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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.
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ACCO Brands Corporation

ACCO Brands is a designer, marketer and manufacturer of consumer and end-user brands used in businesses, schools, and homes. The company's brands include AT-A-GLANCE?, Barrilito?, Derwent?, Esselte?, Five Star?, GBC?, Hilroy?, Kensington?, Leitz?, Marbig?, Mead?, NOBO?, Quartet?, Rapid?, Rexel?, Swingline?, Tilibra? and Wilson Jones?. The company's product categories include school products; storage and organization; laminating, binding and shredding machines and related consumable supplies; calendars; stapling and punching; whiteboards; computer accessories; and do-it-yourself tools, among others. The company's segments are: ACCO Brands North America, ACCO Brands EMEA and ACCO Brands International.

Allegion PLC

B&G Foods Inc.

B&G Foods is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures, sells and distributes branded shelf-stable and frozen foods and household products across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The company complements its branded product retail sales with institutional and food service sales and private label sales. The company's products include frozen and canned vegetables, hot cereals, fruit spreads, canned meats and beans, bagel chips, spices, seasonings, hot sauces, wine vinegar, maple syrup, molasses, salad dressings, pizza crusts, Mexican-style sauces, dry soups, taco shells and kits, salsas, pickles, peppers, tomato-based products, puffed corn and rice snacks, nut clusters and other products.

Baker Hughes Company Class A

Baker Hughes is an energy technology company. The company's segments are: Oilfield Services, which provides products and services for onshore and offshore operations ranging from drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention; Oilfield Equipment, which provides products and services for the subsea, offshore surface and onshore operating environments; Turbomachinery and Processing Solutions, which provides equipment and related services for mechanical-drive, compression and power-generation applications; and Digital Solutions, which includes condition monitoring, industrial controls, non-destructive technologies, measurement, sensing, and pipeline solutions.

Ball Corporation

Ball supplies metal packaging to the beverage, personal care and household products industries. The company provides aerospace and other technologies and services. The company's main product line is aluminum beverage containers. The company also produces aerosol containers, extruded aluminum aerosol containers and aluminum slugs. The company's segments are: beverage packaging, North and Central America, beverage packaging, South America, and beverage packaging, Europe, all of which are engaged in manufacturing and selling aluminum beverage containers; and aerospace, which manufactures and sells aerospace and other related products and provides services used in the defense, civil space and commercial space industries.

BrightView Holdings

BrightView is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of commercial landscaping services. The company operates through two segments: Maintenance Services and Development Services. The company's maintenance services segment delivers a suite of recurring commercial landscaping services ranging from mowing, gardening, mulching and snow removal, to more horticulture services, such as water management, irrigation maintenance, tree care, golf course maintenance and turf maintenance. The company's development services are comprised of design, coordination and installation of landscapes at some of the corporate, athletic and university complexes.

Cerence

Cerence is primarily engaged in providing automotive manufacturers and their suppliers virtual assistants and connected car services built on its voice recognition and natural language understanding technologies. The company is a provider of AI-powered assistants for connected and autonomous vehicles, including software platforms for building automotive virtual assistants, such as Hey BMW and Ni hao Banma. The company's principal offering is its software platform, which its customers use to build virtual assistants that can communicate, find information and take action across a variety of categories, including navigation, control, media, communication, information and tools.

Compania Cervecerias Unidas S.A.

DONGNAI ROOFSHEET & CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL JSC

Dong Nai Roofsheet & Construction Material JSC. Dong Nai Roofsheet & Construction Material Joint Stock Company (DONAC) is a Vietnam-based construction material manufacturer, which is mainly engaged in the production and wholesale of cement and concrete roofing tiles, among others. Besides, the Company partakes in the provision of general freight transportation services, as well as the trading of industrial supplies.

Elanco Animal Health Inc.

Elanco Animal Health is an animal health company. The company groups its products into four principal categories: Companion Animal (CA) Disease Prevention, which includes parasiticides and vaccine products for canines and felines; CA Therapeutics, which includes products for the treatment of pain, osteoarthritis, otitis, cardiovascular and dermatology indications in canines and felines; Food Animal (FA) Future Protein and Health, which includes vaccines, antibiotics, parasiticides and other products used in poultry and aquaculture production; and FA Ruminants and Swine, which includes vaccines, antibiotics, implants, parasiticides and other products used in ruminants and swine production.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc.

