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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>Plug Power Incorporated reported financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, marking a year of revenue growth and margin improvement amid a challenging macroeconomic environment.</li><li>Under new CEO Jose Luis Crespo, the company targeted top-line growth, improved margins aiming for margin neutrality in Q4, reduced cash usage, and expanded hydrogen production, including the commissioning of a new plant in Louisiana.</li><li>In 2025, Plug Power achieved approximately 13% revenue growth and turned gross margin positive in the fourth quarter with a 125 percentage point improvement from negative 122.5% in Q4 2024 to positive 2.4% in Q4 2025.</li></ul>

Plug Power Incorporated reported financial and operational results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, marking a year of revenue growth and margin improvement amid a challenging macroeconomic environment.Under new CEO Jose Luis Crespo, the company targeted top-line growth, improved margins aiming for margin neutrality in Q4, reduced cash usage, and expanded hydrogen production, including the commissioning of a new plant in Louisiana.In 2025, Plug Power achieved approximately 13% revenue growth and turned gross margin positive in the fourth quarter with a 125 percentage point improvement from negative 122.5% in Q4 2024 to positive 2.4% in Q4 2025.

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