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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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

ABIOMED is a provider of temporary mechanical circulatory support devices, and it provides a continuum of care to heart failure patients. The company's products include: Impella 2.5?, which is a percutaneous micro heart pump with an integrated motor and sensors; which is primarily used by either interventional cardiologists to support patients in the cath lab or by cardiac surgeons in the heart surgery suite; Impella 5.0 and Impella LD, which are percutaneous micro heart pumps with integrated motors and sensors for use primarily in the heart surgery suite; and Impella RP, which is a percutaneous catheter-based axial flow pump that is designed to allow more than four liters of flow per minute.

Anthem Inc.

Anthem is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a health benefits company, serving medical members through its affiliated health plans. The company has three segments: Commercial & Specialty Business, which provides fully-insured health products, managed care services to self-funded customers, and other insurance products and services; Government Business, which includes Medicare and Medicaid businesses, its subsidiary, National Government Services, and services provided to the federal government in connection with its Federal Health Products and Services business; and Other, which includes pharmacy benefits management business and integrated health services business.

Cigna Corporation

Cigna is a global health service organization. The company's segments are: Integrated Medical, which includes its employer-sponsored medical coverage and Medicare offerings for seniors and individual insurance offerings to non-seniors both on and off the public health insurance exchanges; Health Services, which consists of the pharmacy benefit management and certain health management services; International Markets, which provides a range of medical and supplemental health, life, and accident benefits to individuals and employers; and Group Disability and Other, which includes its commercial long- and short-term disability products, and its term life group insurance products.

DEXCOM INC.

DexCom is a medical device company primarily focused on the design, development and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems for use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers. The company's products include: DecCom G6?, which allows the company's transmitter to run an algorithm to generate a glucose value and to communicate to a patient's mobile device; DexCom G4? PLATINUM, which is used to adjust therapy and to educate and motivate patients to modify their behavior after viewing the effects that specific foods, exercise, stress and medications have on their glucose levels; and DexCom Share?, which transmits glucose information to the mobile devices of designated recipients.

Encompass Health Corporation

Encompass Health is a provider of healthcare services, providing both facility-based and home-based patient care through its network of inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, home health agencies, and hospice agencies. The company's inpatient rehabilitation hospitals provide specialized rehabilitative care across an array of diagnoses and deliver patient care services. The company's home health agencies provide home care services such as skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, medical social work, and home health aide services. The company also provides hospice services such as pain control and symptom management, and emotional and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families.

Genomic Health Inc.

Genomic Health provides genomic information to personalize cancer treatment decisions. The company develops and commercializes genomic-based clinical laboratory services that analyze the underlying biology of cancer, allowing physicians and patients to make treatment decisions. The company provides its tissue-based invasive breast, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), prostate and colon Oncotype DX tests as clinical laboratory services, where it analyzes the expression levels of genes in tumor tissue samples and provides physicians with a gene expression profile expressed as a single quantitative score. The company also provides an Oncotype DX test for patients with DCIS, a pre-invasive form of breast cancer.

Haemonetics Corporation

Haemonetics is a healthcare company. The company has three product categories: Plasma, which includes plasma collection devices and disposables, plasma donor management software, and anticoagulant and saline sold to plasma customers; Blood Center, which includes blood collection and processing devices and disposables for red cells, platelets and whole blood as well as related donor management software; and Hospital, which is comprised of Hemostasis Management and Cell Processing products, includes devices and methodologies for measuring coagulation characteristics of blood, surgical blood salvage systems, blood cell processing systems, disposables and blood transfusion management software.

HCA Healthcare Inc

HCA Healthcare is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, the company owns and operates hospitals and related health care entities. Most of the company's general, acute care hospitals provide medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services and emergency services. The general, acute care hospitals also provide outpatient services such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology and physical therapy. The company's psychiatric hospitals provide therapeutic programs including child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care, adolescent and adult alcohol and drug abuse treatment and counseling.

Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.

Herbalife Nutrition is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a nutrition company. The company's products categories are: weight management, which provides meal replacement, protein shakes, drink mixes, weight loss solutions and healthy snacks; targeted nutrition, which provides beverages and dietary and nutritional supplements containing herbs, vitamins, minerals and other natural ingredients; energy, sports, and fitness, which provides products that support a healthy active lifestyle; outer nutrition, which provides facial skin care, body care, and hair care; and literature, promotional and other, which provides start-up kits, sales tools, and educational materials.

HMS Holdings Corp.

HMS Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of cost containment application in the healthcare marketplace. The company's application include: Coordination of Benefits, which provides verified insurance coverage information; Payment Integrity, which employ data analytics, technologies and clinical knowledge to identify and avoid improper payments, recover those overpayments when they occur, detect and prevent fraud, and ensure compliance with regulations; and Population Health Management, which integrates early risk identification, analytics, various channel outreach and care management components.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods is primarily engaged in the production of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. The company's segments are: Grocery Products, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products; Refrigerated Foods, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, chicken, and turkey products; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded turkey products; and International and Other, which includes Hormel Foods International Corporation that manufactures, markets, and sells the company's products internationally.

Humana Inc.

