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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.
Underlyings
1st Source Corp.

1st Source is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial products and services. The company's banking subsidiary, 1st Source Bank (the Bank), provides range of consumer and commercial banking services through its lending operations, retail branches, and fee based businesses. The Bank's services include: commercial, agricultural, and real estate loans; consumer services; trust and wealth advisory services; and specialty finance group services, which include construction equipment; new and used aircraft; auto and light trucks; and medium and heavy duty trucks.

ACNB Corp.

ACNB is a financial holding company. The company provides banking, insurance, and financial services to businesses and consumers through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, ACNB Bank (the Bank) and Russell Insurance Group, Inc. (RIG). The Bank engages in commercial and consumer banking and wealth management services through its community banking office locations in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin, and York Counties, PA. Through its nonbanking subsidiary, RIG, the company provides a range of property and casualty and group life and health insurance to both commercial and individual clients.

ALX Oncology Holdings

Antero Resources Corporation

Antero Resources is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and oil properties. The company focuses on unconventional reservoirs, which can generally be characterized as fractured shale formations. The company's drilling operations are focused in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin. The company's industry segments are: the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, NGLs, and oil; marketing of excess firm transportation capacity; and the gathering and processing of natural gas. All of the company's operations are conducted in the United States.

Arrow Financial Corp.

Arrow Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of commercial and consumer banking and financial products. The company's deposit base consists of deposits derived from the communities the company serves. Through its banks' trust operations, the company provides retirement planning, trust and estate administration services for individuals, and pension, profit-sharing and employee benefit plan administration for corporations. The company engages in a range of lending activities, including commercial and industrial lending mainly to small and mid-sized companies; mortgage lending for residential and commercial properties; and consumer installment and home equity financing.

Best Lease

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.

Brinker International Inc.

Brinker International is engaged in owning, developing, operating and franchising the Chili's? Grill & Bar (Chili's) and Maggiano's Little Italy? (Maggiano's) restaurant brands. Chili's operates in the bar and grill category of casual dining. Chili's menu includes burgers, fajitas, baby back ribs and margaritas. Chili's To Go menu is available online, by calling the restaurant, or through its mobile app. Maggiano's is a casual restaurant brand providing Italian-American cuisine. Dishes are served in both a la carte and family style. The company provides a range of lunch and dinner options, complimented by a wine list and cocktails.

CAPSTAR FINANCIAL HOLDINGS

CapStar Financial Holdings is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, CapStar Bank, the company is engaged as a bank that seeks to establish and maintain relationships with its clients by delivering banking solutions and client service. The company's products and services include commercial real estate loans, private banking and wealth management services for the owners and operators of its business clients and other individuals and correspondent banking services for Tennessee's smaller community banks. The company provides deposit products and services, including demand deposits, interest-bearing transaction accounts, time and savings deposits, certificates of deposit and CDARS? reciprocal products.

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.

Chemung Financial Corp.

Chemung Financial is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Chemung Canal Trust Company and CFS Group, Inc., the company provides a range of financial services including demand, savings and time deposits, commercial, residential and consumer loans, interest rate swaps, letters of credit, wealth management services, employee benefit plans, insurance products, mutual funds and brokerage services. The company's core banking segment accepts deposits from the general public and using such funds to originate consumer, commercial, commercial real estate, and residential mortgage loans. The Wealth Management Group services segment provides trust and investment advisory services to clients.

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORP

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Colgate-Palmolive manufactures and markets a variety of products in the United States and around the world. The company has two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. Oral, Personal and Home Care products include toothpaste, toothbrushes and mouthwash, bar and liquid hand soaps, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, deodorants and antiperspirants, skin care products, dishwashing detergents, fabric conditioners, household cleaners, and other similar items. Pet Nutrition products include specialty pet nutrition products manufactured and marketed by Hill's Pet Nutrition.

Comstock Resources Inc.

Comstock Resources is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. The company's oil and gas operations are primarily concentrated in Louisiana, Texas and North Dakota. The company also has operations in other regions, primarily in New Mexico and the Mid-Continent region.

Customers Bancorp Inc.

Customers Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Customers Bank (the Bank), the company provides a range of loan and deposit banking products and financial services and other products and services to its commercial and consumer customers. The Bank provides a range of lending products, including commercial mortgage warehouse loans, multi-family and commercial real estate loans, business banking, small business loans, equipment financing, residential mortgage loans and other consumer loans. The Bank also provides deposit products, such as commercial and consumer checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts, time deposit accounts and cash management services.

