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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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Acacia Communications Inc.

Acacia Communications is a provider of coherent optical interconnect products. The company's products fall into three product groups: embedded modules, pluggable modules and semiconductors. The company's embedded module and pluggable module product groups consist of optical interconnect modules for use in long-haul, metro and inter-data center markets. The company's semiconductor product group consists of its low-power coherent digital signal processor application-specific integrated circuits and its silicon photonic integrated circuits which are either integrated into its embedded and pluggable modules or sold to customers on a standalone basis for integration into internally developed or other merchant modules.

American Campus Communities Inc.

American Campus Communities is a real estate investment trust focusing on the acquisition, design, financing, development, construction management, leasing, and management of student housing properties. The company has four reportable segments: Owned Properties, which includes off-campus properties that are located in close proximity to the school campus; On-Campus Participating Properties, which includes on-campus properties that are operated under long-term ground/facility leases; Development Services, which consists of development and construction management services; and Property Management Services, which includes third-party management contracts in which the company is responsible for operations.

B&G Foods Inc.

B&G Foods is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures, sells and distributes branded shelf-stable and frozen foods and household products across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The company complements its branded product retail sales with institutional and food service sales and private label sales. The company's products include frozen and canned vegetables, hot cereals, fruit spreads, canned meats and beans, bagel chips, spices, seasonings, hot sauces, wine vinegar, maple syrup, molasses, salad dressings, pizza crusts, Mexican-style sauces, dry soups, taco shells and kits, salsas, pickles, peppers, tomato-based products, puffed corn and rice snacks, nut clusters and other products.

Campbell Soup Company

Campbell Soup is a manufacturer and marketer of food and beverage products. The company's reportable segments are: Meals and Beverages, which includes the retail and foodservice businesses in the United States and Canada, and the meals and shelf-stable beverages business in Latin America; Snacks, which consists of Pepperidge Farm cookies, crackers, fresh bakery and frozen products in United States retail, including Milano cookies and Goldfish crackers, and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, Cape Cod and Kettle Brand potato chips, Late July snacks, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps, Pop Secret popcorn, Emerald nuts, and other snacking products in the United States and Canada.

Capitol Federal Financial Inc.

Capitol Federal Financial is a savings and loan holding company. Through its Capitol Federal Savings Bank subsidiary, the company accepts deposits from the public and businesses and invests those funds in permanent loans secured by first mortgages on owner-occupied, one- to four-family residences. The company also originates and participates in commercial loans, originates consumer loans secured by mortgages on one- to four-family residences, and invests in certain investment securities and mortgage-backed securities. The company provides a variety of deposit accounts, which include savings accounts, money market accounts, interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts, and certificates of deposit.

Cooper Tire & Rubber Company

Cooper Tire & Rubber is a manufacturer and marketer of replacement tires. In its Americas Tire Operations segment, the company manufactures and markets passenger car and light truck tires, mainly for sale in the United States replacement market, and also supplies passenger car tires to the Mexican, North American, Central American and South American markets. In its International Tire Operations segment, the company's United Kingdom entity manufactures and markets motorcycle and racing tires and tire retread material for domestic and global markets, and its Serbian entity manufactures passenger car and light truck tires mainly for the European markets and for export to the North American segment.

Corcept Therapeutics Incorporated.

Corcept Therapeutics is a commercial-stage company engaged in the discovery and development of medications that treat severe metabolic, oncologic and psychiatric disorders by modulating the effect of the hormone cortisol. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Korlym? 300 mg tablets, as a once-daily oral medication for the treatment of hyperglycemia secondary to hypercortisolism in adult patients with endogenous Cushing's syndrome who have type 2 diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance and have failed surgery or are not candidates for surgery. The company has discovered and patented four structurally series of selective cortisol modulators, consisting a variety of compounds.

Dollar Tree Inc.

Dollar Tree is an operator of discount variety stores. The company's stores operate under the names of Dollar Tree, Family Dollar and Dollar Tree Canada. The company's segments are: Dollar Tree, which is the operator of discount variety stores providing merchandise at the fixed price point of $1.00; and Family Dollar, which operates general merchandise discount retail stores. The merchandise mix in the company's Dollar Tree stores consists of consumable merchandise, variety merchandise, and seasonal goods. The merchandise mix in the company's Family Dollar stores consists of consumable merchandise, home products, apparel and accessories merchandise, and seasonal and electronics merchandise.

Exelixis Inc.

Exelixis is an oncology-focused biotechnology company that involved in the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for cancers. The company's marketd products are: CABOMETYX? (cabozantinib) tablets for renal cell carcinoma and previously treated hepatocellular carcinoma; and COMETRIQ? (cabozantinib) capsules for progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer. The company's products resulting from its discovery efforts are: COTELLIC? (cobimetinib), an inhibitor of MEK approved as part of a combination regimen to treat melanoma; and MINNEBRO? (esaxerenone), an oral, non-steroidal, selective blocker of the mineralocorticoid receptor approved for the treatment of hypertension in Japan.

Hawkins Inc.

Hawkins distributes, blends and manufactures chemicals and ingredients for its customers. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides industrial chemicals, products and services to industries such as agriculture, chemical processing, and plating; Water Treatment, which provides chemicals, equipment and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water and non-residential swimming pool water; and Health and Nutrition, which provides ingredient distribution, processing and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, health and wellness products.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Company

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is a learning company focused on delivering integrated solutions that engage learners, educators and improve student outcomes. The company has two reporting segments: Education, which provides educational products, technology platforms and services that include print and digital content in the form of textbooks, digital courseware, instructional aids, educational assessment and intervention solutions; and Trade Publishing, which primarily develops, markets and sells consumer books in print and digital formats and licenses book rights to other publishers and electronic businesses in the U.S. and abroad.

