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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
Albany International Corp. Class A

Albany International is engaged in two business segments: Machine Clothing and Albany Engineered Composites (AEC). The Machine Clothing segment supplies permeable and impermeable belts used in the manufacture of paper, paperboard, tissue and towel, pulp, nonwovens, fiber cement and other industrial applications. This segment also supplies consumable fabrics used in the manufacturing process in the pulp, corrugator, nonwovens, fiber cement, building products, and tannery and textile industries. The AEC segment provides engineered, composite structures to customers in the aerospace and defense industries. Other AEC programs include the F-35, Boeing 787, Sikorsky CH-53K, and JASSM programs.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions delivers information technology solutions and services. The company is engaged in providing electronic health records (EHRs), financial management, population health management, medicine and consumer solutions. The company's segments are: Clinical and Financial Solutions, which consists of the sale of integrated clinical software applications and financial and information solutions, including EHR-related software, connectivity and coordinated care solutions, financial and practice management software, related installation, and revenue cycle management; Population Health, which consists the sale of health management, financial management and patient engagement solutions.

Anheuser-Busch InBev N.V. ADS

Arch Resources Inc. Class A

Arch Coal is a coal producer. The company's main business is the production of thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines located throughout the U.S., for sale to utility, industrial and steel producers both in the U.S. and around the world. The company's segments are based on two lines of business, metallurgical coal and thermal coal, and may include a number of mine complexes. The company's segments are: the Powder River Basin, containing primary thermal operations in Wyoming; the Metallurgical, containing metallurgical operations in West Virginia; and the Other Thermal, containing supplementary thermal operations in Colorado, Illinois, and the Coal Mac thermal operation in West Virginia.

Black Stone Minerals LP

Blueprint Medicines Corp.

Blueprint Medicines is a precision therapy company focused on genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy. The company has one precision therapy approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, and is developing investigational medicines in clinical development, along with various research programs including: Avapritinib, which is for the treatment of systemic mastocytosis (SM); BLU-263, which is for the treatment of indolent SM and other mast cell disorders; pralsetinib, which is for the treatment of RET-altered non-small cell lung cancer, medullary thyroid carcinoma, and other solid tumors; and fisogatinib, which is for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma.

Brigham Minerals

Brigham Minerals operates as a mineral acquisition company. The company focuses on exploration of oil and gas. The company serves customers in the United States.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation

Cabot Oil & Gas is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation, exploration and production of oil and gas properties. The company operates in one segment, natural gas and oil development, exploitation, exploration and production, in the continental United States. The company's operations are primarily concentrated in one unconventional play—the Marcellus Shale in northeast Pennsylvania.

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

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.

Chevron Corporation

Chevron is engaged in energy and chemicals operations. Upstream operations consist primarily of, among others, exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; processing, liquefaction, transportation and regasification associated with liquefied natural gas, storage and marketing of natural gas; and a gas-to-liquids plant. Downstream operations consist primarily of, among others, refining crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses and fuel and lubricant additives.

China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd.

Compania de Minas Buenaventura SAA Sponsored ADR

CVR Energy Inc.

CVR Energy is a holding company. The company is engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries through its holdings in CVR Refining, LP (CVR Refining) and CVR Partners, LP (CVR Partners). CVR Refining is an independent petroleum refiner and marketer of transportation fuels. CVR Partners produces and markets nitrogen fertilizers in the form of urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. The company's segments include: Petroleum, which includes refineries located in Coffeyville, KS and Wynnewood, OK and supporting logistics assets in the region; and Nitrogen Fertilizer, which includes nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facilities located in Coffeyville, KS and East Dubuque, IL.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Dollar Tree is an operator of discount variety stores. The company's stores operate under the names of Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree Canada. The company's segments are: Dollar Tree, which is the operator of discount variety stores providing merchandise at the fixed price point of $1.00; and Family Dollar, which operates general merchandise discount retail stores. The merchandise mix in the company's Dollar Tree stores consists of consumable merchandise, variety merchandise, and seasonal goods. The merchandise mix in the company's Family Dollar stores consists of consumable merchandise, home products, apparel and accessories merchandise, and seasonal and electronics merchandise.

Edgewell Personal Care Co.

