Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal, Shenton Research

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Asia Pac ECM and Index Rebal

Asia Pac IPO & Placement Research, China Biotech

Shenton Research

Shenton Research is an independent Asia Pacific equity specialist. Our quantitative research covers index rebalancing flows, alongside exchange data analytics accross Asia Pacific. On the equity capital markets side, we focus on Asia Pacific ECM, especially biotech and TMT. Our lead analyst is frequently cited by international media.

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

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<li>We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: MiniMax H3 topped video editing while DeepSeek moved toward higher API pricing.</li>
<li>China labs are active: Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, Tencent expanded Hy3, ByteDance accepted a frontier gap, and Kimi K3 escaped a test sandbox.</li>
<li>Infrastructure and financing: memory makers expanded capacity, CoreWeave and Microsoft added data centers, and Switch filed for a US IPO.</li>
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We tracked AI models, infrastructure, and M&amp;A this week: MiniMax H3 topped video editing while DeepSeek moved toward higher API pricing.
China labs are active: Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Max, Tencent expanded Hy3, ByteDance accepted a frontier gap, and Kimi K3 escaped a test sandbox.
Infrastructure and financing: memory makers expanded capacity, CoreWeave and Microsoft added data centers, and Switch filed for a US IPO.


This Week in AI (Aug 2-8): MiniMax H3 Led Video AI; DeepSeek Raises Price and Resumes Funding

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>Western Digital Corporation's (WDC) recent earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 provides a comprehensive overview of the company's current position, its strategies to navigate market dynamics, and its future prospects.</li><li>This analysis extracts key insights from the call, presenting a nuanced investment thesis reflecting both the strengths and challenges evident from the results.</li><li>Western Digital continues to experience significant demand driven by the proliferation of AI across industries, necessitating robust data storage solutions.</li></ul>

Western Digital Corporation's (WDC) recent earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 provides a comprehensive overview of the company's current position, its strategies to navigate market dynamics, and its future prospects.This analysis extracts key insights from the call, presenting a nuanced investment thesis reflecting both the strengths and challenges evident from the results.Western Digital continues to experience significant demand driven by the proliferation of AI across industries, necessitating robust data storage solutions.

Western Digital Ships 70 Exabytes — Will Its Next-Gen Drives Up The Game In The AI Data Race?

Head of Research, Krungthai XSpring

Waraporn Wiboonkanarak

Head of Research

A full service Thai brokerage

Krungthai XSpring

Krungthai XSpring is a full service broker. The company provides a wide range of investment services such as Securities Brokerage, Derivative Agent Business, Securities Borrowing and Lending, Securities Trading, Underwriting, Financial Advisory, Wealth Advisory, Private Fund Management and International Markets Securities Trading. 

In terms of credibility, Fitch Ratings has assigned Krunghtai XSpring a long-term rating of AA- and a national short-term rating of F1+ with stable outlook.

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>We believe the recent rally in US equities, particularly Al-related stocks, has masked signs of tightening global liquidity.</li><li>Against this backdrop, we expect a significant rotation of global capital toward Asia, which we believe is better positioned to convert Al-related CAPEX into sustained earnings growth.</li><li>Together with Thai corporate earnings that appear to have bottomed out and continued foreign fund inflows, these factors should support a valuation re-rating of the Thai equity market, underpinning our 12-month forward SET Index target of 1,705, which we expect could be achieved in 3Q26.</li></ul>

We believe the recent rally in US equities, particularly Al-related stocks, has masked signs of tightening global liquidity.Against this backdrop, we expect a significant rotation of global capital toward Asia, which we believe is better positioned to convert Al-related CAPEX into sustained earnings growth.Together with Thai corporate earnings that appear to have bottomed out and continued foreign fund inflows, these factors should support a valuation re-rating of the Thai equity market, underpinning our 12-month forward SET Index target of 1,705, which we expect could be achieved in 3Q26.

KTX Investment Outlook 3Q26: The Broken Backbone of Global Liquidity

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities, Mint Finance

Raghav Vashisht

AI | Semiconductors | Commodities

Deep Fundamental Analysis

Mint Finance

Mint Finance's investment research blends deep fundamental analysis with technical & quant insights. Investment strategies straddle across multiple asset classes with risk management embedded into every trade to deliver an outsized reward-to-risk ratio.

Mint Finance's research is centered around three key themes. First, energy transition and climate change. Second, artificial intelligence. Third, shifting world order with its impact across politics and monetary economics.

