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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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AbbVie Inc.

AbbVie is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. The company's products are focused on treating conditions such as chronic autoimmune diseases in rheumatology, gastroenterology and dermatology; oncology, including blood cancers; virology, including hepatitis C virus and human immunodeficiency virus; neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's disease; metabolic diseases, including thyroid disease and complications associated with cystic fibrosis; pain associated with endometriosis; as well as other serious health conditions. The company also has medicines in clinical development across immunology, oncology and neuroscience, with additional targeted investment in cystic fibrosis and women's health.

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.

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc

Alnylam Pharmaceuticals is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapeutics based on RNA interference (RNAi). RNAi is a biological pathway within cells for sequence-specific silencing and regulation of gene expression. The company has two RNAi-based medicines, ONPATTRO? (patisiran) and GIVLAARI? (givosiran). ONPATTRO is approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of the polyneuropathy of hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis in adults and has also been approved in the European Union, Japan, Canada and Switzerland. GIVLAARI is approved by FDA for the treatment of adults with acute hepatic porphyria.

Anixter International Inc.

Anixter International is engaged in the distribution of network and security solutions, electrical and electronic solutions, and utility power solutions through Anixter Inc. and its subsidiaries. The Network and Security Solutions segment supplies products and customized supply chain solutions. The Electrical and Electronic Solutions segment supplies wire and cable, control, lighting and electrical bulk products and customized supply chain solutions. The Utility Power Solutions segment supplies electrical transmission and distribution products, power plant maintenance, repair and operations supplies and smart-grid products, and arranges materials management and procurement outsourcing.

Axcelis Technologies Inc.

Axcelis Technologies designs, manufactures and services ion implantation and other processing equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. The company also provides aftermarket lifecycle products and services, including used tools, spare parts, equipment upgrades, maintenance services and customer training. The company provides high energy, high current and medium current implanters for all application requirements. The company's Purion systems are all based on a common platform which enables a combination of implant purity, precision and productivity by combining a single wafer end station, with a spot beam architecture. The company's other products include curing systems, and thermal processing systems.

BJ's Restaurants Inc.

BJ's Restaurants operates in the casual dining segment of the restaurant industry. The company's restaurants feature a number of menu offerings including: slow roasted entrees, such as, prime rib; EnLIGHTened Entrees? such as its Cherry Chipotle Glazed Salmon; its deep-dish pizza; the Pizookie? dessert; and its BJ's proprietary craft beers. The company owns and operates restaurants located in various states, and its proprietary craft beer is produced at various locations, its Temple, TX brewpub locations and by independent third party brewers using its proprietary recipes. The company also produces its proprietary non-alcoholic craft sodas including root beer, ginger beer, cream, orange and black cherry soda.

Brinker International Inc.

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

Brookline Bancorp Inc.

Brookline Bancorp is a multi-bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing a range of commercial, business and retail banking services, including cash management products, on-line banking services, consumer and residential loans and investment services. The company's activities include acceptance of commercial, municipal and retail deposits, origination of mortgage loans on commercial and residential real estate located principally in New England states, origination of commercial loans and leases to small and mid-sized businesses, investment in debt and equity securities, and the provision of cash management and investment advisory services.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Robinson (C.H.) Worldwide is a third party logistics company. The company provides freight transportation services and logistics solutions to companies. The company's segments are: North American Surface Transportation, which provides freight transportation services across North America through a network of offices; and Global Forwarding, which provides global logistics services through an international network of offices and also contracts with independent agents; and All Other and Corporate, which includes Robinson Fresh? that provides sourcing services including the buying, selling, and marketing of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other perishable items, and managed services that provides Managed TMS?.

Cardinal Health Inc.

Cardinal Health is a healthcare services and products company providing customized solutions for hospitals, healthcare systems, pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, clinical laboratories and physician offices. The company's segments include: Pharmaceutical and Medical. The company's Pharmaceutical segment distributes branded and generic pharmaceutical, specialty pharmaceutical and over-the-counter healthcare and consumer products in the United States. The company's Medical segment manufactures, sources and distributes Cardinal Health branded medical, surgical and laboratory products, which are sold in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and other markets.

Caterpillar Inc.

