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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.43 For Business Accounts Only

Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

CEVA, MU, NVDA, POWI, SITM, COHR, RTX, DELL, HPQ, SONYT, TM, SMP, PATK, SWK, PATK, SWK, MOV, HUN, SSL, ELAN, GSK, LIVN, OMI, SHC, BGS, MKC, TSN, UVV, CHD

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
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.

CEVA Inc.

CEVA is a licensor of signal processing platforms and artificial intelligence (AI) processors. The company partners with semiconductor companies and original equipment manufacturers to create devices for a range of end markets, including mobile, consumer, automotive, industrial and Internet-of-Things (IoT).Co.'s portfolio includes platforms for 5G baseband processing for handsets and RAN, end-to-end offerings for cellular IoT, front-end voice and speech recognition software and algorithms along with digital signal processors for voice enabled devices and AI assistants, imaging and computer vision for any camera-enabled device, and a family of self-contained AI processors.

Church & Dwight Co. Inc.

Church & Dwight develops, manufactures and markets a range of consumer products. The company's consumer products include: ARM & HAMMER? baking soda, cat litter, laundry detergent, carpet deodorizer and other baking soda based products; TROJAN? condoms, lubricants and vibrators; OXICLEAN? stain removers, cleaning solutions, laundry detergents and bleach alternatives; SPINBRUSH? battery-operated toothbrushes; FIRST RESPONSE? home pregnancy and ovulation test kits; NAIR? depilatories; ORAJEL? oral analgesic; XTRA? laundry detergent; L'IL CRITTERS? and VITAFUSION? gummy dietary supplements; BATISTE? dry shampoo; WATERPIK? water flossers and showerheads, and FLAWLESS? hair removal products.

Dell Technologies Inc Class C

Dell Technologies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, develops, manufactures, markets, sells, and supports a range of products and services. The company's reportable segments are: Infrastructure Solutions Group, which includes servers, networking, and storage, as well as services and third-party software and peripherals; Client Solutions Group, which includes desktops, thin client products, and notebooks, as well as services and third-party software and peripherals; and VMware, which provides compute, cloud management, networking and security, storage and availability, and other end-user computing offerings.

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.

GlaxoSmithKline PLC CEDEAR

HEXPOL AB Class B

Hexpol is organized in two business areas: HEXPOL Compounding and HEXPOL Engineered Products. HEXPOL Compounding is engaged as a supplier in the development and manufacture of polymer compounds. HEXPOL Compounding focuses primarily on two key segments of the polymer market: rubber compounding and thermoplastic elastomer compounding. HEXPOL Engineered Products is engaged as a supplier of products such as gaskets for plate heat exchangers and wheels for the forklift industry. The business area also provides rubber profiles, mainly for the construction and engineering industries.

Horizons Natural Gas ETF

LivaNova Plc

LivaNova is a medical device company focused on the development and delivery of therapeutic solutions. Co. has three product franchises: Neuromodulation, which engaged in the design, development and marketing of neuromodulation therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and treatment resistant depression; Cardiac Surgery, which engaged in the development, production and sale of cardiovascular surgery products; and Cardiac Rhythm Management, which engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.

LYXOR ETF SHORT CAC 40

McCormick & Company Incorporated

McCormick & Co. manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavor products to the food industry- retailers, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. The company also is partner in a number of joint ventures that are involved in the manufacture and sale of flavor products. The company's business segments comprised of: consumer, in which the company markets its products to customers and supplies private label items, known as store brands; and flavor solutions, which provides a range of flavor solutions including seasoning blends, spices and herbs, condiments, coating systems and compound flavors.

Micron Technology Inc.

Micron Technology provides memory and storage solutions. The company's portfolio of memory and storage technologies include Dynamic Random Access Memory, Not And, 3D XPoint? memory, and Not Or. The company's segments are: Compute and Networking Business, which includes memory products sold into client, cloud server, enterprise, graphics, and networking markets; Mobile Business, which includes memory products sold into smartphone and other mobile-device markets; Storage Business, which includes Solid-State Drives and component-level solutions sold into enterprise and cloud, client, and consumer storage markets; and Embedded Business, which includes memory and storage products.

Movado Group Inc.

