Out The Company’s Key Drivers

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 in Dec 21. The IPO was almost entirely taken up by cornerstones.</li>
<li>The company had also earlier obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other mainly PE investors. These investors will be released from their lock-up on 1st Jun 2022.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates over the past few months.</li>
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Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO in Dec 21. The IPO was almost entirely taken up by cornerstones.
The company had also earlier obtained investments from Baidu and Alibaba, along with other mainly PE investors. These investors will be released from their lock-up on 1st Jun 2022.
In this note, we will talk about the lock-up dynamics and updates over the past few months.


Cloud Village IPO Lock-Up - Selling the PE Stock (US$350m) Might Solve the Liquidity Issues

SPAC Deep Dive, subSPAC

subSPAC

SPAC Deep Dive

Each week we’ll identify and break down for you SPACs that are capturing market share and making an impact.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

To understand FL Entertainment's $7.58 billion valuation, one only needs to look at the scope and scale of the underlying businesses that it encompasses.FL Entertainment is going to become the parent company of Television Production company Banijay and Online Sports betting operator Betclic once the transaction with Pegasus closesWhile both companies remain relatively unknown in the United States, the underlying operations target nearly every consumer and household across Europe and Australia.

To understand FL Entertainment's $7.58 billion valuation, one only needs to look at the scope and scale of the underlying businesses that it encompasses.FL Entertainment is going to become the parent company of Television Production company Banijay and Online Sports betting operator Betclic once the transaction with Pegasus closesWhile both companies remain relatively unknown in the United States, the underlying operations target nearly every consumer and household across Europe and Australia. 

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs, Douglas Research Advisory

Douglas Kim

Korea/Asia, Events, IPOs

Event-Driven

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<li>The magic of Disney is lost. It is time to find it again.</li>
<li>In this insight, we discuss the major reasons of why we believe Disney could be the next major M&amp;A target after Twitter Inc (TWTR US).</li>
<li>Disney needs to focus on its core competency which is providing great contents rather than publicly confronting politicians on highly sensitive issues.</li>
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The magic of Disney is lost. It is time to find it again.
In this insight, we discuss the major reasons of why we believe Disney could be the next major M&amp;A target after Twitter Inc (TWTR US).
Disney needs to focus on its core competency which is providing great contents rather than publicly confronting politicians on highly sensitive issues.


TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst, Obex Capital Research

Aaron Gabin

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research Analyst

TMT & Consumer Independent Equity Research

Obex Capital Research

“Obex” is Latin for Barriers to Entry. Obex Capital Management’s investment philosophy is driven by an intense focus on which business model’s Barriers to Entry are able to withstand the ever increasing competitive disruption in the TMT and Consumer Sectors.

Equity Bottom-Up

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<li>Netflix management came off as unprepared for its current circumstances. Ramping competition and TAM saturation have been known for 2 years.</li>
<li>Competitive responses sounded half baked: increasing price to deter password sharing and launching advertising tiers...in 2 years?</li>
<li>The viability of the longterm growth algorithm and 10 year DCFs that Netflix investors have leaned on for years has been rightfully vaporized. </li>
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Netflix management came off as unprepared for its current circumstances. Ramping competition and TAM saturation have been known for 2 years.
Competitive responses sounded half baked: increasing price to deter password sharing and launching advertising tiers...in 2 years?
The viability of the longterm growth algorithm and 10 year DCFs that Netflix investors have leaned on for years has been rightfully vaporized. 


United States

The Walt Disney Company is an entertainment company that conducts operations in media networks, studio entertainment, theme parks and resorts, consumer products, and interactive media. The Company produces motion pictures, television programs, and musical recordings, as well as books and magazines.

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The Walt Disney Company: Is The Subscriber Growth Here To Stay? Check Out The Company’s Key Drivers

Disney delivered a result higher than market expectations and the biggest relief for Wall Street after the Netflix results debacle was the jump in...

Baptista Research

Cloud Village IPO Lock-Up - Selling the PE Stock (US$350m) Might Solve the Liquidity Issues

Cloud Village Inc. (CVI), also known as NetEase Music, raised around US$420m in its Hong Kong IPO in Dec 21. Investors will be released from their...

Sumeet Singh

Stay Tuned for This Deal

To understand FL Entertainment's $7.58 billion valuation, one only needs to look at the scope and scale of the underlying businesses that it...

subSPAC

Raiders of the Lost Disney

The magic of Disney is lost. It is time to find it again. In this insight, we discuss the major reasons of why we believe Disney could be the next...

Douglas Kim

Netflix 1Q22: Willfull Ignorance

Netflix management seemed unprepared for its current circumstances. Ramping competition and TAM saturation have been known for 2 years. Competitive...

Aaron Gabin

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