Caterpillar is a manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. The company segments include: Construction Industries, which supports customers using machinery in infrastructure, forestry and building construction; Resource Industries, which supports customers using machinery in mining, heavy construction, quarry and aggregates, waste and material handling applications; Energy and Transportation, which supports customers in oil and gas, power generation, marine, rail and industrial applications, including Cat? machines; and Financial Products, which provides financing and related services.

Cellular Biomedicine Group Inc

Cellular Biomedicine Group is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in using its proprietary cell-based technologies to develop immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer and stem cell therapies for the treatment of degenerative diseases. The company's technologies include two primary cell platforms: immune cell therapy for treatment of a range of cancer indications, including hematological cancer and solid tumors; and regenerative Medicines using human adipose-derived mesenchymal progenitor cells for treatment of joint diseases, including knee osteoarthritis (autologous & allogeneic); and other degenerative and dermatologic diseases (assessing the feasibility).

CenterState Bank Corporation

CenterState Bank is a financial holding company. Through its national bank subsidiary, CenterState Bank, N.A. (the Bank), the company provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses and industries through its headquarters branch in Winter Haven, FL. The company also operates, through its Bank, a correspondent banking and capital markets service division for small and medium sized community banks throughout the United States. The company's loans are concentrated in three primary areas: real estate loans, commercial loans and consumer loans. The company's primary deposits include its regular savings, demand, negotiable order of withdrawal, and money market deposit accounts.

Cohu Inc.

Cohu provides semiconductor test equipment and services. The company's products include semiconductor test, which is used for wafer level and device package testing; semiconductor handlers, which are used to automate the testing and inspection of packaged semiconductor devices; thermal sub-systems, which provide temperature control of the integrated circuit during the testing process; bare board printed circuit board (PCB) test systems, which are used to test pre-assembly PCBs; interface products, which consist of test contactors and probe pins; spares and kits, which provide consumable, non-consumable and spare items; and services, which performs installations and maintenance of systems sold.

Columbia Banking System Inc.

Columbia Banking System is a bank holding company. Through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Columbia State Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, personnel and individuals throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The company provides its personal banking customers a range of account products including noninterest and interest-bearing checking, savings, money market and certificate of deposit accounts. Through its Columbia Trust Company subsidiary, the company provides a range of fiduciary, investment and administrative trust services, coupled with local, personalized attention to the requirements of each trust.

Commercial Metals Company

Commercial Metals, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, recycles and markets steel and metal products, related materials and services. The company has four reportable segments: Americas Recycling, which processes scrap metals for use as a raw material by the company and other manufacturers of new metal products; Americas Mills, which operates electric arc furnace (EAF) mini mills, EAF micro mills, rerolling mill, scrap metal shredders, and scrap metal processing facilities; Americas Fabrication, which includes warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; and International Mill, which consists of an EAF mini mill, recycling and fabrication operations located in Poland.

Continental Building Products Inc.

Continental Building Products is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures gypsum wallboard and complementary finishing products. Gypsum wallboard is a building product for interior and exterior walls and ceilings in residential and commercial structures. The company provides gypsum wallboard products, including LiftLite ?, its lightweight product, its Mold Defense ? line of products for protection against mold and mildew, and its Weather Defense ? line of moisture and mold-resistant exterior sheathing. The company also operates a finishing products business that manufactures joint compounds at its plant in Silver Grove (Kentucky) and its joint compound plant in Chambly (Quebec).

Customers Bancorp Inc.

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

Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe is engaged in providing payment solutions. The company's marketing solutions and other services provides products and services designed to meet its customers' sales and marketing needs, as well as various other service offerings. The company's forms, accessories and other products provides printed business forms, including deposit tickets, billing forms, work orders, job proposals, purchase orders, invoices and personnel forms, as well as computer forms compatible with accounting software packages commonly used by small businesses. The company also provides other customized products, including envelopes, office supplies, ink stamps, labels, deposit tickets, check registers and checkbook covers.

Dow Inc.

Dow is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company delivers science-based products and solutions for its customers. The company's segments are: Packaging and Specialty Plastics, which focuses on polyolefin product portfolio to deliver plastics to customers; Industrial Intermediates and Infrastructure, which produces and markets ethylene oxide and propylene oxide derivatives that are aligned to market segments as appliances, coatings, infrastructure and oil and gas; and Performance Materials and Coatings, which utilizes the company's acrylics-, cellulosics- and silicone-based technology platforms to serve the needs of the architectural and industrial coatings, home care and personal care end-markets.

