Independent Research · Institutional Retainers
Research for the funds that read the footnotes.
Arbor Equity Research covers industrial safety, infrastructure construction, and energy with deep, model-driven reports — backed by proprietary demand and procurement data, and built by an analyst who worked inside the industry he covers. Retainer clients don't just get the thesis. They get the model, and the analyst who built it.
The Work
Deep reports, backed by data no one else is building.
The report is the deliverable. The proprietary trackers behind it are the moat — demand and procurement signals that surface a thesis before it reaches the tape.
Equity research reports
Institutional multi-tab models paired with a written thesis — WACC, DCF, comps, and backlog conversion, every figure traceable to primary filings.
Procurement tracker
Government procurement and grant awards for safety equipment — SCBA, turnout gear — tracked to read demand and brand incumbency ahead of the print.
Highway demand tracker
A standing dataset on highway and infrastructure activity that anchors construction-equipment coverage in observed demand, not management guidance.
The Edge
An analyst who worked inside the industry he covers.
Most safety and industrials coverage is written from the outside, off the transcript. Mine isn't. Direct operating experience in the safety-equipment industry — and a background extracting E&P reserves data — means the edge shows up where it matters: in the footnotes, the backlog, and the procurement records a specialist notices and a generalist misses. That specificity is worth far more to one fund than to a thousand retail readers — which is exactly who this is built for.
Sectors
Chosen for edge, not breadth.
Detection instruments, respiratory protection, and protective equipment — a standards-driven demand base with meaningful government and first-responder funding beneath it.
Road-building and asphalt equipment levered to public infrastructure spending — read through backlog, book-to-bill, and the highway demand tracker.
Upstream oil and gas, analyzed through reserves, hedging, and capital structure — where an E&P data background does the most work.
Expanding across the safety and industrials complex as coverage deepens.
Inquiries
Retainer coverage is arranged directly.
Coverage is offered on a flat monthly research retainer — not a subscription. Retainer clients receive the full workbooks, direct analyst access, and coverage ahead of public publication. For institutional and portfolio-manager inquiries, reach out and I'll follow up personally.