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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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Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Class A

Abercrombie & Fitch, through its subsidiaries, is a retailer which primarily sells its products through its wholly-owned store and direct-to-consumer channels, as well as through various third-party wholesale, franchise and licensing arrangements. The company provides an assortment of apparel, personal care products and accessories for men, women and children under the Hollister, Abercrombie & Fitch and abercrombie kids brands. The company has operations in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The company's operating segments are brand-based: Hollister and Abercrombie, the latter of which includes the company's Abercrombie & Fitch and abercrombie kids brands.

Ally Financial Inc

Ally Financial is a digital-financial services and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services and insurance products to automotive dealerships and consumers. The company's online bank provides mortgage-lending, personal lending and a variety of deposit and other banking products, including savings, money-market and checking accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Additionally, the company provides securities-brokerage and investment-advisory services through Ally Invest. The company's corporate-finance business provides capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

AMN Healthcare Services Inc.

AMN Healthcare Services provides talent solutions for the healthcare sector. The company's talent solutions provides management, staffing, recruitment, technology, analytics, and related services to manage healthcare workforce needs. The company provides its healthcare personnel, from nurses, doctors, and allied health personnel to healthcare leaders and executives. The company's workforce solutions and staffing services include: travel nurse staffing; rapid response nurse staffing and labor disruption services; local, or per diem, staffing; locum tenens staffing; allied staffing; physician permanent placement services; interim leadership staffing and executive search services; and recruitment process outsourcing.

Andersons Inc.

Andersons is a company rooted in agriculture. The company conducts business across North America in the grain, ethanol, plant nutrient and rail sectors. The company's operations are classified into four reportable business segments: Grain, which provides grain marketing, risk management and corn origination services to its customers and affiliated ethanol facilities; Ethanol, which purchases and sells ethanol, provides facility operations, risk management, and ethanol; Plant Nutrient, which provides warehousing, packaging and manufacturing services to nutrient producers and other distributors; and Rail, which leases, repairs, and sells various types of railcars, locomotives and barges.

AngioDynamics Inc.

AngioDynamics designs, manufactures and sells medical, surgical and diagnostic devices for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease, vascular access and for use in oncology and surgical settings. The company's business units are: Oncology/Surgery, which provides a range of ablation technologies, including thermal tissue ablation systems, surgical resection and the NanoKnife System; Vascular Interventions and Therapies, which supports the medical areas of venous insufficiency, thrombus management, and peripheral products; and Vascular Access, which includes peripherally inserted central catheters, midline catheters, implantable ports, dialysis catheters and related accessories and supplies.

Aptiv PLC

Arch Resources Inc. Class A

Arch Coal is a coal producer. The company's main business is the production of thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines located throughout the U.S., for sale to utility, industrial and steel producers both in the U.S. and around the world. The company's segments are based on two lines of business, metallurgical coal and thermal coal, and may include a number of mine complexes. The company's segments are: the Powder River Basin, containing primary thermal operations in Wyoming; the Metallurgical, containing metallurgical operations in West Virginia; and the Other Thermal, containing supplementary thermal operations in Colorado, Illinois, and the Coal Mac thermal operation in West Virginia.

Bunge Limited

Consolidated Edison Inc.

Consolidated Edison is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in provision of energy services. The company's subsidiaries include: Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.'s principal business operations are its regulated electric, gas and steam delivery businesses; Orange & Rockland Utilities, Inc.'s principal business operations are its regulated electric and gas delivery businesses; Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses, Inc. develops, owns and operates renewable and energy infrastructure projects and provides energy-related products and services to wholesale and retail customers; and Con Edison Transmission, Inc. invests in electric and gas transmission projects.

Constellation Brands Inc. Class A

Constellation Brands is an international beverage alcohol company. The company is a producer and marketer of beer, wine and spirits with operations in the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, Italy and Canada. The company has two segments: Beer, in which the company is engaged in the U.S. beer market that includes the imported, craft, domestic super premium, and alternative beverage alcohol categories and it has the right to import, market and sell these Mexican beer brands in the U.S.; and Wine and Spirits, in which its wine portfolio is supported by grapes purchased from independent growers, primarily in the U.S., New Zealand and Chile, and vineyard holdings in the U.S., New Zealand and Italy.