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical is a global advanced materials and specialty additives company. The company's segments are: Additives and Functional Products, which manufactures chemicals for products in the transportation, consumables, building and construction, and other markets; Advanced Materials, which produces and markets polymers, films, and plastics in transportation, consumables, building and construction, durable goods, and health and wellness markets; Chemical Intermediates, which utilizes integration from the cellulose and acetyl, olefins, and alkylamines streams; and Fibers, which manufactures and sells Estron? acetate tow and Estrobond? triacetin plasticizers for use in filtration media.

Eaton Corp. Plc

Eaton Vance Corp.

Eaton Vance is engaged in managing investment funds and providing investment management and advisory services to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. Through its investment affiliates, the company manages active equity, income, alternative and blended strategies across a range of investment styles and asset classes, including United States, global and international equities, floating-rate bank loans, municipal bonds, global income, high-yield and investment grade bonds, and mortgage-backed securities, as well as a range of systematic investment strategies, including systematic equity, systematic alternatives and managed options strategies.

Emergent BioSolutions Inc.

Emergent BioSolutions is a life sciences company. The company is focused on preparedness and response products and solutions that address the following categories: Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and Explosives; emerging infectious diseases; travel health; emerging health crises; acute/emergency care; and contract development and manufacturing. The company also has a development pipeline consisting of a mix of both pre-clinical and clinical-stage product candidates, including Trobigard? a combination drug-device auto injector product candidate. In addition, the company has a fully integrated molecule-to-market biologics CDMO business offerings (development services, drug substance and drug product).

Enterprise Financial Services Corp

Enterprise Financial Services is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Enterprise Bank & Trust (Bank), the company provides banking and wealth management services to individuals and corporate customers located in Arizona, Kansas, Missouri, and New Mexico. The company provides business and personal banking services, including wealth management services. Lending services include commercial and industrial, commercial real estate, residential real estate, and consumer loans. Enterprise Trust, a division of the Bank, provides financial planning, estate planning, investment management, and trust services to businesses, individuals, institutions, retirement plans, and non-profit organizations.

F.N.B. Corporation

FNB is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services, principally to consumers, corporations, governments and small- to medium-sized businesses in its market areas. Commercial banking solutions include corporate banking, small business banking, investment real estate financing, business credit, capital markets and lease financing. Consumer banking products and services include deposit products, mortgage lending, consumer lending and a complete suite of mobile and online banking services. Wealth management services include asset management, private banking and insurance.

Fifth Third Bancorp

Fifth Third Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides financial products and services to the commercial, financial, retail, governmental, educational, energy and healthcare sectors. The company's segments are: Commercial Banking, which provides credit intermediation, cash management and financial services; Branch Banking, which provides a range of deposit and loan products to individuals and small businesses; Consumer Lending, which includes the company's residential mortgage, automobile and other indirect lending activities; and Wealth and Asset Management, which provides a range of investment alternatives for individuals, companies and not-for-profit organizations.

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation

First Commonwealth Financial is a financial holding company. Through its First Commonwealth Bank subsidiary, the company provides an array of consumer and commercial banking services. The company also provides trust and wealth management services and insurance products. The company's consumer services include internet, mobile and telephone banking, an automated teller machine network, and personal checking accounts, among others. The company's commercial banking services include commercial lending, business checking accounts, on-line account management services, automated clearing house origination, payroll direct deposit, commercial cash management services and repurchase agreements.

First Horizon Corporation

First Horizon National is a bank holding company. The company provides financial services primarily through its principal subsidiary, First Horizon Bank. The company's business segments include: regional banking, which provides investments, wealth management, financial planning, trust services and asset management, mortgage banking, credit card, and cash management; fixed income, which consists of fixed income securities sales, trading, underwriting, and strategies for institutional clients in the United States and abroad, as well as loan sales, portfolio advisory services, and derivative sales; and non-strategic, which includes run-off consumer lending activities and pre-2009 mortgage banking elements.