Inovalon Holdings Inc. Class A

Inovalon Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing cloud-based platforms empowering data-driven healthcare. Through the Inovalon ONE? Platform, the company brings to the marketplace a capability to interconnect with the healthcare ecosystem, aggregate and analyze data in real-time. The company's technology platforms and analytics are informed by data pertaining to physicians, clinical facilities, individuals, and medical events. The company sells subscription licensing of its platform solutions, as well as provides related arrangements for advisory, implementation, and support services.

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark is principally engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a range of products primarily made from natural or synthetic fibers using technologies in fibers, nonwovens and absorbency. The company is organized into three operating segments: Personal Care, which provides solutions and products such as disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products; Consumer Tissue, which provides facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins and related products; and K-C Professional, which provides a range of solutions and supporting products such as wipers, tissue, towels, apparel, soaps and sanitizers.

Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services is engaged in operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an automated environment. The company's reportable segments are: Retail Supply Chain Group, which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; Capital Assets Group, which provides solutions to sellers and it consists of marketplaces that enable commercial businesses to sell surplus, salvage, and scrap assets; GovDeals, which provides self-directed service solutions; and Machinio, which operates an online platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, among others.

Newmont Corporation

Newmont is primarily a gold producer with operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Ghana. The company is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead and zinc. The company's operations are organized in five geographic regions; North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Nevada.

PDL BioPharma Inc.

PDL BioPharma is engaged in acquiring commercial stage pharmaceutical assets as well as late clinical stage pharmaceutical products. The company operates in three segments: Pharmaceutical, which consists of prescription medicine products sold under the name Tekturna?, Tekturna HCT?, Rasilez?, and Rasilez HCT?; Medical Devices, which consists of the LENSAR? Laser System; and Income Generating Assets, which consists of notes and other long-term receivables, royalty rights and hybrid notes/royalty receivables, equity investments and royalties from issued patents in the United States and elsewhere, covering the humanization of antibodies, which it refers to as the Queen et al. patents.

RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD.

RenaissanceRe Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of reinsurance and insurance. The company's segments are: Property, which includes its catastrophe class of business, comprising excess of loss reinsurance and excess of loss retrocessional reinsurance to insure insurance and reinsurance companies against natural and man-made catastrophes, and its other property class of business, comprising proportional reinsurance, property per risk, property (re)insurance, binding facilities and regional United States multi-line reinsurance; and Casualty and Specialty, in which the company provides its casualty and specialty reinsurance products and excess of loss coverage.

ROYAL GOLD INC

Royal Gold acquires and manages precious metal streams, royalties and similar interests. The company acquires existing stream and royalty interests or finances projects that are in production or in the development stage in exchange for stream or royalty interests. A metal stream is a purchase agreement that provides, in exchange for an upfront deposit payment, the right to purchase all or a portion of one or more metals produced from a mine, at a price determined for the life of the transaction by the purchase agreement. Royalties are non-operating interests in mining projects that provide the right to a portion of revenue or metals produced from the project after deducting specified costs, if any.

Sprint Corp.

Sprint is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a communications company providing wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers. The company has two segments: Wireless, which provides wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis, including the sale of wireless services that utilize the company's network but are sold under the wholesaler's brand; and Wireline, which provides a suite of wireline communication services to other communications companies and targeted business customers, as well as voice, data and internet protocol communication services.

TreeHouse Foods Inc.

TreeHouse Foods is a consumer packaged food and beverage manufacturer operating across the United States, Canada, and Italy. The company's reportable segments are: Baked Goods, which sells bars, candy, cookies, crackers; in-store bakery products, pita chips, pretzels, refrigerated dough, and retail griddle waffles, pancakes, and French toast; Beverages, which sells broths, liquid non-dairy creamer, non-dairy powdered creamers, powdered drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, single serve hot beverages, teas, and sweeteners; and Meal Solutions, which sells aseptic cheese and pudding products, baking and mix powders, hot cereals, pasta, and skillet dinners, among others.

Xperi Holding Corporation

Xperi, through its operating subsidiaries, creates, develops and licenses audio, imaging, semiconductor packaging and interconnect technologies. The company's segments are: Product Licensing, which is comprised of its audio and imaging businesses that the company licenses through the brands DTS, HD Radio and FotoNation, whereby these licenses include the delivery of software and/or hardware-based solutions to its customers or to their suppliers; and Semiconductor and IP Licensing, which includes the company's subsidiaries, Tessera, Inc. and Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc. and Invensas Corporation that license semiconductor packaging and interconnect technologies and associated intellectual property.

York Water Co.

York Water is an investor-owned water utility that impounds, purifies and distributes water. The company also owns and operates wastewater collection systems and wastewater treatment systems. The company operates within its franchised territory in Pennsylvania. Water service is supplied through the company's own distribution system. The company obtains the bulk of its water supply from both the South Branch and East Branch of the Codorus Creek. The company supplements its reservoirs with a pipeline from the Susquehanna River to Lake Redman which provides access to an additional supply of untreated water. The company also owns wells to supply water to its customers in Carroll Valley Borough and Cumberland Township, Adams County.

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