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>Veracyte is expanding its position in cancer diagnostics through an agreement to acquire Convergent Genomics for $150 million upfront, with up to another $30 million tied to reimbursement milestones for UroAmp MRD.</li><li>The transaction would add a urine-based molecular residual disease test designed to detect, monitor, and assess recurrence risk in urothelial cancer, initially validated in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.</li><li>The timing is notable because Veracyte has already been building a broader bladder cancer franchise around Decipher Bladder and its recently launched TrueMRD platform for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.</li></ul>

Veracyte is expanding its position in cancer diagnostics through an agreement to acquire Convergent Genomics for $150 million upfront, with up to another $30 million tied to reimbursement milestones for UroAmp MRD.The transaction would add a urine-based molecular residual disease test designed to detect, monitor, and assess recurrence risk in urothelial cancer, initially validated in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.The timing is notable because Veracyte has already been building a broader bladder cancer franchise around Decipher Bladder and its recently launched TrueMRD platform for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

Veracyte’s $180 Million Acquisition Could Redefine Its MRD Ambitions!

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>We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).</li>
<li>Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold</li>
<li>The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS</li>
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We downgraded our near-term outlook on SPX and QQQ to neutral last week (11/19/25), after being bullish since 4/22/25, while we maintained our intermediate-term bullish outlook (as of 5/14/25).
Crucial support levels of 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on QQQ held last week, and we are back to being near-term bullish as long as these supports continue to hold
The latest pullback offers an attractive entry point into all the speculative growth areas that we were pounding the table on since May, WITH A STOP AT LAST WEEKS LOWS


Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

The weight of the evidence suggests that the pullback has begun. This belief is supported by overbought conditions combined with the S&amp;P 500, MSCI ACWI, and nearly all Sectors hitting logical resistance. Assuming the pullback continues, the next question is how deep or damaging will it be? In this report we highlight various market/technical indicators we are monitoring, as well as pointing out attractive set ups within Consumer Discretionary and Health Care Sectors.

The weight of the evidence suggests that the pullback has begun. This belief is supported by overbought conditions combined with the S&amp;P 500, MSCI ACWI, and nearly all Sectors hitting logical resistance. Assuming the pullback continues, the next question is how deep or damaging will it be? In this report we highlight various market/technical indicators we are monitoring, as well as pointing out attractive set ups within Consumer Discretionary and Health Care Sectors.

U.S. Equity Strategy: Has “the Pullback” Begun?

On cue, outperformance last week and yesterday from cyclicals led the S&amp;P 500 to new all-time highs while defensive Sectors lagged. Additionally, weakness in the US dollar has allowed foreign equities to recover substantially, to the point where the major int’l ETFs (ACWX, EFA, and EEM) are on the cusp of bullish inflections topside downtrends. In today’s report outline our view of the U.S. equity market ad highlight attractive Groups and stocks within Health Care and Technology.

On cue, outperformance last week and yesterday from cyclicals led the S&amp;P 500 to new all-time highs while defensive Sectors lagged. Additionally, weakness in the US dollar has allowed foreign equities to recover substantially, to the point where the major int’l ETFs (ACWX, EFA, and EEM) are on the cusp of bullish inflections topside downtrends. In today’s report outline our view of the U.S. equity market ad highlight attractive Groups and stocks within Health Care and Technology.

U.S. Strategy: Sentiment Improving, Upgrading Manufacturing

As the S&amp;P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we remain constructive overall, our expectations are tempered as the market finds itself a crossroad.  In today’s report we provide our U.S. equity strategy synopsis, and also highlight attractive stocks within the Health Care Sector.

As the S&amp;P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we remain constructive overall, our expectations are tempered as the market finds itself a crossroad.  In today’s report we provide our U.S. equity strategy synopsis, and also highlight attractive stocks within the Health Care Sector.

S&P 500: Outlook Constructive but Concerns Remain

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Veracyte, Inc. develops molecular tests for oncology. The Company offers molecular cytology and tests for the diagnostic accuracy of cytology samples. Veracyte provides its products and services to healthcare and molecular diagnostic companies in the United States.

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Veracyte’s $180 Million Acquisition Could Redefine Its MRD Ambitions!

Veracyte is expanding its position in cancer diagnostics through an agreement to acquire Convergent Genomics for $150 million upfront, with up to...

Baptista Research

Back to Near-Term Bullish on SPX and Nasdaq 100; Supports Held at SPX 6480-6520 and QQQ $580-583

Back to Near-Term Bullish on $SPX and Nasdaq 100 $NDX; Crucial Supports Held at 6480-6520 on SPX and $580-$583 on $QQQ, we are near-term bullish as...

Vermilion Research

U.S. Equity Strategy: Has “the Pullback” Begun?

The weight of the evidence suggests that the pullback has begun. This belief is supported by overbought conditions combined with the S&P 500,...

Vermilion Research

U.S. Strategy: Sentiment Improving, Upgrading Manufacturing

On cue, outperformance last week and yesterday from cyclicals led the S&P 500 to new all-time highs while defensive Sectors lagged....

Vermilion Research

S&P 500: Outlook Constructive but Concerns Remain

As the S&P 500 nears the 2,873 January high - a critical hurdle - short-term Sector leadership changes give us reason for pause. While we...

Vermilion Research

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