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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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Advansix Inc.

AdvanSix is a manufacturer of Nylon 6, a polymer resin which is a synthetic material used by the company's customers to produce plastics, fibers, filaments and films that, in turn, are used in such end-products as automotive and electronic components, carpets, sports apparel, fishing nets and food and industrial packaging. The company also sells other products including caprolactam, ammonium sulfate fertilizers, and other chemical intermediates. The company sells its Nylon 6 resin under the Aegis? brand name, its nylon films under the Capran? brand name and its ammonium sulfate fertilizer under the Sulf-N? brand name. Chemical intermediates are also sold under the brand names of Nadone?, Naxol? and EZ-Blox?.

AIRSCULPT TECHNOLOGIES INC

Arbor Realty Trust Inc.

Arbor Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company operates through two business segments: its Structured Loan Origination and Investment Business (Structured Business) and its Agency Loan Origination and Servicing Business (Agency Business). Through its Structured Business, the company invests in a portfolio of structured finance assets in the multifamily, single-family rental and commercial real estate markets, primarily consisting of bridge and mezzanine loans, including junior participating interests in first mortgages, preferred and direct equity. Through its Agency Business, the company originates, sells and services a range of multifamily finance products.

AtriCure Inc.

AtriCure is a provider of treatments for atrial fibrillation and left atrial appendage management. The company provides product lines for left atrial appendage management and open and minimally invasive cardiac tissue ablation. The company's Radio Frequency Ablation devices include; CryoICE Cryoablation System, which is used in open ablation procedures and consists of the cryoICE Box generator along with a single-use disposable probe; EPi-Sense Guided Coagulation System with VisiTrax Technology, which utilizes monopolar energy for the coagulation of tissue; and LARIAT System, which is a suture-based solution for soft-tissue closure and is compatible with a range of anatomical shapes.

Boyd Gaming Corporation

Boyd Gaming is a multi-jurisdictional gaming company. The company operates owned gaming entertainment properties in Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The company has three reportable business segments: Las Vegas Locals, which includes casinos that primarily serve the resident population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area; Downtown Las Vegas, focuses on gaming enthusiasts from Hawaii and tour and travel agents in Hawaii; and Midwest and South, which includes land-based casinos, dockside riverboat casinos, racinos and barge-based casinos. The company also operates a travel agency and a captive insurance company that underwrites travel-related insurance.

Caesars Entertainment Inc

Centrus Energy Corporation

Centrus Energy is a supplier of nuclear fuel and services for the nuclear power industry. The company operates two business segments: low-enriched uranium (LEU), which supplies various components of nuclear fuel to utilities; and contract services, which provides engineering, design, and manufacturing services to government and private sector customers. The company's LEU business involves the sale of low-enriched uranium, its components, and natural uranium to utilities operating commercial nuclear power plants. LEU is a component in the production of nuclear fuel for reactors that produce electricity. The company supplies LEU to both domestic and international utilities for use in nuclear reactors.

CF Industries Holdings Inc.

CF Industries Holdings is a global fertilizer and chemical company. The company's principal nitrogen fertilizer products are anhydrous ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution and ammonium nitrate. The company's other nitrogen products include diesel exhaust fluid, urea liquor, nitric acid and aqua ammonia, which are sold primarily to its industrial customers, and compound fertilizer products, which are solid granular fertilizer products for which the nutrient content is a combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. The company serves its customers in North America through its production, storage, transportation and distribution network.

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORP

Choice Hotels International Inc.

Choice Hotels International is a hotel franchisor. The company franchises lodging properties under the following proprietary brand names: Comfort Inn?, Comfort Suites?, Quality?, Clarion?, Clarion Pointe?, Sleep Inn?, Econo Lodge?, Rodeway Inn?, MainStay Suites?, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel?, WoodSpring Suites?, Cambria? Hotels, and Ascend Hotel Collection?. The company's primary segment is the hotel franchising business. The company's domestic franchising operations are conducted through direct franchising relationships while its international franchise operations are conducted through a combination of direct franchising and master franchising relationships.

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.

EATON VANCE CALIFORNIA MUN INC TRST

Expedia Group Inc.

Expedia Group is an online travel company. The company's portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com?, an online travel brand; Hotels.com?, a global lodging company operating websites with its Hotels.com? Rewards loyalty program; Vrbo?, a global online marketplace with a focus on providing lodging options for families; Egencia?, a corporate travel management company; Hotwire?, an online travel website providing spontaneous travel through its Hot Rate? deals; trivago?, an online hotel metasearch platform; and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., provider of a global rail retail and distribution platform connecting rail carriers and suppliers to both online and offline travel distributors.

Globe Life Inc.

