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Baptista Research

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.

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>Builders FirstSource reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 amid ongoing challenges in the U.S. housing market.</li><li>Net sales declined 10% year-over-year to $3.3 billion, impacted by reduced core organic sales, including an 11% drop in single-family construction, as well as commodity deflation, partially offset by acquisitions.</li><li>The decline in single-family sales was attributed to lower housing starts, a decrease in average home size and complexity, and persistent affordability constraints that have compressed value per start by an estimated 10% since 2019.</li></ul>

Builders FirstSource reported its financial results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2026 amid ongoing challenges in the U.S. housing market.Net sales declined 10% year-over-year to $3.3 billion, impacted by reduced core organic sales, including an 11% drop in single-family construction, as well as commodity deflation, partially offset by acquisitions.The decline in single-family sales was attributed to lower housing starts, a decrease in average home size and complexity, and persistent affordability constraints that have compressed value per start by an estimated 10% since 2019.

Builders FirstSource: The 42% EBITDA Decline Tests The Housing Recovery Case!

Builders Firstsource

Builders FirstSource: The 42% EBITDA Decline Tests The Housing Recovery Case!