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

Toyota Motor Corp Spon Adr / Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Toyota Motor Corporation has announced its fiscal year 2025 second-quarter financial results.</li><li>The company achieved an operating income of JPY 2.4642 trillion for the first half of the fiscal year, which was maintained close to the previous year despite some setbacks in production and increases in expenses.</li><li>While sales revenue touched JPY 23.2824 trillion, the net income of JPY 1.9071 trillion saw a significant decrease from the prior year, primarily due to exchange rate fluctuations which caused valuation losses in foreign currency assets.</li></ul>

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced its fiscal year 2025 second-quarter financial results.The company achieved an operating income of JPY 2.4642 trillion for the first half of the fiscal year, which was maintained close to the previous year despite some setbacks in production and increases in expenses.While sales revenue touched JPY 23.2824 trillion, the net income of JPY 1.9071 trillion saw a significant decrease from the prior year, primarily due to exchange rate fluctuations which caused valuation losses in foreign currency assets.

Toyota Motor Corporation: Their Adaptation & Strategy in the Chinese Market Driving Our 'Buy' Rating! - Major 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.

Equity Capital Markets

Kansai Electric Power / Equity Capital Markets

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/kansai-electric-power-co-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:18907:1" rel="noopener">Kansai Electric Power (9503 JP)</a> plans to raise up to US$3.5bn (including over-allocation) to partly fund its investment plans.</li>
<li>This will be a large deal for the stock to digest and doesn’t appear to have been particularly well flagged.</li>
<li>In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.</li>
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Kansai Electric Power (9503 JP) plans to raise up to US$3.5bn (including over-allocation) to partly fund its investment plans.
This will be a large deal for the stock to digest and doesn’t appear to have been particularly well flagged.
In this note, we will talk about the placement and run the deal through our ECM framework.


Kansai Electric Placement - A US$3.5bn Raising Which Doesn’t Appear Well Flagged

Tracking developments across tech supply chains, Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

Tracking developments across tech supply chains

<ul><li>China overtakes Japan in auto exports despite tariff hurdles, solidifying its dominance in the industry.</li><li>Samsung Display moves up 8.6G IT OLED mass production plan to 2025, aiming for quicker industry advancements.</li><li>Nvidia's Jensen Huang requests early HBM4 delivery from SK Hynix, signaling potential developments in the tech sector.</li></ul>

China overtakes Japan in auto exports despite tariff hurdles, solidifying its dominance in the industry.Samsung Display moves up 8.6G IT OLED mass production plan to 2025, aiming for quicker industry advancements.Nvidia's Jensen Huang requests early HBM4 delivery from SK Hynix, signaling potential developments in the tech sector.

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (06-Nov-2024): China leads in auto exports over Japan despite tariffs.

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<li>Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.</li>
<li>On the IPOs front, Indian deals continue to flow in, even as other markets have taken a breather ahead of US elections this week.</li>
<li>On the placements front, there weren't many large deals but we did look at a number of upcoming lockup expiries.</li>
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Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.
On the IPOs front, Indian deals continue to flow in, even as other markets have taken a breather ahead of US elections this week.
On the placements front, there weren't many large deals but we did look at a number of upcoming lockup expiries.


ECM Weekly (4th Nov 2024) - Swiggy, Waaree, Afcons, TS Lines, Zeekr, Hyundai Marine, Indegene, TBO

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events, Quiddity Advisors

Travis Lundy

Pan-Asia Catalysts/Events

Quiddity Advisors

Event-Driven

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<li>13mos ago we saw a sea change. Toyota Group started the process of cross-holding unwinds. They've moved quickly. LOTS of unwinding and so far nearly ¥2trln in buybacks announced.</li>
<li>Aisin, Toyota, and Toyota Industries (TIC) sold Denso first. Then Denso sales of TIC and Renesas, then Aisin, then Exedy, now TIC is selling the rest of its Denso.</li>
<li>Denso announced lower guidance and an overwhelming buyback - as much as liquidity would allow - to offset TIC and non-life sellers. Reading between the lines, there are interesting details.</li>
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13mos ago we saw a sea change. Toyota Group started the process of cross-holding unwinds. They've moved quickly. LOTS of unwinding and so far nearly ¥2trln in buybacks announced.
Aisin, Toyota, and Toyota Industries (TIC) sold Denso first. Then Denso sales of TIC and Renesas, then Aisin, then Exedy, now TIC is selling the rest of its Denso.
Denso announced lower guidance and an overwhelming buyback - as much as liquidity would allow - to offset TIC and non-life sellers. Reading between the lines, there are interesting details.


Toyota Group Musical Shares - Toyota Industries' (6201) Big Multi-Year Denso (6902) Selldown & More

Japan

Toyota Motor Corporation manufactures, sells, leases, and repairs passenger cars, trucks, buses, and their related parts worldwide. The Company also operates financing services through their subsidiaries. Toyota Motor builds homes, produces pleasure boats, and develops intelligent transportation systems including radar cruise control and electronic toll collection systems.

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Toyota Motor Corp Spon Adr (TM US)

Toyota Motor Corporation: Their Adaptation & Strategy in the Chinese Market Driving Our 'Buy' Rating! - Major Drivers

Toyota Motor Corporation has announced its fiscal year 2025 second-quarter financial results. The company achieved an operating income of JPY...

Baptista Research

Kansai Electric Placement - A US$3.5bn Raising Which Doesn’t Appear Well Flagged

Kansai Electric Power (9503 JP) plans to raise up to US$3.5bn (including over-allocation) to partly fund its investment plans. In this note, we...

Sumeet Singh

Tech Supply Chain Tracker (06-Nov-2024): China leads in auto exports over Japan despite tariffs.

China leads global auto exports while Samsung accelerates OLED production, Nvidia pushes for early delivery, Trump hints at CHIPS Act shutdown,...

Tech Supply Chain Tracker

ECM Weekly (4th Nov 2024) - Swiggy, Waaree, Afcons, TS Lines, Zeekr, Hyundai Marine, Indegene, TBO

Aequitas Research's weekly update on the IPOs, placements, lockup expiry and other ECM linked events that were covered by the team over the past week.

Sumeet Singh

Toyota Group Musical Shares - Toyota Industries' (6201) Big Multi-Year Denso (6902) Selldown & More

Toyota Group cross-holding unwinds are more than ¥1trln already and buybacks are close to ¥2trln since The Aisin Announcement. Today, TIC sells,...

Travis Lundy

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