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<li>TurboQuant triggered the sell-off, but the market appears to have priced a uniform demand shock across memory, despite the impact being limited to inference efficiency.</li>
<li>Supply remains tight; HBM capacity largely locked into 2026; TrendForce revised DRAM and NAND pricing sharply higher after the TurboQuant announcement. </li>
<li>Relevant risks sit elsewhere: early signs of pricing resistance in commodity memory, emerging share gains from Chinese suppliers, and a shift toward more staggered hyperscaler spending</li>
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TurboQuant triggered the sell-off, but the market appears to have priced a uniform demand shock across memory, despite the impact being limited to inference efficiency.
Supply remains tight; HBM capacity largely locked into 2026; TrendForce revised DRAM and NAND pricing sharply higher after the TurboQuant announcement. 
Relevant risks sit elsewhere: early signs of pricing resistance in commodity memory, emerging share gains from Chinese suppliers, and a shift toward more staggered hyperscaler spending


Memory's TurboQuant Panic Misses Where Demand Actually Sits

Consumer Analyst / Channel Surveillance Specialist, Trudence Capital Advisors

Pranav Bhavsar

Consumer Analyst / Channel Surveillance Specialist

Trudence Capital Advisors

Trudence Capital Advisors Private Limited is a SEBI-registered Research Analyst, holding SEBI registration number INH000015747. Our firm is dedicated to providing independent and unbiased research on Indian mid to large-cap companies. Trudence Capital is known for its counter-consensus views, with a focus on forensic research and on-ground primary investigations. Our research approach is thorough, involving detailed analysis of accounting practices and governance, alongside extensive channel checks.

Independent & Unbiased Research

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<li>We analyse markets of South Korea, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, China, Europe, and the US to study extreme dispersion, extracting repeatable, factor-driven signals beyond macro growth narrative.
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<li>Across these markets, returns were driven by earnings inflection, ROE improvement, and cash-flow recovery; stability, defensiveness, and high quality without momentum underperformed.</li>
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Cyclicality and operating leverage outperformed, while revenue growth mattered only when converting into earnings and cash, reinforcing bottom-up capital allocation over GDP-led narratives.</li>
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We analyse markets of South Korea, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, China, Europe, and the US to study extreme dispersion, extracting repeatable, factor-driven signals beyond macro growth narrative.

Across these markets, returns were driven by earnings inflection, ROE improvement, and cash-flow recovery; stability, defensiveness, and high quality without momentum underperformed.

Cyclicality and operating leverage outperformed, while revenue growth mattered only when converting into earnings and cash, reinforcing bottom-up capital allocation over GDP-led narratives.


United States

Western Digital Corporation is a global provider of solutions for the collection, storage, management, protection and use of digital content, including audio and video. The Company's products include hard drives, solid-state drives, and home entertainment and networking products.

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This Week in AI (Aug 2-8): MiniMax H3 Led Video AI; DeepSeek Raises Price and Resumes Funding

This week in AI: MiniMax H3 tops video editing; DeepSeek seeks close to USD 8bn and hikes API prices; Switch files for a USD 10bn IPO.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Western Digital Ships 70 Exabytes — Will Its Next-Gen Drives Up The Game In The AI Data Race?

Western Digital Corporation's (WDC) recent earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 provides a comprehensive overview of the...

Baptista Research

KTX Investment Outlook 3Q26: The Broken Backbone of Global Liquidity

We believe the recent rally in US equities, particularly Al-related stocks, has masked signs of tightening global liquidity. Against this...

Krungthai XSpring

Memory's TurboQuant Panic Misses Where Demand Actually Sits

TurboQuant sell-off triggers panic on inference efficiency. However, supply is tight, and pricing is revised higher. Risks seen in Chinese...

Mint Finance

2025 Learnings | Short the Stagnant

Analysis of across markets showed that earnings inflection, ROE improvement, and cash-flow recovery drove returns, highlighting the importance of...

Pranav Bhavsar

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This Week in AI (Aug 2-8): MiniMax H3 Led Video AI; DeepSeek Raises Price and Resumes Funding

This week in AI: MiniMax H3 tops video editing; DeepSeek seeks close to USD 8bn and hikes API prices; Switch files for a USD 10bn IPO.

Ke Yan, CFA, FRM

Western Digital Ships 70 Exabytes — Will Its Next-Gen Drives Up The Game In The AI Data Race?

Western Digital Corporation's (WDC) recent earnings call for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 provides a comprehensive overview of the...

Baptista Research

KTX Investment Outlook 3Q26: The Broken Backbone of Global Liquidity

We believe the recent rally in US equities, particularly Al-related stocks, has masked signs of tightening global liquidity. Against this...

Krungthai XSpring

Memory's TurboQuant Panic Misses Where Demand Actually Sits

​TurboQuant sell-off triggers panic on inference efficiency. However, supply is tight, and pricing is revised higher. Risks seen in Chinese...

Mint Finance

2025 Learnings | Short the Stagnant

​Analysis of across markets showed that earnings inflection, ROE improvement, and cash-flow recovery drove returns, highlighting the importance of...

Pranav Bhavsar

TurboQuant sell-off triggers panic on inference efficiency. However, supply is tight, and pricing is revised higher. Risks seen in Chinese...

Analysis of across markets showed that earnings inflection, ROE improvement, and cash-flow recovery drove returns, highlighting the importance of...