ESSA Bancorp

ESSA Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, ESSA Bank & Trust, the company accepts deposits from the general public and invests those deposits, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, in residential first mortgage loans (including construction mortgage loans), commercial real estate loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, commercial and consumer loans. The company provides a variety of deposit accounts, including checking, savings and certificates of deposits. The company also provides asset management and trust services. The company provides investment services through its relationship with Cetera Investment Services LLC, a third party broker/dealer and investment advisor.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes medicines. The company's primary areas of focus include viral diseases, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases and oncology. The company's products include: Biktarvy for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in certain patients; Vosevi?, a single tablet regimen of sofosbuvir, velpatasvir and voxilaprevir for the re-treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in adults; Vemlidy? for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in adults with compensated liver disease; and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

HAMASHBIR 365 LTD

Hamashbir 365 Holdings Limited. Hamashbir 365 Holdings Ltd, formerly The New Hamashbir Lazarchan Ltd is an Israel-based holding company engaged mainly in the retail sector. Through its subsidiaries the Company is active in five areas: department store retail, cosmetics and drugs retail, business development, tourism, and electronic household goods and office equipment retail. As of December 31, 2010, the Company had four direct subsidiaries, such as Office Depot and Club 365 Ltd, among others.

Hanover Insurance Group Inc.

The Hanover Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company business operations are property and casualty insurance products and services. The company markets its products and services through independent agents and brokers. The company conducts three operating segments: Commercial Lines, which includes commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, workers' compensation, and other commercial coverages; Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverages; and Other, which provides investment advisory services to affiliates and also manages assets for unaffiliated institutions such as insurance companies, retirement plans and foundations.

Horace Mann Educators Corporation

Horace Mann Educators is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company has the following segments: Property and Casualty, which includes private passenger automobile insurance and residential home insurance; Supplemental, which includes heart, cancer, accident and limited short-term supplemental disability coverages and it also markets life insurance products; Retirement, which markets both fixed and variable annuity contracts, primarily on a tax-qualified basis; and Life, which primarily provides term and whole life insurance products as well as indexed universal life products and, from time to time, revises products and product features or develops new products.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is a military shipbuilding company and a provider of services to partners in government and industry. The company's segments include: Ingalls Shipbuilding, which designs and constructs non-nuclear ships for the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, including amphibious assault ships, expeditionary warfare ships, surface combatants, and national security cutters; Newport News Shipbuilding, which is designing and constructing nuclear-powered ships, such as aircraft carriers and submarines, and the refueling and overhaul and the inactivation of such ships; and Technical Solutions, which includes businesses that are focused on life-cycle sustainment services.

Independent Bank Corp. Michigan

Independent Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Independent Bank (the Bank), the company is engaged in commercial banking, providing a range of banking services to individuals and businesses, including checking and savings accounts, commercial lending, direct and indirect consumer financing, mortgage lending, and safe deposit box services. In addition, the company provides internet and mobile banking capabilities to its customers. In addition to general banking services, the company's bank provides title insurance services and insurance brokerage services through a separate subsidiaries and investment services through a third party agreement with Cetera Investment Services LLC.

Leidos Holdings Inc.

Leidos Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in a science, engineering and information technology that provides services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets. The company's defense solutions segment deploys solutions in the areas of intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, enterprise information technology, integrated systems, cybersecurity and global services. The company's civil segment integrates and protects physical, digital and data domains. The company's health segment delivers solutions to federal and commercial customers that are responsible for the health and well-being of people including service members and veterans.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lockheed Martin is a security and aerospace company. The company has four segments: Aeronautics, which is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, sustainment, support and upgrade of military aircraft; Missiles and Fire Control, which provides air and missile defense systems, logistics, fire control systems, and mission operations support; Rotary and Mission Systems, which provides design, manufacture, service and support for military and commercial helicopters, radar systems, and simulation and training services; Space, which researches, designs, develops, engineers and produces satellites, space transportation systems, and strategic, strike, and defensive systems.

Mercury General Corporation

Mercury General is an insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries, the company writes personal automobile insurance. The company also writes homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical protection, and umbrella insurance. The company provides the following types of automobile coverage: collision, property damage, bodily injury, comprehensive, personal injury protection, underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. The company provides the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, fire, and other hazards. The company sells its policies through a network of independent agents, its insurance agencies, and directly through internet sales portals.

