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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.06 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:
• Many Media related names are topside major bases and remains leadership. (ex. OMC,
DISCA)

• Auto Dealerships are showing significant strength. (ex. SAH, LAD, AN,and GPI)

• Credit Card companies are staging price and RS reversals (ex. COF, and DFS)

• Education stocks remains leadership and are building bases. (ex APEI, STRA, and
CECO)
Underlyings
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.

American Public Education

American Public Education is a provider of online and on-campus postsecondary education. The company provides online postsecondary education directed primarily at the needs of the military and public safety communities through American Public University System, Inc., an online university that includes American Military University and American Public University. The company provides on-campus nursing education to students in Ohio through National Education Seminars, Inc., which it refers to as Hondros College of Nursing (HCON). HCON provides nursing education to students in Ohio to serve the needs of the nursing and healthcare communities.

AutoNation Inc.

AutoNation, through its subsidiaries, is an automotive retailer. The company provides a range of automotive products and services, including new vehicles, used vehicles, parts and service, which includes automotive repair and maintenance services as well as wholesale parts and collision businesses, and automotive finance and insurance products, which include vehicle service and other protection products, and the arranging of financing for vehicle purchases through third-party finance sources. The company owns and operates new vehicle franchises from stores located in the United States, in main metropolitan markets in the Sunbelt region. The company has three segments: Domestic, Import, and Premium Luxury.

BorgWarner Inc.

BorgWarner is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global product provider in technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. The company manufactures and sells these products worldwide, primarily to original equipment manufacturers of light vehicles (passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, vans and light trucks). The company's segments are: Engine, which provides turbochargers, eBoosters, timing systems, emissions systems, thermal systems, gasoline ignition technology, cabin heaters, battery heaters and battery charging; and Drivetrain, which provides rotating electrical components, power electronics, clutching systems, control modules and all-wheel drive systems.

Capital One Financial Corporation

Capital One Financial is a financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of financial products and services. The company's segments are: Credit Card, which consists of the company's domestic consumer and small business card lending, and international card businesses in Canada and the United Kingdom.; Consumer Banking, which consists of the company's deposit gathering and lending activities for consumers and small businesses, and national auto lending; and Commercial Banking, which consists of the company's lending, deposit gathering, capital markets and treasury management services to commercial real estate and commercial and industrial customers.

Career Education Corp.

Career Education's academic institutions provide education to students in a variety of disciplines through online, campus-based and blended learning programs. The company's reporting segments are: Colorado Technical University, which provides industry-relevant degree programs and academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, nursing, computer science, engineering, information systems and technology, cybersecurity and healthcare management; and American InterContinental University, which helps personnel get the degree and provides academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, information technologies, education and criminal justice.

Churchill Downs Incorporated

Churchill Downs is a racing, online wagering and gaming entertainment company. The company manages its operations through three reportable segments: Churchill Downs, Online Wagering, and Gaming. Churchill Downs includes live and historical pari-mutuel racing at Churchill Downs Racetrack and Derby City Gaming. Online Wagering includes the company's TwinSpires business and its online sports betting and iGaming business. Gaming includes casino properties and associated racetrack or jai alai facilities which support the casino license as applicable.

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation

Cypress Semiconductor manufactures and sells embedded system solutions for automotive, industrial, consumer and enterprise end markets. The company operates under two reportable business segments: Microcontroller and Connectivity Division, which focuses on connect and compute solutions for the Internet of Things and automotive solutions that improve the in-cabin user experience, as well as the company's intellectual property business; and Memory Products Division, which focuses on fail-safe storage and datalogging solutions for mission critical applications, as well as the company's nonvolatile DIMM subsidiary AgigA Tech Inc.

DISCOVER FINANCIAL SERVICES

Discover Financial Services is a bank holding, as well as a financial holding company. The company manages its business activities in two segments: Direct Banking, which includes consumer banking and lending products, specifically Discover-branded credit cards issued to individuals on the Discover Network and other consumer banking products and services, including student loans, personal loans, home equity loans, and deposit products; and Payment Services, which includes the PULSE network, Diners Club International and its Network Partners business, which provides payment transaction processing and settlement services on the Discover Network.

Discovery Inc. Class A

Discovery, through its subsidiaries, is a media company that provides content across distribution platforms, including pay-television, free-to-air and broadcast television, and direct-to-consumer subscription products. The company's portfolio of networks includes nonfiction television brands such as Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, and MotorTrend . The company's portfolio includes Eurosport, a sports entertainment provider. The company classifies its operations in two segments: U.S. Networks, consisting of domestic television networks and digital content services, and International Networks, consisting of international television networks and digital content services.