Globe Life is an insurance holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the company provides a variety of life and supplemental health insurance products and annuities to customers. The company's segments are: life insurance, which writes a variety of nonparticipating ordinary life insurance products including whole-life, term life, and other life insurance; health insurance, which provides Medicare Supplement and limited-benefit supplemental health insurance products that include primarily critical illness and accident plans; annuities, which include single-premium and flexible-premium deferred annuities; and investments, which consist primarily of investment-grade securities.

Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc.

Granite Point Mortgage Trust operates as a real estate investment trust. The company focuses primarily on directly originating, investing in and managing senior floating-rate commercial mortgage loans and other debt and debt-like commercial real estate investments. The company is externally managed by Pine River Capital Management L.P. The company's primary target investments are directly originated floating-rate performing senior commercial real estate loans. The company provides intermediate-term bridge or transitional financing for a variety of purposes, including acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancings and a range of business plans, including lease-up, renovation, repositioning and repurposing of the property.

Invesco Ltd.

Iridium Communications Inc.

Iridium Communications is a provider of mobile voice and data communications services to businesses, the U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and consumers. The company's Commercial Services include Postpaid Mobile Voice and Data Satellite Communications, Iridium push-to-talk, Broadband Data, and Internet of Things (IoT) Services. The company provides U.S. government customers bulk access to its services, including voice, netted voice, data, messaging and paging services. The company's products include Satellite Handsets, Iridium GO!, Voice and Data Modems, Broadband Data Devices, IoT Data Devices, and Device Development and Manufacturing.

LEG Immobilien AG

Leg Immobilien is a real estate company engaged in the management of its residential property portfolio as well as the acquisition of housing portfolios. As of Dec 31 2013, Co.'s portfolio comprised 94,311 residential units, 1,031 commercial units and 22,903 garages and parking spaces. These assets are distributed across around 160 locations, most of which are in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Lithia Motors Inc. Class A

Lithia Motors is a providers of personal transportation solutions. The company's segments are Domestic, Import and Luxury. The company's Domestic segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured by Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. The company's Import segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured primarily by Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Nissan and Volkswagen. The company's Luxury segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured primarily by BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. The franchises in each segment also sell used vehicles, parts and automotive services, and automotive finance and insurance products.

Lumentum Holdings Inc.

Lumentum Holdings is a provider of optical and photonic products addressing a range of end-market applications including Optical Communications (OpComms) and Commercial Lasers (Lasers) for manufacturing, inspection and life-science applications. The company's segments are: OpComms, which include a range of components, modules and subsystems to support customers including carrier networks of access, metro, long-haul and submarine applications; and Lasers, which provides lasers for the industrial and scientific markets used in a range of original equipment manufacturer applications including diode-pumped solid-state, fiber, diode, direct-diode and gas lasers such as argon-ion and helium-neon lasers.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

Papa John's International Inc.

Papa John's International operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout restaurants and, in certain international markets, dine-in and delivery restaurants. The company has four reportable segments: domestic the company-owned restaurants, which engages in retail sales of pizza and side items; North America commissaries, which includes the operations of the company's regional dough production and product distribution centers; North America franchising, which includes the company's franchise sales and support activities; and international operations, which includes the distribution sales to franchised Papa John's restaurants in the United Kingdom and its franchise sales and support activities.

Peabody Energy Corporation

Peabody Energy is a coal company, engaged in the mining of thermal coal for sale primarily to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for sale to industrial customers. The company owns interests in several coal mining operations located in the U.S. and Australia. The company has a majority interest in several of those mining operations and an equity interest in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. (Middlemount), which owns the Middlemount Mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition to its mining operations, the company markets and brokers coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts through trading and business offices in the U.S., Australia, China, and the U.K.

ProAssurance Corporation

ProAssurance is a holding company for property and casualty insurance companies. The company has five segments: Specialty Property and Casualty, which includes its professional liability business and medical technology liability business; Workers' Compensation, which includes its workers' compensation business provided to employers with 1,000 or fewer employees; Segregated Portfolio Cell Reinsurance, which includes the company's Cayman Islands segregated portfolio cell operations; Lloyd's Syndicate, which includes the company's participation in Lloyd's of London Syndicates 1729 and 6131; and Corporate, which includes the company's investment operations, which are managed at the corporate level.

Replimune Group

Replimune Group is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of oncolytic immunotherapies to treat cancer. The company's primary product candidate, RP1, is a selectively replicating version of herpes simplex virus 1 that expresses GALV-GP R(-) and human GM-CSF. The company has designed its RP2 product candidate to express an anti-CTLA-4 antibody-like protein in order to block the inhibition of the immune response otherwise caused by CTLA-4, a protein that inhibits the immune response to tumors. The company has designed its RP3 product candidate to express immune-activating proteins that stimulate T cells, in addition to anti-CTLA-4 and GALV-GP R(-).

