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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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Abbott Laboratories

Abbott Laboratories is engaged in the discovery, development, manufacture, and sale of a range of health care products. The company's reportable segments are: established pharmaceutical products, which includes a range of generic pharmaceuticals; diagnostic products, which includes a range of diagnostic systems and tests; nutritional products, which includes a range of pediatric and adult nutritional products; and medical devices, which includes a range of rhythm management, electrophysiology, heart failure, vascular and structural heart devices for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes care products for people with diabetes, as well as neuromodulation devices.

AECOM

AECOM designs, builds, finances and operates infrastructure assets for governments, businesses and organizations. The company provides: planning, consulting, architectural and engineering design services to commercial and government clients in transportation, facilities, environmental, energy, water and government markets; construction services, including building construction and energy, infrastructure and industrial construction; as well as program and facilities management and maintenance, training, logistics, consulting, technical assistance, and systems integration and information technology services, for agencies of the United States government and for other national governments.

AMERISAFE Inc.

Amerisafe is an insurance holding company. The company provides workers' compensation insurance focused on small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging and lumber, manufacturing, and agriculture. The company provides coverage to employers under state and federal workers' compensation laws, which prescribe wage replacement and medical care benefits that employers are obligated to provide to their injured employees in the course and scope of their employment. The company's workers' compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees for, among other things, temporary or permanent disability, death and medical and hospital expenses.

Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.

Gallagher (Arthur J.) is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides insurance brokerage, consulting and third party claims settlement and administration services to both domestic and international entities. The company's segments are: brokerage, which is primarily comprised of its retail and wholesale insurance brokerage operations; risk management, which provides contract claim settlement and administration services for enterprises and public entities that choose to self-insure their property/casualty coverages and for underwriting enterprises that choose to outsource their property/casualty claims departments; and corporate, which manages its clean energy and other investments.

ASP ISOTOPES INC

Axon Enterprise Inc

Axon Enterprise is provider of law enforcement technology solutions. The company's operations are comprised of two reportable segments: TASER, which is focused on development, manufacture and sale of conducted energy weapons, also known as conducted energy devices, which the company sells under its brand name, TASER; and software and sensors, which is focused on-officer body (Axon Body and Flex) and in-car (Axon Fleet) cameras as well as cloud-based digital evidence management software (Evidence.com), as well as develops, manufactures and sells hardware and cloud-based software solutions that enable law enforcement to capture, store, manage, share and analyze video and other digital evidence.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation Class A

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding is a holding company. The company provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber knowledge to U.S. and international governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations. The company's services are: Consulting, which focuses on solving client problems and developing mission-oriented solutions; Analytics, which includes decision analytics, automation, and data science solutions; Digital Solutions, which develops, designs, and implements solutions; Engineering, which delivers engineering services and solutions; and Cyber, which focuses on active prevention, detection, and cost effectiveness.

Brown & Brown Inc.

Brown & Brown is an insurance agency, wholesale brokerage, insurance programs and service organization. The company's segments are: Retail, which provides a range of insurance products and services, and non-insurance risk-mitigating products; National Programs, which provides professional liability and related package products, a range of insurance products, and flood coverage, and targeted products and services; Wholesale Brokerage, which markets and sells excess and surplus commercial and personal lines insurance; and Services, which provides insurance-related services, including third-party claims administration and medical utilization management services, as well as Medicare Set-aside services.

Cal-Maine Foods Inc.

Cal-Maine Foods is a producer and marketer of shell eggs. The company has one operating segment, which is the production, grading, packaging, marketing and distribution of shell eggs. The company sells most of its shell eggs in the southwestern, southeastern, mid-western and mid-Atlantic regions of the U.S. through its distribution network to a group of customers, including national and regional grocery store chains, club stores, foodservice distributors and egg product consumers. The company markets cage-free eggs under its trademarked Farmhouse? brand and distributes them across the southeast and southwest regions of the U.S. The company markets organic, cage-free, vegetarian, and omega-3 eggs under its 4-Grain? brand.