Enova International Inc

Enova International is a technology and analytics company focused on providing online financial services. The company provided or arranged loans to consumers under the names CashNetUSA and NetCredit in 33 states in the U.S., under the names QuickQuid, Pounds to Pocket and On Stride Financial in the U.K., and under the name Simplic in Brazil. The company also provided financing to small businesses in all 50 states and Washington D.C. in the U.S. under the names Headway Capital and The Business Backer. The company originates, arranges, guarantees or purchases short-term consumer loans, line of credit accounts, installment loans and receivables purchase agreements.

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor designs, manufactures, markets, and services a line of Ford cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, electrified vehicles, and Lincoln vehicles, as well as provides financial services through its subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company LLC. The company is engaged in electrification; mobility solutions, including self-driving services; and connected vehicle services. The company has three operating segments: Automotive, which includes the sale of Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories; Mobility, which includes its autonomous vehicles and its investment in mobility through Ford Smart Mobility LLC; and Ford Credit, which includes vehicle-related financing and leasing activities.

Garrett Motion Inc.

Group 1 Automotive Inc.

Group 1 Automotive is an operator in the automotive retail industry. Through its dealerships, the company sells new and used cars and light trucks, arranges related vehicle financing, sells service and insurance contracts, provides automotive maintenance and repair services, and sells vehicle parts. The company sells retail used vehicles directly to its customers at its dealerships or via its internet sites and wholesale used vehicles at auctions. The company sells replacement parts and provides both warranty and non-warranty maintenance and repair services, as well as provides collision repair services at the collision centers that the company operates. The company also sells parts to wholesale customers.

Helen of Troy Limited

Helen of Troy is a designer, developer, importer, marketer, and distributor of a portfolio of brand-name consumer products. The company operates three segments: Housewares, which includes food preparation tools and storage containers, cleaning, bath and garden tools and accessories, infant and toddler care products, and insulated beverage and food containers; Health and Home, which focuses on healthcare devices such as thermometers, humidifiers, heating pads, water filtration systems, and small home appliances; and Beauty, which includes electric hair care, beauty care and wellness appliances, grooming tools and accessories, and liquid-, solid- and powder-based personal care and grooming products.

Hershey Company

Hershey is engaged in the production of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery. The company's segments are: North America, which is responsible for the company's chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery market position, and its grocery and snacks market positions, in the United States and Canada; and International and Other, in which the company has operations and manufactures product in China, Mexico, Brazil, India and Malaysia, and also distributes and sells confectionery products in export markets of Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and other regions. The company's product offerings include chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, gum and mint refreshment products, snack and pantry items.

LCI Industries

LCI Industries supplies an array of components for the original equipment manufacturers in the recreation and industrial product markets, consisting of recreational vehicles and adjacent industries including buses; trailers used to haul boats, livestock, equipment and other cargo; trucks; boats; trains; manufactured homes; and modular housing. The company also supplies components to the related aftermarkets of these industries, primarily by selling to retail dealers, wholesale distributors and service centers. The company's products include steel chassis and related components, axles and suspension solutions, slide-out mechanisms and solutions, and thermoformed bath, kitchen and other products.

LendingTree Inc.

LendingTree operates the online consumer platform. Services include mortgage loans, mortgage refinances, home equity loans and lines of credit, auto loans, and other related offerings. The company's segments include: Home, in which it partners with lenders throughout the United States to provide geographic lending coverage and to provide a suite of loan offerings on its marketplace; Consumer which provides consumer lending products on its online marketplace and non-lending Consumer products; and Insurance, which includes information, tools and access to insurance quote products, including home and automobile, through which consumers are matched with insurance aggregators to obtain insurance offers.

Lithia Motors Inc. Class A

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

Magellan Health Inc.

Magellan Health provides managed care services for some of the areas of healthcare. The company provides services to health plans and other managed care organizations, employers, labor unions, various military and governmental agencies and third-party administrators. The company operates the following segments: Healthcare, which consists of the following reporting units, Behavioral and Specialty Health, and Magellan Complete Care; and Pharmacy Management, which is comprised of services that provide clinical and financial management of pharmaceuticals paid under both the medical and the pharmacy benefit.

Manhattan Associates Inc.

Manhattan Associates is a developer and provider of supply chain commerce solutions. The company's solutions consist of software, services, and hardware, which coordinate people, workflows, assets, events, and tasks across the functions linked in a supply chain from planning through execution. These solutions also coordinate the actions, data exchange, and communication of participants in supply chain ecosystems, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, trading partners, transportation providers, channels (such as catalogers, store retailers, and Web outlets), and consumers. The company develops commerce solutions in three areas of customers' business: Supply Chain, Omnichannel and Inventory.