Robert Half International Inc.

Robert Half International provides staffing and risk consulting services. The company, through its Accountemps, Robert Half Finance & Accounting, and Robert Half Management Resources divisions, is a provider of temporary, full-time, and project personnel in accounting and finance fields. The company's OfficeTeam division places office and administrative personnel, ranging from executive and administrative assistants to receptionists and customer service representatives. The Robert Half Technology division provides information technology contract consultants, places employees, and provides managed services in areas ranging from multiple platform systems integration to end-user technical and desktop support.

SAVERS VALUE VILLAGE INC

Schnitzer Steel Industries Inc. Class A

Schnitzer Steel Industries is engaged as a recycler of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal, including end-of-life vehicles, and a manufacturer of finished steel products. The company has two segments: Auto and Metals Recycling, which acquires and recycles ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal for sale to foreign and domestic metal producers, processors and brokers, and procures salvaged vehicles and sells serviceable used auto parts from these vehicles through a network of self-service auto parts stores; and Cascade Steel and Scrap, which produces a range of finished steel long products using ferrous recycled scrap metal and other raw materials.

Southwestern Energy Company

Southwestern Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent energy company engaged in exploration, development and production activities, including the related marketing of natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) produced in its operations. The company's primary business is the exploration for, and production of, natural gas, oil and NGLs. The company's operations in northeast Pennsylvania are primarily focused on the unconventional natural gas reservoir known as the Marcellus Shale, and its operations in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania are focused on the Marcellus Shale, the Utica and the Upper Devonian unconventional natural gas, oil and NGL reservoirs.

SPARTANNASH CO

SpartanNash is a grocery distributor and grocery retailer. The company operates three segments: Food Distribution, which provides grocery products and perishable food products to independent retailers, the company's corporate owned retail stores, food service distributors and various other customers; Military, which contracts with manufacturers to distribute a range of grocery products, including dry groceries, beverages, meat, and frozen foods, primarily to military commissaries and exchanges; and Retail, which operated corporate owned retail stores in the Midwest region primarily under banners including Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Markets, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket and Family Fresh Market.

Teledyne Technologies Incorporated

Teledyne Technologies provides technologies for industrial markets. These markets include aerospace and defense, factory automation, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, oceanographic research, deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, medical imaging and pharmaceutical research. The company's products include digital imaging sensors, cameras and systems within the visible, infrared and X-ray spectra, monitoring and control instrumentation for marine and environmental applications, and harsh environment interconnects, among others. The company has four segments: Instrumentation, Digital Imaging, Aerospace and Defense Electronics and Engineered Systems.

Tesla Inc

Tesla designs, develops, manufactures, sells and leases electric vehicles and energy generation and storage systems, and provides services related to its products. The company operates as two reportable segments: automotive, which includes the design, development, manufacturing, sales, and leasing of electric vehicles as well as sales of automotive regulatory credits; and energy generation and storage, which includes the design, manufacture, installation, sales, and leasing of solar energy generation and energy storage products, services related to such products, and sales of solar energy system incentives.

TRINSEO PLC

Unimit Engineering

Unimit Engineering Public Company Limited is a Thailand-based company engaged in steel fabrication business. The Company principal activities include designs, shop fabrication, field installations and erections of steel products and construction works according to contracts. Its main products and services cover pressure vessels, machinery parts, storage tanks, structures and piping, and mechanical installations. The pressure vessels include liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tanks, cryogenic tanks, international standards organization (ISO) tanks, columns, towers, and shell and tube heat exchangers. Its machinery parts include fan casings, pre heaters and water treatment parts. The storage tanks consist of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) storage tanks, silos and hoppers. The structures and piping comprise steel structures, piping, platforms and ladders. Its mechanical installations include piping and equipment installations, modules, modifications and shut down works.

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.

Vicor Corp.

Vicor designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power. Reflecting its Power Component Design Methodology, the company provides a range of modular building blocks enabling design of a power system specific to a customer's needs. The company categorizes its product portfolios as either Advanced Products or Brick Products. The company also sells a range of electrical and mechanical accessories for use with its products. The Advanced Products category consists of products which are used to implement the company's proprietary Factorized Power Architecture?, a power distribution architecture. The Brick Products category consists of integrated power systems.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is a hotel franchisor, licensing its hotel brands to hotel owners around the world. The company operates in the following segments: Hotel franchising, which licenses the company's lodging brands and provides related services to third-party hotel owners and others; and Hotel management, which provides hotel management services for full-service and limited-service hotels as well as several hotels that are owned by the company

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