First Interstate BancSystem Inc. Class A

First Interstate BancSystem is a financial and bank holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, First Interstate Bank, the company delivers a range of banking products and services to individuals, businesses, municipalities, and other entities throughout its market areas. The company provides real estate, consumer, commercial, agricultural and other loans to individuals and businesses in its market areas. The company also provides depository products including checking, savings and time deposits, as well as a range of trust, employee benefit, investment management, insurance, agency, and custodial services to individuals, businesses, and nonprofit organizations.

FRANKLIN FINANCIAL NETWORK INC

Franklin Financial Network is a financial holding company. Through its wholly owned bank subsidiary, Franklin Synergy Bank, the company provides a range of banking and related financial services which focus on service to small businesses, corporate entities, local governments and individuals. The company's line of financial products include commercial banking, consumer banking, mortgage loans, deposits, retirement planning, financial planning, investment services, and insurance products through its wealth management department. The company operates through branches in WWilliamson, Davidson, and Rutherford counties within the Nashville metropolitan area.

Genco Shipping & Trading Ltd.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Goodyear Tire & Rubber develops, manufactures, distributes and sells tires and related products and services worldwide. The company manufactures and markets various lines of rubber tires for: automobiles, trucks, buses, aircraft, motorcycles, earthmoving and mining equipment, farm implements, industrial equipment, and various other applications. The company manufactures and sells tires under the Goodyear, Dunlop, Kelly, Debica, Sava and Fulda brands and various other Goodyear owned house brands, and the private-label brands of certain customers. The company operates its business through three operating segments representing its regional tire businesses: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia Pacific.

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.

Greif Class A

Greif is a producer of industrial packaging products and services. The company's segments are: Rigid Industrial Packaging and Services, which products including steel, fibre and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, and transit protection products; Paper Packaging and Services, which produces and sells containerboard, corrugated sheets, corrugated containers and other corrugated products; Flexible Products and Services, which produces flexible intermediate bulk containers and related services; and Land Management, which is focused on the harvesting and regeneration of the company's United States timber properties.

Hain Celestial Group Inc.

Hain Celestial Group manufactures, markets, distributes and sells organic and natural products. The company sells its products in the following categories: grocery, which includes infant formula, infant, toddler and kids foods, as well as other food products; snack products, which includes a variety of potato, root vegetable and other vegetable chips, straws, tortilla chips, whole grain chips, pita chips and puffs; personal care, which includes skin, hair and oral care, deodorants, baby care items, body washes, sunscreens and lotions; and tea, which provides varieties of herbal, green, black, wellness, rooibos and chai tea.

Harley-Davidson Inc.

Harley-Davidson is the parent company of Harley-Davidson Motor Company (HDMC) and Harley-Davidson Financial Services (HDFS). The company's segments are: Motorcycles and Related Products, which consists of HDMC that designs, manufactures and sells Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as motorcycle parts, accessories, general merchandise and services; and Financial Services, which consists of HDFS that is engaged in the business of financing and servicing wholesale inventory receivables and retail consumer loans, primarily for the purchase of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. HDFS also provides motorcycle insurance and protection products to motorcycle owners.

HNI Corporation

HNI provides office furniture and hearth products. The company's Office Furniture segment designs, manufactures, and markets a range of workplace furnishings. The company's portfolio includes panel-based and freestanding furniture systems and complementary products such as seating, storage, tables, and architectural products. The company provides office panel system products, benching, freestanding tables, storage, and social collaborative products. The company's Hearth Products segment manufactures and markets prefabricated fireplaces, hearth stoves, and related products. The company's line of hearth products includes a range of gas, wood, electric, and pellet fueled fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings, and accessories.

Interface Inc.

Interface is engaged in the design, production and sales of modular carpet, also known as carpet tile. The company's modular carpet system, which is marketed under the brands Interface and FLOR, utilizes carpet tiles cut in squares or rectangles to produce a floorcovering. The company's GlasBac? technology employs a fiberglass-reinforced polymeric composite backing that provides dimensional stability and reduces the need for adhesives or fasteners. In addition to general uses of its carpet tile, the company produces and sells an adapted version of its carpet tile for the healthcare facilities market. Furthermore, the company also sells an antimicrobial chemical compound under the registered trademark Intersept.

Janus Henderson Group PLC

Janus Henderson Group is a global investment manager. Co. manages a range of investment products for institutional and retail investors, across five capabilities, being European Equities, Global Equities, Global Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Alternatives, including Private Equity and Property. Management operates across product lines, distribution channels and geographic regions. All investment product types are sold in most, if not all, of these regions and are managed in various locations. As of Dec 31 2016, Co. had total assets under management of £101.00 billion.