Campbell Soup Company

Campbell Soup is a manufacturer and marketer of food and beverage products. The company's reportable segments are: Meals and Beverages, which includes the retail and foodservice businesses in the United States and Canada, and the meals and shelf-stable beverages business in Latin America; Snacks, which consists of Pepperidge Farm cookies, crackers, fresh bakery and frozen products in United States retail, including Milano cookies and Goldfish crackers, and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, Cape Cod and Kettle Brand potato chips, Late July snacks, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps, Pop Secret popcorn, Emerald nuts, and other snacking products in the United States and Canada.

Cheniere Energy Inc.

Cheniere Energy is an energy company engaged in liquefied natural gas (LNG)-related businesses. The company is focusing its development in the following LNG terminal projects, which is under construction: the Sabine Pass LNG terminal located in Cameron Parish, LA; and the Corpus Christi LNG terminal near Corpus Christi, TX. The company's subsidiary, Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P. is developing, constructing and operating natural gas liquefaction facilities at the Sabine Pass LNG terminal. The company is developing and constructing a natural gas liquefaction and export facility at the Corpus Christi LNG terminal and operates a natural gas supply pipeline. The company is also in various stages of developing other projects.

Church & Dwight Co. Inc.

Church & Dwight develops, manufactures and markets a range of consumer products. The company's consumer products include: ARM & HAMMER? baking soda, cat litter, laundry detergent, carpet deodorizer and other baking soda based products; TROJAN? condoms, lubricants and vibrators; OXICLEAN? stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents and bleach alternatives; SPINBRUSH? battery-operated toothbrushes; FIRST RESPONSE? home pregnancy and ovulation test kits; NAIR? depilatories; ORAJEL? oral analgesic; XTRA? laundry detergent; L'IL CRITTERS? and VITAFUSION? gummy dietary supplements; BATISTE? dry shampoo; WATERPIK? water flossers and showerheads, and FLAWLESS? hair removal products.

Conagra Brands Inc.

Conagra Brands is a packaged goods food company. The company's segments are: Grocery and Snacks, which includes branded, shelf stable food products sold in various retail channels; Refrigerated and Frozen, which includes branded, temperature controlled food products sold in various retail channels; International, which includes branded food products sold in retail and foodservice channels outside of the U.S.; Foodservice, which includes customized food products for sale to restaurants and other foodservice establishments; Pinnacle Foods, which includes and private-label food products; and Commercial Foods, which included commercially branded and private label food and ingredients, among others.

Corvel Corp.

CorVel is a provider of workers' compensation solutions for employers, third party administrators, insurance companies, and government agencies. The company provides services in two categories: Network Solutions, which provides a medical savings solution for all in-network and out-of-network medical bills including Preferred Provider Organization management, specialty networks, medical bill repricing, true line item review, fee negotiations, nurse review, automated adjudication, and electronic reimbursement; and Patient Management, which includes claims management, case management, 24/7 nurse triage, utilization management, vocational rehabilitation, and life care planning.

Enerflex

Enerflex is enagaged in supplying natural gas compression, oil and gas processing, refrigeration systems and power generation equipment and provides in-house engineering and mechanical services expertise. Co.'s in-house resources provide the capability to engineer, design, manufacture, construct, commission and service hydrocarbon handling systems. Co.'s expertise encompasses field production facilities, compression and natural gas processing plants, carbon dioxide processing plants, refrigeration systems and power generators serving the natural gas production industry.

General Mills Inc.

General Mills manufactures and markets branded consumer foods. The company's segments are: North America Retail, which provides cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, dessert and baking mixes, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, grain, fruit and savory snacks, and organic products, among others; Convenience Stores and Foodservice, which provides snacks, yogurt, frozen meals and frozen dough products, and baking mixes, among others; Europe and Australia, which includes retail and foodservice businesses in the Europe and Australia region; Asia and Latin America, which consists of retail and foodservice businesses in the Asia and South America regions; and Pets, which includes pet food products.

