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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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Aareal Bank AG

Aareal Bank is an international property specialist, providing financing, advice and other services to the housing industry and the commercial property sector. Co.'s segments include: Structured Property Financing, which finances commercial property, in particular, office buildings, hotels, shopping centers as well as logistics properties and residential property in Germany, Europe, North America and Asia; and Consulting/Services, which provides specialized banking services to housing and commercial property management sector customers in its core market of Germany. Through its subsidiary, Aareon AG, Co. provides IT consulting, software and IT services in several European countries.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings Inc.

Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings' operations are organized into two segments: Aerospace and Defense, which includes the company's wholly-owned subsidiary Aerojet Rocketdyne, Inc., a technology-based engineering and manufacturing company that develops and produces propulsion systems, as well as armament systems, where the company develops and manufactures several propulsion types (liquid, solid, air-breathing, and electric) for space, defense, civil and commercial applications; and Real Estate, which includes the activities of the company's wholly-owned subsidiary Easton Development Company, LLC related to the re-zoning, entitlement, sale, and leasing of its excess real estate assets.

ALLETE Inc.

Allete is an energy company. The company's Regulated Operations includes its regulated utilities, Minnesota Power and Superior Water, Light and Power Company, as well as its investment in American Transmission Company LLC, a regulated utility that owns and maintains electric transmission assets in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois. ALLETE Clean Energy focuses on developing, acquiring, and operating clean and renewable energy projects. United States Water Services provides integrated water management for industry by combining chemical, equipment, engineering and service for customized solutions to reduce water and energy usage, and improve efficiency.

Allgemeine Gold- Und Silberscheideanstalt AG

Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt is engaged in the recovery of precious metals and the manufacture of precious metal products. Co. acts as a refinery, receiving refining materials, such as scraps, sweeps and solutions of precious metals from precious metal consuming industries. Co. refines these materials into other products, including sheets and strips, wires, tubes, solder core, casting grain, pre-alloys, gold and silver solders, special alloys, anodes and gold and silver salts for electroplating that are used in jewelry production and industrial applications.

Allstate Corporation

Allstate is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the property and casualty insurance business. The company's segments include: Allstate Protection, which provides private passenger auto, homeowners, other personal lines and commercial insurance; Service Businesses, which includes SquareTrade that provides consumer protection plans and related technical support; Allstate Life, which provides interest-sensitive and variable life insurance products, as well as distributes non-proprietary retirement products; and Allstate Benefits, which provides voluntary benefits products, including life, accident, critical illness, and other health insurance products.

AMC Networks Inc. Class A

AMC Networks is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in owning and operating entertainment businesses and assets. The company's operating segments are: National Networks, which includes activities of the company's programming businesses, which include programming networks such as AMC, WE tv, BBC AMERICA, IFC, and SundanceTV in the U.S., and AMC and IFC in Canada; and International and Other, which includes AMC Networks International, the company's international programming businesses consisting of a portfolio of channels; IFC Films, the company's independent film distribution business, and its subscription streaming services Acorn TV and UMC, Shudder and Sundance Now.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Airlines Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's business activity is the operation of a primary network carrier, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. The company's regional carriers provide scheduled air transportation under American Eagle. The American Eagle carriers include the company's regional carriers Envoy Aviation Group Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc., as well as third-party regional carriers including Republic Airline Inc., Mesa Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and Compass Airlines, LLC. The company's cargo division provides freight and mail services, with facilities and interline connections available across the globe.

American National Bankshares Inc.

American National Bankshares is a one-bank holding company. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, American National Bank and Trust Company, the company provides an array of financial products and services, including commercial, mortgage, and consumer banking; trust and investment services; and insurance. The company has two reportable segments: community banking, which involves making loans to and generating deposits from individuals and businesses; and trust and investment services, which include estate planning, trust account administration, investment management, and retail brokerage.

American National Group Inc

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

AT&T Inc.