DIAMOND HILL INVESTMENT GROUP

Diamond Hill Investment Group provides investment advisory and fund administration services through its subsidiary, Diamond Hill Capital Management, Inc. (DHCM). DHCM sponsors, distributes, and provides investment advisory and related services to clients through Diamond Hill Funds, institutional accounts, an exchange traded fund, and private investment funds.

Digimarc Corporation

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

Evercore Inc Class A

Evercore is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment banking advisory firm. The company's segments include: Investment Banking, which includes the advisory business through which it provides advice to clients on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, shareholder activism and other corporate transactions, and the Evercore International Strategy and Investment business through which it provides macroeconomic, policy and fundamental equity research and agency-based equity securities trading for institutional investors; and Investment Management, which includes the wealth management business through which it provides investment advisory, wealth management and fiduciary services.

Expedia Group Inc.

Expedia Group is an online travel company. The company's portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com?, an online travel brand; Hotels.com?, a global lodging company operating websites with its Hotels.com? Rewards loyalty program; Vrbo?, a global online marketplace with a focus on providing lodging options for families; Egencia?, a corporate travel management company; Hotwire?, an online travel website providing spontaneous travel through its Hot Rate? deals; trivago?, an online hotel metasearch platform; and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., provider of a global rail retail and distribution platform connecting rail carriers and suppliers to both online and offline travel distributors.

Foot Locker Inc.

Foot Locker is a retailer of athletically inspired shoes and apparel. The company's reportable segments are: North America and International. The company's North America operating segment includes the following banners operating in the U.S. and Canada: Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, and SIX:02, including each of their related e-commerce businesses, as well as its Eastbay business that includes internet, catalog, and team sales. The company's International operating segment includes the following banners operating in Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand: Foot Locker, Runners Point, Sidestep, and Kids Foot Locker, including each of their related e-commerce businesses.

Fortive Corp.

Fortive designs, develops, services, manufactures and markets professional and engineered products, software and services. The company's segments are: Professional Instrumentation, which provides products, software and services, used to create actionable intelligence by measuring and monitoring physical parameters in industrial applications, including electrical current, radio frequency signals, distance, pressure, temperature, turbidity, radiation, and hazardous gases, and used to provide critical sterilization and disinfection solutions; and Industrial Technologies, which provides critical technical equipment, components, software and services for manufacturing, repair and transportation markets.

Glaukos Corp

Glaukos is an ophthalmic medical technology and pharmaceutical company focused on surgical devices and sustained pharmaceutical therapies designed to treat glaucoma. The company developed Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) to serve as an alternative to the glaucoma treatment and management paradigm. MIGS procedures involve the insertion of a micro-scale device or drug delivery system from within the eye's anterior chamber through a small corneal incision. The company's MIGS devices are designed to reduce intraocular pressure by restoring the natural outflow pathways for aqueous humor. The company's products include iStent trabecular micro-bypass stent, and iStent Inject trabecular micro-bypass stent.

Herman Miller Inc.

Herman Miller researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings for use in various environments including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings and provides related services. The company's segments include: North America Contract, which designs, manufactures, and sells furniture and textile products for work-related settings throughout the U.S. and Canada; International Contract, which designs, manufactures and sells furniture products in the Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific geographic regions; and Retail, which sells furnishings and accessories to third party retail distributors and direct to consumer sales.

Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company. The company has four segments: Aerospace, which supplies products, software and services for aircrafts; Honeywell Building Technologies, which provides products, software, solutions and technologies including building control and optimization, energy management, access control, video surveillance, fire products, and remote patient monitoring systems; Performance Materials and Technologies, which develops and manufactures chemicals and materials, process technologies and automation solutions; and Safety and Productivity Solutions, which provides products and software that improve productivity, workplace safety and asset performance.

International Paper Company

International Paper is a producer of renewable fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa, India and Russia. The company's segments are: Industrial Packaging, which manufactures containerboard, such as linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium and saturating kraft; Global Cellulose Fibers, which produces fluff pulp for making absorbent hygiene products like baby diapers, feminine care, adult incontinence and other non-woven products; and Printing Papers, which produces printing and writing papers, such as uncoated papers for use in copiers, desktop and laser printers and digital imaging.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.

