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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.
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3M COMPANY

3M is a technology company. The company has four segments: Safety and Industrial, which consists of personal safety, industrial adhesives and tapes, abrasives, closure and masking systems, electrical markets, automotive aftermarket, and roofing granules; Transportation and Electronics, which consists of electronics, automotive and aerospace, commercial solutions, advanced materials, and transportation safety; Health Care, which includes medical solutions, oral care, separation and purification sciences, health information systems, drug delivery systems, and food safety; and Consumer, which consists of home improvement, stationery and office supplies, home care, and consumer health care.

ABM Industries Incorporated

ABM Industries is a provider of integrated facility solutions. The company's segments include: Business and Industry, which encompasses janitorial, facilities engineering, and parking services for commercial real estate properties, sports and entertainment venues, and hospitals and non-acute healthcare facilities; Aviation, which supports airlines and airports with services ranging from parking and janitorial to passenger assistance, catering logistics, air cabin maintenance, and transportation; and Education, which delivers janitorial, custodial, landscaping and grounds, facilities engineering, and parking services for public school districts, private schools, colleges, and universities.

Advanced Energy Industries Inc.

Advanced Energy Industries designs, manufactures, sells and supports power conversion products that convert power into various usable forms. The company's products enable manufacturing processes that use thin film technology for products such as semiconductor devices, flat panel displays, thin film renewables, architectural glass, optical coating and consumer products decorative and functional coating. The company also supplies thermal instrumentation products for temperature measurement and control for multiple industrial markets. The company's network of global service support centers provides repair services, conversions, improvements, and refurbishments and used equipment to companies using its products.

Alamo Group Inc.

Alamo Group is engaged in the design and manufacture of agricultural equipment and infrastructure maintenance equipment for governmental and industrial use. The company's products include tractor-mounted mowing and other vegetation maintenance equipment, street sweepers, excavators, vacuum trucks, snow removal equipment, pothole patchers, zero turn radius mowers, agricultural implements and related aftermarket parts. The company sells its products primarily through a network of independent dealers and distributors to governmental end-users, related independent contractors, as well as to the agricultural and commercial turf markets. The company has three reportable segments: Industrial, Agricultural and European.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company serving patients and families affected by rare diseases through the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies. The company has developed and commercialized two complement inhibitors to treat patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, as well as the complement inhibitor to treat anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive generalized myasthenia gravis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in patients who are anti-aquaporin-4 antibody positive. In addition, the company has two enzyme replacement therapies for metabolic disorders, hypophosphatasia and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.

ALLEGIANT TRAVEL CO

Allegiant Travel is a travel company. The company's travel services and products are: scheduled service air transportation, which provides scheduled air transportation on flights mainly between cities and other destinations; ancillary air-related products and services, which provides unbundled air-related services and products in conjunction with air transportation; third party products and services, which provides third party travel products such as hotel rooms and ground transportation for sale to its passengers; and fixed fee contract air transportation, which provides air transportation through fixed fee agreements and charter service on a year-round and ad-hoc basis.

Avis Budget Group Inc.

Avis Budget Group is a provider of mobility solutions through its three brands, Avis, Budget and Zipcar, together with several other brands. The company has two segments: Americas, which provides and licenses the company's brands to third parties for vehicle rentals and ancillary products and services in North America, South America, Central America and the Caribbean, and operates its car sharing business in certain of these markets; and International, which provides and licenses the company's brands to third parties for vehicle rentals and ancillary products and services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia, and operates the company's car sharing business in certain of these markets.

BLACKROCK INC.

BlackRock is an investment management firm. The company provides a range of investment and technology services to institutional and retail clients worldwide. Products are provided directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares? exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, collective investment trusts and other pooled investment vehicles. The company also provides technology services, including the investment and risk management technology platform, Aladdin?, Aladdin Wealth, eFront, Cachematrix and FutureAdvisor, as well as advisory services and solutions to a base of institutional and wealth management clients.