AT&T is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of telecommunications, media and technology services. The company's Communications segment provides wireless and wireline telecom, video and broadband services. The company's WarnerMedia segment includes media and entertainment businesses that principally develop, produce and distribute feature films, television content, and other content globally; and operate digital media properties. The company's Latin America segment provides entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. The company's XANDR segment relies on using data from its customer relationships, to develop digital and video advertising that is relevant to consumers.

Avista Corporation

Avista is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is primarily an electric and natural gas utility with certain other business ventures. The company has two reportable business segments: Avista Utilities, which provides electric distribution and transmission, and natural gas distribution services in parts of eastern Washington and northern Idaho, as well as natural gas distribution service in parts of northeastern and southwestern Oregon; and Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, which provides electric services in Juneau, AK. The company also has other businesses, including sheet metal fabrication, venture fund investments, real estate investments, as well as certain other investments.

Avnet Inc.

Avnet is a technology solutions company with an ecosystem delivering design, product, marketing and supply chain knowledge for customers at every stage of the product lifecycle. The company's primary operating groups include: Electronic Components, which markets, sells and distributes electronic components including semiconductors, interconnect, passive and electromechanical components and other integrated components from electronic component manufacturers; and Premier Farnell, which distributes a portfolio of kits, tools, electronic components and industrial automation components, as well as test and measurement products to both engineers and entrepreneurs.

Belden Inc.

Belden is a global supplier of networking solutions built around two global business platforms: Enterprise Solutions and Industrial Solutions. The company's portfolio of solutions enables customers to transmit and secure data, sound, and video for mission critical applications across complex enterprise and industrial environments. The company's Enterprise Solutions segment provides network infrastructure solutions, as well as cabling and connectivity solutions for commercial audio/video and security applications. The company's Industrial Solutions segment provides networking components and machine connectivity products.

Benefitfocus Inc.

Benefitfocus provides a cloud-based benefits management platform for buyers (consumers, employees and employers) and sellers (insurance brokers, carriers and suppliers). The Benefitfocus Platform enable organizations and individuals transact benefits. The company's employer, carrier, broker and supplier customers uses its platform to manage, scale and exchange benefits data. The Benefitfocus Platform is designed for consumers to access all of their benefits in one place. The company's solutions support medical benefit plans and non-medical benefits, such as, dental, life, disability insurance, income protection, digital health and financial wellness.

CarGurus Class A

CarGurus is an online automotive marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of new and used cars. The company's selection of car listings provides a number of car listings available on the main United States online automotive marketplaces. In addition to the United States, the company operates online marketplaces under the CarGurus brand in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Spain. Through its marketplace, the company provides consumers with information that helps them find the relevant car for their needs. A user accesses the company's marketplace through its websites or, in the United States and certain international markets, by using the company's mobile applications.

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

Casa Systems Inc

Casa Systems is a communications technology company. The company provides solutions for centralized, distributed and virtualized architectures for cable broadband, fixed-line broadband and wireless networks. The company's Axyom software platform performs network services including subscriber management, session management, radio frequency management, access aggregation, and security. In connection with its centralized and distributed deployment solutions, the company provides passive optical networking solutions, enabling service providers to move fiber closer to the network edge and deliver broadband services. The company's multi-service applications include cable network applications and wireless network applications.

Central Pacific Financial Corp.

Central Pacific Financial is a bank holding company. Through its bank and its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking services and products to businesses, personnel and individuals. The company's business activities are focused primarily in Hawaii. The company provides its customers with a range of loan products, including residential mortgage loans, commercial and consumer loans and lines of credit, commercial real estate loans and construction loans. Additionally, the company provides wealth management products and services, such as non-deposit investment products, annuities, insurance, investment management, asset custody and general consultation and planning services.

ChampionX Corporation

Children's Place Inc.