Jacobs Engineering Group provides services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector. The company's lines of business are: Critical Mission Solutions, which provides cybersecurity, data analytics, software application development, enterprise and mission information technology, systems integration and other technical consulting solutions to government agencies as well as aerospace, automotive and telecom customers; and People and Places Solutions, which provides end-to-end solutions for its clients' projects, whether connected mobility, water, smart cities, manufacturing or the environment.

Kontoor Brands

Kontoor Brands is engaged in the design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, and distribution of apparel under the Wrangler and Lee brands in the United States and internationally. The company sells its products through mass and mid-tier retailers, specialty stores, department stores, and retailer-owned and third-party e-commerce sites, as well as sell its products through direct-to-consumer channels, including full-price stores, outlet stores, and its Websites. The company operates 13 manufacturing-related facilities and nine distribution centers around the world.

Marchex Inc. Cl B

Marchex is a call analytics company that helps businesses connect, drive, measure and convert callers into customers. The company's primary product offerings include: Marchex Call Analytics, which is an analytics platform for enterprises; Marchex Display and Video Analytics, which is a product for marketers that buy digital display advertising; Marchex Site Analytics, which is a product for marketers that can drive phone calls from websites; Marchex Social Analytics, which is a product for marketers that buy social media advertising; Marchex Call Marketplace, which is a mobile advertising network for businesses; and Local Leads, which is an advertising solution for small business resellers.

Mattel Inc.

Mattel is a global children's entertainment company that engages in the design and production of toys and consumer products. The company's portfolio of owned and licensed brands and products are organized into the following categories: Dolls, which include brands such as Barbie, American Girl, Enchantimals, and Polly Pocket; Infant, Toddler, and Preschool, which include brands such as Fisher-Price and Thomas & Friends, Power Wheels, Fireman Sam, and Shimmer and Shine (Nickelodeon); Vehicles, which include brands such as Hot Wheels, Matchbox, CARS (Disney Pixar), and Jurassic World (NBCUniversal); Action Figures, Building Sets, and Games, which include brands such as MEGA, UNO and WWE.

MGM Resorts International

MGM Resorts International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts across the United States and in Macau. The company's segments include: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, which consists of casino resorts such as Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur, and Park MGM; Regional Operations, which consists of casino resorts such as MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike Tunica, Borgata, MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield, Empire City, and MGM Northfield Park; and MGM China, which owns and operates casino resorts and the related gaming subconcession and land concessions.

Modine Manufacturing Company

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

MoneyGram International Inc.

MoneyGram International is engaged in in cross-border peer-to-peer (P2P) payments and money transfers. In addition to money transfers, the company's offerings include bill payment services, money order services and official check processing. The company manages its business primarily through two segments: Global Funds Transfer, which provides money transfer services and bill payment services primarily to unbanked and underbanked consumers; and Financial Paper Products, which provides money orders to consumers through its agents and financial institutions located throughout the United States and Puerto Rico and provides official check outsourcing services for financial institutions across the United States.

Mosaic Company

Mosaic is a producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. The company is organized into three reportable business segments: Phosphates, which owns and operates mines and production facilities in Florida that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients, and processing plants in Louisiana that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients; Potash, which mines and processes potash in Canada and the United States and sells potash in North America and internationally; and Mosaic Fertilizantes, which produces and sells concentrated phosphates crop nutrients, phosphate-based animal feed ingredients and potash fertilizer.

Motorola Solutions Inc.

Motorola Solutions is engaged in communications and analytics. The company manages its business through two segments: Products and Systems Integration, and Software and Services. Thr products and systems integration segment provides a range of devices, including land mobile radio handsets, infrastructure and accessories, as well as video security devices and infrastructure. The segment also includes the implementation and integration of such systems, devices and applications. The company also sells to commercial and industrial customers who use private radio networks and video security. The Software and Services segment provides a range of solutions for government, public safety and commercial customers.

Natural Gas Services Group Inc.

