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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>Sony Group Corporation is moving deeper into the business of owning and monetizing entertainment IP, and its interest in Recognition Music Group’s complete music rights catalog fits neatly into that broader shift.</li><li>The catalog includes interests in more than 45,000 songs and recordings across roughly 150 catalogs, with works tied to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer,” Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams,” Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever,” Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” The potential acquisition also comes after Sony Music Publishing’s 2025 acquisition of Hipgnosis Songs Group, showing continued appetite for durable music rights.</li><li>At the same time, Sony’s recent strategy update emphasized entertainment, IP, content creation, anime, gaming, AI tools, and creator-first technology.</li></ul>

Sony Group Corporation is moving deeper into the business of owning and monetizing entertainment IP, and its interest in Recognition Music Group’s complete music rights catalog fits neatly into that broader shift.The catalog includes interests in more than 45,000 songs and recordings across roughly 150 catalogs, with works tied to Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance,” Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ On A Prayer,” Rihanna’s “Umbrella,” Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams,” Shakira’s “Whenever, Wherever,” Steve Winwood’s “Higher Love,” and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” The potential acquisition also comes after Sony Music Publishing’s 2025 acquisition of Hipgnosis Songs Group, showing continued appetite for durable music rights.At the same time, Sony’s recent strategy update emphasized entertainment, IP, content creation, anime, gaming, AI tools, and creator-first technology.

Sony's Latest Takeover Target Could Make Evergreen Songs A Strategic Asset!

Sony Corp

Sony's Latest Takeover Target Could Make Evergreen Songs A Strategic Asset!