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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
Underlyings
Acadia Realty Trust

Acadia Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company is focused on the ownership, acquisition, development and management of retail properties located primarily in metropolitan areas in United States. The company has three reportable segments, which are Core Portfolio, Funds, and Structured Financing. The Core Portfolio segment consists primarily of retail properties located mainly in metropolitan areas with a long-term investment horizon. The Funds segment holds primarily retail real estate in which the company co-invests with institutional investors. The Structured Financing segment consists of notes and mortgages receivable which are held within the Core Portfolio or the Funds segment.

Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of chemicals across a range of end markets including energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, crop protection and custom chemistry services. The company's segments include: Lithium, which develops and manufactures a range of basic lithium compounds and lithium specialties and reagents; Bromine Specialties, which includes products used in fire safety solutions and other chemicals applications; and Catalysts, which includes Clean Fuels Technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions.

Alcoa Corporation

Alcoa is a vertically integrated aluminum company comprised of bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum production (smelting, casting, and rolling), and energy generation. Through direct and indirect ownership, the company has 30 operating locations in nine countries around the world, situated primarily in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Spain, and United States.

Alpha & Omega Semiconductor

Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy designs, manufactures, and sells solid-oxide fuel cell systems, or Energy Servers, for on-site power generation. The company's Energy Servers utilize a fuel cell technology. The company's solution, the Bloom Energy Server, is a stationary power generation platform. The Bloom Energy Server converts standard low-pressure natural gas or biogas into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion.

Calix Networks

Calix is a provider of cloud and software platforms, systems and software for fiber- and copper-based network architectures. The company is also a provider of software defined access and cloud products focused on access networks and the subscriber. The company's portfolio allows for a range of subscriber services to be provisioned and delivered over a single unified network. The company's access systems can deliver voice and data services, broadband services, mobile broadband, as well as high-definition video and online gaming. The company's premises systems enable communications service providers to manage the smart home and business and provide new services to their device enabled subscribers.

CI Global Infrastructure Private Pool

Cohen & Steers Inc.

Cohen & Steers is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment manager focusing on liquid real assets, including real estate securities, listed infrastructure, commodities and natural resource equities, as well as preferred securities and other income solutions. The company manages three types of investment vehicles: institutional accounts, which represent portfolios of securities it manages for institutional clients; open-end funds, which provide and issue shares continuously as assets are invested and redeem shares when assets are withdrawn; and closed-end funds, which are registered investment companies that have issued a fixed number of shares through public offerings.

Deere & Company

Deere & Co. operates the following segments: Agriculture and Turf, which manufactures and distributes a line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts, including utility tractors, tractor loaders, combines, cotton pickers, cotton strippers, and sugarcane harvesters; Construction and Forestry, which manufactures and distributes a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, road building, material handling and timber harvesting, including backhoe loaders and crawler dozers and loaders; and Financial Services, which finances sales and leases by the company's dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment.

Digi International Inc.

Digi International is a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity products and services. The company has two reportable operating segments: IoT Products and Services; and IoT Solutions. The company's IoT Products and Services segment provides products and services that assist original equipment manufacturers, enterprise and government customers create and deploy, IoT connectivity solutions. The company's IoT Solutions segment through its Digi Smart Solutions?, use sensors, gateways and cloud based applications to enable customers in food service, retail, healthcare, and transportation/logistics and education to monitor wirelessly the temperature of food and other perishable goods.

General Dynamics Corporation

General Dynamics is an aerospace and defense company. The company has five operating segments: Aerospace, which provides a family of Gulfstream aircraft and services for business aircraft produced by Gulfstream and other original equipment manufacturers; Combat Systems, which provides combat vehicles, weapons systems and munitions; Information Technology, which provides information technology (IT) services, IT infrastructure modernization and professional services; Mission Systems, which provides mission-critical products and systems; and Marine Systems, which designs and builds nuclear-powered submarines, surface combatants, and auxiliary and combat-logistics ships.

