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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting
and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
Underlyings
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.

Albemarle Corporation

Albemarle is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of chemicals across a range of end markets including energy storage, petroleum refining, consumer electronics, construction, automotive, lubricants, pharmaceuticals, crop protection and custom chemistry services. The company's segments include: Lithium, which develops and manufactures a range of basic lithium compounds and lithium specialties and reagents; Bromine Specialties, which includes products used in fire safety solutions and other chemicals applications; and Catalysts, which includes Clean Fuels Technologies, fluidized catalytic cracking catalysts and additives, and performance catalyst solutions.

Alpha & Omega Semiconductor

Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son

Bellus Health

Bellus Health is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of products for health solutions. Co.'s principal business activity has been the development of its core technology platform, amyloid inhibitors, which focuses on chemical compounds that could have the potential to inhibit the formation, deposition and toxicity of amyloid fibrils which are implicated or believed to be the underlying causes of certain diseases. The diseases targeted by Co. include Amyloid A (AA) amyloidosis as well as Alzheimer's disease. KIACTA™ is being developed to treat AA amyloidosis meanwhile NRM8499, prodrug of tramiprosate is being developed to treat Alzheimer's disease.

Berkshire Hills Bancorp Inc.

Berkshire Hills Bancorp is the holding company for Berkshire Bank and Berkshire Insurance Group, Inc. The company provides a range of deposit, lending, insurance, and wealth management products to retail and commercial customers. The company's loan portfolio is segregated into the following segments: commercial real estate, commercial and industrial, residential mortgage, and consumer. Commercial real estate loans include construction, single and multi-family, and other commercial real estate classes. Residential mortgage loans include classes for one-to-four family owner occupied and construction loans. Consumer loans include home equity, direct and indirect auto, and other consumer loan classes.

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Clearwater Paper Corporation

Clearwater Paper manufactures consumer tissue, away-from-home tissue (AFH), parent roll tissue, bleached paperboard and pulp. The company is a supplier of private label tissue to retailers and wholesale distributors. In addition, the company produces bleached paperboard and provides services that include custom sheeting, slitting and cutting. The company's segments are: Consumer Products, which manufactures and sells a complete line of at-home tissue products as well as AFH products; and Pulp and Paperboard, which consists primarily of folding carton, liquid packaging, cup and plate products, blister and carded packaging, top sheet, commercial printing grades and hardwood and softwood pulp.

Concentrix

Datadog Inc Class A

Digital Realty Trust Inc.

Digital Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company is a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions for customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. The company's Operating Partnership, Digital Realty Trust, L.P., is the entity through which the company conducts its business of owning, acquiring, developing and operating data centers. The company's portfolio of data centers provides available environments for the exchange, processing and storage of electronic information.

Dyne Therapeutics

Endava PLC ADS

Energy Fuels

Energy Fuels is engaged in uranium mining, milling, development, and exploration with operating uranium mines, mines on standby, development projects and exploration properties located in the United States. Co.'s assets include its 100% ownership of the White Mesa Mill in Utah. Co. also produces vanadium as a co-product from some of its mines in Colorado and Utah. In addition, Co. recycles uranium-bearing waste materials, referred to as "alternate feed materials", for the recovery of uranium, alone or in combination with other metals, at its White Mesa Mill.

H&R Block Inc.

H&R Block provides assisted, do-it-yourself, and virtual tax return preparation solutions through various channels (including in-person, online and mobile applications, virtual, and desktop software) and distributes the company-branded products and services to the general public in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and their respective territories. The company also provides additional services, such as Refund Transfers, its Peace of Mind? Extended Service Plan (POM), H&R Block Emerald Prepaid Mastercard?, H&R Block Emerald Advance? lines of credit, Tax Identity Shield?, and Refund Advance loans. For its Canadian clients the company also provides POM, H&R Block Instant Refund?, and H&R Block Pay With Refund? services.

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.

JACOBS SOLUTIONS INC.

