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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>Vertiv Holdings is moving to extend its reach deeper into the AI data-center power chain through its proposed acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group, or UIG.</li><li>Vertiv Corporation agreed to acquire the business for approximately $1.45 billion in cash at closing, with up to another $1.15 billion payable through earnouts tied to EBITDA targets over the following 12 to 24 months.</li><li>The transaction comes as Vertiv is already experiencing rapid growth from AI infrastructure spending, with second-quarter 2026 sales rising 24% year over year and management raising full-year revenue guidance to $14 billion.</li></ul>

Vertiv Holdings is moving to extend its reach deeper into the AI data-center power chain through its proposed acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group, or UIG.Vertiv Corporation agreed to acquire the business for approximately $1.45 billion in cash at closing, with up to another $1.15 billion payable through earnouts tied to EBITDA targets over the following 12 to 24 months.The transaction comes as Vertiv is already experiencing rapid growth from AI infrastructure spending, with second-quarter 2026 sales rising 24% year over year and management raising full-year revenue guidance to $14 billion.

Vertiv Acquisition Gamble: Can UtilityInnovation Accelerate The Race To Power AI Data Centers?

Vertiv Holdings Co

Vertiv Acquisition Gamble: Can UtilityInnovation Accelerate The Race To Power AI Data Centers?