Bluebird bio Inc.

bluebird bio is a biotechnology company engaged in researching, developing, and commercializing potentially transformative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases and cancer. The company has built a product platform with a range of therapeutic potential in a variety of indications based on its lentiviral gene addition platform, gene editing and cancer immunotherapy capabilities. The company is developing LentiGlobin gene therapy for sickle cell disease; Lenti-D gene therapy for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy; and in collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb, the company is developing bb2121 (idecabtagene vicleucel) and bb21217 product candidates as treatments for multiple myeloma.

BrightSphere Investment Group Inc.

Cantel Medical Corp.

Cantel Medical is a provider of infection prevention products and services in the healthcare market. The company has four segments: Medical, which designs, develops, manufactures, sells and installs products and services comprising a circle of infection prevention solutions; Life Sciences, which designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and installs water purification systems; Dental, which designs, manufactures, sells, supplies and distributes infection prevention healthcare products; and Dialysis, which designs, develops, manufactures, sells and services reprocessing systems and sterilants for dialyzers, as well as dialysate concentrates and supplies utilized for renal dialysis

Carter's Inc.

Carter's is a marketer of apparel for babies and young children. The company's Carter's and OshKosh product offerings include apparel and accessories for babies (sizes newborn to 24 months), toddlers (sizes 2T to 5T), and kids (sizes 4 o14). Under its Skip Hop brand, the company designs, sources, and markets products that are sold primarily to families with young children. The company's Skip Hop brand focuses on its diaper bags. The Skip Hop brand offering also includes products for playtime, travel, mealtime, kid's bags, bathtime, and homegear. The company's reportable segments are U.S. Retail, U.S. Wholesale, and International.

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. Cl A

Century Aluminum Company

Century Aluminum is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company produces primary aluminum and operates aluminum reduction facilities in the U.S. and Iceland. The company's principal subsidiaries are: Century Kentucky, Inc., which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Hawesville, KY; Nordural ehf, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Grundartangi, Iceland; Century Aluminum Sebree LLC, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Robards, KY; Century Aluminum of South Carolina, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Goose Creek, SC; and Nordural Helguvik ehf, which owns a greenfield primary aluminum project in Helguvik, Iceland.

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.

Dana Incorporated

Dana is engaged in providing power-conveyance and energy-management solutions for vehicles and machinery. The company's operating segments are: Light Vehicle Drive Systems, which include light trucks (full frame), sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, vans, and passenger cars; Commercial Vehicle Drive and Motion Systems, which include medium duty trucks, heavy duty trucks, buses, and specialty vehicles; Off-Highway Drive and Motion Systems, which iinclude construction, earth moving, agricultural, mining, forestry, material handling, and industrial stationary; and Power Technologies, which include medium/heavy vehicle market, and off-highway market.

Diebold Nixdorf Incorporated

Diebold Nixdorf is engaged in enabling Connected Commerce?. The company automates, digitizes and transforms the way people bank and shop. The company's integrated solutions connect digital and physical channels for consumers. The company's operating structure is focused on its two customer segments consisting of Banking and Retail. The products for banking customers consist of cash recyclers and dispensers, deposit terminals, teller automation and kiosk technologies, as well as physical security solutions. The retail product portfolio includes modular, integrated and mobile point of sale and self-checkout terminals that meet automation and omnichannel requirements of consumers.

Digimarc Corporation

Digimarc enables governments, banks, retailers, consumer brands and other businesses to automatically identify and interact with virtually any media. The company has developed the Digimarc? Intuitive Computing Platform, a set of technologies for identifying, discovering and interacting with digitally-enhanced media, which includes Digimarc Barcode, a proprietary method for imperceptibly improving packaging, print, images, thermal labels, audio and other objects with data that are detected by enabled devices, such as smart phones, computers, barcode scanners and machine-vision equipment. Digimarc Discover software enables connected devices to identify content or materials and deliver information.

Extreme Networks Inc.

