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

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<li>Wix reported strong Q4 2023 earnings underpinned by its pivot to AI innovation.</li>
<li>2023 was a year of significant progress for the firm as it demonstrated robust growth, reaching record profitability levels.</li>
<li>With the focus on AI, Wix introduced an array of AI-powered features that would help users create web content more efficiently, resulting in improved monetization and heightened user conversion rates.</li>
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Wix reported strong Q4 2023 earnings underpinned by its pivot to AI innovation.
2023 was a year of significant progress for the firm as it demonstrated robust growth, reaching record profitability levels.
With the focus on AI, Wix introduced an array of AI-powered features that would help users create web content more efficiently, resulting in improved monetization and heightened user conversion rates.


Wix.com Ltd.: A Story Of Product Enhancements & Innovations Fueled by AI! - Major Drivers

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<li>This is our first report on Wix, the popular website creation platform.</li>
<li>Furthermore, the financial period recorded over $62 million of free cash flow, accounting for 16% of revenues, greater than what the company anticipated.</li>
<li>Riding on this success, Wix has increased revenue and free cash flow guidance for the rest of the year.</li>
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This is our first report on Wix, the popular website creation platform.
Furthermore, the financial period recorded over $62 million of free cash flow, accounting for 16% of revenues, greater than what the company anticipated.
Riding on this success, Wix has increased revenue and free cash flow guidance for the rest of the year.


Wix.com Ltd.: Initiation of Coverage – Business Strategy

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>Recent developments have continued to reinforce our bullish outlook on global equities (MSCI ACWI).</li>
<li>There is no reason to fight this bullish trend, and we continue to expect more upside into the early part of 2024.</li>
<li>Upgrading Mexico to Overweight; Technology Remains Global Leadership; Actionable Themes: 44 individual stock buy recommendations within Technology, Services, Consumer Discretionary, Financials, and Materials</li>
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Recent developments have continued to reinforce our bullish outlook on global equities (MSCI ACWI).
There is no reason to fight this bullish trend, and we continue to expect more upside into the early part of 2024.
Upgrading Mexico to Overweight; Technology Remains Global Leadership; Actionable Themes: 44 individual stock buy recommendations within Technology, Services, Consumer Discretionary, Financials, and Materials


Upgrading Mexico to Overweight; Technology Remains Global Leadership; Overall Bullish Outlook Intact

Research Firm with a Qualitative Overlay, Pearl Gray Equity and Research

Pearl Gray Equity and Research

Research Firm with a Qualitative Overlay

Quantitative fund & research firm with a qualitative overlay. 

Our coverage: General U.S. with a skew towards the primary sector. 

Methods: Smart Beta/Factor Pricing, Neural Networks, Street Gossip, and Common Sense.

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<li>Wix.com Ltd. trumps earnings, suggesting its business model is taking off amid robust growth in the SME space.</li>
<li>The company has yet to achieve profitability, but its up-the-line margins are improving.</li>
<li>Website building tool Wix.com Ltd. (WIX) beat its fourth-quarter earnings estimates on Wednesday, illustrating continued progress with a model suitable to today's business environment. 
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Wix.com Ltd. trumps earnings, suggesting its business model is taking off amid robust growth in the SME space.
The company has yet to achieve profitability, but its up-the-line margins are improving.
Website building tool Wix.com Ltd. (WIX) beat its fourth-quarter earnings estimates on Wednesday, illustrating continued progress with a model suitable to today's business environment. 



Wix.com Beat Q4 Earnings, Prospects Are Bright

Taiwan Stock Exchange Weighted Index / Technical Analysis

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<li>The bear market rally that we have discussed since our Sept. 29 Int'l Compass has managed to surpass our price targets, which were YTD downtrends on the ACWX-US and EFA-US.</li>
<li>As a result of these bullish reversals and breakdowns on the US dollar (DXY) and 10-year Treasury yield, we are upgrading our outlook to neutral.</li>
<li>Buy ideas on a pullback in: Consumer Discretionary, Energy, and Technology/Tech Services</li>
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The bear market rally that we have discussed since our Sept. 29 Int'l Compass has managed to surpass our price targets, which were YTD downtrends on the ACWX-US and EFA-US.
As a result of these bullish reversals and breakdowns on the US dollar (DXY) and 10-year Treasury yield, we are upgrading our outlook to neutral.
Buy ideas on a pullback in: Consumer Discretionary, Energy, and Technology/Tech Services


Bullish Reversals Continue: TAIEX, KOSPI, AEX, Hang Seng, CSI 300. Buy Cyclicals/Growth on Pullbacks

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Wix.com Ltd. operates and develops a web platform. The Company's platform offers solutions that enable businesses, organizations, professionals and individuals to develop customized websites and application platforms.

Wix.Com Ltd (WIX US)

Wix.com Ltd.: A Story Of Product Enhancements & Innovations Fueled by AI! - Major Drivers

Wix reported strong Q4 2023 earnings underpinned by its pivot to AI innovation. 2023 was a year of significant progress for the firm as it...

Baptista Research

Wix.com Ltd.: Initiation of Coverage – Business Strategy

This is our first report on Wix, the popular website creation platform. Furthermore, the financial period recorded over $62 million of free cash...

Baptista Research

Upgrading Mexico to Overweight; Technology Remains Global Leadership; Overall Bullish Outlook Intact

Upgrading Mexico $EWW to Overweight; Bullish Outlook Intact on $ACWI; Technology Remains Global Leadership. 44 individual buys highlighted in Tech,...

Vermilion Research

Wix.com Beat Q4 Earnings, Prospects Are Bright

Website building tool Wix.com Ltd. (WIX) beat its fourth-quarter earnings estimates on Wednesday, illustrating continued progress with a model...

Pearl Gray Equity and Research

Bullish Reversals Continue: TAIEX, KOSPI, AEX, Hang Seng, CSI 300. Buy Cyclicals/Growth on Pullbacks

Bullish reversals: Taiwan $TAIEX, Korea $KOSPI, Netherlands' $AEX reversing YTD downtrends, while Hang Seng $HSI and China's CSI 300 are reversing...

Vermilion Research