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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>Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s first quarter 2026 performance reflects a combination of operational execution, strategic capital deployment, and a favorable macroeconomic environment for refining and midstream activities.</li><li>The company’s refineries operated at an 89% utilization rate with nearly 100% capture, marking the strongest first quarter in terms of process safety and lowest unplanned downtime in a decade, despite completing about 40% of its planned maintenance ahead of schedule.</li><li>These operational achievements supported adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $1.65, representing an approximately $800 million year-over-year improvement primarily driven by Refining & Marketing (R&M) segment performance.</li></ul>

Marathon Petroleum Corporation’s first quarter 2026 performance reflects a combination of operational execution, strategic capital deployment, and a favorable macroeconomic environment for refining and midstream activities.The company’s refineries operated at an 89% utilization rate with nearly 100% capture, marking the strongest first quarter in terms of process safety and lowest unplanned downtime in a decade, despite completing about 40% of its planned maintenance ahead of schedule.These operational achievements supported adjusted EBITDA of $2.8 billion and adjusted earnings per share of $1.65, representing an approximately $800 million year-over-year improvement primarily driven by Refining & Marketing (R&M) segment performance.

Marathon Petroleum: Can 94% Utilization Offset Mid-Continent Pressure?