Extreme Networks, together with its subsidiaries, is a provider of software-driven networking solutions for enterprise, data center, and service provider customers. Providing a combined end-to-end solution from the enterprise edge to the cloud, the company designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security, and access controls. The company's product categories include: Smart OmniEdge wireless and edge switching, Automated Campus, data center, unified applications, and cloud-based network management.

Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation Class C

Federal Agricultural Mortgage provides a secondary market for a range of loans in rural America. The company's lines of business are: Farm & Ranch, which purchases eligible mortgage loans secured by first liens on agricultural real estate; U.S. Department of Agriculture Guarantees, which purchases the portions of certain agricultural, rural development, business and industry, and community facilities loans; Rural Utilities, which purchases of, and guarantees of securities backed by, eligible rural utilities loans; and Institutional Credit, which guarantees and purchases general obligations of lenders that are secured by pools of the types of loans eligible for purchase under its lines of business.

Federated Hermes Inc. Class B

Federated Hermes is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including sponsored investment companies and other funds (Federated Funds) and Separate Accounts. The company markets these funds to banks, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries who use them to meet the needs of customers and/or clients, including retail investors, corporations and retirement plans. The company also provides a range of services to support the operation and administration of the Federated Funds. These services include administrative services and shareholder servicing.

First of Long Island Corp.

First of Long Island is a one-bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, The First National Bank of Long Island (the Bank), the company provides a range of financial services including commercial and residential mortgage loans, small business credit scored loans, real estate mortgage loans and home equity lines, construction loans and consumer loans and lines. The Bank has an Investment Management Division that provides investment management, pension trust, personal trust, estate and custody services.

Franklin Resources Inc.

Franklin Resources is a holding company that, together with its subsidiaries, operates as Franklin Templeton?. The company is an investment management organization that provides investment management and related services to retail, institutional and investors in jurisdictions worldwide through its investment products. The company's investment products include its sponsored funds, as well as institutional and separate accounts, and sub-advised products. The company's funds include registered and unregistered funds. The company's services include fund administration, sales and distribution, and shareholder servicing. The company also provides sub-advisory services to certain investment products sponsored by other companies.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a mining company. The company operates assets with proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum, and the company is a publicly traded copper producer. The company's portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, copper and gold deposits; and mining operations in North America and South America, including the Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru. The company has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions: North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines.

Gardner Denver Holdings

Gardner Denver is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of flow control and compression equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables and services. The company's segments are: Industrials, which designs, manufactures, markets and services air compression, vacuum and blower products; Energy, which designs, manufactures, markets and services positive displacement pumps, liquid ring vacuum pumps, compressors and integrated systems, engineered fluid loading and transfer equipment and associated aftermarket parts, consumables and services; and Medical, which designs, manufactures and market gas, liquid and precision syringe pumps and compressors.

General Mills Inc.

General Mills manufactures and markets branded consumer foods. The company's segments are: North America Retail, which provides cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, dessert and baking mixes, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, grain, fruit and savory snacks, and organic products, among others; Convenience Stores and Foodservice, which provides snacks, yogurt, frozen meals and frozen dough products, and baking mixes, among others; Europe and Australia, which includes retail and foodservice businesses in the Europe and Australia region; Asia and Latin America, which consists of retail and foodservice businesses in the Asia and South America regions; and Pets, which includes pet food products.

GenMark Diagnostics Inc.

GenMark Diagnostics is a molecular diagnostics company focused on developing and commercializing multiplex molecular diagnostic solutions. The company develops and commercializes instruments and multiplex molecular panels based on its proprietary eSensor electrochemical detection technology. The company's technologies include: eSensor technology, which is based on the principles of deoxyribonucleic acid, hybridization and electrochemical detection; and digital microfluidics, which is a technique for moving small droplets of liquid using electrowetting, a process for making a surface hydrophobic or hydrophilic based on the application of a voltage to a surface.

Hanesbrands Inc.