Meta Financial Group Inc.

Meta Financial Group is a unitary savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, MetaBank (the Bank), the company accepts deposits and invests those funds in its National Lending and Community Banking loan and lease portfolios. The Bank occasionally contracts to sell loans to third party buyers. The Bank also sells and purchases loan participations from time to time to and from other financial institutions, as well as mortgage-backed securities and other investments permissible under applicable regulations. The Bank's divisions issue prepaid cards, design consumer credit products, sponsor automated teller machines, and provide tax refund-transfer services and other products and services.

Omnicom Group Inc

Omnicom Group is a holding company, engaged in providing advertising, marketing and corporate communications services. The company's networks and agencies provide a range of services in the following fundamental disciplines: advertising, customer relationship management, public relations and healthcare. The company's Service offerings include, among others, advertising, branding, content marketing, corporate social responsibility consulting, crisis communications, custom publishing, data analytics, database management, digital/direct marketing, digital transformation, entertainment marketing, experiential marketing, field marketing, financial/corporate business-to-business advertising, and imaging.

Piper Sandler Companies

Piper Sandler is holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment bank and asset management firm. The company provides products and services, such as financial advisory services, equity and debt capital markets products, public finance services, equity research and institutional brokerage, fixed income institutional brokerage, and asset management services. The company's segments are: Capital Markets, which provides investment banking and institutional sales, trading and research services for various equity and fixed income products; and Asset Management, which includes the company's asset management business and its investments in registered funds and private funds or partnerships that the company manages.

Principal Financial Group Inc.

Principal Financial Group is an insurance holding company, engaged in investment management. The company provides businesses, individuals and institutional clients a range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through its financial services companies. The company provides long-term investment strategies to institutional, retirement, high net worth and retail clients by providing a range of capabilities including equity, fixed income, real estate and other alternative investments, as well as fund offerings. The company's segments include: retirement and income solutions; principal global investors; principal international; and United States insurance solutions.

Repligen Corporation

Repligen is a life sciences company that develops and commercializes bioprocessing technologies and systems used in the process of manufacturing biological drugs. The company's bioprocessing business is comprised of: Chromatography, which includes products used in downstream purification, development, manufacturing and quality control of biological drugs; Filtration, which includes XCell Alternating Tangential Flow systems that are used in upstream perfusion cell culture processing; Process Analytics, which complements and supports its Filtration, Chromatography and Proteins franchises; and OEM products, which are represented by its Protein A affinity ligands and cell culture growth factor products

Sonic Automotive Inc. Class A

Sonic Automotive is an automotive retailer in the United States. The company has two reportable segments: the Franchised Dealerships Segment and the EchoPark Segment. The Franchised Dealerships segment is comprised of retail automotive franchises that sell new vehicles and buy and sell used vehicles, sell replacement parts, perform vehicle maintenance, warranty and repair services, and arrange finance and insurance products. The EchoPark segment is comprised of pre-owned vehicle retail locations that provide customers an opportunity to search the company's nationwide inventory, purchase a pre-owned vehicle, select finance and insurance products and sell their vehicle to the company

Strategic Education Inc.

Strategic Education is an education services company. The company provides campus-based and online post-secondary education offerings through two subsidiaries, Strayer University and Capella University. Strayer University provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health services administration, nursing, public administration, and criminal justice at physical campuses, primarily located in the eastern U.S., and online. Capella University is an online post-secondary education company that provides a variety of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs primarily delivered to working adults.

VeriSign Inc.

Verisign is a provider of domain name registry services and internet infrastructure, enabling internet navigation for domain names. The company enables the security, stability, and resiliency of main internet infrastructure and services, including providing root zone maintainer services, operating internet root servers, and providing registration services and authoritative resolution for the .com and .net top-level domains, which support the majority of global e-commerce. The company operates the authoritative directory of and/or the back-end systems for all .com, .net, .cc, .tv, .gov, .jobs, .edu and .name domain names, among others. The company also provides internationalized domain name services.

Washington Federal Inc.

Washington Federal is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Washington Federal, National Association, the company's business consists of accepting deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans of several types, including first lien mortgages on single-family dwellings, construction loans, land acquisition and development loans, loans on multi-family, commercial real estate and other income producing properties, home equity loans and business loans. The company invests in certain United States government and agency obligations and other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Through its subsidiaries, the company is also engaged in insurance brokerage activities.

Western Union Company

Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. The company's segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which is focused on individual money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, in which the company facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. The company's remaining businesses and services include its electronic-based and cash-based bill payment services.

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