JetBlue Airways Corporation

JetBlue Airways provides air transportation services. The company also provides Fare Options pricing model, at one of three branded fares: Blue, Blue Plus, and Blue Flex. Each fare includes different offerings such as checked bags, reduced change fees, and additional TrueBlue? points, with all fares including the company's primary offering of in-flight entertainment, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. TrueBlue? is the company's customer loyalty program designed to reward and recognize loyal customers. The company operates Airbus A321, Airbus A320 and Embraer E190 aircraft types. The company also sells vacation packages through JetBlue Vacations?, a vacation service for self-directed packaged travel planning.

Lakeland Bancorp Inc.

Lakeland Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Lakeland Bank (the Bank), the company provides a range of lending, depository, and related financial services to individuals and small to medium sized businesses. In the lending area, these services include commercial real estate loans, commercial and industrial loans, short and medium term loans, lines of credit, letters of credit, inventory and accounts receivable financing, real estate construction loans, mortgage loans, small business administration loans and merchant credit card services. Depository products include demand deposits, as well as savings, money market and time accounts.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands is a developer of destination properties (Integrated Resorts) that feature accommodations, gaming, entertainment and retail malls, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and other amenities. The company owns and operates Integrated Resorts in Asia and the United States. Through its ownership of Sands China Ltd., the company owns and operates properties including The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, and the Sands Macao. In Singapore, the company owns and operates the Marina Bay Sands. The company's Las Vegas Operating Properties includes The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and the Sands Expo Center.

LyondellBasell Industries NV

LyondellBasell Industries is a chemical company. Co.'s chemicals businesses consist of processing plants that convert liquid and gaseous hydrocarbon feedstocks into plastic resins and other chemicals, and used by its customers to manufacture a range of products including food packaging, home furnishings, automotive components, paints and coatings. Co.'s refining business consists of its Houston refinery, which processes crude oil into products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel. Co. manages its operations through five operating segments: Olefins and Polyolefins - Americas; Olefins and Polyolefins - Europe, Asia, International; Intermediates and Derivatives; Refining; and Technology.

MarineMax Inc.

MarineMax is a recreational boat and yacht retailer. Through its retail locations, the company sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure and fishing boats. The company also sells related marine products, including engines, trailers, parts, and accessories. In addition, the company provides repair, maintenance, and slip and storage services; arranges related boat financing, insurance, and extended service contracts; provides boat and yacht brokerage sales; yacht charter services; and operates a yacht charter business in the British Virgin Islands. The company also owns Fraser Yachts Group S.R.L., a yacht brokerage and yacht services company with operations in various countries.

Matthews International Corporation Class A

Matthews International is a provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The company's reporting segments are: SGK Brand Solutions, which includes brand development, deployment and delivery; Memorialization, which includes a line of memorialization products used primarily in cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories; and Industrial Technologies, which designs, manufactures and distributes a range of marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation solutions, and warehouse automation systems, as well as manufactures and markets products and systems that employ different marking technologies, including laser and ink-jet printing.

McKesson Corporation

McKesson provides pharmaceuticals and medical supplies and services to its customers. The company's segments include: U.S. Pharmaceutical and Specialty Solutions, which provides distribution and logistics services for branded, generic, specialty, biosimilar and over-the-counter pharmaceutical drugs and other healthcare-related products to customers; European Pharmaceutical Solutions, which provides distribution and services to wholesale, institutional and retail customers in European countries where it owns, partners or franchises with retail pharmacies; and Medical-Surgical Solutions, which delivers medical-supply distribution, logistics, biomedical and other services to healthcare providers.

Mobile Mini Inc.