Hanesbrands is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under some apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds, DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur Der, Alternative, L'eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, and Gear for Sports. The company's segments are: Innerwear, which includes apparel products, such as men's underwear, women's panties, children's underwear, socks and intimate apparel; Activewear, which includes T-shirts, fleece, performance apparel, sport shirts and thermals; and International, which includes innerwear, activewear, hosiery and home goods products, sold outside of the United States.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Hartford Financial Services Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance, group benefits insurance and services, and mutual funds and exchange-traded products. The company has five segments: Commercial Lines, which provides automobile, property, general liability, and marine coverages; Personal Lines, which provides automobile and homeowners coverages; Property and Casualty Other Operations, which provides group life, group disability, and other products; and Hartford Funds, which provides mutual fund, exchange-traded products, and Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate accounts.

Haverty Furniture Cos. Inc.

Haverty Furniture Companies is a retailer of residential furniture and accessories. The company carries mattress product lines such as Sealy?, Tempur-Pedic?, Serta?, Stearns & Foster? and Beautyrest Black? in addition to its private label Skye?. The company also provides financing by a third-party finance companies or through an internal revolving charge credit plan. The company operates stores in the Southern and Midwest regions. All of the company's retail locations are operated using the Havertys name and it does not franchise its stores.

Hertz Global Holdings Inc.

Hertz Global Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates its vehicle rental business through the Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty brands in North America, Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and New Zealand. The company is also a provider of integrated vehicle leasing and fleet management solutions. The company's segments are: U.S. RAC, which operates rental of vehicles, as well as sales of services, in the U.S.; International RAC, which operates rental and leasing of vehicles, as well as sales of services, internationally; and All Other Operations, which provides integrated vehicle leasing and fleet management solutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Illinois Tool Works manufactures a range of industrial products and equipment. Automotive OEM segment produces components and fasteners for automotive-related applications. Food Equipment segment is engaged in commercial food equipment. Test and Measurement and Electronics segment produces equipment for testing and measuring of materials and structures. Welding segment produces arc welding equipment, consumables and accessories. Polymers and Fluids segment produces adhesives, sealants, lubrication and cutting fluids for auto aftermarket maintenance. Construction Products segment supplies fastening systems and solutions. Specialty Products segment is focused on patent protection.

Itron Inc.

Itron is engaged in the Industrial Internet of Things, providing solutions that enable utilities and municipalities to operate their infrastructure. The company's solutions include the deployment of smart networks, software, services, devices, sensors, and data analytics. The company's solutions and data analytics address the challenges facing the energy, water, and municipality sectors, including non-technical loss, leak detection, and environmental and regulatory compliance. The company also provides managed services, software-as-a-service, technical support services, licensing hardware technology, and consulting services. The company operates under three segments: Device Solutions, Networked Solutions, and Outcomes.

Lennar Corporation Class A

Lennar is a homebuilder in the United States, an originator of residential and commercial mortgage loans, a provider of title insurance and closing services and a developer of multifamily rental properties. The company's homebuilding operations include the construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through unconsolidated entities in which it has investments. The company operates under the Lennar brand name. The company creates and participates in joint ventures that acquire and develop land for its homebuilding operations, for sale to third parties or for use in the ventures' own homebuilding operations.

Lithia Motors Inc. Class A

Lithia Motors is a providers of personal transportation solutions. The company's segments are Domestic, Import and Luxury. The company's Domestic segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured by Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. The company's Import segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured primarily by Honda, Toyota, Subaru, Nissan and Volkswagen. The company's Luxury segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles manufactured primarily by BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. The franchises in each segment also sell used vehicles, parts and automotive services, and automotive finance and insurance products.

Marriott International Inc. Class A

Marriott International is a worldwide operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential and timeshare properties under various brand names at different price and service points. The company has operations in the following reportable business segments: North American Full-Service, which includes the company's Luxury and Premium properties located in United States and Canada; North American Limited-Service, which includes the company's Select properties located in United States and Canada; and Asia Pacific, which includes all properties in the company's Asia Pacific region.

