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>Yum!</li><li>Brands, Inc. delivered a robust performance in the third quarter of 2025, accentuated by strong system sales and core operating profit growth.</li><li>The company's comprehensive strategy focused on leveraging its scale and brand strengths, primarily through its key brands, KFC and Taco Bell, which collectively account for a significant portion of its operating profit.</li></ul>

Yum!Brands, Inc. delivered a robust performance in the third quarter of 2025, accentuated by strong system sales and core operating profit growth.The company's comprehensive strategy focused on leveraging its scale and brand strengths, primarily through its key brands, KFC and Taco Bell, which collectively account for a significant portion of its operating profit.

Yum! Brands: An Insight Into Its Franchisee & Store-Level Economic Strength & Key Growth Levers!

<ul><li>Yum!</li><li>Brands reported its second quarter results for 2025, showcasing a mix of growth and strategic shifts amidst a challenging consumer environment.</li><li>The quarter was highlighted by system sales growth of 4%, with contributions from KFC International and Taco Bell US, which delivered positive transaction growth.</li></ul>

Yum!Brands reported its second quarter results for 2025, showcasing a mix of growth and strategic shifts amidst a challenging consumer environment.The quarter was highlighted by system sales growth of 4%, with contributions from KFC International and Taco Bell US, which delivered positive transaction growth.

Yum Brands Eyes Pizza Hut Exit—Is a Breakup the Best Way to Unlock Value?

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High Quality Stock Setups, Weekly Stock Bull Finder

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High Quality Stock Setups

Finding high potential stock setups on quality companies

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

<ul><li>2023- Coming in With An Open Mind After an ugly 2022, it’s important to “clear the decks” and keep an open mind to what may or may not be working for 2023.</li><li>Coming into this year, there is tremendous clamoring over recession fears given weakness in forward looking leading economic indicators, CEO/CFO surveys, and business media talking heads.</li><li>As an investor, remaining open to different ideas, scenarios, and sectors is important as to not get tethered to siloed thinking.</li></ul>

2023- Coming in With An Open Mind After an ugly 2022, it’s important to “clear the decks” and keep an open mind to what may or may not be working for 2023.Coming into this year, there is tremendous clamoring over recession fears given weakness in forward looking leading economic indicators, CEO/CFO surveys, and business media talking heads.As an investor, remaining open to different ideas, scenarios, and sectors is important as to not get tethered to siloed thinking.

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

<p>We continue to see a mixed market, and weak market dynamics lead us to be cautious. One of the primary issues is weak breadth; the large-cap indexes (S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq) remain bullish despite being held up by a relatively small number of mega-cap growth stocks, a condition that can persist for weeks or months. Ultimately, as long as there continues to be an absence of breakdowns at the index and Sector level we remain constructive overall.</p>

We continue to see a mixed market, and weak market dynamics lead us to be cautious. One of the primary issues is weak breadth; the large-cap indexes (S&amp;P 500 and Nasdaq) remain bullish despite being held up by a relatively small number of mega-cap growth stocks, a condition that can persist for weeks or months. Ultimately, as long as there continues to be an absence of breakdowns at the index and Sector level we remain constructive overall.

U.S. Equity Strategy: Cautious Overall; Favor Large-Caps & Growth; Key Supports Holding In The U.S.

United States

Yum! Brands, Inc, owns and franchises quick-service restaurants worldwide.  The Company develops, operates, franchises and licenses a worldwide system of restaurants which prepare, package and sell a menu of food items.

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Yum! Brands Inc (YUM US)

Yum! Brands: An Insight Into Its Franchisee & Store-Level Economic Strength & Key Growth Levers!

Yum! Brands, Inc. delivered a robust performance in the third quarter of 2025, accentuated by strong system sales and core operating profit...

Baptista Research

Yum Brands Eyes Pizza Hut Exit—Is a Breakup the Best Way to Unlock Value?

Yum! Brands reported its second quarter results for 2025, showcasing a mix of growth and strategic shifts amidst a challenging consumer...

Baptista Research

Yum! Brands: Focusing On Growth With AI Utilization Across 30

Yum! Brands reported its second quarter results for 2025, showcasing a mix of growth and strategic shifts amidst a challenging consumer...

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Weekly Stock Bullfinder - Week of 1/16

2023- Coming in With An Open Mind After an ugly 2022, it’s important to “clear the decks” and keep an open mind to what may or may not be working...

Weekly Stock Bull Finder

U.S. Equity Strategy: Cautious Overall; Favor Large-Caps & Growth; Key Supports Holding In The U.S.

The S&P 500 remains bullish, recently hitting our 4400-4406 target as large-caps remain attractive. As long as support at the 50-day MA and 4257...

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