Children's Place is a children's apparel retailer in North America. The company sells apparel, accessories, footwear and other items for children. The company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell merchandise, the substantial majority of which is under the proprietary The Children's Place, Place and Baby Place brand names. The company has differentiated departments and serves the wardrobe needs of girls and boys, toddler girls and boys and baby. The company's merchandise is also available online at www.childrensplace.com. The company's segments are The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International.

Citigroup Inc.

Citigroup is a financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, trade and securities services and wealth management. The company operates via two primary business segments: Global Consumer Banking, which provides banking services to retail customers through retail banking, Citi-branded cards and Citi retail services; and Institutional Clients Group, which includes banking and markets and securities services.

Citizens & Northern Corp.

Citizens & Northern is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Citizens & Northern Bank, the company provides banking and related services to individual and corporate customers. Lending products include commercial, mortgage and consumer loans, as well as instruments such as commercial letters-of-credit. Deposit products include checking accounts, passbook and statement savings, money market accounts, interest checking accounts, Individual Retirement Accounts and certificates of deposit. The company's primary market area includes northcentral Pennsylvania, southern New York State, Southeastern Pennsylvania and south central Pennsylvania. The company also provides Trust and Financial Management services.

CME Group Inc. Class A

CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company exchanges provides a range of global benchmark products across asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange (FX), agricultural, energy and metal commodities. The company provides futures and options on futures trading across asset classes through its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Globex platform, cash and repo fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and cash and OTC FX trading via EBS. In addition, the company operates central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing, a division of CME. The company also provides optimization, reconciliation and processing services through TriOptima, Traiana and Reset.

CONSOL Energy Inc

CONSOL Energy is a producer of bituminous coal, focused on the extraction and preparation of coal in the Appalachian Basin. The company's primary businesses consist of its: Pennsylvania Mining Complex; CONSOL Coal Resources LP (CCR or Partnership) Ownership, in which the company owns directly or indirectly, through CCR's general partner, an interest in the partnership; CONSOL Marine Terminal, in which through its subsidiary, CONSOL Marine Terminals LLC, the company provides coal export terminal services through the Port of Baltimore; and Greenfield Reserves, in which the company has ownership of undeveloped coal reserves located in the Northern Appalachian Basin, the Central Appalachian Basin, and the Illinois Basin.

Constellation Pharmaceuticals

Constellation Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its capabilities in epigenetics to discover and develop therapeutics that address medical needs in patients with cancers associated with abnormal gene expression or drug resistance. The company's integrated epigenetics platform enables it to validate targets and generate small molecules against these targets that selectively modulate gene expression in tumor and immune cells to drive anti-tumor activity. The company has three product candidates: CPI-0610, CPI-1205, and CPI-0209. CPI-0610 inhibits bromodomain and extra terminal domain proteins. CPI-1205 and CPI-0209 inhibit the enhancer of zeste homolog 2 protein.

Cousins Properties Incorporated

Cousins Properties is a real estate investment trust. The company conducts substantially all of its business through its subsidiary, Cousins Properties LP (CPLP). CPLP also owns Cousins TRS Services LLC, which owns and manages its own real estate portfolio and performs certain real estate related services for other parties. The company's segments are based on the property type and geographical area. The segments by property type are: Office and Mixed-Use. The segments by geographical region are: Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Phoenix, Tampa, Dallas, Orlando, and Other.

Devon Energy Corporation

Devon Energy is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's operations are concentrated in various onshore areas in United States. The company's areas of operation include Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Powder River Basin and the STACK development, located primarily in Oklahoma's Canadian, Kingfisher and Blaine counties.

Diamondback Energy Inc.

Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The company's activities are primarily focused on horizontal development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations of the Midland Basin and the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations of the Delaware Basin, both of which are part of the larger Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico.

Ebix Inc.