Mobile Mini is engaged in providing portable storage solutions. The company is also a provider of specialty containment solutions in the U.S. The company's business is comprised primarily of two product categories: Storage Solutions and Tank and Pump Solutions. The company's storage solutions segment consists of the company's container and ground level office product offerings. The company provides a range of Storage Solutions products in varying lengths and widths with an assortment of differentiated features such as patented locking systems, premium doors, electrical wiring and shelving. The company's Tank and Pump Solutions products consist primarily of liquid and solid containment units, pumps and filtration equipment.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of biologic therapies for the treatment of rare immune-mediated diseases. The company's programs include: M281, which is a fully-human anti-neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn), aglycosylated immunoglobulin G (IgG1), monoclonal antibody, designed to reduce circulating human immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies by completely blocking endogenous IgG recycling via FcRn; M230, which is a recombinant trivalent human IgG1 Fc multimer; and M254, which is a hyper-sialylated immunoglobulin designed as a high potency alternative to IVIg, a therapeutic drug product that contains pooled, IgG antibodies purified from blood plasma.

Nordstrom Inc.

Nordstrom is a fashion retailer providing a selection of brand-name and private label apparel, shoes, cosmetics and accessories for women, men, young adults and children. The company serves customers through two businesses: Full-Price and Off-Price. The company's operations consist of the company's Nordstrom U.S. and Canada full-line stores, U.S. and Canada Nordstrom Rack stores, Jeffrey boutiques, Last Chance clearance stores, Trunk Club clubhouses and Nordstrom Local. Additionally, customers are served online through Nordstrom.com, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook and TrunkClub.com.

Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc.

Pacific Premier Bancorp is a bank holding company. The company operates through its subsidiary, Pacific Premier Bank. Through its branches and its Internet website at www.ppbi.com, the company provides an array of deposit products and services, including checking, money market and savings accounts, cash management services, electronic banking services, and on-line bill payment. The company also provides an array of loan products, such as commercial business loans, lines of credit, Small Business Administration loans, commercial real estate loans, agribusiness loans, home equity lines of credit, construction loans, farmland and consumer loans.

Panhandle Oil & Gas Inc.

Panhandle Oil and Gas focuses on perpetual oil and natural gas mineral ownership through mineral acquisitions and the development of its mineral acreage inventory. In addition, the company owns interests in leasehold acreage and non-operated interests in oil and natural gas properties. The company's mineral and leasehold properties are located primarily in Oklahoma, North Dakota, Texas, Arkansas and New Mexico. The majority of the company's oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas production is from wells located in Oklahoma, North Dakota, Texas and Arkansas. The company's principal products from the production associated with its non-operated interests are crude oil, natural gas and NGL.

PBF Energy Inc. Class A

PBF Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as an independent petroleum refiner and supplier of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the U.S. The company operates in two business segments: refining, which the company produces a variety of products at each of its refineries such as gasoline, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, lubricants, petrochemicals and asphalt; and logistics, which through its PBF Logistics LP subsidiary, the company owns or leases, operates, develops and acquires crude oil and refined petroleum products terminals, pipelines, storage facilities and similar logistics assets.

Penn National Gaming Inc.

Penn National Gaming is an owner and manager of gaming and racing facilities and video gaming terminal operations with a focus on slot machine entertainment. In addition, the company operates an interactive gaming division through its subsidiary, Penn Interactive Ventures, LLC. The company's segment's properties include Ameristar East Chicago, Hollywood Casino Bangor, 1st Jackpot Casino, Ameristar Vicksburg, Boomtown Biloxi, Boomtown Bossier City, Ameristar Black Hawk, Cactus Petes and Horseshu, Ameristar Council Bluffs, Argosy Casino Alton, Argosy Casino Riverside, Freehold Raceway, Retama Park Racetrack, Sam Houston Race Park and Valley Race Park, and Sanford-Orlando Kennel Club, among others.

PENSKE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC

Penske Automotive Group is a transportation services company that operates automotive and commercial truck dealerships and distributes commercial vehicles, diesel engines, gas engines, power systems and related parts and services. The company has four segments: Retail Automotive, consisting of its retail automotive dealership operations; Retail Commercial Truck, consisting of its retail commercial truck dealership operations in the United States and Canada; Other, consisting of its commercial vehicle and power systems distribution operations and other non-automotive consolidated operations; and Non-Automotive Investments, consisting of its equity method investments in non-automotive operations.

Pinnacle Financial Partners Inc.

Pinnacle Financial Partners is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Pinnacle Bank, the company provides banking services, including investment, mortgage, and insurance services, and wealth management services. The company provides a range of lending products, including commercial, real estate and consumer loans to individuals and small-to medium-sized businesses and other entities. Pinnacle Bank's deposit services include savings, checking, noninterest-bearing checking, interest-bearing checking, money market and certificate of deposit accounts. Pinnacle Bank contracts with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. to provide and sell various securities and other financial products to the public.