Movado Group designs, sources, markets and distributes watches. The company's portfolio of watch brands comprised of owned brands MOVADO?, MVMT?, OLIVIA BURTON?, EBEL? and CONCORD? as well as licensed brands COACH?, TOMMY HILFIGER?, HUGO BOSS?, LACOSTE?, SCUDERIA FERRARI?, REBECCA MINKOFF? and URI MINKOFF?. The company conducts its business primarily in two operating segments: Watch and Accessory Brands, which includes the designing, manufacturing and distribution of watches of quality owned brands and licensed brands; and Company Stores, which includes retail outlet locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company divides its business into two primary geographic locations: U.S. and International.

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA engages in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based visual computing and accelerated computing platforms. The company has two segments, GPU and Tegra Processor, which are based on a single underlying architecture. The company's GPU product brands are aimed at markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for artificial intelligence data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. The company's Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUs to drive supercomputing for autonomous robots, drones, and cars, as well as for game consoles and mobile gaming and entertainment devices.

Owens & Minor Inc.

Owens & Minor is a healthcare solutions company. The company provides products and services to healthcare provider, manufacturers and directly to patients across the continuum of care. The company has two segments: Global Solutions, which provides a portfolio of medical and surgical supplies and service offerings to healthcare providers including supplier management, analytics, inventory management, and clinical supply management; and Global Products, which manufactures and sources medical surgical products through its production and kitting operations as well as provides medical supplies and solutions for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections across the acute and alternate site channels.

Patrick Industries Inc.

Patrick Industries manufactures component products and distributes building products and materials serving original equipment manufacturers primarily in the recreational vehicle, manufactured housing and marine markets. The company's manufacturing segment includes the following products, among others: laminated products that are utilized to produce furniture, shelving, walls, countertops, and cabinet products, cabinet doors, fiberglass bath fixtures and tile systems. The company's distribution segment distributes, among others, pre-finished wall and ceiling panels, drywall and drywall finishing products, electronics and audio systems components, appliances, wiring, electrical and plumbing products.

Power Integrations Inc.

Power Integrations designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and other electronic components and circuitry used in high-voltage power conversion. The company's products are used in power converters that convert electricity from a high-voltage source to the type of power required for a specified downstream use. In most cases, this conversion entails, among other functions, converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) or vice versa, reducing or increasing the voltage, and regulating the output voltage and/or current according to the customer's specifications. The company's products are AC-DC power conversion, High-voltage gate drivers, and Motor-driver products.

Raytheon Technologies Corporation

Raytheon Technologies is an aerospace and defense company providing systems and services for commercial, military and government customers. Collins Aerospace Systems specializes in aerostructures, avionics, interiors, mechanical systems, mission systems and power controls that serve customers across the commercial, regional, business aviation and military sectors. Pratt & Whitney designs, manufactures and services aircraft engines and auxiliary power systems for commercial, military and business aircraft. Raytheon Intelligence & Space develops sensors, training, and cyber and software solutions. Raytheon Missiles & Defense provides end-to-end solutions to detect, track and engage threats.

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SiTime

SiTime is a provider of silicon timing systems. The company supplies oscillator products that are comprised of a MEMS resonator and clock IC that is integrated into a package, as well as standalone resonators. The company's products are designed to address a wide range of applications across a broad array of end markets. The company operates a fabless business model and leverages its global network of distributors and resellers to address the broad set of end markets that it serves.

Standard Motor Products Inc.

Standard Motor Products is a manufacturer and distributor of replacement parts for the engine management and temperature control systems of motor vehicles in the automotive aftermarket industry with a complementary focus on heavy duty, industrial equipment and the original equipment market. The company's segment are: Engine Management, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the ignition, electrical, emissions, fuel and safety-related systems of motor vehicles; and Temperature Control, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the temperature control systems, engine cooling systems, power window accessories and windshield washer systems of motor vehicles.

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.

The Stanley Works Ltd.

Toyota Motor ADS

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.

Universal Corp

Universal is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged in supplying leaf tobacco. The company has the following segments: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, which are involved in flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco operations for supply to cigarette manufacturers; Dark Air-Cured, which supplies dark air-cured tobacco to manufacturers of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products; Oriental, which supplies oriental tobacco to cigarette manufacturers; and Special Services, which provides laboratory services, including physical and chemical product testing, electronic nicotine delivery system and e-liquid testing, and smoke testing for customers.

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Ross LaDuke

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