Acacia Research invests in intellectual property, and related absolute return assets and engages in the licensing and enforcement of patented technologies. The company partners with inventors and patent owners, from small entities to large corporations, applying its legal and technology capabilities to patent assets to unlock the financial value in their patented inventions. The company is an intermediary in the patent marketplace. The company has partnered with patent owners, including individual inventors, universities, small companies and large multi-national corporations in a variety of technology sectors.

Allegheny Technologies is a manufacturer of specialty materials and components. The company operates in two business segments: High Performance Materials and Components, which produces a range of specialty materials, parts and components for several main end markets, including aerospace and defense, medical, and energy; and Flat Rolled Products, which produces nickel-based alloys, specialty alloys, titanium and titanium-based alloys, and stainless steel in a variety of forms including plate, sheet, engineered strip, and Precision Rolled Strip? products.

AMERCO is a holding company. The company is engaged as a moving and storage operator through its subsidiary U-Haul International, Inc. (U-Haul). The company's segments include: Moving and Storage, which consists of the rental of trucks, trailers, portable moving and storage units, specialty rental items and self-storage spaces to the household mover as well as sales of moving supplies, towing accessories and propane; Property and Casualty Insurance, which provides loss adjusting and claims handling for U-Haul; and Life Insurance, which provides life and health insurance products to the senior market through the direct writing and reinsuring of life insurance, Medicare supplement and annuity policies.

American Financial Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Great American Insurance Group, the company is engaged primarily in property and casualty insurance, focusing on commercial products for businesses, and in the sale of fixed, fixed-indexed and variable-indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions, broker-dealer and registered investment advisor markets. The company's property and casualty insurance segments consist of property and transportation, specialty casualty, and specialty financial. The company's annuity segment is focused on the sale of fixed and indexed annuities in the retail, financial institutions, broker-dealer and registered investment advisor markets .

Apollo Investment is a closed-end, externally managed, non-diversified management investment company. The company's investment objective is to generate existing income and capital appreciation. The company invests primarily in various forms of debt investments, including secured and unsecured debt, loan investments and/or equity in private middle-market companies. The company also invests in the securities of public companies and in structured products and other investments such as collateralized loan obligations and credit-linked notes.

AquaBounty Technologies is a biotechnology company focused on improving productivity and sustainability in the aquaculture market. The company is conducting research and development of the commercial viability of a group of proteins commonly known as antifreeze proteins. The company has obtained the licensing rights for a gene construct (transgene) used to create a breed of farm-raised Atlantic salmon. The company has approval for the production, sale, and consumption of its AquAdvantage Salmon product in the United States; for the sale and consumption of its AquAdvantage Salmon product in Canada; and for the production of the product.

Atlanticus Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides various credit and related financial services and products. The company has two segments: Credit and Other Investments, whereby the company supports lenders who originate consumer loan products that include retail credit and credit cards marketed through various channels, including retail point-of-sale, direct mail solicitation, and partnerships with third parties; and Auto Finance, which purchases and/or services loans secured by automobiles from or for, and also provides floor plan financing for, a pre-qualified network of automotive dealers and automotive finance companies in the buy-here, pay-here, used car business.

Black Hills is a utility holding company, which operates in four segments: Electric Utilities, which generates, transmits and distributes electricity to electric utility customers in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming; Gas Utilities, which serves natural gas utility customers in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming; Power Generation, which produces electric power from its wind, natural gas and coal-fired generating plants and sells the electric capacity and energy primarily to its utilities under long-term contracts; and Mining, which produces coal at its mine near Gillette, WY, and sells it under long-term contracts to mine-mouth electric generation facilities.

Black Knight is a provider of software, data and analytics solutions to the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate and capital market verticals. The company's solutions facilitate and automate business processes across the homeownership lifecycle. The company's business is organized into two segments: Software Solutions, which provides software and hosting solutions that facilitate and automate business processes across the homeownership lifecycle; and Data and Analytics, which supports the company's software solutions and is designed to help lenders and servicers make informed decisions, improve performance, identify and predict risk and generate qualified leads.

Boxlight is an educational technology company that provides interactive products and software for schools, as well as for business and government learning spaces. The company designs, produces and distributes interactive projectors and distribute interactive technologies, including flat panels, projectors, whiteboards and peripherals to the education market. The company also distributes science, technology, engineering and math products, including a portable science lab. All of the company's products are integrated into its classroom software suite that provides tools for whole class learning, assessment and collaboration.

Cannae is a holding company engaged in managing and operating a group of companies and investments. The company's segments are: Restaurant Group, which consists of the operations of American Blue Ribbon Holdings, LLC and 99 Restaurants Holdings, LLC; Ceridian, which consists of the operations of the company's subsidiary, Ceridian HCM Holding, Inc., a global human capital management software company; T-System, which consists of the operations of the company's subsidiary, T-System Holdings, LLC, a provider of clinical documentation and coding solutions; and Corporate and Other, which consists of the company's share in the operations of controlled and uncontrolled portfolio companies.

