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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.07 For Business Accounts Only

Vermilion Compass: Weekly Equity Strategy

Remain Overweight Large-Cap Growth

Mega-cap growth names such as AMZN, TSLA, MSFT, GOOGL, and META have picked up the slack as semiconductors (SMH, SOXX, NVDA, AVGO, etc.) are simply consolidating after getting extended. This was a possibility we discussed in last week's Compass (6/25/24), which means we are not seeing any lasting rotation away from large-cap growth. We remain bullish on all of the names listed (including the semiconductors), and we continue to recommend an overweight to large-cap growth (relative to value) as initially discussed in our 5/29/24 Compass... see chart below. With market dynamics still pointing to a risk-on environment, our bullish outlook (since early-November 2023) remains intact.

Downgrading Materials to Underweight. We are downgrading Materials to underweight due to RS violating important support on the XLB Sector ETF, and also due to the 8-month price uptrend vio
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Academy Sports and Outdoors

Antero Midstream Corp.

Antero Midstream is a a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Antero Midstream Partners GP LLC, the company owns, operates and develops midstream energy infrastructure primarily to service Antero Resources Corp. and its production and completion activity in the Appalachian Basin's Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale located in West Virginia and Ohio. The company's assets consist of gathering pipelines, compressor stations, and interests in processing and fractionation plants that collect and process production from Marcellus and Utica Shales in West Virginia and Ohio. The company's assets also include fresh water delivery systems that deliver fresh water from the Ohio River and several regional waterways.

Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc.

Coca-Cola Consolidated distributes, markets and manufactures nonalcoholic beverages. The company's product offerings include both sparkling and still beverages. Sparkling beverages are carbonated beverages and the company's principal sparkling beverage is Coca-Cola. Still beverages include energy products and noncarbonated beverages such as bottled water, tea, ready to drink coffee, enhanced water, juices and sports drinks. The company's sales are divided into two main categories: bottle/can sales and other sales. Bottle/can sales include products packaged primarily in plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Other sales include sales to other Coca-Cola bottlers and post-mix products.

Costain Group PLC

Costain Group is engaged in providing technology-based engineering solutions. Co. provides a range of services, which comprised of: Consultancy, which include advisory, design, program management; Complex delivery; Technology; and Asset optimization. Co. operates in two business divisions, which provides technology-based solutions to meet natural needs across the U.K.'s energy, water and transportation infrastructures: Co.'s infrastructure division operates in the highways, rail and nuclear markets, while Co.'s natural resources division operates in the water, power and oil & gas markets.

Costco Wholesale Corp.

EnLink Midstream LLC

Enlink Midstream is a holding company. The company's assets consist of equity interests in EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (ENLK). ENLK primarily focuses on providing midstream energy services, including: gathering, compressing, treating, processing, transporting, storing, and selling natural gas; fractionating, transporting, storing, and selling natural gas liquids; and gathering, transporting, stabilizing, storing, trans-loading, and selling crude oil and condensate, in addition to brine disposal services. The company's midstream energy asset network includes, among others, natural gas processing plants, fractionators, barge and rail terminals, product storage facilities, and brine disposal wells.

Enterprise Products Partners L.P.

Enterprise Products Partners is a provider of midstream energy services to producers and consumers of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), crude oil, petrochemicals and refined products. The company's midstream energy operations include: natural gas gathering, treating, processing, transportation and storage; NGL transportation, fractionation, storage, and export and import terminals; crude oil gathering, transportation, storage, and export and import terminals; petrochemical and refined products transportation, storage, export and import terminals, and related services; and a marine transportation business that operates primarily on the U.S. inland and Intracoastal Waterway systems.

Hess Midstream LP

Jones Soda (US)

Lennox International Inc.

Lennox International provides climate control solutions. The company designs, manufactures and markets products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. The company's segments are: Residential Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and markets furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, packaged heating and cooling systems, equipment and accessories, comfort control products, and replacement parts and supplies; Commercial Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and sells unitary heating and cooling equipment; and Refrigeration, which manufactures and markets equipment for the global commercial refrigeration markets under the Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration name.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

Primo Water Corporation

Cott, together with its consolidated subsidiaries, is a producer of beverages on behalf of retailers, brand owners and distributors. Co.'s Water & Coffee Solutions reporting segment provides bottled water, coffee and water filtration services to customers in North America, Europe, and Israel, and products include bottled water, coffee, brewed tea, water dispensers, coffee and tea brewers and filtration equipment. Co.'s traditional business (Cott North America, Cott U.K. and All Other reporting segments) produces carbonated soft drinks, shelf stable juice and juice-based products, sparkling flavored waters, energy drinks and shots, sports drinks, and liquid enhancers, among others.

Summit Midstream Partners

Targa Resources Corp.

Targa Resources is a provider of midstream services and is a midstream energy company. The company operates in two segments: Gathering and Processing, which consists of gathering, compressing, dehydrating, treating, conditioning, processing, and marketing natural gas and gathering crude oil; and Logistics and Marketing, which includes activities necessary to convert mixed natural gas liquids (NGLs) into NGL products and provides certain services such as storing, fractionating, terminaling, transporting and marketing of NGLs and NGL products, storing and terminaling of refined petroleum products and crude oil and certain natural gas supply and marketing activities in support of its other businesses.

Trane Technologies plc

Ingersoll-Rand provides products, services and solutions to enhance air in homes and buildings, transport and protect food. Co.'s segments are: Climate. which includes Trane® and American Standard® Heating & Air Conditioning, providing heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and commercial and residential building services, parts, support and controls, energy services and building automation as well as transport temperature control solutions; and Industrial, which includes compressed air and gas systems and services, power tools, material handling systems, ARO® fluid management equipment, as well as Club Car ® golf, utility and rough terrain vehicles.

Western Midstream Partners LP

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Ross LaDuke

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