Ebix is a supplier of infrastructure exchanges to the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. The company focuses on: expansion of connectivity between all entities through its Exchange family of products in the financial, travel, life, health, workers compensation, risk management, annuity and property and casualty (P&C) sectors namely the EbixCash and EbixExchange family of products; sales and support of P&C back-end insurance and broker management systems; sale, customization, development, implementation and support of its P&C back-end insurance carrier system platforms; risk compliance solution services; and e-governance/e-learning solutions in emerging world markets.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

Essential Utilities, Inc.

Evelo Biosciences

Evelo Biosciences is discovering and developing therapies designed to engage immune cells in the small intestine to drive therapeutic immune effects throughout the body for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and cancers. The company is developing monoclonal microbials, a modality of oral biologic medicines. The company initiates a clinical trial of its monoclonal microbial candidate in inflammatory diseases, EDP1066 and initiates a clinical trial for its inflammation candidate, EDP1815. The company is developing monoclonal microbial therapies in oncology. The company initiates its clinical trial of its oncology product candidate, EDP1503 in combination with KEYTRUDA? (pembrolizumab) in various oncology indications.

Everest Re Group Ltd.

Everest Re Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company underwrites reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The company's segments are: U.S. Reinsurance, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and specialty lines of business, including Marine, Aviation, Surety and Accident and Health business; International, which focuses on the international reinsurance markets; Bermuda, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and property and casualty reinsurance; and Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance through agents, wholesale and retail brokers and surplus lines brokers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda.

FirstCash Inc.

FirstCash is an operator of retail pawn stores in the United States and Latin America. The company has stores in the United States and the District of Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia. The company's primary business is the operation of pawn stores, also known as pawnshops, which make pawn loans secured by personal property such as jewelry, electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods and musical instruments. Pawn loans can be accessed by customers who often have limited access to credit products. Pawn stores also retail consumer products acquired through collateral forfeitures on forfeited pawn loans and direct purchases of such merchandise from the general public.

Great Western Bancorp Inc.

Great Western Bancorp is a bank holding company focused on relationship-based business and agri-business banking. The company serves its customers through branches in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company focuses on business banking, complemented by its agri-business banking, retail banking and wealth management services. The company's loan portfolio consists mainly of business loans, comprised of commercial real estate loans and commercial non-real estate loans. The company also provides a range of deposit and loan products to its retail customers. The company is engaged in private banking, financial planning, investment management and insurance operations.

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.

Haynes International Inc.

Haynes International develops, manufactures, markets and distributes alloys primarily for use in the aerospace, chemical processing and industrial gas turbine industries. The company's products are high-temperature resistant alloys (HTA) and corrosion-resistant alloys (CRA). The company's HTA products are used by manufacturers of equipment that is subjected to high temperatures, such as jet engines for the aerospace market, gas turbine engines for power generation and industrial heating equipment. The company's CRA products are used in applications that require resistance to corrosive media found in chemical processing, power plant emissions control and hazardous waste treatment.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

Hess Corporation

Hess is a global exploration and production company engaged in exploration, development, production, transportation, purchase and sale of crude oil, natural gas liquid (NGL), and natural gas with production operations located primarily in the United States, Guyana, the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, Malaysia and Denmark. The company's Midstream operating segment provides fee-based services, including gathering, compressing and processing natural gas and fractionating NGL; gathering, terminaling, loading and transporting crude oil and NGL; storing and terminaling propane, and water handling services primarily in the Bakken shale play in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota.

HollyFrontier Corporation

HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner that produces products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, other lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The company's segments are: Refining, which involves the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale and marketing of refined products; Lubricants and Specialty Products, which includes the production of lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, other products and finished lubricants; and the company's subsidiary, Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and processing units.

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IDACORP Inc.

Idacorp is a holding company. The company's principal operating subsidiary, Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power) is an electric utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy and capacity. Idaho Energy Resources Co., a joint venturer in Bridger Coal Company, which mines and supplies coal to the Jim Bridger generating plant owned in part by Idaho Power. The company's other subsidiaries include: IDACORP Financial Services, Inc., an investor in affordable housing and other real estate investments; and Ida-West Energy Company, an operator of small hydroelectric generation projects.