Edgewell Personal Care is a manufacturer and marketer of personal care products. The company's segments are: Wet Shave, which manufactures and distributes Schick and Wilkinson Sword razor systems, composed of razor handles and refillable blades, and disposable shave products for men and women; Sun and Skin Care, which markets sun care products under the Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic brands; Feminine Care, which provides tampons under the Playtex Gentle Glide? 360??, Playtex Sport?, Playtex and o.b. brands, and markets pads and liners under the Stayfree and Carefree brands; and All Other, which includes infant care, pet care and miscellaneous other products.

Enerplus Corporation

Enerplus is engaged in acquiring, exploiting and operating crude oil and natural gas assets for the benefit of Co. As of Dec 31 2010, Co.'s net proved reserves of light and medium oil, heavy oil, natural gas liquids, natural gas and shale gas amounted to 68,508,000 barrels, 23,963,000 barrels, 6,019,000 barrels, 473,896,000,000 cubic feet and 41,815,000,000 cubic feet, respectively.

Exxon Mobil Corporation

Exxon Mobil operates or markets products in United States and other countries through its divisions and affiliated companies. The company's business involves exploration for, and production of, crude oil and natural gas and manufacture, trade, transport and sale of crude oil, natural gas, petroleum products, petrochemicals and other products. In United States, the company's development activities are focused on the onshore United States, in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico and the Bakken oil play in North Dakota. Gas development activities are also focused on the Marcellus Shale of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the Utica Shale of Ohio and the Haynesville Shale of East Texas and Louisiana.

Haemonetics Corporation

Haemonetics is a healthcare company. The company has three product categories: Plasma, which includes plasma collection devices and disposables, plasma donor management software, and anticoagulant and saline sold to plasma customers; Blood Center, which includes blood collection and processing devices and disposables for red cells, platelets and whole blood as well as related donor management software; and Hospital, which is comprised of Hemostasis Management and Cell Processing products, includes devices and methodologies for measuring coagulation characteristics of blood, surgical blood salvage systems, blood cell processing systems, disposables and blood transfusion management software.

IMAX Corporation

IMAX is an entertainment technology company. Co.'s businesses are: the design and manufacture of theater systems and the sale or contribution of those systems to customers under theater system arrangements; and the Digital Re-Mastering of films into the IMAX format and the exhibition of those films in the IMAX theater network. Co. is also engaged in the production and distribution of original large-format films, the provision of services in support of the IMAX theater network, the provision of post-production services for large-format films, the operation of three IMAX theaters and, from time-to-time the conversion of two-dimensional and three-dimensional Hollywood feature films.

Kelly Services Inc. Class A

Kelly Services provides workforce solutions to customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions. The company's segments include: Americas Staffing, which delivers temporary staffing, as well as direct-hire placement services, in a number of staffing services such as office, education, marketing, and electronic assembly; International Staffing, which provides a similar range of staffing services as its Americas Staffing segment, including office, engineering, finance and accounting, information technology, and science; and Global Talent Solutions, which combines the delivery structure of its and consulting group and centrally delivered staffing business.

KT Corp (ADR)

Macerich Company

Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company is involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community/power shopping centers. The company is the sole general partner of, and owns a majority of the ownership interests in, The Macerich Partnership, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The Operating Partnership owns or has an ownership interest in regional shopping centers and community/power shopping centers. The company conducts all of its operations through the Operating Partnership and its management companies, including Macerich Property Management Company, LLC and Macerich Management Company.

Nu Skin Enterprises Inc. Class A

Nu Skin Enterprises develops and distributes a line of beauty and wellness solutions. The company's primary product categories are personal care products and wellness products. The company develops and distributes products in these two categories under its Nu Skin and Pharmanex brands, respectively. The company's personal care products include its skin care devices. The company's skin care devices and related consumables are ageLOC Spa systems and its ageLOC LumiSpa skin treatment and cleansing device. The company's wellness products line includes its LifePak nutritional supplements, ageLOC Youth nutritional supplements and its ageLOC TR90 weight management and body shaping system.

OSI Systems Inc.

OSI Systems, together with its subsidiaries, is a designer and manufacturer of electronic systems and components for applications. The company sells its products and provides related services in various markets, including homeland security, healthcare, defense and aerospace. The company's operating divisions are: Security, which provides security and inspection systems, security screening solutions and related services; Healthcare, which provides patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology, and anesthesia delivery and ventilation systems; Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, which provides electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for the Security and Healthcare divisions.

