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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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Aflac Incorporated

Aflac, through its subsidiaries, provides financial protection to people worldwide. The company's principal business is supplemental health and life insurance products. The company's insurance business consists of two reporting segments: Aflac Japan, which are designed to help consumers pay for medical and nonmedical costs that are not reimbursed under Japan's national health insurance system; and Aflac U.S., which the insurance products to provide supplemental coverage for people who already have primary medical or primary insurance coverage. The Aflac Japan's insurance products includes of cancer insurance, and medical insurance; and Aflac U.S. products includes of accident insurance, among others.

Aon Plc Class A

Arch Capital Group Ltd.

Argenx ADS

BELLRING BRANDS INC

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.

CELLEBRITE DI LTD

Chemed Corporation

Chemed purchases, operates and divests subsidiaries engaged in business activities. The company conducts its business operations in two segments: the VITAS segment (VITAS) and the Roto-Rooter segment (Roto-Rooter). The VITAS segment provides hospice and palliative care services to its patients through a network of physicians, registered nurses, home health aides, social workers, clergy and volunteers. The Roto-Rooter segment provides plumbing, drain cleaning, water restoration and other related services to residential and commercial customers.

CLEARWATER ANALYTICS HLDGS INC

Employers Holdings Inc.

Employers Holdings is a holding company. Through its wholly owned insurance subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a providers of workers' compensation insurance and services focused on select, small businesses engaged in low-to-medium hazard industries. The company provides insurance through Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, Employers Compensation Insurance Company, Employers Preferred Insurance Company, Employers Assurance Company and Cerity Insurance Company. Workers' compensation provides insurance coverage for the statutorily prescribed benefits that employers are required to provide to their employees who may be injured or suffer illness in the course of employment.

Enerpac Tool Group Corp Class A

Enerpac Tool Group is an industrial tools and services company. The company is engaged in the engineering and manufacturing of high pressure hydraulic tools, controlled force products and solutions for precise positioning of heavy loads. The company's segments include: Industrial Tools & Services (IT&S) and Other. The IT&S reportable segment is engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of hydraulic and mechanical tools, as well as providing services and tool rentals to the industrial, maintenance, infrastructure, oil and gas, energy and other markets. The Other operating segment is comprised of the company's Cortland U.S. business.

Everest Re Group Ltd.

Everest Re Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company underwrites reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The company's segments are: U.S. Reinsurance, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and specialty lines of business, including Marine, Aviation, Surety and Accident and Health business; International, which focuses on the international reinsurance markets; Bermuda, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and property and casualty reinsurance; and Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance through agents, wholesale and retail brokers and surplus lines brokers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda.

Gartner Inc.

Gartner is a research and advisory company. The company's principal products and services are delivered through its three business segments: Research, which provides insights and advice across various functional areas of the enterprise through research, briefings, proprietary tools, access to the company's research personnel, peer networking services and membership programs; Conferences, which provides business personnel across an organization the opportunity to learn, share and network; and Consulting, which helps chief information officers and other senior executives driving technology-related strategic initiatives move from insight to action.

Globant SA

Inspire Medical Systems

Inspire Medical Systems is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of solutions for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. The company's proprietary Inspire system is the United States Food and Drug Administration-approved neurostimulation technology that provides a treatment for moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea. The company has developed a solution that continuously monitors a patient's breathing and delivers mild hypoglossal nerve stimulation to maintain an open airway. The company sells its Inspire system to hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers in the United States and in select countries in Europe through a direct sales organization.

INTAPP INC

KBR Inc.

KBR provides services and technologies across the asset and program life-cycle within the government services and hydrocarbons industries. The company has three segments: Government Solutions, which provides life-cycle support solutions to defense, space, aviation and other programs and missions for military and other government agencies; Technology Solutions, which combines technologies, equipment and catalyst supply, digital solutions and associated knowledge-based services into a global business for refining, petrochemicals, inorganic and specialty chemicals; and Energy Solutions, which provides life-cycle support solutions across the upstream, midstream and downstream hydrocarbons markets.

KINDERCARE LEARNING COS INC

KNIFE RIVER CORPORATION

Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.

Marsh & McLennan Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides clients advice and solutions in risk, strategy and people. The company provides analysis, advice and transactional capabilities to clients. The company conducts business through two segments: Risk and Insurance Services, which includes risk management activities (risk advice, risk transfer and risk control and mitigation solutions) as well as insurance and reinsurance broking and services; and Consulting, which includes health, wealth and career services and products, and other management, economic and brand consulting services.

ONEOK Inc.

Oneok is a midstream service provider. The company's segments include: Natural Gas Gathering and Processing, which provides midstream services to producers in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Kansas and Oklahoma; natural gas liquids (NGLs), which owns and operates facilities that gather, fractionate, treat and distribute NGLs and store NGL products, primarily in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico and the Rocky Mountain region; and Natural Gas Pipelines, which provides transportation and storage services to end users through its wholly owned assets and its ownership interests in Northern Border Pipeline Company and Roadrunner Gas Transmission, LLC.

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

REMITLY GLOBAL INC

RLI Corp.

RLI is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries collectively known as RLI Insurance Group, the company is engaged in underwriting selected property and casualty insurance. The company has three segments: casualty, which includes commercial excess and personal umbrella, general liability, commercial transportation, professional services, small commercial, executive products, and other casualty; property, which includes commercial property, specialty personal and other property coverages; and surety, which includes miscellaneous surety coverage, commercial surety bonds, and bonds for small to medium-sized contractors.

Tandem Diabetes Care

Tandem Diabetes Care is a medical device company engaged in designing, developing and commercializing products for people with insulin-dependent diabetes. The company primarily focuses on the t:slim X2 Insulin Delivery System, or t:slim X2, the company's key pump platform that is capable of remote feature updates and designed to display continuous glucose monitoring sensor information directly on the pump home screen. In addition to selling insulin pumps, the company sells disposable products that are used together with the pumps and are replaced every few days, including cartridges for storing and delivering insulin, and infusion sets that connect the insulin pump to a user's body.

Tarsus Pharmaceuticals

WEAVE COMMUNICATIONS INC

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Ross LaDuke

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