ModivCare Inc

NIKE Inc. Class B

NIKE is engaged in the design, development and marketing and selling of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. The company focuses its NIKE Brand product offerings in Running, NIKE Basketball, the Jordan Brand, Football (Soccer), Training and Sportswear categories. The company markets products designed for kids, as well as for other athletic and recreational uses such as American football, baseball, cricket, golf, lacrosse, tennis, walking, and other outdoor activities. The company has license agreements that permit unaffiliated parties to manufacture and sell, using the company-owned trademarks, certain apparel, digital devices and applications and other equipment designed for sports activities.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Northrop Grumman is a security company. The company's segments include: Aerospace Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of manned aircraft, autonomous systems, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems; Innovation Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of flight, armament and space systems; Mission Systems, which is engaged in end-to-end mission solutions and multifunction systems; and Technology Services, which is engaged in delivering solutions and services in support of mission-critical networks and systems.

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.

PRIMIS FINANCIAL CORP

Railpower Technologies Corp.

Safety Insurance Group Inc.

Safety Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of private passenger, commercial automobile and homeowners insurance in Massachusetts. The company's product lines include: Private Passenger Automobile, which provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage to others, no-fault personal injury coverage for the insured/insured's car occupants, and physical damage coverage for an insured's own vehicle for collision or other perils; Commercial Automobile, which provides insurance for commercial vehicles used for business purposes; and Inland Marine, which provides inland marine coverage as an endorsement for all homeowners and business owner policies.

Scholar Rock Holding Corporation

Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's primary product candidate, SRK-015, is a selective, fully human, monoclonal antibody, with a mechanism of action that results in inhibition of the activation of the growth factor, myostatin, in skeletal muscle. The company's second product candidate is SRK-181 and is being developed for the treatment of cancers resistant to checkpoint blockade therapies, such as anti-PD1 antibodies. The company's third antibody program targets the signaling of bone morphogenetic protein 6, another member of the TGF? superfamily, which is involved in a set of biological processes in various parts of the body.

Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.

Sturm, Ruger & Company is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of firearms to domestic customers. The company has two reportable operating segments, which are firearms and castings. The firearms segment manufactures and sells rifles, pistols, and revolvers under the Ruger name and trademark. Most firearms are available in several models based upon caliber, finish, barrel length, and other features. The castings segment manufactures and sells investment castings made from steel alloys and metal injection molding (MIM) parts for internal use in the firearms segment. The castings and MIM parts sold to outside customers, either directly or through manufacturers' representatives.

VICTORIA'S SECRET & CO

W. R. Berkley Corporation

W. R. Berkley is an insurance holding company. The company operates in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance, which includes commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the United States, as well as insurance business in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia; and Reinsurance, which provides reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa.

Westamerica Bancorporation

Westamerica is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary bank, Westamerica Bank (the Bank), the company is engaged in providing a range of banking services to individual and commercial customers in Northern and Central California. The principal communities served are located in Northern and Central California, from Mendocino, Lake and Nevada Counties in the north to Kern County in the south. In addition, the Bank owns 100.0% of the capital stock of Community Banker Services Corporation, a company engaged in providing the company and its subsidiaries with data processing services and other support functions.

WestRock Company

WestRock is a provider of paper and packaging solutions for consumer and corrugated packaging markets. The company partners with its customers to provide paper and packaging solutions. The company's operating and business locations are in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company's segments include: Corrugated Packaging, which consists of the company's containerboard mills, corrugated packaging and distribution operations, as well as its merchandising displays and recycling procurement operations; Consumer Packaging, which consists of the company's consumer mills, food and beverage and partition operations; and Land and Development, which sells real estate primarily in the Charleston, SC region.

XOMA

XOMA is a biotech royalty aggregator with a portfolio of pre-commercial therapeutic candidates. The company's monoclonal antibodies and technologies product candidates are: IL-2, which targets Interleukin 2 as a therapy for metastatic melanoma and renal cell carcinoma; PTH1R, an anti-parathyroid receptor pipeline that includes several functional antibody antagonists targeting PTH1R, a G-protein-coupled receptor involved in the regulation of calcium metabolism; XMetA, an insulin receptor-activating antibody designed to provide long-acting reduction of hyperglycemia in Type 2 diabetic patients; X213, an allosteric inhibitor of prolactin action.

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