PotlatchDeltic Corporation

PotlatchDeltic is a real estate investment trust. The company's businesses are organized into three reportable operating segments: Resource, which engages in activities such as hunting leases, recreation permits and leases, mineral rights leases, biomass production and carbon sequestration; Wood Products, which manufactures and markets lumber, plywood and residual products primarily for use in home building, repair and remodeling, industrial products and other construction activity; and Real Estate, which consists primarily of the sale of non-core timberlands in the categories of other use, rural recreational real estate and non-strategic properties.

Regional Management Corp

Regional Management is a consumer finance company that provides installment loan products primarily to customers with limited access to consumer credit from banks, thrifts, credit card companies, and other lenders. Most of the company's loan products are secured, and each is structured on a fixed-rate, fixed-term basis with fully amortizing equal monthly installment payments, repayable at any time without penalty. The company sources its loans through its multiple channel platform, which includes its branches, digital partners, retailers, and its consumer website. The company's products include small, large, and retail installment loans. The company's small loans and large loans are its primary loan products.

Regions Financial Corporation

Regions Financial is a banking holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company has the following segments: Corporate Bank, which represents its commercial banking functions including commercial and industrial, commercial real estate and investor real estate lending; Consumer Bank, which represents its branch network, including consumer banking products and services related to residential first mortgages, home equity lines and loans, branch small business loans, indirect loans, consumer credit cards and other consumer loans; and Wealth Management, which provides credit related products, trust and investment management, asset management, retirement and savings solutions and estate planning.

Rush Enterprises Inc. Class A

Rush Enterprises is a retailer of commercial vehicles and related services. The Truck Segment includes the company's operation of network of commercial vehicle dealerships under the name Rush Truck Centers. Rush Truck Centers primarily sell commercial vehicles manufactured by Peterbilt, International, Hino, Ford, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso, IC Bus or Blue Bird. Through its network of Rush Truck Centers, the company provides one-stop service for the needs of its commercial vehicle customers, including retail sales of new and used commercial vehicles, aftermarket parts sales, service and repair facilities, financing, leasing and rental, and insurance products.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Southwest Airlines operates Southwest Airlines, a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States and near-international markets. The company has Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet and serves destinations in various states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other near-international countries such as Mexico, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos. The company principally provides point-to-point service, which allows for direct nonstop routing. The company also provides a suite of digital platforms to support Customers' needs prior to and during the course of their travel.

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.

State Street Corporation

State Street is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors. The company's clients include mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers. The company's Investment Servicing line of business performs custody and related functions, such as providing institutional investors with clearing, settlement and payment services. The company's Investment Management line of business, through State Street Global Advisors, provides a range of investment management strategies and products for its clients.

Systemax Inc.

Systemax, through its operating subsidiaries, is a marketer of brand name and private label industrial and business equipment and supplies in North America. The company sells a range of industrial and general business hard goods and supplies and to a lesser extent products that would fall into the category of maintenance, repair and operations products, which are marketed in North America. Majority of these products are manufactured by other companies. Some products are manufactured for the company and sold under its brand as a white label product, and some are manufactured to its own design and marketed under the trademarks: Global?, GlobalIndustrial.com?, Nexel? Paramount? and Interion?.

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Tenet Healthcare Corporation

Tenet Healthcare is a healthcare services company. Through its subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, including USPI Holding Company, Inc., the company operates hospitals, surgical hospitals and outpatient centers. In addition, the company's Conifer Holdings, Inc. (Conifer) subsidiary provides healthcare business process services in the areas of hospital and physician revenue cycle management and care solutions to healthcare systems, as well as individual hospitals, physician practices, self-insured organizations, health plans and other entities. The company has three reportable segments: Hospital Operations and other; Ambulatory Care; and Conifer.

Thor Industries Inc.

Thor Industries is a manufacturer of recreational vehicles. The company has three segments: North American Towable Recreational Vehicles, which consists of: Airstream (towable), Heartland (including Bison, Cruiser RV and DRV), Jayco (including Jayco towable, Starcraft and Highland Ridge), Keystone (including CrossRoads and Dutchmen) and KZ (including Venture RV); North American Motorized Recreational Vehicle, which consists of: Airstream (motorized), Jayco (including Jayco motorized and Entegra Coach) and Thor Motor Coach; and European Recreational Vehicles, which consists of the Erwin Hymer Group business.