Natural Gas Services Group is a provider of natural gas compression services and equipment to the energy industry. The company manufactures, fabricates, rents, sells and maintains natural gas compressors and flare systems for oil and natural gas production and plant facilities. The company's operating units include: Rental, which provides small, medium and large horsepower applications for oil and natural gas production; Engineered Equipment Sales, which includes compressor fabrication, parts sales and compressor rebuilds, flare fabrication, and compressor manufacturing; and Service and Maintenance, which services and maintains compressors owned by its customers on an as needed and contract basis.

Newell Brands Inc

Newell Brands is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products. The company's segments include: Appliances and Cookware, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Food and Commercial, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Home and Outdoor Living, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes home fragrance and home security products; and Learning and Development, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes writing instruments, including markers and highlighters, pens and pencils.

OneMain Holdings Inc.

OneMain Holdings is a financial service holding company. The company provides origination, underwriting and servicing of personal loans to non-prime customers. Within its consumer and insurance segment, the company originates and services secured and unsecured personal loans and provides optional credit and non-credit insurance and related products through its combined branch network and its centralized operations. Personal loan origination and servicing, along with its insurance products, forms the core of the company's operations. The company's insurance business is conducted through its wholly-owned insurance subsidiaries, American Health and Life Insurance Company and Triton Insurance Company.

Paychex Inc.

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

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.

ROYAL CARIBBEAN GROUP

SAGE Therapeutics Inc.

Sage Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing medicines to treat life-altering central nervous system disorders. The company's principal product candidate is ZULRESSO? (brexanolone) injection, a proprietary intravenous formulation of brexanolone for the treatment of postpartum depression (PPD). The company's other product candidate is SAGE-217, an oral compound that is being developed for PPD and major depressive disorder. The company also has a portfolio of other compounds that target GABAA receptors, which include SAGE-324 and SAGE-689. The company's second area of focus is the development of compounds that target the NMDA receptor, which include SAGE-718.

Starbucks Corporation

Starbucks is a roaster, marketer and retailer of coffee. The company's segments are: Americas, which is inclusive of the United States, Canada, and Latin America; International, which is inclusive of China, Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Channel Development. The company's Americas and International segments include both company-operated and licensed stores. The company's Channel Development segment includes roasted whole bean and ground coffees, Seattle's Best Coffee?, Starbucks- and Teavana-branded single-serve products, a variety of ready-to-drink beverages, and other products sold worldwide outside of the company's company-operated and licensed stores.

Synchrony Financial

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

Universal Display Corporation

Universal Display is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in displays and lighting applications. The company manufactures and sells its proprietary OLED materials to customers for evaluation and use in commercial OLED products. The company also enters into agreements with manufacturers of OLED display and lighting products under which the company grants them licenses to practice under the company's patents and to use the company's proprietary know-how. At the same time, the company works with these and other companies that are evaluating the company's OLED technologies and materials for possible use in commercial OLED display and lighting products.

V.F. Corporation

VF is an apparel and footwear company. The company designs, produces, procures, markets and distributes a variety of lifestyle products, including outerwear, footwear, occupational and performance apparel, jeanswear, backpacks and luggage for consumers of all ages. Products are marketed primarily under the company-owned brand names. The company's segment comprised of: Outdoor, which includes performance-based and outdoor apparel, footwear and equipment; Active, which includes active apparel, footwear and accessories; Work, which consists of work and work-inspired lifestyle apparel and footwear and occupational apparel; and Jeans, which markets denim and related casual apparel products.

Valhi Inc.

Valhi is a holding company. The company operates through its wholly-owned and majority-owned subsidiaries, including NL Industries, Inc., Kronos Worldwide, Inc. (Kronos), CompX International, Inc. (CompX), Basic Management, Inc. (BMI) and The LandWell Company. The company's segments are: Chemicals, in which Kronos produces and markets titanium dioxide pigments; Component Products, in which CompX manufactures security products, stainless steel exhaust systems, gauges, throttle controls, wake enhancement systems and trim tabs; and Real Estate Management and Development, in which BMI provides utility services to certain industrial and municipal customers and owns real property in Henderson, NV.

Xilinx Inc.

Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies, including: integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips and three-dimensional ICs; Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, a multi-core heterogeneous compute platform; software design tools to program the PLDs; software development environments and embedded platforms; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and intellectual property (IP), which consists of the company and third-party verification and IP cores. In addition to its programmable platforms, the company provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support.

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