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>Waters Corporation has officially entered a new phase of its growth journey with the $17.5 billion acquisition of Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostic-solutions business.</li><li>The deal, announced in July 2025, is structured as a merger but effectively represents a strategic divestiture by Becton Dickinson, which has opted to focus more intensively on its core medtech operations.</li><li>Waters, best known for its laboratory instrumentation and software, will issue 39% of its shares to BD shareholders and assume $4 billion in debt.</li></ul>

Waters Corporation has officially entered a new phase of its growth journey with the $17.5 billion acquisition of Becton Dickinson’s biosciences and diagnostic-solutions business.The deal, announced in July 2025, is structured as a merger but effectively represents a strategic divestiture by Becton Dickinson, which has opted to focus more intensively on its core medtech operations.Waters, best known for its laboratory instrumentation and software, will issue 39% of its shares to BD shareholders and assume $4 billion in debt.

Waters Corp Is Taking On Thermo Fisher & Danaher With This $17.5 Billion Becton Dickinson Acquisition!

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

Global Healthcare Analyst

Tina Banerjee

Event-Driven

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/takara-holdings-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:11074:1" rel="noopener">Takara Holdings (2531 JP)</a> has launched tender offer for the ordinary shares of <a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/takara-bio-inc" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:10766:1" rel="noopener">Takara Bio Inc (4974 JP)</a> at the price of ¥1,150 per share to acquire all the shares.</li>
<li>Currently, Takara Holdings holds 73,350,000 shares in Takara Bio, representing a controlling ownership of 60.91%. Takara Holdings plans to make Takara Bio its wholly owned subsidiary.</li>
<li>Amid bleak outlook for the operating environment, no near-term performance improvement is expected for Takara Bio. It will be wise to tender shares in the offer.</li>
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Takara Holdings (2531 JP) has launched tender offer for the ordinary shares of Takara Bio Inc (4974 JP) at the price of ¥1,150 per share to acquire all the shares.
Currently, Takara Holdings holds 73,350,000 shares in Takara Bio, representing a controlling ownership of 60.91%. Takara Holdings plans to make Takara Bio its wholly owned subsidiary.
Amid bleak outlook for the operating environment, no near-term performance improvement is expected for Takara Bio. It will be wise to tender shares in the offer.


Takara Bio (4974 JP): Timely Tender Offer from Takara Holdings (2531 JP) To Delight Shareholders

Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing, Stock Spin-Off Investing

Richard Howe

Founder at Stock Spin-off Investing

Stock Spin-Off Investing

Generate attractive returns by taking advantage of inefficiencies in the stock spin-off market.

Stock Spin-offs

<ul><li>On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax-free transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2027</li><li>The spin-off is part of Eaton’s broader 2030 growth strategy to sharpen its focus on its higher-growth, higher-margin Electrical and Aerospace businesses, which are closely tied to secular megatrends such as electrification, digitalization, AI-driven data center buildouts, and infrastructure and defense spending.</li><li>In recent years, Eaton’s stock has been bid up as investors increasingly view ETN as a beneficiary of the booming AI and data-center buildout, not just a traditional industrial equipment maker.<figure class="editor-figure mceNonEditable"></figure></li></ul>

On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax-free transaction expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2027The spin-off is part of Eaton’s broader 2030 growth strategy to sharpen its focus on its higher-growth, higher-margin Electrical and Aerospace businesses, which are closely tied to secular megatrends such as electrification, digitalization, AI-driven data center buildouts, and infrastructure and defense spending.In recent years, Eaton’s stock has been bid up as investors increasingly view ETN as a beneficiary of the booming AI and data-center buildout, not just a traditional industrial equipment maker.

Making sense of the Global Market, Euromonitor International Ltd.

Yu Mitsuhashi

Making sense of the Global Market

Euromonitor International Ltd.

We are a global market research company focused on industries, countries, economies and consumers worldwide. Our cross-country comparable research helps your organisation identify opportunities and develop growth strategies in countries and regions across the globe. With offices around the world, 1,200 analysts in 100 countries and market research on every key trend and driver, we give you powerful access to the real story behind consumer change.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

While the US consumer health industry will remain a strong centre for investment, development and technology innovation in 2017 and is expected to reach US$77 billion by 2021, the election of Donald Trump has created uncertainty among the industry, government agencies and consumers, especially around regulations, local production incentives, and changes to the Affordable Care Act.

While the US consumer health industry will remain a strong centre for investment, development and technology innovation in 2017 and is expected to reach US$77 billion by 2021, the election of Donald Trump has created uncertainty among the industry, government agencies and consumers, especially around regulations, local production incentives, and changes to the Affordable Care Act.

Trump Health Effect: What Is Next for the Consumer Health Industry Under Trump's Leadership?

United States

Waters Corporation provides high-performance liquid chromatography products and services.  The Company distributes its products worldwide to a wide range of industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and environmental testing. Waters also designs, manufactures, sells and services thermal analysis, rheometry and calorimetry instruments and related software products.

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Waters Corp Is Taking On Thermo Fisher & Danaher With This $17.5 Billion Becton Dickinson Acquisition!

Waters Corporation has officially entered a new phase of its growth journey with the $17.5 billion acquisition of Becton Dickinson’s biosciences...

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

Takara Bio (4974 JP): Timely Tender Offer from Takara Holdings (2531 JP) To Delight Shareholders

Takara Holdings has launched tender offer for the ordinary shares of Takara Bio at the price of ¥1,150 per share to acquire all the shares....

Tina Banerjee

Weekly Update (WDC, AAF, WAT)

On January 26, 2026, Eaton Corp (ETN) announced plans to spin off its Mobility Group — which represents roughly 11% of total revenue — in a tax...

Richard Howe

Trump Health Effect: What Is Next for the Consumer Health Industry Under Trump's Leadership?

While the US consumer health industry will remain a strong centre for investment, development and technology innovation in 2017 and is expected to...

Euromonitor International Ltd.

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