Inogen Inc.

Inogen is a medical technology company that primarily develops, manufactures and markets portable oxygen concentrators used to deliver supplemental long-term oxygen therapy to patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions. The company's proprietary Inogen One? systems concentrate the air around the patient to provide a single source of supplemental oxygen the company markets its existing portable product offerings, the Inogen One G4 and the Inogen One G3, as single solutions for long-term oxygen therapy. The company's solutions can operate on a 24/7 basis for at least 60 months without a stationary concentrator, with minimal servicing of sieve beds, filters, and accessories.

Interactive Brokers Group Inc. Class A

Interactive Brokers Group is a holding company. The company together with its subsidiary, IBG LLC, is an automated global electronic broker engaged in executing and clearing trades in securities, futures, foreign exchange instruments, bonds and mutual funds on various electronic exchanges and market centers and providing custody, prime brokerage, securities and margin lending services to customers. The company's principal business segment is electronic brokerage. The company conducts its electronic brokerage business through certain Interactive Brokers subsidiaries. As an electronic broker, the company executes, clears and settles trades globally for both institutional and individual customers.

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc Class A

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings is a holding company. Through its ownership of an interests in its subsidiary, TripAdvisor, Inc. (TripAdvisor), the company is primarily engaged in the online travel industry. TripAdvisor, by and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates a portfolio of online travel brands. TripAdvisor provides users and travel partners platform about destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. TripAdvisor operates in the global travel industry, focusing on online travel and travel-related activity, and the online advertising market.

LivaNova Plc

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

M&T BANK CORPORATION

M&T Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides individuals, corporations and other businesses, and institutions with commercial and retail banking services, including loans and deposits, trust, mortgage banking, asset management, insurance and other financial services. Banking activities are primarily focused on consumers residing in New York State, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia and on small and medium-size businesses based in those areas. Certain subsidiaries also conduct activities in other areas.

Marathon Oil Corporation

Marathon Oil is an independent exploration and production company focused on the United States resource plays. The company also has international operations in Equatorial Guinea (E.G.). The company's segments are: United States, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas in the United States; and International, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of the United States as well as produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol, in E.G.

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

MSG Networks Inc. Class A

MSG Network is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in sports production, and content development and distribution, owns and operates two regional sports and entertainment networks, MSG Network (MSGN) and MSG+. The company's networks are distributed throughout all of New York State and main portions of New Jersey and Connecticut, as well as parts of Pennsylvania. The company's networks are also carried nationally by certain distributors on sports tiers or in similar packages. MSGN and MSG+ aired live professional games this past year, along with a lineup of other sporting events, including college football and basketball, as well as original programming.

Murphy Oil Corporation

Murphy Oil is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids worldwide. The company's principal exploration and production activities are conducted in United States by wholly owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA and its subsidiaries, in Canada by wholly-owned Murphy Oil Company Ltd. and its subsidiaries, and in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Mexico and Vietnam by wholly-owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - International and its subsidiaries. The company's hydrocarbon production is in United States, Canada and Brunei.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

NewMarket Corporation

NewMarket is a holding company and is the parent company of Afton Chemical Corporation (Afton), Ethyl Corporation (Ethyl), NewMarket Services Corporation (NewMarket Services), and NewMarket Development Corporation (NewMarket Development). Afton manufactures and sells petroleum additives, while Ethyl represents the sale of tetraethyl lead (antiknock compounds) in North America as well as certain contracted manufacturing and services. NewMarket Development manages the property that the company owns in Virginia. NewMarket Services provides various administrative services to the company, Afton, Ethyl, and NewMarket Development. The company's business is principally engaged in lubricant additives and fuel additives.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions Inc.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a land oilfield focused service company, with a set of well completion and production services across active basins. The company provides its services through its operating subsidiaries to exploration and production customers. Also, the company provides its services in several active basins in the United States, including the Permian, the Marcellus Shale/Utica, the Eagle Ford and the Bakken/Rockies. The company is organized into two segments: Completion Services, which includes Hydraulic Fracturing and Wireline Technologies; and Well Construction and Intervention Services, which includes Cementing and Coiled Tubing.

