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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.
Underlyings
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines focusing on central nervous system disorders. The company has a portfolio of product including its drug, NUPLAZID (pimavanserin), which has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease psychosis (PD Psychosis). NUPLAZID is a selective serotonin inverse agonist preferentially targeting 5-HT2A receptors with no appreciable affinity for dopaminergic, histaminergic, or muscarinic receptors.

APA Corporation

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. CEDEAR

Brown-Forman Corporation Class B

Brown-Forman primarily manufactures, bottles, imports, exports, markets, and sells a range of alcoholic beverage brands. Co.'s principal brands include, among other, Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey; Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey; Jack Daniel's RTDs; Gentleman Jack Rare Tennessee Whiskey; Jack Daniel's Tennessee Fire; Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Collection; Jack Daniel's Winter Jack; Jack Daniel's Sinatra Select; Jack Daniel's No. 27 Gold Tennessee Whiskey; Jack Daniel's Tennessee Rye; Korbel California Champagnes; Korbel California Brandy; Woodford Reserve Kentucky Bourbon; Woodford Reserve Double Oaked; Woodford Reserve Kentucky Rye Whiskey; Finlandia Vodkas; and Slane Irish Whiskey.

Clorox Company

Clorox is a manufacturer and marketer of consumer products. The company sells its products through mass retailers, grocery outlets, warehouse clubs, dollar stores, home hardware centers, drug, pet and military stores, third-party and owned e-commerce channels, and distributors. The company has four reportable segments: Cleaning, which consists of laundry, home care and other products; Household, which consists of charcoal, bags, wraps and containers, cat litter, and digestive health products; Lifestyle, which consists of food products, water-filtration systems and filters, natural personal care products, and dietary supplements; and International, which consists of products sold outside the United States.

Cohu Inc.

Cohu provides semiconductor test equipment and services. The company's products include semiconductor test, which is used for wafer level and device package testing; semiconductor handlers, which are used to automate the testing and inspection of packaged semiconductor devices; thermal sub-systems, which provide temperature control of the integrated circuit during the testing process; bare board printed circuit board (PCB) test systems, which are used to test pre-assembly PCBs; interface products, which consist of test contactors and probe pins; spares and kits, which provide consumable, non-consumable and spare items; and services, which performs installations and maintenance of systems sold.

Evolent Health Inc Class A

Evolent Health is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a managed care services firm that supports health systems and physician organizations in their migration toward care and population health management. The company's Services segment provides its customers, who it refers to as partners, with a population health management platform, integrated data and analytics capabilities, claims processing services, including pharmacy benefit management, specialty care management services and health plan administration services. The company's subsidiary, True Health New Mexico, Inc. is a physician-led health plan in New Mexico available via the commercial market for employer-sponsored health coverage.

Exact Sciences Corporation

Exact Sciences is a molecular diagnostics company, focused on the early detection and prevention of cancer. The company has developed a non-invasive screening test called Cologuard? for the early detection of colorectal cancer and pre-cancer. The company's Cologuard test is a non-invasive stool-based DNAscreening test that utilizes a multi-target approach to detect DNA and hemoglobin biomarkers associated with colorectal cancer and pre-cancer. The company is also working on the development of additional tests for other types of cancer. The company is also focusing its research and development efforts on building a pipeline of potential future products and services with a focus on blood-based tests.

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.

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.

Extreme Networks Inc.

Extreme Networks, together with its subsidiaries, is a provider of software-driven networking solutions for enterprise, data center, and service provider customers. Providing a combined end-to-end solution from the enterprise edge to the cloud, the company designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security, and access controls. The company's product categories include: Smart OmniEdge wireless and edge switching, Automated Campus, data center, unified applications, and cloud-based network management.

Five Below Inc.

Five Below is a retailer providing a range of merchandise targeted at the tween and teen demographic. The company provides an assortment of products, all priced at $5 and below, including select brands and licensed merchandise across eight worlds: Style, Room, Sports, Tech, Create, Party, Candy and Now. The company operates in states that include Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, West Virginia, North Carolina, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee, Maine, Alabama, Kentucky, Kansas, Florida, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Minnesota, California and Arkansas.

Global Payments Inc.

Global Payments is a pure play payment technology company providing payments and software solutions to merchants and financial institutions. The company has three segments: Merchant Solutions, which includes authorization services, chargeback resolution, and payment security services; Issuer Solutions, which provides solutions that enable financial institutions and other financial service providers to manage their card portfolios and reduces technical difficulty and overhead on a single platform; and Business and Consumer Solutions, which provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions through its Netspend? brand.

Huron Consulting Group Inc.

Huron Consulting Group is a consulting firm. The company partners with clients to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change its clients need. The company's segments are: Healthcare, which provides care transformation, financial and operational, technology and analytics, and leadership development; Business Advisory, which provides services to large and middle market organizations, not-for-profit organizations, lending institutions, law firms, investment banks and private equity firms; and Education, which provides consulting and technology solutions to higher education institutions and academic medical centers.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals is engaged in discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. The company has two commercial medicines, SPINRAZA and TEGSEDI. SPINRAZA (nusinersen) injection for intrathecal use is a survival motor neuron-2, directed antisense oligonucleotide indicated for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in pediatric and adult patients. TEGSEDI (inotersen) injection is a Generation 2+ antisense medicine and an approved subcutaneous RNA-targeting medicine designed to treat people with polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.