Modine Manufacturing Company

Modine Manufacturing is engaged in providing thermal management solutions. The company is a provider of engineered heat transfer systems and heat transfer components for use in on- and off-highway original equipment manufacturer vehicular applications. In addition, the company is involved in thermal management technology and solutions for sale into a range of commercial, industrial, and building heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets. The company's primary product groups include powertrain cooling and engine cooling; coils, coolers, and coatings; and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.

Monotype Imaging Holdings is a provider of design assets, technology and capabilities for content creators. The company's product offering, delivered through a term-based license or a software-as-a-service subscription, allows content creators and marketers to produce brands on any screen, in print or across the web. The company's solutions, which include type, visual content marketing solutions, custom design services, and tools and technologies that enable the process, are licensed through its direct sales channel, e-commerce platforms and partner platforms. The company also provides consumer device manufacturers and independent software vendors, with solutions for delivering compelling user experiences.

OUTFRONT Media Inc.

OUTFRONT Media is a real estate investment trust that provides advertising space on out-of-home advertising structures and sites in the U.S. and Canada. The company's inventory consists of billboard displays, which are mainly located on the heavily traveled highways and roadways, and transit advertising displays operated under multi-year contracts with municipalities in cities across the U.S. and Canada. The company had displays in markets in the U.S. and Canada. The company's portfolio includes sites such as the Bay Bridge in San Francisco, various locations along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, and sites in and around both Grand Central Station and Times Square in New York.

PDF Solutions Inc.

PDF Solutions provides products and services designed to help data scientists across the semiconductor ecosystem to improve the yield, quality, and profitability of their products. The company's products and services include: Exensio Software Products, which is designed to enable customers to perform root cause diagnosis of yield, performance, and quality issues; Design-for-Inspection System, which is designed to enable its customers to achieve non-contact, inline electrical characterization and process control; Characterization Vehicle System, which is designed to improve yield learning; and software as a service, which provides services to make its Exensio software available via the Internet.

Philip Morris International Inc.

Philip Morris International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a tobacco company engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes, smoke-free products and associated electronic devices and accessories, and other nicotine-containing products in markets outside the United States. The company's portfolio comprises international and local brands including Marlboro, which is complemented in the premium-price category by Parliament. The company's other international cigarette brands are Bond Street, Chesterfield, L&M, Lark and Philip Morris. The company also owns various local cigarette brands, such as Dji Sam Soe, Sampoerna A and Sampoerna U in Indonesia, and Fortune and Jackpot in the Philippines.

REX American Resources Corporation

REX American Resources is a holding company. Through a wholly owned subsidiary REX I.P., LLC, the company entered into a joint venture with Hytken HPGP LLC to file and defend patents for eSteam technology relating to heavy oil and oil sands production methods. The company has two reportable segments, ethanol and by-products, which is a renewable fuel source produced by processing corn and other biomass through a fermentation process that creates combustible alcohol that can be used as an additive or replacement to fossil fuel based gasoline; and refined coal, which applies separate chemicals to convert feedstock coal into refined coal.

Sensata Technologies Holding PLC

Sensata Technologies Holding is a holding company. Co. conducts its business through subsidiary companies, which operate business and product development centers in the U.S., the Netherlands, Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, South Korea, and the U. K.; and manufacturing operations in China, Malaysia, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, France, Germany, the U.K., and the U.S. Co. is engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of sensors and controls. Co. produces a range of sensors and controls for applications such as pressure sensors in automotive systems, and thermal circuit breakers in aircraft, among others. Co.'s operations has two businesses, Performance Sensing and Sensing Solutions.

SI Financial Group Inc.

SI Financial Group is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Savings Institute Bank and Trust Company (the Bank), the company provides a range of financial services to consumers and businesses in its market area, including life insurance and annuities. The Bank accepts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate one- to four-family residential, multi-family and commercial real estate, commercial business and consumer loans. The Bank also purchases commercial business loans, including loans fully guaranteed by the Small Business Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In addition, the Bank provides remote capture products and money market accounts.

Silgan Holdings Inc.

