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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>Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI), a once-rising star in the AI server and data center market, faces an escalating series of challenges that have severely impacted investor confidence.</li><li>In the latest and most alarming development, SMCI disclosed that its auditor, Ernst & Young (EY), resigned after raising critical issues about the company's governance, board independence, and internal financial controls.</li><li>This resignation follows months of disagreements between EY and SMCI, during which EY stated they were "unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management." As SMCI scrambles to address these governance issues, it has appointed a special board committee and hired a forensic accounting firm to investigate its internal controls.</li></ul>

Super Micro Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMCI), a once-rising star in the AI server and data center market, faces an escalating series of challenges that have severely impacted investor confidence.In the latest and most alarming development, SMCI disclosed that its auditor, Ernst & Young (EY), resigned after raising critical issues about the company's governance, board independence, and internal financial controls.This resignation follows months of disagreements between EY and SMCI, during which EY stated they were "unwilling to be associated with the financial statements prepared by management." As SMCI scrambles to address these governance issues, it has appointed a special board committee and hired a forensic accounting firm to investigate its internal controls.

Super Micro Computer (SMCI) in Crisis? Auditor Resignation Sparks Major Concerns!