Hanover Insurance Group Inc.

The Hanover Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company business operations are property and casualty insurance products and services. The company markets its products and services through independent agents and brokers. The company conducts three operating segments: Commercial Lines, which includes commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, workers' compensation, and other commercial coverages; Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverages; and Other, which provides investment advisory services to affiliates and also manages assets for unaffiliated institutions such as insurance companies, retirement plans and foundations.

HighPeak Energy Inc (A)

Independent Bank Corp.

Independent Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Rockland Trust Company (the Bank), the company is engaged in the community banking business, providing a range of banking services, including lending activities, acceptance of demand, savings, and time deposits, and investment management. The Bank's market area is generally comprised of Eastern Massachusetts, including Greater Boston, the South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands, as well as Worcester County and Rhode Island.

INDEPENDENT BANK GROUP INC

Independent Bank Group is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Independent Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers in the north, central and southeast Texas areas. The company is engaged in community banking activities, which include commercial and retail lending, deposit gathering, investment and liquidity management activities. The company's primary deposit products are demand deposits, money market accounts and certificates of deposit, and its primary lending products are commercial business and real estate, real estate mortgage and consumer loans.

Innovative Industrial Properties Inc

Innovative Industrial Properties is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a real estate investment trust focused on the acquisition, ownership and management of industrial properties leased to state-licensed operators for their regulated state-licensed cannabis facilities. The company leases its properties on a triple-net lease basis, where the tenant is responsible for various aspects of and costs related to the property and its operation during the lease term, including structural repairs, maintenance, taxes and insurance. The company conducts its business through a real estate investment trust, in which the company's properties are owned by its operating partnership, IIP Operating Partnership, LP.

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

Kaiser Aluminum manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. The company's aerospace and high strength products include heat treat plate and sheet, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rod and bar, drawn tube and billet used for a variety of end uses in the aerospace and defense industries. Automotive Extrusions consist of extruded aluminum products for several North American automotive applications. The company's general engineering products consists of 6000-series alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire and standard extruded shapes. Other products consist of extruded, drawn and cast billet aluminum products for a range of North American industrial end uses.

LEMONADE INC

McGrath RentCorp

McGrath RentCorp is a business to business rental company with four rental divisions: relocatable modular buildings, portable storage containers, electronic test equipment, and liquid and solid containment tanks and boxes. The company reports its divisions in four business segments: its modular building and portable storage segment; its electronic test equipment segment; its containment solutions for the storage of hazardous and non-hazardous liquids and solids segment; and its classroom manufacturing business selling modular buildings used primarily as classrooms in California. The Mobile Modular business segment includes the Mobile Modular Portable Storage division.

MP Materials Corp (A)

Ovintiv Inc

Encana is an energy producer that is focused on developing its multi-basin portfolio of oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas producing plays. The company's reportable segments are: Canadian Operations, which includes the exploration for, development of, and production of oil, NGLs, natural gas and other related activities within Canada; USA Operations, which includes the exploration for, development of, and production of natural gas, oil and NGLs and other related activities within the U.S.; and Market Optimization activities are managed by the Midstream, Marketing & Fundamentals team, which is primarily responsible for the sale of the company's proprietary production to third party customers.

Pure Storage Inc. Class A

Pure Storage is engaged in developing data platform. The company's data platform replaces storage systems designed for mechanical disk with all-flash systems for solid-state memory. The company's Pure1 cloud-based support and management platform simplifies storage administration, while real-time scanning enables it to find and fix issues. The company's business model replaces the forklift upgrade cycle with an Evergreen Storage subscription model. The company's offerings include its FlashArray and FlashBlade products, inclusive of its Purity Operating Environment software, FlashStack and Artificial Intelligence Ready Infrastructure (AIRI), Cloud Data Services, FlashArray//X, and AIRI Mini.

