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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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Acadia Realty Trust

Acadia Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company is focused on the ownership, acquisition, development and management of retail properties located primarily in metropolitan areas in United States. The company has three reportable segments, which are Core Portfolio, Funds, and Structured Financing. The Core Portfolio segment consists primarily of retail properties located mainly in metropolitan areas with a long-term investment horizon. The Funds segment holds primarily retail real estate in which the company co-invests with institutional investors. The Structured Financing segment consists of notes and mortgages receivable which are held within the Core Portfolio or the Funds segment.

Acuity Brands Inc.

Acuity Brands is a provider of lighting and building management solutions and services for commercial, institutional, industrial, infrastructure, and residential applications. The company's lighting and building management solutions include devices such as luminaires, lighting controls, controllers for various building systems, power supplies, prismatic skylights, and drivers, as well as integrated systems designed for various indoor and outdoor applications. In addition, the company provides services across applications that primarily relate to monitoring and controlling lighting and building management systems through network technologies and the commissioning of control systems.

Alaska Air Group Inc.

Alaska Air Group operates two airlines, Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Alaska) and Horizon Air Industries, Inc. (Horizon). The company's operation also includes McGee Air Services, an aviation services provider. The company has three segments: Mainline, which includes scheduled air transportation on Alaska's Boeing or Airbus jet aircraft for passengers and cargo throughout the United States., and in parts of Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica; Regional, which includes Horizon's and other third-party carriers' scheduled air transportation for passengers across a shorter distance network within the United States under capacity purchase agreements (CPA); and Horizon, which includes the capacity sold to Alaska under CPA.

Brixmor Property Group Inc.

Brixmor Property Group is a holding company and an internally-managed real estate investment trust. Brixmor Operating Partnership LP and subsidiaries (the Operating Partnership) is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. Through the Operating Partnership, the company is engaged in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of retail shopping centers. The company owns and operates open-air retail portfolios, comprised primarily of shopping centers located in the United States. The company's shopping centers are primarily anchored by retailers, as well as consumer-oriented service providers.

Cardtronics plc Class A

Chesapeake Energy Corporation

Chesapeake Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent exploration and production company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of properties to produce oil, natural gas and natural gas liquid from underground reservoirs. The company owns a portfolio of onshore U.S. liquids and natural gas assets. The company has positions in the resource plays of the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas, the stacked pay in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and the Anadarko Basin in northwestern Oklahoma. The company's natural gas resource plays are the Marcellus Shale in the northern Appalachian Basin in Pennsylvania and the Haynesville/Bossier Shales in northwestern Louisiana.

DDR Corp

DDR is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), engaged in the business of acquiring, owning, developing, redeveloping, expanding, leasing, financing and managing shopping centers. As of Dec 31 2017, the company's portfolio consisted of 273 shopping centers (including 137 shopping centers owned through joint ventures). These properties consist of 261 shopping centers owned in the United States and 12 in Puerto Rico. At Dec 31 2017, the company owned and managed approximately 92 million total square feet of gross leasable area through all its properties (wholly-owned and joint venture). The company also owns more than 250 acres of undeveloped land.

Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT

Ellington Residential Mortgaging Real Estate Investment Trust is focused on acquiring, investing in, and managing residential mortgage- and real estate-related assets. The company conducts business through its subsidiaries, EARN OP GP LLC and Ellington Residential Mortgage LP. The company may acquire and mortgage servicing rights, credit risk transfer securities, residential mortgage loans, and other mortgage- and real estate-related assets. The company may also invest in other instruments, including forward-settling To-Be-Announced Agency pass-through certificates, interest rate swaps and swaptions, U.S. Treasury securities, Eurodollar and U.S. Treasury futures, other financial derivatives, and cash equivalents.

Federal Realty Investment Trust

Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust that focuses on the ownership, management, and redevelopment of retail and mixed-use properties located primarily in communities in selected metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, as well as in California and South Florida. The company owns or has a majority interest in community and neighborhood shopping centers and mixed-use properties which are operated as predominantly retail real estate projects.

Hawaiian Holdings Inc.

Hawaiian Holdings is a holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., the company is engaged in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo amongst the Hawaiian Islands, between the Hawaiian Islands and certain cities in the United States, and between the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The company provides non-stop service to Hawai'i from various United States gateway cities and also provides daily flights between the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, the company operates various charter flights. The company's flight operations are based in Honolulu, HI. The company operates scheduled flights with various ad hoc charters.

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.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. Class A

Healthcare Trust of America is a real estate investment trust. The company focuses on owning and operating medical office buildings that serve healthcare delivery and are located on health system campuses, near university medical centers, or in community core outpatient locations. The company's properties include health systems, such as Baylor Scott & White Health, Highmark-Allegheny Health Network, Hospital Corporation of America, Tenet Healthcare System and Community Health Systems.