Silgan Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures rigid packaging for consumer goods products. The company operates three businesses; its metal container business, which used primarily by processors and packagers for food products, such as vegetables, soup, proteins, tomato based products, adult nutritional drinks and fruit ; its closures business, which manufactures metal and plastic closures and dispensing systems for food and beverage and health care products; and its plastic container business, which manufactures custom designed and stock plastic containers for personal care and health care products, including containers for mouthwash, shampoos, and conditioners.

Spark Energy Inc-Class A

Spark Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent retail energy services company. The company's segments include: Retail Electricity, where the company purchases electricity supply through physical and financial transactions with market counterparties and independent system operators and supplies electricity to residential and commercial consumers pursuant to fixed-price and variable-price contracts; and Retail Natural Gas, where the company purchases natural gas supply through physical and financial transactions with market counterparties and supplies natural gas to residential and commercial consumers pursuant to fixed-price and variable-price contracts.

Synchrony Financial

Synchrony Financial is a savings and loan holding company and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company delivers a range of financing programs, as well as consumer banking products, across key industries including digital, retail, home, auto, travel, health and pet. The company provides a range of credit products through its financing programs which it has established with a group of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations and healthcare service providers, which it refers to as its partners. Through its partners, the company provides their customers a variety of credit products to finance the purchase of goods and services.

Telenav

Telenav is a provider of location-based products and services for connected cars. The company utilizes its connected car platform and its advertising platform to deliver these products and services. The company's three business segments are: automotive, which provides on-board navigation systems that are built into vehicles with all main elements of the system residing in the vehicle as a self-contained application along with the related software and content; advertising, which provides interactive mobile advertisements on behalf of its advertising clients to consumers; and mobile navigation, which provides map and navigation platform to end users through mobile devices.

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.

TriCo Bancshares

TriCo Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Tri Counties Bank (The Bank), the company is engages in the general commercial banking business. The Bank provides personal, small business and commercial financial services including accepting demand, savings and time deposits and making small business, commercial, real estate, and consumer loans, as well as a range of Treasury Management Services and other customary banking services including safe deposit boxes. Brokerage services are provided at the Bank's offices by the Bank's arrangement with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., an independent financial services provider and broker-dealer.

United Therapeutics Corporation

United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company. The company markets and sells four commercial therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Remodulin? (treprostinil) Injection; Tyvaso? (treprostinil) Inhalation Solution; Orenitram? (treprostinil) Extended-Release Tablets; and Adcirca? (tadalafil) Tablets. The company also markets and sells an oncology product, Unituxin? (dinutuximab) Injection for treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma. The company also engages in research and development of new indications and formulations and delivery devices for its existing products, as well as new products to treat PAH and other conditions. The company also engages in organ transplantation-related technologies.

Visa Inc. Class A

Visa is engaged in digital payments. The company facilitates payments between consumers and businesses. The company is focused on its proprietary network, VisaNet, to provide products and services. The company provides a portfolio of business payment solutions, including small business, corporate (travel) cards, purchasing cards, virtual cards/digital credentials, non-card cross-border business-to-business payment options and disbursement accounts, covering various main industry segments around the world. The company also provides several capabilities and services, including fraud prevention and security, processing, loyalty, merchant and digital solutions, consulting and data solutions.

WABCO Holdings Inc.

WABCO Holdings is a supplier of electronic, mechanical, electro-mechanical and aerodynamic products for manufacturers of commercial trucks, buses and trailers, as well as passenger cars. The company engineers, develops, manufactures and sells braking, stability, suspension, steering, transmission automation and air management systems for commercial vehicles. The company's products are pneumatic anti-lock braking systems, electronic braking systems, electronic stability control systems, brake controls, automated manual transmission systems, air disc brakes, and a variety of mechanical products such as actuators, air compressors and air control valves for medium and heavy-duty trucks, buses and trailers.

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Whirlpool is a home appliance company. The company manufactures and markets a line of home appliances and related products. The company's principal products are laundry appliances, refrigerators and freezers, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers and other small domestic appliances. The company manufactures and markets products under brand names such as Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Hotpoint. The company's operating and reportable segments consist of North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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