Grand Canyon Education Inc.

Grand Canyon Education is an educational services company focused on providing support services to institutions in the post-secondary education sector. The company's services include: Technical and Academic Services, which provides services that relate to the ongoing maintenance of its client's educational infrastructure, including online course delivery and management, student records, assessment, customer relations management and other internal administrative systems; Counseling Services and Support, which includes team-based counseling and other support for prospective and existing students of its client as well as financial aid processing; Marketing and Communication; and Back Office Services.

i3 Verticals

i3 Verticals is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides integrated payment and software solutions to small-and medium-sized businesses and organizations in vertical markets. The company's payment processing services enable clients to accept electronic payments, facilitating the exchange of funds and transaction data between clients, financial institutions and payment networks. The company has two reportable segments: Merchant Services, which provides payment solutions to businesses and organizations; and Proprietary Software and Payments, which provides embedded payment solutions to its clients through company-owned software.

Kinsale Capital Group Inc.

Kinsale Capital Group is an insurance holding company. The company focuses on the excess and surplus lines (E&S) market in the U.S., where it can use its underwriting capability to write coverages for hard-to-place small business risks and personal lines risks. The company's segment, Excess and Surplus Lines Insurance segment provides property and casualty insurance products through the E&S market. The company's commercial lines offerings include construction, small business, excess casualty, energy, product liability, general casualty, allied health, professional liability, life sciences, commercial property, management liability, health care, environmental, inland marine, public entity, and commercial insurance.

LEONARDO DRS INC.

Li Auto Inc. Sponsored ADR Class A

LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

MarketAxess Holdings Inc.

MarketAxess Holdings operates an electronic trading platform that enables fixed-income market participants to trade corporate bonds and other types of fixed-income instruments using its patented technology. Through its Open Trading? protocols, the company executes trades in certain bond between and among institutional investor and broker-dealer clients. The company also provides trading-related products and services, including: Composite+ pricing and other market data products to assist clients with trading decisions; auto-execution and other execution services for clients requiring specialized workflow solutions; connectivity solutions that facilitate straight-through processing; and technology services.

McCormick & Company Incorporated

McCormick & Co. manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavor products to the food industry- retailers, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. The company also is partner in a number of joint ventures that are involved in the manufacture and sale of flavor products. The company's business segments comprised of: consumer, in which the company markets its products to customers and supplies private label items, known as store brands; and flavor solutions, which provides a range of flavor solutions including seasoning blends, spices and herbs, condiments, coating systems and compound flavors.

Mondelez International Inc. Class A

Mondelez International sells food and beverage products. The company makes and sells primarily snacks, including biscuits (cookies, crackers and salted snacks), chocolate, gum and candy, as well as various cheese and grocery and powdered beverage products. The company's portfolio includes snack brands such as Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Halls candy; Trident gum and Tang powdered beverages. The company's operations and management structure are organized into four operating segments: Latin America; Asia, Middle East and Africa; Europe; and North America. The company sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, value stores and other retail food outlets.

MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. Class A

MSC Industrial Direct Co. is a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. The company provides stock-keeping units through its eCommerce channels, including its website, mscdirect.com; its inventory management solutions; catalogs and brochures; and call-centers and branches. The company's range of MRO products includes cutting tools, measuring instruments, tooling components, metalworking products, fasteners, flat stock, raw materials, abrasives, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies.

Netflix Inc.

Netflix is engaged in subscription streaming entertainment service including TV series, documentaries and feature films across a variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, without commercials. Additionally, several members in the United States subscribe to the company's DVD-by-mail service. The company improves its streaming content with a focus on a programming mix of content. The company's members can download a selection of titles for offline viewing. The company operates its business as a global operating segment.