Emergent BioSolutions is a life sciences company. The company is focused on preparedness and response products and solutions that address the following categories: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives; emerging infectious diseases; travel health; emerging health crises; acute/emergency care; and contract development and manufacturing. The company also has a development pipeline consisting of a mix of both pre-clinical and clinical-stage product candidates, including Trobigard? a combination drug-device auto injector product candidate. In addition, the company has a fully integrated molecule-to-market biologics CDMO business offerings (development services, drug substance and drug product).

Fortinet Inc.

Fortinet provides cybersecurity solutions. The company's product offerings consist of its FortiGate product family and its non-FortiGate products. The company's FortiGate hardware and software licenses are sold with a set of security services. These security services are enabled by FortiGuard, which provides threat research and artificial intelligence capabilities from a global cloud network to deliver protection services to each FortiGate appliance. The company's non-FortiGate products include the Fortinet Security Fabric (such as FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSwitch and FortiManager), certain cloud security products (such as virtual machines and cloud services) and other products.

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA ADS

Garmin Ltd.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC CEDEAR

Helios Technologies Inc.

Helios Technologies develops and manufactures solutions for both the hydraulics and electronics markets. The company operates in two segments: Hydraulics and Electronics. The Hydraulics segment consists of all of the Sun Hydraulics, LLC (Sun Hydraulics), Faster S.r.l. and Custom Fluidpower Pty Ltd. Sun Hydraulics manufactures screw-in hydraulic cartridge valves, electro-hydraulics, manifolds, and integrated package solutions. The Electronics segment, comprised of Enovation Controls, LLC, is a provider of electronic control, display and instrumentation solutions for both recreational and off-highway vehicles, as well as stationary and power generation equipment.

I-MAB ADS (N Shares)

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

JELD-WEN Holding Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a door and window manufacturer. The company designs, produces, and distributes a range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl, and aluminum windows, and related products for use in the construction and repair and remodel of residential homes and, to a lesser extent, non-residential buildings. The company markets its products under the JELD-WEN brand, along with several brands such as Swedoor and DANA in Europe and Corinthian, Stegbar, and Trend in Australia. The company's customers include wholesale distributors and retailers as well as individual contractors and consumers. The company has three segments: North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Knowles Corp.

Knowles is a provider of micro-acoustic, audio processing and precision device solutions, serving the mobile consumer electronics, communications, medtech, defense, automotive, and industrial markets. The company is organized into two reportable: Audio, which designs and manufactures audio products, including microphones and balanced armature speakers, audio processors, and software and algorithms used in applications that serve the mobile, ear, and Internet of Things markets; and Precision Devices, which is focused on the design and delivery of capacitor products and mmWave radio frequency solutions.

Koninklijke Philips

LiveRamp Holdings Inc.

LiveRamp Holdings is a global technology company. The company provides enterprise customer management platform that help organizations utilize customer data to deliver products and experiences. A main component of the company's platform is the omnichannel, deterministic identity graph. Utilizing the company's identity graph, the LiveRamp platform resolves a customer's data (first-, second-, or third-party) to consumer identifiers that represent real people in a way that protects consumer privacy.

Magnachip Semiconductor Corp.

MAXIMUS Inc.

MAXIMUS is an operator of government health and human services programs worldwide. The company's segments are: United States Health and Human Services, which provides a variety of business process services such as program administration, appeals and assessments work and related consulting work; United States Federal Services, which provides program administration, appeals and assessments services and technology solutions, including system and software development and maintenance services; and Outside the United States, which provides business process services solutions for governments and commercial clients in geographies beyond the United States, including health and disability assessments.

Medifast Inc.

Medifast is engaged in the development of nutritional weight-management products and programs. The company's product lines include weight loss, weight management, and healthy living meal replacements, snacks, hydration products, and vitamins. The company sells a variety of weight loss, weight management and healthy living products all based on its proprietary formulas under the Medifast?, OPTAVIA?, Thrive by Medifast, Optimal Health by OPTAVIA, Flavors of Home?, and Essential 1 brands. The Thrive by Medifast and Optimal Health by OPTAVIA lines include a variety of formulated bars, shakes, and smoothies for those who are maintaining their weight for long-term healthy living.

Mueller Water Products Inc. Class A

Mueller Water Products is a manufacturer and marketer of products and services used in the transmission, distribution and measurement of water in North America. The company's products and services are used by municipalities and the residential and non-residential construction industries. The company's segments include: Infrastructure, which manufactures valves for water and gas systems, including iron gate, butterfly, tapping, automatic control and ball valves, as well as dry-barrel and wet-barrel fire hydrants and a line of pipe repair products; and Technologies, which provides residential and commercial water metering, water leak detection and pipe condition assessment products, systems and services.