Quanex Building Products Corporation

Quanex Building Products manufactures components for original equipment manufacturers in the building products industry. The company's segments are: North American Fenestration, which focuses on the fenestration market in North America manufacturing vinyl profiles, insulating glass (IG) spacers, screens and other fenestration components; European Fenestration, comprising the company's United Kingdom-based vinyl extrusion business, manufacturing vinyl profiles and conservatories, and the European IG business manufacturing IG spacers; and North American Cabinet Components, comprising the company's North American cabinet door and components business and wood-manufacturing plants.

Rayonier Inc.

Rayonier is a timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in the softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. The company operates in five reportable business segments: Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber, New Zealand Timber, Real Estate and Trading. The Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber and New Zealand Timber segments include all activities related to the harvesting of timber in addition to lease and license activities, other non-timber activities and carbon credit sales. The company's Real Estate segment reflects all of its land or leasehold sales. The Trading segment reflects the log trading activities conducted by its New Zealand subsidiary.

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

Retail Opportunity Investments is a self-managed real estate investment trust. The company is engaged in the acquisition, ownership and management of necessity-based community and neighborhood shopping centers on the west coast of the U.S., anchored by supermarkets and drugstores. The company focuses on leasing to retailers that provide necessity-based, non-discretionary goods and services, catering to the basic and daily needs of the surrounding community. The company conducts substantially all of its business through its operating partnership, Retail Opportunity Investments Partnership, LP, a limited partnership, together with its subsidiaries.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International is a producer of materials, including papers, nets and films. The company operates and manages two reportable segments based on product lines: Advanced Materials and Structures, which manufactures resin-based products used in applications in the filtration, infrastructure and construction, transportation, industrial, and medical end-markets; and Engineered Papers, which produces cigarette papers and reconstituted tobacco products for cigarette and cigar manufacturers, as well as various other non-tobacco paper products.

SPX TECHNOLOGIES INC

TTM Technologies Inc.

TTM Technologies is a printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer. The company provides a range of PCB products, radio-frequency (RF) components, and electro-mechanical solutions, including conventional PCBs, RF and microwave circuits, high density interconnect PCBs, substrate-like PCBs, flexible PCBs, rigid-flex PCBs, custom assemblies and system integration, integrated circuits substrates, passive RF components, advanced ceramic RF components, hi-reliability multi-chip modules, and beamforming and switching networks. The company also provides certain services, which includes design-for-manufacturability, PCB layout design, simulation and testing services, and quick turnaround production.

United Community Banks Inc.

United Community Banks is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of commercial and consumer banking services, including checking, savings and time deposit accounts, secured and unsecured loans, mortgage loans, payment services, wire transfers, brokerage, investment advisory services and other related financial services to its customers. The company also provides its customers a variety of deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and other deposit accounts, through multiple channels, including its network of branches and its online, mobile and telephone banking platforms.

Valmont Industries Inc.

Valmont Industries is a global producer of fabricated metal products. The company's segments are: Engineered Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures steel, aluminum, and composite poles and structures to which lighting and traffic control fixtures are attached for a range of outdoor lighting applications; Utility Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures tapered steel, pre-stressed concrete and hybrid structures, and steel lattice structures; Coatings, which provides the following services, including hot-dipped galvanizing, anodizing, powder coating, and e-coating; and Irrigation, which manufactures and distributes mechanical irrigation equipment and related service parts.

W. R. Berkley Corporation

W. R. Berkley is an insurance holding company. The company operates in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance, which includes commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the United States, as well as insurance business in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia; and Reinsurance, which provides reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa.

Walker & Dunlop Inc.

Walker & Dunlop is a holding company and conducts the majority of its operations through Walker & Dunlop, LLC, its operating company. The company originates, sells, and services a range of multifamily and other commercial real estate financing products, provides multifamily property sales brokerage services, and engages in commercial real estate investment management activities. The company's commercial real estate finance products include first mortgage, second trust, supplemental, construction, small-balance, and bridge/interim loans. The company provides property sales services to owners and developers of multifamily properties and commercial real estate investment management services for various investors.

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