Nutanix Inc. Class A

Nutanix provides an enterprise cloud platform that consists of software solutions. The company's solution allows its customers to virtualize various clouds - private, public, distributed - into one cloud enabling enterprises to choose the right cloud for the right application. The company's enterprise cloud platform converges compute, virtualization, storage, networking, desktop, governance and security services in one integrated solution. Acropolis is the foundation of the company's enterprise cloud platform. Acropolis is comprised of four foundational components: Virtualization, Enterprise Storage Capabilities, Platform Services, and Networking Services.

Omnicom Group Inc

Omnicom Group is a holding company, engaged in providing advertising, marketing and corporate communications services. The company's networks and agencies provide a range of services in the following fundamental disciplines: advertising, customer relationship management, public relations and healthcare. The company's Service offerings include, among others, advertising, branding, content marketing, corporate social responsibility consulting, crisis communications, custom publishing, data analytics, database management, digital/direct marketing, digital transformation, entertainment marketing, experiential marketing, field marketing, financial/corporate business-to-business advertising, and imaging.

Otis Worldwide Corporation

Otis manufactures, installs, and services building systems. The company operations into two segments: New Equipment and Service. Through the New Equipment segment, the company designs, manufactures, sells and installs a wide range of passenger and freight elevators as well as escalators and moving walkways for residential and commercial building and infrastructure projects. The Service segment provides maintenance and repair services for both the company's products and those of other manufacturers, and provides modernization services to upgrade elevators and escalators. The company serves customers worldwide.

Post Holdings Inc.

Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company. The company's segments are: Post Consumer Brands, which manufactures, markets and sells branded and private label ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal and hot cereal products; Weetabix, which markets and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal products; Foodservice, which produces and distributes egg and potato products; Refrigerated Retail, which produces and distributes side dishes, eggs and egg, cheese, sausage and other refrigerated products; and BellRing Brands, which markets and distributes ready-to-drink protein shakes, other RTD beverages, powders, nutrition bars and supplements in the nutrition category.

Procter & Gamble Company

Procter & Gamble provides consumer packaged goods. The company's products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, e-commerce, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, wholesalers, baby stores, beauty stores, other stores and pharmacies. The company has five reportable segments: Beauty, which includes hair care, and skin and personal care products; Grooming, which includes shave care products; Health Care, which includes oral care and personal health care products; Fabric and Home Care, which includes fabric care and home care products; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care, which includes baby care, feminine care and family care products.

RELX PLC

RPM INTERNATIONAL INC.

RPM International manufactures, markets and sells various chemical product lines, including paints, infrastructure rehab and repair products, protective coatings, roofing systems, sealants and adhesives. The company's segments include: industrial, which includes maintenance and protection products and services for roofing and waterproofing systems; specialty, which includes industrial cleaners, restoration services equipment, colorants, exterior finishes, edible coatings and other coatings; and consumer, which includes rust-preventative, special purpose and decorative paints, caulks, sealants, primers, nail enamels, cement cleaners, floor sealers and woodcare coatings and other consumer products.

Silgan Holdings Inc.

Silgan Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures rigid packaging for consumer goods products. The company operates three businesses; its metal container business, which used primarily by processors and packagers for food products, such as vegetables, soup, proteins, tomato based products, adult nutritional drinks and fruit ; its closures business, which manufactures metal and plastic closures and dispensing systems for food and beverage and health care products; and its plastic container business, which manufactures custom designed and stock plastic containers for personal care and health care products, including containers for mouthwash, shampoos, and conditioners.

Simply Good Foods Co

Simply Good Foods is a developer, marketer and seller of nutritional foods and snacking products. The company's product portfolio consists primarily of nutrition bars, ready-to-drink shakes, snacks and confectionery products marketed under the Atkins?, SimplyProtein?, and Atkins Endulge? brand names. The Atkins brand approach focuses on a healthy eating approach with reduced levels of refined carbohydrates and sugars and encourages the consumption of lean protein, fiber, fruits, vegetables and healthy fats. Through third-party partnerships, the company provides complementary Atkins branded frozen meals.