James River Group Holdings Ltd

Kornit Digital Ltd.

Lindsay Corporation

Lindsay is engaged in providing a variety of proprietary water management and road infrastructure products and services. The company has operations which are categorized into two key reporting segments, Irrigation and Infrastructure. The company's irrigation segment includes the manufacture and marketing of center pivot, lateral move, hose reel irrigation systems, and repair and replacement parts for its irrigation systems and controls. The company's infrastructure segment includes the manufacture and marketing of moveable barriers, specialty barriers, crash cushions and end terminals, road marking and road safety equipment, large diameter steel tubing, and railroad signals and structures.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

Louisiana-Pacific is a provider of building solutions serving the new home construction, repair and remodeling and outdoor structures markets. The company has four segments: siding, which includes LP SmartSide? Strand and Fiber trim and siding, as well as LP Outdoor Building Solutions? products for outdoor buildings; oriented strand board (OSB), which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel products; engineered wood products, which include LP SolidStart? I-Joist, Laminated Veneer Lumber, and other related products; and South America, which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel and siding products in South America and certain export markets.

LPL Financial Holdings Inc.

LPL Financial Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the retail financial advice market and independent broker-dealer. The company's product and solution access includes: Commission-Based Products, which include variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds, equities, and insurance, among others; Fee-Based Advisory Platforms and Support, which include wrap-fee programs, mutual fund asset allocation programs, financial planning services, and retirement plan consulting services; and Cash Sweep Programs, which manage their clients' cash balances through a money market sweep vehicle involving money market fund providers and insured sweep vehicles involving banks.

MakeMyTrip Ltd.

MakeMyTrip Limited is an online travel company in India. The Company's services and products include air ticketing, hotels, packages, rail tickets, bus tickets, car hire and ancillary travel requirements, such as facilitating access to third-party travel insurance and visa processing. Its segments include Air ticketing, which provides the facility to book international and domestic air tickets through an Internet-based platform; Hotels and packages, which provides holiday packages and hotel reservations through an Internet-based platform, call-centers and branch offices, and Others, which include advertisement income from hosting advertisements on its Internet Web-sites, income from sale of rail and bus tickets and income from facilitating Website access to a travel insurance company. Through the Company's Website, www.makemytrip.com, and mobile platforms, travelers can research, plan and book a range of travel services and products in India, as well as overseas.

McGrath RentCorp

McGrath RentCorp is a business to business rental company with four rental divisions: relocatable modular buildings, portable storage containers, electronic test equipment, and liquid and solid containment tanks and boxes. The company reports its divisions in four business segments: its modular building and portable storage segment; its electronic test equipment segment; its containment solutions for the storage of hazardous and non-hazardous liquids and solids segment; and its classroom manufacturing business selling modular buildings used primarily as classrooms in California. The Mobile Modular business segment includes the Mobile Modular Portable Storage division.

Nutrien Ltd.

Nutrien Ltd is Canada-based crop nutrient producer and distributer of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products for agricultural, industrial and feed customers worldwide. The Company is focused on retail, potash, nitrogen and phosphate mining and processing operations. The Company's retail operations serve growers in a number of countries across the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and South America. The Company operates six potash mines in Saskatchewan and has a mine in New Brunswick in care-and-maintenance mode. The Company operates integrated phosphate mining and processing facilities, as well as a number of smaller upgrading plants in the United States.

NV5 Global Inc.

NV5 Global is a provider of technical engineering and consulting services, providing solutions to public and private sector clients in the energy, transportation, water, government, hospitality, education, healthcare, commercial and residential markets. The company's operations are organized into two reportable segments: Infrastructure, which includes its engineering, civil program management, and construction quality assurance, testing, and inspection practices; and Building, Technology and Sciences, which includes its energy, environmental, and building program management practices.

Paychex Inc.