NOV Inc.

National Oilwell Varco is an independent provider of equipment and technology to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's segments include: Wellbore Technologies, which designs, manufactures, rents, and sells a variety of equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations; Completion and Production Solutions, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation, well intervention, onshore production, and offshore production; and Rig Technologies, which designs, manufactures and sells land rigs, offshore drilling equipment packages, and drilling rig components that mechanize and automate the drilling process and rig functionality.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Occidental Petroleum has three reporting segments: oil and gas, which explores for, develops and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas; chemical, which mainly manufactures and markets basic chemicals (chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated organics, potassium chemicals, ethylene dichloride, chlorinated isocyanurates, sodium silicates and calcium chloride) and vinyls (vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride and ethylene); and marketing and midstream, which purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGL, natural gas, carbon dioxide and power.

Oceaneering International Inc.

Oceaneering International is a provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry. The company's segments are: Energy Services and Products; and Advanced Technologies. The company's business segments within the Energy Services and Products business are remotely operated vehicles, subsea products, subsea projects and asset integrity. The company's Advanced Technologies segment consists of government; and commercial business units: Government services and products include engineering and related manufacturing in defense and space exploration activities. The company's commercial business unit provides a turnkey solution that includes program management, and engineering design.

OceanFirst Financial Corp.

OceanFirst Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, OceanFirst Bank N.A. (the Bank), the company accepts retail and business deposits in the communities surrounding its branch offices and invests those deposits primarily in loans, consisting of commercial real estate and other commercial loans, and single-family, owner-occupied residential mortgage loans. The Bank also invests in other types of loans, including residential construction and consumer loans. The Bank also provides loan and deposit products, Bankcard services, wealth management services and sells alternative investment products including mutual funds, annuities and life insurance.

ONE Gas Inc.

ONE Gas is a regulated natural gas distribution utility. The company provides natural gas distribution services to its customers and is a natural gas distributor in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The company primarily serves residential, commercial and transportation customers in all three states. The company's natural gas distribution markets are Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka, KS; and Austin and El Paso, TX. The company's three divisions, Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service and Texas Gas Service, distribute natural gas to the natural gas distribution customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

Patterson-UTI Energy Inc.

Patterson-UTI Energy is an oilfield services company that primarily owns and operates fleets of land-based drilling rigs and a fleet of pressure pumping equipment. The company's business segments are: contract drilling services, which markets its contract drilling services to independent and other oil and natural gas operators; pressure pumping services, which provides pressure pumping services to oil and natural gas operators, primarily in Texas, the Mid-Continent region and the Appalachian region; and directional drilling services, which provides a suite of directional drilling services, including directional drilling and downhole performance motors in various onshore oil and natural gas basins.

Phillips 66

Phillips 66 is an energy manufacturing and logistics company with midstream, chemicals, refining, and marketing and specialties businesses. The company's segments include: Midstream, which provides crude oil and refined petroleum product transportation, terminaling and processing services, as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids transportation, storage, processing and marketing services; Chemicals, which manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis; Refining, which refines crude oil and other feedstocks into petroleum products; and Marketing and Specialties, which purchases for resale and markets refined petroleum products, mainly in the United States and Europe.

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.

Powell Industries Inc.

Powell Industries develops, designs, manufactures and services custom-engineered products and systems which distribute, control and monitor the flow of electrical energy and provide protection to motors, transformers and other electrically powered equipment. The company's principal products include integrated power control room substations, custom-engineered modules, electrical houses, distribution switchgear and control gear, medium-voltage circuit breakers, monitoring and control communications systems, motor control centers and bus duct systems. The company assists customers by providing services including spare parts, field service inspection, installation, commissioning, and modification and repair.