PFB
PFB

PFB is engaged in the business of manufacturing insulated building products from expanded polystyrene (EPS) materials and marketing these products in North America and Japan. The integrated product lines are marketed under brand names and trade marks: (i) Plasti-Fab, EPS Product Solutions® which consists of EPS rigid foam for insulation of various applications, (ii) Advantage ICF System® which is fully insulated blocks for creating an energy efficient wall component, (iii) Insulspan® SIPS which consists of pre-cut panel units for building applications, and (iv) Riverbend Timber Framing® which consists of structural framework of a building.

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.

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's primary product candidate is setmelanotide, which is a melanocortin-4 (MC4) receptor agonist peptide for the treatment of rare genetic disorders of obesity caused by MC4 pathway deficiencies. MC4 pathway deficiencies result in the disruption of satiety signals and energy homeostasis in the body, which, in turn, leads to intense feelings of hunger and to obesity. The company is evaluating setmelanotide for the treatment of six single gene related MC4 pathway deficiencies: pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), leptin receptor, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Alstrom syndrome, POMC heterozygous, and POMC epigenetic disorders.

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.

Travelers Companies Inc.

Travelers Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing commercial and personal property and casualty insurance products and services to businesses, government units, associations and individuals. The company's segments include: Business Insurance, which provides property and casualty insurance and insurance-related services; Bond and Specialty Insurance, which provides surety, fidelity, management liability, professional liability, and other property and casualty coverages and related risk management services, and certain specialty insurance products; and Personal Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance covering individuals' personal risks.

United States Steel Corporation

United States Steel is a steel producer of flat-rolled and tubular products with production operations in the United States and Europe. The company is also engaged in railroad services and real estate operations. The company's segments are: North American Flat-Rolled, which produces slabs, strip mill plates, sheets and tin mill products; U. S. Steel Europe, which produces and sells slabs, strip mill plate, sheet, tin mill products and spiral welded pipe, as well as heating radiators and refractory ceramic materials; and Tubular Products, which produces and sells electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing (known as oil country tubular goods), and standard and line pipe and mechanical tubing.

ViacomCBS Inc. Class B

ViacomCBS is a media and entertainment company. The company's TV Entertainment segment creates and acquires programming for distribution and viewing on several media platforms. The company's Cable Networks segment creates and acquires programming for distribution and viewing on several media platforms. The company's Filmed Entertainment segment develops, produces, finances, acquires and distributes films, television programming and other entertainment content in various markets and media worldwide. The company's Publishing segment publishes and distributes Simon & Schuster consumer books domestically and internationally and includes imprints such as Simon & Schuster?, Scribner?, Atria Books? and Gallery Books?.

Wabash National Corporation

Wabash National provides solutions for the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries. The company's segments are: Commercial Trailer Products, which designs and manufactures dry and refrigerated vans, platform trailers and other transportation related equipment; Diversified Products, which designs and manufactures liquid transportation systems, isolators, stationary silos and downflow booths, and various proprietary products, including a line of aerodynamic solutions to improve overall trailer aerodynamics and fuel economy; and Final Mile Products, which designs and manufactures cutaway and dry-freight van bodies and refrigerated and stake bodies.

Williams Companies Inc.

Williams Companies is an energy infrastructure company focused on connecting North America's hydrocarbon resource plays to markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its gas pipeline and midstream business. The company's segments are: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, which includes the company's subsidiary, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC, an interstate natural gas pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern seaboard; Northeast G&P, which includes the company's natural gas gathering, compression, processing, and NGL fractionation businesses; and West, which includes the company's interstate natural gas pipeline.

WSFS Financial Corporation

WSFS Financial is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, the company's banking business is commercial lending primarily funded by customer-generated deposits. The company funds this business with deposits generated through commercial relationships and retail deposits. The company also provides consumer loan products, retail securities and insurance brokerage services through its retail branches and mortgage and title services through those branches and through WSFS Mortgage. WSFS Mortgage is a mortgage banking company and abstract and title company focusing on a variety of residential mortgage and refinancing solutions.

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