Neogen Corporation

Neogen develops, manufactures, and markets a line of products for food and animal safety. The company's segments are: Food Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of diagnostic test kits and related products used by food producers and processors to detect harmful natural toxins, foodborne bacteria, allergens and levels of general sanitation; and Animal Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of products dedicated to animal safety, including a range of consumable products marketed to veterinarians and animal health product distributors, and provides genomic identification and related interpretive bioinformatic services.

Novavax Inc.

Novavax is a late-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's vaccine candidates, including its primary candidates, ResVax? and NanoFlu?, are genetically engineered, three-dimensional nanostructures of recombinant proteins critical to disease pathogenesis. The company's product pipeline targets a variety of infectious diseases. The company is also developing immune stimulating saponin-based adjuvants through its wholly owned Swedish subsidiary, Novavax AB. The company's primary adjuvant, Matrix-M?, has been shown to improve immune responses and was well-tolerated in multiple clinical trials.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

Smith & Nephew PLC

Southern Copper Corporation

Southern Copper is a copper producer. The company's mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and Mexico and the company conducts exploration activities in those countries and in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. The company's Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates, the smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper, and the refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes. The company's Mexican operations are conducted through its subsidiary, Minera Mexico, S.A. de C.V., which engages primarily in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.

Stanley Black & Decker Inc.

Stanley Black & Decker is a provider of hand tools, power tools and related accessories, engineered fastening systems and products, services and equipment for oil and gas and infrastructure applications, commercial electronic security and monitoring systems, healthcare solutions, and automatic doors. The company's segments include: Tools and Storage, which is comprised of the power tools and equipment and hand tools, accessories and storage businesses; Industrial, which is comprised of the engineered fastening and infrastructure businesses; and Security, which is comprised of the convergent security solutions and the mechanical access solutions businesses.

Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.

Sturm, Ruger & Company is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of firearms to domestic customers. The company has two reportable operating segments, which are firearms and castings. The firearms segment manufactures and sells rifles, pistols, and revolvers under the Ruger name and trademark. Most firearms are available in several models based upon caliber, finish, barrel length, and other features. The castings segment manufactures and sells investment castings made from steel alloys and metal injection molding (MIM) parts for internal use in the firearms segment. The castings and MIM parts sold to outside customers, either directly or through manufacturers' representatives.

Trex Company Inc.

Trex Company is a manufacturer of composite decking and railing products, which are marketed under the brand name Trex?. In addition, the company is a national provider of custom-engineered railing and staging, systems for the commercial and multi-family market, including sports stadiums and performing arts venues. The company operates in two reportable segments: Trex Residential Products, which provides a set of product offerings in the decking, railing, fencing, steel deck framing, and outdoor lighting categories; and Trex Commercial Products, which designs and engineers custom railing solutions, which are used in collegiate sports facilities, standardized architectural and aluminum railing systems.

TRINSEO PLC

Tyson Foods Inc. Class A

Tyson Foods is a food company. The company's operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc., the company is engaged as poultry breeding stock supplier. The company also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company produces a range of fresh, frozen and refrigerated food products. The company operates in Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods segments.

V.F. Corporation

VF is an apparel and footwear company. The company designs, produces, procures, markets and distributes a variety of lifestyle products, including outerwear, footwear, occupational and performance apparel, jeanswear, backpacks and luggage for consumers of all ages. Products are marketed primarily under the company-owned brand names. The company's segment comprised of: Outdoor, which includes performance-based and outdoor apparel, footwear and equipment; Active, which includes active apparel, footwear and accessories; Work, which consists of work and work-inspired lifestyle apparel and footwear and occupational apparel; and Jeans, which markets denim and related casual apparel products.

YETI Holdings

Yeti is a designer, marketer, and distributor of products for the outdoor and recreation market which are sold under the YETI brand. The company's product portfolio is comprised of three categories: Coolers and Equipment; Drinkware; and Other. The company's Coolers and Equipment category includes hard coolers, soft coolers, outdoor equipment and other products, as well as accessories and replacement parts for these products. The company's Drinkware category includes its stainless-steel drinkware products and related accessories. In addition, the company's Other category is primarily comprised of ice substitutes, and YETI-branded gear, such as shirts, hats, and other miscellaneous products.

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