SKYWARD SPECIALTY INS GROUP INC

SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY SA

Stantec Inc

Stantec is a provider of comprehensive professional services in the area of infrastructure and facilities for clients in the public and private sectors. Co.'s services include planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying and geomatics, project management, environmental sciences, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects.

Sun Life Financial Inc.

Sun Life Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is an international financial services organization providing a range of protection and wealth accumulation products and services to individuals and corporate customers in Canada, the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, India, China, Australia, Singapore, Vietnam and Bermuda. Co. manages its operations in four business segments: Sun Life Financial Canada, Sun Life Financial United States, MFS Investment Management and Sun Life Financial Asia.

Sysco Corporation

Sysco, acting through its subsidiaries and divisions, is a distributor of food and related products primarily to the foodservice or food-away-from-home industry. The company has three reportable segments: United States Foodservice Operations, which primarily include United States Broadline operations, which distribute a line of food products, including custom-cut meat, seafood, specialty produce, specialty imports and a variety of non-food products; International Foodservice Operations, which include operations in the Americas and Europe, which distribute a line of food products and a variety of non-food products; and SYGMA, which consists of its United States customized distribution subsidiary.

THOMSON REUTERS CORPORATION

Trane Technologies plc

Ingersoll-Rand provides products, services and solutions to enhance air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food. Co.'s segments are: Climate. which includes Trane® and American Standard® Heating & Air Conditioning, providing heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and commercial and residential building services, parts, support and controls, energy services and building automation as well as transport temperature control solutions; and Industrial, which includes compressed air and gas systems and services, power tools, material handling systems, ARO® fluid management equipment, as well as Club Car ® golf, utility and rough terrain vehicles.

Transcat

Transcat is a provider of calibration and laboratory instrument services and a distributor of grade test, measurement and control instrumentation. The company provides services and products to the life science industry, including pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and other Food and Drug Administration-regulated businesses. The company's segments are: Service, which provides calibration, repair, inspection, analytical qualifications, preventative maintenance, consulting and other related services, of which are processed via its asset management system, CalTrak? and its online customer portal, C3?; and Distribution, which sells and rents national and proprietary brand instruments to customers.

TXO PARTNERS L.P.

Unilever PLC ADS

Vital Farms

WAYSTAR HOLDING CORP

WD-40 Company

WD-40 is engaged in developing and selling products that solve problems in workshops, factories and homes. The company markets its maintenance products and its homecare and cleaning products under the following brands: WD-40?, 3-IN-ONE?, GT85?, X-14?, 2000 Flushes?, Carpet Fresh?, no vac?, Spot Shot?, 1001?, Lava? and Solvol?. The WD-40 brand includes the WD-40 Multi-Use Product and the WD-40 Specialist? and WD-40 BIKE? product lines. The company's brands are sold in various locations. Maintenance products are sold in markets in North, Central and South America, Asia, Australia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Homecare and cleaning products are sold in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Workday Inc. Class A

Workday is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The company's products include: Workday Financial Management, an application with financial capabilities, analytics and metrics, and auditable process management; and Workday Human Capital Management, which includes global human resources management (workforce lifecycle management, organization management, compensation, absence, and employee benefits administration) and global talent management (goal management, performance management, succession planning, and career and development planning). The company's other solutions include Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, as well as Workday Data-as-a-Service.

Zai Lab Ltd. Sponsored ADR

Zscaler Inc.

Zscaler is a cloud security company that developed a platform incorporating security functionalities needed to enable users to safely utilize authorized applications and services based on an organization's policies. The company's solution is a purpose-built, multi-tenant, distributed cloud security platform that secures access for users and devices to applications and services, regardless of location. The company delivers its solutions using a software-as-a-service business model and sells subscriptions to customers to access its cloud platform, together with related support services. The company conducts business worldwide, with presence in North America, Europe and Asia.

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