Hibbett Sports Inc.

Hibbett Sports is an athletic-inspired fashion retailer primarily located in small and mid-sized communities across the country primarily in the South, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest regions. The company's merchandise assortment features a primary selection of brand name merchandise focusing on athletic footwear, athletic and fashion apparel, team sports equipment and related accessories. The company's Hibbett Sports stores includes free-standing stores, and stores in enclosed malls. The company's City Gear stores are located primarily in strip centers. The company's Sports Additions stores provides athletic footwear with the remainder consisting of headwear and apparel.

Johnson Controls International plc

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.

Neophotonics

NeoPhotonics develops, manufactures and sells optoelectronic products that transmit, receive and switch high-speed digital optical signals for Cloud and data center internet content provider and telecom networks. The company focuses on products that operate at speed over distance, for 100 Gigabits per Second (G), 200G, and 400G and above data rates, such as at 600G and 800G. The company produces transmitter and receiver components and modules, as well as switching products, for 100G and beyond transmission over distances of two to 2,000 kilometers. The company integrates transmitter and receiver components into next generation pluggable transceiver modules.

NIC Inc.

NIC is a provider of digital government services that help governments use technology. The company operates through two channels: state enterprise businesses and its software and services businesses. In its state enterprise businesses, the company has contracts with state and local governments to designs, builds, and operates digital government services on an enterprise-wide basis on their behalf. In its software and services businesses, the company provides certain payment processing services, software development and digital government services, other than those provided on an enterprise-wide basis, to federal agencies, as well as state and local governments.

ODP Corporation

Office Depot is a supplier of office products and services. The company operates through three reportable segments (or Divisions): Retail Division, which markets an assortment of merchandise through the company's chain of office supply stores throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands; Business Solutions Division, which sells nationally branded and the company's private branded products and services to customers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada; and the CompuCom Division, which provides information technology outsourcing services and products to enterprise organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

Pattern Energy Group Inc. Class A

Pattern Energy Group is a renewable energy company. The company's business consists of an operating business segment which is comprised of a portfolio of renewable energy power projects located in several markets and ownership interests in an upstream development platform aligned with the company's operating business which provides the company access to a pipeline of projects. Through its operating business segment, the company holds ownership interests in renewable energy projects which are located in the U.S., Canada and Japan. The company owns interest in Pattern Energy Group 2 LP and its subsidiaries, which engages in the development of projects around the world primarily in the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Japan.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc

Prestige Consumer Healthcare is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, manufactures, markets, sells and distributes over-the-counter (OTC) healthcare products to mass merchandisers and drug, food, dollar, convenience, and club stores in North America (the U.S. and Canada) and in Australia and certain other international markets. The company's portfolio of OTC Healthcare products includes, among others, DenTek oral care products, Monistat women's health products, Nix lice treatment products, Chloraseptic sore throat treatments, Clear Eyes eye care products, Compound W wart treatments, Luden's throat drops, BC and Goody's pain relievers and Debrox earwax remover.

Regency Centers Corporation

Regency Centers is a real estate company and self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Regency Centers L.P. is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. The company's business consists of acquiring, developing, owning and operating income-producing retail real estate principally located in various markets in the United States.

Seneca Foods Corp. Cl A

Seneca Foods is a provider of packaged fruits and vegetables. The company's product offerings include canned, frozen and bottled produce and snack chips and its products are sold under private label as well as national and regional brands that the company owns or licenses, including Seneca?, Libby's?, Aunt Nellie's?, READ?, Green Valley?, and CherryMan?. The company manages its business on the basis of three reportable segments - the primary segment is the packaging and sale of fruits and vegetables, another segment is prepared food and the last segment is the packaging and sale of chip products. These three segments constitute the food operation.

Stratasys Ltd.

United Bankshares Inc.

United Bankshares is a financial holding company. Through its banking subsidiary, United Bank, the company provides a range of commercial and retail banking services and products. The company operates in two business segments: community banking and mortgage banking. Through its community banking segment, the company provides range of banking products and services through various delivery channels. The mortgage banking segment engages primarily in the origination and acquisition of residential mortgages for sale into the secondary market though George Mason Mortgage, LLC, an indirectly owned subsidiary of the company

Viacom Inc. Class B

Viacom provides entertainment through television, film, digital media, live events, merchandise and solutions. The company operates through two segments: Media Networks, which provides entertainment content, services and related branded products for consumers in targeted demographics attractive to advertisers, content distributors and retailers through its media brands including Nickelodeon, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Paramount Network; and Filmed Entertainment, which develops, produces, finances, acquires and distributes films, television programming and other entertainment content through its Paramount Pictures, Paramount Players, Paramount Animation and Paramount Television divisions.

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