Humana is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a health and well-being company. The company manages its business with three segments: Retail, which consists of products sold on a retail basis to individuals including medical and supplemental benefit plans, such as Medicare and state-based Medicaid Contracts; Group and Specialty, which consists of employer group commercial fully-insured medical and specialty health insurance benefits, including dental, vision and life insurance benefits, as well as administrative services only; and Healthcare Services, which includes pharmacy solutions, provider services, clinical care services, and predictive modeling and informatics services

Integer Holdings Corporation

Integer Holdings is a medical device outsource manufacturing company. The company provides medical technologies and develops batteries for applications in energy, military, and environmental markets. The company's brands include Greatbatch Medical?, Lake Region Medical? and Electrochem?. The company organizes its business into two reportable segments, Medical and Non-Medical, and derive its sales from four principle product lines. The Medical segment includes the Cardio & Vascular, Cardiac & Neuromodulation and Advanced Surgical, Orthopedics & Portable Medical product lines and the Non-Medical segment is comprised of the Electrochem product line.

Norbord Inc.

Norbord is a producer of wood-based panels with 17 plant locations in the U.S., Europe and Canada.

Novartis AG ADS

Pan American Silver Corp.

Pan American Silver is engaged in the production and sale of silver, gold and other base metals including copper, lead and zinc as well as other related activities, including exploration, extraction, processing, refining and reclamation. Co.'s primary product (silver) is produced in Peru, Mexico, Argentina and Bolivia. Additionally, Co. has project development activities in Peru, Mexico and Argentina, and exploration activities throughout South America and Mexico.

Pfizer Inc.

Pfizer is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and distributing of healthcare products, including medicines and vaccines. The company manages its commercial operations through three businesses: Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, which includes Oncology, Inflammation and Immunology, Rare Disease, Hospital, Vaccines and Internal Medicine business units, as well as a hospital business unit; Upjohn, which includes the company's solid oral dose brands such as Lyrica, Lipitor, Norvasc, Celebrex, Viagra, and certain generic medicines; and Consumer Healthcare, which is an over-the-counter medicines business.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of diseases. The company's commercialized medicines and product candidates in development are designed to assist patients with eye disease, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neuromuscular diseases, infectious diseases, and rare diseases. The company's products include: EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, which is used for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema; and Dupixent (dupilumab) injection, which is used for the treatment of adult patients with atopic dermatitis.

TABULA RASA HEALTHCARE

Tabula Rasa HealthCare is engaged in providing patient-specific, data-driven technology and solutions that enable healthcare organizations to support medication regimens to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, lower healthcare costs and manage risk. The company delivers its solutions through technology-enabled products and services for medication risk management, which includes bundled prescription fulfillment and reminder packaging services. The company's personalized medication risk management services can be based on its MRM Matrix technology. Elements of the MRM Matrix is available in the EireneRx, MedWise, TruChart, PACElogic and PrescribeWellness platforms.

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant company operating predominately in the casual dining segment. The company operates Texas Roadhouse restaurants and Bubba's 33 restaurants. In addition, the company operates restaurants outside of the casual dining segment. The Texas Roadhouse restaurants provide an assortment of steaks hand-cut on the premises and cooked to order over open grills. In addition to steaks, the company also provides its guests a selection of ribs, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. Bubba's 33 is a sports restaurant. The company's menu features burgers, pizza and wings as well as a variety of appetizers, sandwiches and dinner entrees.

United States Steel Corporation

United States Steel is a steel producer of flat-rolled and tubular products with production operations in the United States and Europe. The company is also engaged in railroad services and real estate operations. The company's segments are: North American Flat-Rolled, which produces slabs, strip mill plates, sheets and tin mill products; U. S. Steel Europe, which produces and sells slabs, strip mill plate, sheet, tin mill products and spiral welded pipe, as well as heating radiators and refractory ceramic materials; and Tubular Products, which produces and sells electric resistance welded steel casing and tubing (known as oil country tubular goods), and standard and line pipe and mechanical tubing.

United Therapeutics Corporation

United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company. The company markets and sells four commercial therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Remodulin? (treprostinil) Injection; Tyvaso? (treprostinil) Inhalation Solution; Orenitram? (treprostinil) Extended-Release Tablets; and Adcirca? (tadalafil) Tablets. The company also markets and sells an oncology product, Unituxin? (dinutuximab) Injection for treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma. The company also engages in research and development of new indications and formulations and delivery devices for its existing products, as well as new products to treat PAH and other conditions. The company also engages in organ transplantation-related technologies.

UnitedHealth Group Incorporated

UnitedHealth Group is a health care company. The company has four reportable segments across its two business platforms, UnitedHealthcare and Optum: UnitedHealthcare, which provides health care benefits to an array of customers and markets through its UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State and UnitedHealthcare Global; OptumHealth, which serves the physical, emotional and health-related financial needs of individuals; OptumInsight, which provides services, technology and health care knowledge to main participants in the health care industry; and OptumRx, which provides pharmacy care services and programs.

Vocera Communications Inc.

Vocera Communications is a provider of communication and workflow solutions focusing on mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, energy, and other mobile work environments. The company's products, technology and services include: Vocera Communication System and Workflow System, which is comprised of a software platform that connects communication devices; Vocera Care Experience, which provides caregivers communication solutions that span the entire care continuum - before admission, during treatment and after discharge; and Services, which include Professional services, Software Maintenance and Technical support, Experience Innovation Network, and Vocera University.

WestRock Company

WestRock is a provider of paper and packaging solutions for consumer and corrugated packaging markets. The company partners with its customers to provide paper and packaging solutions. The company's operating and business locations are in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. The company's segments include: Corrugated Packaging, which consists of the company's containerboard mills, corrugated packaging and distribution operations, as well as its merchandising displays and recycling procurement operations; Consumer Packaging, which consists of the company's consumer mills, food and beverage and partition operations; and Land and Development, which sells real estate primarily in the Charleston, SC region.

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