Tristate Capital Holdings Inc

TriState Capital Holdings is a bank holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, the company serves middle-market businesses in its primary markets throughout the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey and New York and it also serves individuals on a national basis through its private banking channel. The company's segments include: Bank, which provides commercial banking products and services to middle-market businesses and private banking products and services to individuals; and Investment Management, which provides investment management services primarily to institutional investors, mutual funds and individual investors.

TrueBlue Inc.

TrueBlue is a provider of workforce solutions. The company's segments include: PeopleReady, which connects people to work in a range of industries that include construction, manufacturing and logistics, warehousing and distribution, waste and recycling, energy, retail, hospitality, and others; PeopleManagement, which provides contingent labor and on-site industrial workforce solutions; and PeopleScout, which provides permanent employee recruitment process outsourcing of end-to-end talent acquisition services from candidate sourcing and engagement through the onboarding of employees, and utilizes its technology platform (Affinix?) for sourcing, screening and delivering a permanent workforce.

UNIFI INC

Unifi manufactures and sells recycled and synthetic products made from polyester and nylon primarily to other yarn manufacturers and knitters and weavers that produce yarn and/or fabric for the apparel, hosiery, home furnishings, automotive, industrial and other end-use markets. The company has four segments: Polyester, which sells polyester-based products to other yarn manufacturers, knitters and weavers that produce yarn and/or fabric; Nylon, which sells nylon-based products to knitters and weavers that produce fabric for the apparel and hosiery markets; and Brazil and Asia, which sells polyester-based products to knitters that produce fabric for the apparel markets in South America and in Asia.

United Rentals Inc.

United Rentals is an equipment rental company that operates throughout the United States and Canada, and Europe. The company's general rentals segment includes the rental of construction, aerial and industrial equipment, general tools and light equipment, and related services and activities. This segment's customers include construction and industrial companies, manufacturers, utilities, municipalities and homeowners. The company's trench, power and fluid solutions segment includes the rental of construction products and related services. This segment consist of: Trench Safety region, Power and Heating, Ventilating and Air Conditioning region; and Fluid Solutions and Fluid Solutions Europe regions.

Urban Outfitters Inc.

Urban Outfitters is engaged in the operation of a general consumer product retail and wholesale business selling to customers through various channels including retail locations, websites, catalogs and mobile applications. The company has two segments: Retail, which consists of its Anthropologie, Bhldn, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands and its Food and Beverage division; and Wholesale, which designs, develops and markets young women's contemporary casual apparel, intimates, FP Movement activewear and shoes under the Free People brand, home goods, including gifts, tabletop and textiles, under the Anthropologie brand and the BDG apparel collection under the Urban Outfitters brand.

Vishay Intertechnology Inc.

Vishay Intertechnology is a manufacturer and supplier of discrete semiconductors and passive components. The company's semiconductor products include metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors, diodes, and optoelectronic components. Semiconductors are used to perform functions such as switching, amplifying, rectifying, routing, or transmitting electrical signals, power conversion, and power management. The company's passive components include resistors, capacitors, and magnetics such as inductors and transformers. Passive components are used to store electrical charges, to limit or resist electrical current, and to help in filtering, surge suppression, measurement, timing, and tuning applications.

Western Alliance Bancorp

Western Alliance is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a variety of financial services to customers, including commercial real estate loans, construction and land development loans, commercial loans, and consumer loans. The company provides deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, and other types of deposit accounts, including fixed-rate, fixed maturity certificates of deposit. In addition to commercial banking activities, the company provides other financial services to its customers, including: internet banking, wire transfers, electronic bill payment and presentment, lock box services, courier, and cash management services.

Zions Bancorporation N.A.

Zions is a commercial bank. The company provides a range of banking and related services, primarily in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The company provides community banking services through its main business lines of small and medium-sized business and corporate banking; commercial and residential development, construction and term lending; retail banking; treasury cash management and related products and services; residential mortgage servicing and lending; trust and wealth management; capital markets activities, including municipal finance advisory and underwriting; and investment activities.

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