Paychex is a provider of integrated human capital management (HCM) solutions for payroll, benefits, human resource (HR), and insurance services for small- to medium-sized businesses. The company's portfolio of HCM and employee benefit-related services include: payroll processing services; payroll tax administration services; employee payment services; regulatory compliance services (new-hire reporting and garnishment processing); HR Solutions Administrative Services Organization; retirement services administration; HR administration services, including time and attendance; other HR services and products; business services; Professional Employer Organization services; and insurance services.

Plexus Corp.

Plexus and its subsidiaries are engaged in the Electronic Manufacturing Services industry. The company is providing support for all the facets of the product realization process, which includes Design and Development, Supply Chain Solutions, New Product Introduction, Manufacturing, and Aftermarket Services to companies in the Healthcare/Life Sciences, Industrial/Commercial, Aerospace/Defense and Communications market sectors. The company delivers end-to-end solutions in the Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia-Pacific for its customers. The company delivers customer service to companies by providing solutions throughout the product's lifecycle.

REGENXBIO Inc.

REGENXBIO is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company's product candidates include: RGX-314, which is being developed as a gene therapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other additional chronic retinal conditions which cause total or partial vision loss for patients in the U.S., Europe and Japan; RGX-121, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II; RGX-111, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I; and RGX-181, which is for the treatment of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type II disease; and RGX-501, which is for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

Replimune Group

Replimune Group is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development of oncolytic immunotherapies to treat cancer. The company's primary product candidate, RP1, is a selectively replicating version of herpes simplex virus 1 that expresses GALV-GP R(-) and human GM-CSF. The company has designed its RP2 product candidate to express an anti-CTLA-4 antibody-like protein in order to block the inhibition of the immune response otherwise caused by CTLA-4, a protein that inhibits the immune response to tumors. The company has designed its RP3 product candidate to express immune-activating proteins that stimulate T cells, in addition to anti-CTLA-4 and GALV-GP R(-).

Resources Connection Inc.

Resources Connection is a consulting firm. The company serves its clients with talent in support of projects and initiatives in a range of functional areas, including: business strategy and transformation, which includes program and project management, change management, transaction advisory, executive search, human resources, supply chain, and legal; risk and compliance, which includes information security and privacy; internal audit and compliance; finance and accounting, which includes lease accounting, and revenue recognition; and technology and digital, which includes business technology, and data analytics.

RH
RH

RH is a holding company. Together with its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company provides merchandise assortments across a number of categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bathware, decor, outdoor and garden, and child and teen furnishings. The company positions its Galleries as showrooms for its brand, while its Source Books and websites act as virtual extensions of its stores. The company's business is integrated across its various channels of distribution, consisting of its stores, Source Books, and websites. The company operates its retail Galleries throughout the U.S. and Canada, and its Waterworks showrooms throughout the U.S. and in the U.K.

SomnoMed

Somnomed produces and sells devices for the oral treatment of sleep related disorders primarily in the Asia Pacific region, the U.S. and Europe.

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.

SYNDAX PHARMACEUTICALS

Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of cancer therapies. The company's primary product candidate, entinostat is a once-weekly, oral, small molecule, Class I HDAC inhibitor, which is being evaluated in the Phase 3 E2112 registrational clinical trial in combination with exemestane for hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative, breast cancer, an indication for which entinostat has been granted therapy designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration. SNDX-5613, the company's clinical-stage product candidate, is a small molecule inhibitor of the interaction of menin with the mixed lineage leukemia protein.

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.

WillScot Mobile Mini Holdings Corp

Zscaler Inc.

Zscaler is a cloud security company that developed a platform incorporating security functionalities needed to enable users to safely utilize authorized applications and services based on an organization's policies. The company's solution is a purpose-built, multi-tenant, distributed cloud security platform that secures access for users and devices to applications and services, regardless of location. The company delivers its solutions using a software-as-a-service business model and sells subscriptions to customers to access its cloud platform, together with related support services. The company conducts business worldwide, with presence in North America, Europe and Asia.

ZURN WATER SOLUTIONS CORP

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