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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>Disney’s sports-media ambitions have accelerated dramatically this summer.</li><li>First, the company agreed to swap 10 percent of ESPN to the NFL in exchange for full control of NFL Network and RedZone—a deal valued between $2.5 billion and $3 billion that trims Disney’s ESPN stake from 80 percent to 72 percent while Hearst falls to 18 percent.</li><li>Almost simultaneously, ESPN inked a five year, $1.6 billion pact for exclusive U.S. streaming rights to WWE’s marquee events, including WrestleMania and SummerSlam, beginning in 2026.</li></ul>

Disney’s sports-media ambitions have accelerated dramatically this summer.First, the company agreed to swap 10 percent of ESPN to the NFL in exchange for full control of NFL Network and RedZone—a deal valued between $2.5 billion and $3 billion that trims Disney’s ESPN stake from 80 percent to 72 percent while Hearst falls to 18 percent.Almost simultaneously, ESPN inked a five year, $1.6 billion pact for exclusive U.S. streaming rights to WWE’s marquee events, including WrestleMania and SummerSlam, beginning in 2026.

Disney Ditches ESPN Equity To Win Big In NFL—Is Netflix Watching?

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Disney Ditches ESPN Equity To Win Big In NFL—Is Netflix Watching?