CBTX is a bank holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, CommunityBank of Texas, N.A. (the Bank), the company focuses on providing commercial banking solutions to small and mid-sized businesses and personnel including attorneys, accountants and other service providers with operations in its markets. The Bank provides a range of banking products, including commercial and industrial loans, commercial real estate loans, construction and development loans, one-to-four family residential mortgage loans, multi-family residential loans consumer loans, agricultural loans, treasury services, retail deposits and a suite of online banking services.

Charles & Colvard manufactures, markets, and distributes Charles & Colvard Created Moissanite? (which the company refers to as moissanite or moissanite jewels) and finished jewelry featuring its proprietary moissanite gemstone for sale in the worldwide jewelry market. The company sells loose moissanite jewels and finished jewelry through various operating segments: its Online Channels segment, which comprises its charlesandcolvard.com website, e-commerce outlets, including marketplaces, drop-ship customers, and other e-commerce customers; and its Traditional segment, which consists of domestic and international distributors and retail customers.

Cohen & Company is a holding company, engaged in financial services. The company's Capital Markets business segment consists of fixed income sales, trading, and matched book repo financing as well as new issue placements in corporate and securitized products and advisory services. The company's Asset Management business segment manages assets through investment vehicles, such as collateralized debt obligations, managed accounts, and investment funds. The company's Principal Investing business segment is comprised of investments that the company has made for the purpose of earning an investment return rather than investments made to support its trading, matched book repo, or other capital markets business activity.

Crown Castle International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns, operates and leases shared communications infrastructure that is geographically dispersed throughout the U.S., including towers and other structures, such as rooftops (collectively, towers), and fiber primarily supporting small cell networks (small cells) and fiber solutions. The company's towers, fiber and small cells assets are collectively referred to herein as communications infrastructure. The company's core business is providing access, including space or capacity, to its shared communications infrastructure via long-term contracts in various forms, including lease, license, sublease and service agreements.

Enterprise Products Partners is a provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products. The company's midstream energy operations include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and export and import terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage, and export and import terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage, export and import terminals, and related services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the U.S. inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.

Escalade and its wholly-owned subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of sporting goods products. The company operates in one business segment: Sporting Goods (Escalade Sports). Escalade Sports manufactures, imports, and distributes sporting goods brands in basketball goals, archery, indoor and outdoor game recreation and fitness products through sporting goods retailers, specialty dealers, on-line retailers, department stores and mass merchants. Escalade Sports manufactures in the U.S. and Mexico and imports product from Asia, where the company utilizes a number of contract manufacturers.

Espey Manufacturing and Electronics is a power electronics design and original equipment manufacturing company engaged in developing and delivering products for use in military and severe environment applications. The company's primary products are power supplies, power converters, filters, power transformers, magnetic components, power distribution equipment, UPS systems, antennas and radar systems. The company's services include design and development to specification, build to print, design services, design studies, environmental testing services, metal fabrication, painting services, and development of automatic testing equipment.

Griffon is a management and holding company that conducts its business through wholly-owned subsidiaries. The company's segments: Consumer and Professional Products, which manufactures and markets a portfolio of long-handled tools, landscaping products, and home organization product used by seasonal outdoor tools, project tools, outdoor decor and watering, home organization, and cleaning products categories; Home and Building Products, which manufactures a line of residential sectional garage doors; and Defense Electronics, which designs, develops, manufactures and provides logistical support and lifecycle sustainment services to defense, aerospace and commercial customers.

Home Federal Bancorp is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, Home Federal Bank, the company provides financial services to individuals, corporate entities, and other organizations through the origination of loans and the acceptance of deposits in the form of passbook savings, certificates of deposit, and demand deposit accounts. The company's loan portfolio consists of: one-to-four family residential real estate loans; commercial real estate secured loans; multi-family residential loans; commercial business loans; land loans; construction loans; home equity and second mortgage loans; equity lines of credit; and consumer non-real estate loans.

Lexicon Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company is commercializing XERMELO? (telotristat ethyl), an orally-delivered small molecule drug for the treatment of carcinoid syndrome diarrhea in combination with somatostatin analog (SSA) therapy in adults inadequately controlled by SSA therapy. The company is developing Zynquista? (sotagliflozin), an orally-delivered small molecule drug candidate, as a treatment for type 1 2 diabetes. The company is also developing sotagliflozin as a treatment for type 2 diabetes, heart failure and chronic kidney disease. The company is developing LX9211, an orally-delivered small molecule drug candidate, as a treatment for neuropathic pain.