ProAssurance Corporation

ProAssurance is a holding company for property and casualty insurance companies. The company has five segments: Specialty Property and Casualty, which includes its professional liability business and medical technology liability business; Workers' Compensation, which includes its workers' compensation business provided to employers with 1,000 or fewer employees; Segregated Portfolio Cell Reinsurance, which includes the company's Cayman Islands segregated portfolio cell operations; Lloyd's Syndicate, which includes the company's participation in Lloyd's of London Syndicates 1729 and 6131; and Corporate, which includes the company's investment operations, which are managed at the corporate level.

ProSight Global

ProSight Global provides insurance services. The company offers legal protection for construction sites, consumer services, media and entertainment, marine, energy, and real estate sectors. The company serves cusotmers in the United States.

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.

RMR Group Inc. Class A

RMR Group is a holding company. Substantially various of the business of the company is conducted by its subsidiary, The RMR Group LLC (RMR LLC). The company's business consists of providing management services to its Managed Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and its real estate operating companies (Managed Operators). As manager of the Managed Equity REITs, the company implements investment strategies and manages day to day operations, subject to supervision and oversight by each Managed Equity REIT's board of trustees. RMR Advisors LLC, a subsidiary of RMR LLC, is an investment advisor which provides advisory services to the RMR Real Estate Income Fund.

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.

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of supply chain management and logistics solutions for the oil and natural gas industry. The company's offerings include: system rental, which manufactures and rents equipment to manage the delivery, handling and storage of proppant and chemicals at the well site; field services, which provides trained personnel to maintain and support its systems, train its customers to operate the systems and assist in the transportation of its systems; and transloading services, which provides manifest and unit-train transloading services, as well as provides forward staging storage of regional and local proppant.

Targa Resources Corp.

Targa Resources is a provider of midstream services and is a midstream energy company. The company operates in two segments: Gathering and Processing, which consists of gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, conditioning, processing, and marketing natural gas and gathering crude oil; and Logistics and Marketing, which includes activities necessary to convert mixed natural gas liquids (NGLs) into NGL products and provides certain services such as storing, fractionating, terminaling, transporting and marketing of NGLs and NGL products, storing and terminaling of refined petroleum products and crude oil and certain natural gas supply and marketing activities in support of its other businesses.

Telson Mining Corp.

Universal Corp

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

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

Williams Companies Inc.

Williams Companies is an energy infrastructure company focused on connecting North America's hydrocarbon resource plays to markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its gas pipeline and midstream business. The company's segments are: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, which includes the company's subsidiary, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC, an interstate natural gas pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern seaboard; Northeast G&P, which includes the company's natural gas gathering, compression, processing, and NGL fractionation businesses; and West, which includes the company's interstate natural gas pipeline.

World Fuel Services Corporation

World Fuel Services is a global fuel services company. The company's segments are: aviation, which provides global aviation fuel supply and service solutions to main commercial airlines, second and third-tier airlines, cargo carriers, regional and low-cost carriers, airports, fixed based operators, corporate fleets, fractional operators and private aircraft; land, which provides fuel, heating oil, propane, natural gas, lubricants and related products, advisory and fulfillment solutions, transaction management services, and transportation logistics for its product deliveries; and marine, which markets fuel, lubricants and related products and services to a base of marine customers.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

Wynnstay Group PLC

Wynnstay Group is engaged as a supplier of products and services to the agricultural industry. The business is reported as two complementary divisions, Agriculture and Specialist Retail. The Agriculture Division covers the manufacturing and supply a range of agricultural inputs to customers across many parts of the U.K. Co.'s Retail Division covers the supply of specialist agricultural and retail products to customers throughout Wales, Central and Southern England.

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