Jack in the Box Inc.

Jack in the Box operates and franchises Jack in the Box? quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Jack in the Box restaurants provide a selection of products including burgers like its Jumbo Jack? and product lines such as Buttery Jack? burgers. The company also provides breakfast sandwiches with cracked eggs, tacos and curly fries, along with sandwiches, salads and real ice cream shakes, among other items. The company allows its guests to customize their meals and order any product, including breakfast items any time of the day (or night). The company operates and franchises Jack in the Box QSRs, primarily in the western and southern United States, including in Guam.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals Public Limited Company

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and commercializing products that address unmet medical needs. Co.'s products and product candidates focus on sleep and hematology/oncology. Co.'s products are: Xyrem® oral solution, which treats both cataplexy and excessive daytime sleepiness, in patients with narcoleps; Erwinaze®, which treats patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, who have developed hypersensitivity to E. coli-derived asparaginase; and Defitelio®, which treats adult and pediatric patients with hepatic veno-occlusive disease, with renal or pulmonary dysfunction following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

Leggett & Platt Incorporated

Leggett & Platt designs and produces engineered components and products in homes and automobiles. The company's segments are: Residential Products, which supplies components and machinery used by bedding manufacturers in the production and assembly of their finished products, as well as producing private-label finished mattresses for bedding brands and retailers; Industrial Products, which supplies high-carbon drawn steel wire; Furniture Products, which supplies components used by home and work furniture manufacturers; and Specialized Products, which designs, manufactures and sells products including automotive seating components, tubing and fabricated assemblies, and hydraulic cylinders.

Molson Coors Beverage Company Class B

Molson Coors Brewing is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a brewer and has a portfolio of brands, including Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Staropramen, Carling, Molson Canadian and other brands, as well as craft and specialty beers such as Creemore Springs, Cobra, Doom Bar, Henry's Hard and Leinenkugel's. The company's segments include: MillerCoors LLC operating in the U.S.; Molson Coors Canada operating in Canada; Molson Coors Europe operating in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K. and various other European countries; and Molson Coors International operating in various other countries.

Papa John's International Inc.

Papa John's International operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout restaurants and, in certain international markets, dine-in and delivery restaurants. The company has four reportable segments: domestic the company-owned restaurants, which engages in retail sales of pizza and side items; North America commissaries, which includes the operations of the company's regional dough production and product distribution centers; North America franchising, which includes the company's franchise sales and support activities; and international operations, which includes the distribution sales to franchised Papa John's restaurants in the United Kingdom and its franchise sales and support activities.

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Polaris Inc.

Polaris designs, engineers and manufactures powersports vehicles which include, off-road vehicles, including all-terrain vehicles and side-by-side vehicles for recreational and utility use, snowmobiles, motorcycles, global adjacent markets vehicles, including commercial, government and defense vehicles, and boats. The company's products, together with related Parts, Garments and Accessories, as well as aftermarket accessories and apparel, are sold through dealers, distributors and retail stores principally located in the United States, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and Mexico.

PORTILLOS INC

Progyny

Progyny operates as a fertility benefits management company in the United States. The company offers patients a benefits solution with education and guidance from a Patient Care Advocate and access to a network of fertility specialists. The company also aims to reduce healthcare costs for employers through their operations.

RAILPOWER TECHNOLOGIES CORP COM

Ryerson Holding Corporation

Ryerson Holding is a metals service center, a processor and distributor of industrial metals. The company provides flat and long metals products. The company also provides processing and fabrication services such as bending, beveling, blanking, blasting, burning, cutting-to-length, drilling, embossing, flattening, forming, grinding, laser cutting, machining, notching, painting, perforating, polishing, punching, rolling, sawing, scribing, shearing, slitting, stamping, tapping, threading, welding, or other techniques to process materials to a specified thickness, length, width, shape, and surface quality pursuant to specific customer orders. The company operates across North America and in China.

SAKHALIN SHIPPING CO ORD

STEVANATO GRP SPA

Suzano SA

The ODP Corporation

Titan International Inc.

Titan International is a wheel, tire, and undercarriage industrial manufacturer and supplier servicing customers across the globe. The company has three segments: agricultural, which provides agricultural rims, wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components are manufactured for use on various agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, skidders, plows, and planters; earthmoving/construction, which manufactures rims, wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for various types of off-the-road earthmoving, mining, military, construction and forestry equipment; and consumer, which manufactures bias truck tires in Latin America and light truck tires in Russia.

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.

TriNet Group Inc.

TriNet Group is a provider of human resources (HR) solutions, payroll services, employee benefits and employment risk mitigation services for small to midsize businesses. The company delivers a suite of products and services, that facilitates the administration and management of various HR-related functions for its clients, including compensation and benefits, payroll processing, employee data, health insurance and workers' compensation programs, and other transactional HR needs using its technology platform. The company's products include TriNet Financial Services, TriNet Life Sciences, TriNet Main Street, TriNet Nonprofit, TriNet Professional Services, and TriNet Technology.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is a hotel franchisor, licensing its hotel brands to hotel owners around the world. The company operates in the following segments: Hotel franchising, which licenses the company's lodging brands and provides related services to third-party hotel owners and others; and Hotel management, which provides hotel management services for full-service and limited-service hotels as well as several hotels that are owned by the company

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