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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>Halliburton moved deeper into drilling automation on April 1, 2026, when it announced the acquisition of Sekal AS from Sumitomo Corporation, bringing a specialist in digital drilling autonomy into its portfolio.</li><li>The transaction followed a period in which Halliburton had already been emphasizing technology-led differentiation, autonomous geosteering, LOGIX automation, and tighter collaboration with customers across international and North American markets.</li><li>Sekal adds a field-tested automation stack centered on its DrillTronics platform, with deployments in more than 1,300 wells worldwide, and management framed the combination as a way to lower well construction costs, improve recovery, and reduce operational risk.</li></ul>

Halliburton moved deeper into drilling automation on April 1, 2026, when it announced the acquisition of Sekal AS from Sumitomo Corporation, bringing a specialist in digital drilling autonomy into its portfolio.The transaction followed a period in which Halliburton had already been emphasizing technology-led differentiation, autonomous geosteering, LOGIX automation, and tighter collaboration with customers across international and North American markets.Sekal adds a field-tested automation stack centered on its DrillTronics platform, with deployments in more than 1,300 wells worldwide, and management framed the combination as a way to lower well construction costs, improve recovery, and reduce operational risk.

Halliburton’s Bold Sekal Takeover Might Change Oilfield Services Overnight!

Halliburton Co

Halliburton’s Bold Sekal Takeover Might Change Oilfield Services Overnight!