Live Oak Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Live Oak Banking Company (the Bank), the company is engaged in providing lending and deposit related services. The company directly or indirectly holds the following wholly-owned subsidiaries: Canapi Advisors, LLC, which provides investment advisory services; Live Oak Ventures, Inc., which invests in businesses that align with the company's initiative in financial technology; Live Oak Grove, LLC, which provides an on-site restaurant location; Government Loan Solutions, Inc., which is a management and technology consulting firm; and 504 Fund Advisors, LLC, which serves as the investment advisor to the 504 Fund, a closed-end mutual fund.

Marrone Bio Innovations makes bio-based pest management and plant health products. Bio-based products are comprised of naturally occurring microorganisms, such as bacteria and fungi, and plant extracts. The company primarily sells its products to the crop protection market and also have one plant health product, Haven, that reduces plant stress in drought and intense sunlight. The company's product lines are Regalia, for controlling plant disease and increasing plant health, Grandevo and Venerate, for insect and mite control, Majestene and its turf and ornamentals counterpart brand Zelto, for nematode control and Stargus and its row crop counterpart brand Amplitude, for downy mildew and white mold control.

MasterCraft Boat Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of recreational powerboats sold under MasterCraft, NauticStar, Crest, and Aviara brands. The company's segments include: MasterCraft, which produces MasterCraft and Aviara boats for water skiing, wakeboarding, wake surfing, and general recreational boating; NauticStar, which produces boats for saltwater fishing and general recreational boating; and Crest, which produces pontoon boats which are primarily used for general recreational boating. In addition, the company provides various accessories, including trailers and aftermarket parts.

Monmouth Real Estate Investment is a real estate investment trust (REIT). The company's main business is the ownership of real estate. The company's investment focus is to own single tenant, industrial buildings, leased primarily to investment-grade tenants or their subsidiaries on long-term net leases. In addition, the company invests in securities of other REITs. The company holds investments in properties in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

National Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment banking and asset management firm which principally provides financial services. The company has two segments: the brokerage and advisory services, which includes broker-dealer and investment advisory services, sale of insurance products and licensed mortgage brokerage services provided by its subsidiaries, National Securities Corporation, National Asset Management, Inc., National Insurance Corporation, Prime Financial Services, and GC Capital Corporation; and tax and accounting services, which includes tax preparation and accounting services provided by its subsidiary, National Tax and Financial Services, Inc.

Rave Restaurant Group and its subsidiaries operate and franchise pizza buffet, delivery/carry-out and express restaurants and operate and franchise fast casual restaurants. The company facilitates distribution of food, equipment and supplies to its domestic and international system of restaurants through agreements with third party distributors. The company operates and franchises restaurant concepts and license Pizza Inn Express (PIE) kiosks under two brands: Pizza Inn, which franchises Buffet Units, Delco Units and Express Units, and licenses PIE kiosks under the Pizza Inn brand; and Pie Five, which is a fast-casual pizza concept that creates individualized pizzas at its customers' direction.

Reed's is the owner and maker of a portfolio of handcrafted beverages that is sold nationwide (including the natural and specialty food channel, convenience stores and on-premise locations, among others). The company's two primary brands are: Reed's Craft Ginger Beer, which is a ginger beer with different levels of fresh ginger content, ranging from its lightest-spiced Original, to its medium-spiced Extra, and to its spiciest Strongest; and Virgil's Handcrafted soda, which is a handcrafted soda that includes the handcrafted line, which includes root beer, vanilla cream, black cherry, and orange, and zero sugar line, which includes root beer, cola, black cherry, vanilla cream, orange and lemon-lime.

Rocket Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage, multi-platform biotechnology company focused on the development of gene therapies for rare and devastating pediatric diseases. The company has the following inical-stage ex vivo lentiviral vector programs enrolling patients in the U.S. and European Union for Fanconi Anemia, a genetic defect in the bone marrow that reduces production of blood cells or promotes the production of faulty blood cells, Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency-I, a genetic disorder that causes the immune system to malfunction and Pyruvate Kinase Deficiency, a rare red blood cell autosomal recessive disorder that results in chronic non-spherocytic hemolytic anemia.

Southern National Bancorp of Virginia is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Sonabank, the company provides financial services to individuals and small and medium sized businesses. The company focuses on making loans secured primarily by commercial real estate and other types of secured and unsecured commercial loans to small and medium-sized businesses, as well as loans to individuals. The company is a Small Business Administration lender. The company also invests in real estate-related securities, including collateralized mortgage obligations and agency mortgage backed securities. In addition, the company provides deposit products, including checking (NOW), savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit.

vTv Therapeutics is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of orally administered small molecule drug candidates. The company's drug candidate for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, azeliragon (TTP488), is an orally administered small molecule antagonist targeting the receptor for advanced glycation endproducts. The company's type 2 diabetes drug candidates include TTP399, an orally administered, liver-selective glucokinase activator, and TTP273, an orally administered, non-peptide agonist that targets the glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor. The company is also developing TTP399 for type 1 diabetes.