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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.

American Electric Power Company Inc.

American Electric Power Company is a public utility holding company. The public utility subsidiaries of the company provide electric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to their retail customers. The service areas of the company's public utility subsidiaries cover portions of the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Transmission networks are interconnected with distribution facilities in the territories served. The company's service company subsidiary provides accounting, administrative, information systems, engineering, financial, legal, maintenance and other services.

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.

CAI International Inc.

CAI International is a transportation finance and logistics company. The company has three reportable segments: container leasing, rail leasing and logistics. The container leasing segment is engaged in ownership and leasing of containers under three main types of leases: long-term leases, short-term leases, and finance leases. The rail leasing segment is engaged in the ownership and leasing of railcars under three types of leases: full service leases, net operating leases and per diem leases. The logistics segment is engaged in the provision of logistics services including intermodal, truck brokerage, port drayage, warehousing, international ocean freight and freight forwarding, among others.

CenterPoint Energy Inc.

CenterPoint Energy owns interests in Enable Midstream Partners, LP. The company's subsidiaries own and operate electric transmission and distribution, electric generation and natural gas distribution facilities, supply natural gas to commercial and industrial customers and electric and natural gas utilities and provide underground pipeline construction and repair services, energy performance contracting and sustainable infrastructure services. The company's segments include: Houston Electric T&D, which consists of electric transmission and distribution services in the Texas Gulf Coast area; and Energy Services, which consists of non-rate regulated natural gas sales and services operations.

Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cirrus Logic focuses on low-power integrated circuits (ICs) for audio, voice and other signal-processing applications. The company's product lines include: Portable Products, including codecs, which are chips that integrate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC, smart codecs, which are codecs with digital signal processing integrated, amplifiers, micro-electromechanical systems microphones, haptic drivers, standalone digital signal processors, and its SoundClear? technology, which includes a portfolio of tools, software and algorithms; and Non-Portable and Other Products, which include ICs, codecs, ADCs, DACs, digital interfaces and amplifiers.

Colfax Corporation

Colfax is a technology company that provides fabrication technology and medical technology products and services to customers around the world principally under the ESAB and DJO brands. The company reports its operations through the Fabrication Technology and Medical Technology segments. In its Fabrication Technology segment, the company formulates, develops, manufactures and supplies consumable products and equipment for use in the cutting, joining and automated welding of steels, aluminum and other metals and metal alloys. In its Medical Technology segment, the company develops, manufactures, and distributes medical devices with a range of products used for rehabilitation, pain management and physical therapy.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc.

Donnelley Financial Solutions is a risk and compliance solutions company. The company provides regulatory filing and deal solutions via its software-as-a-service, print and distribution solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms. For corporate clients within its capital markets offerings, the company provides filing solutions that allow U.S. public companies to comply with applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. The company operates in two business segments: U.S, which is comprised of capital markets, investment markets, and language solutions; and International, which includes operations in Asia, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

Duke Energy Corporation

Duke Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates as an energy company. The company's segments include: Electric Utilities and Infrastructure, which provides retail electric service through the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity to customers within the Southeast and Midwest regions of the United States; Gas Utilities and Infrastructure, which conducts natural gas operations, as well as owns, operates and has investments in various pipeline transmission and natural gas storage facilities; and Commercial Renewables, which acquires, develops, builds, operates and owns wind and solar renewable generation throughout the continental United States.

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.

Hershey Company

Hershey is engaged in the production of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery. The company's segments are: North America, which is responsible for the company's chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery market position, and its grocery and snacks market positions, in the United States and Canada; and International and Other, in which the company has operations and manufactures product in China, Mexico, Brazil, India and Malaysia, and also distributes and sells confectionery products in export markets of Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and other regions. The company's product offerings include chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, gum and mint refreshment products, snack and pantry items.

Inphi Corporation

Inphi is a provider of analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications and datacenter markets. The company's analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions provide an interface between analog and mixed signals and digital information in systems such as telecommunications transport systems, enterprise networking equipment and datacenters. The company has a range of products in its portfolio, including products that have commercially shipped, products for which the company has shipped engineering samples and products under development, that perform a range of functions such as amplifying, encoding, multiplexing, demultiplexing, and retiming signals at speeds up to 400 Gbps.

Jernigan Capital Inc.

Jernigan Capital is a commercial real estate company that invests primarily in new or recently-constructed and opened self-storage facilities located in dense urban submarkets within U.S. metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs). The company conducts its investment activities through its operating company, Jernigan Capital Operating Company, LLC. The company focuses on originating the following types of investments: Development Property Investments, which finances ground-up construction of self-storage facilities or self-storage conversion or redevelopment opportunities within the MSA; Wholly-Owned Property Investments; and Bridge Investments.

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the health care field. The company has three business segments: Consumer, which includes a range of products focused on personal healthcare used in the beauty, over-the-counter pharmaceutical, baby care, oral care, women's health and wound care markets; Pharmaceutical, which is focused on six therapeutic areas: immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism and pulmonary hypertension; and Medical Devices, which includes products used in the orthopaedic, surgery, interventional solutions, and eye health fields.

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.

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.

PACCAR Inc

PACCAR is a multinational company operating in three principal industry segments: the Truck segment includes the design, manufacture and distribution of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, which are configured with engine in front of cab or cab-over-engine; the Parts segment includes the distribution of aftermarket parts for trucks and related commercial vehicles; and the Financial Services segment includes finance and leasing products and services provided to customers and dealers. The company's other business includes the manufacturing of industrial winches in two United States plants and marketing them under the Braden, Carco and Gearmatic nameplates.

Pacific Biosciences of California Inc.

Pacific Biosciences of California designs, develops and manufactures sequencing systems. Based on its Single Molecule, Real-Time sequencing technology, the company's products enable: de novo genome assembly to finish genomes in order to identify, annotate and decipher genomic structures; transcript analysis to improve annotations in reference genomes, characterize alternatively spliced isoforms in gene families, and find genes; targeted sequencing to characterize genetic variations; and real-time kinetic information for epigenome characterization. The PacBio RS II, Sequel, and Sequel II Systems conduct, monitor, and analyze biochemical sequencing reactions.

PPL Corporation

PPL is a utility holding company. Through its regulated utility subsidiaries, the company delivers electricity to customers in United Kingdom, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Virginia; delivers natural gas to customers in Kentucky; and generates electricity from power plants in Kentucky. The company's segments are: United Kingdom Regulated, which has regulated electricity distribution operations in United Kingdom; Kentucky Regulated, which is engaged in the regulated generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in Kentucky and Virginia, and the distribution and sale of natural gas in Kentucky; and Pennsylvania Regulated, which delivers electricity in eastern and central Pennsylvania.

Ra Pharmaceuticals

Ra Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its proprietary peptide chemistry platform to develop therapeutics for the treatment of diseases that are caused by excessive or uncontrolled activation of the complement system, a primary component of the immune system. The company is developing its primary product candidate, zilucoplan, a synthetic, macrocyclic peptide C5 inhibitor, formulated for self-administered, subcutaneous injection, which is an injection into the tissue under the skin, for the treatment of various complement-mediated diseases, including generalized myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and other complement-mediated disorders.

Revlon Inc. Class A

Revlon is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in four segments: Revlon, which includes cosmetics, hair color and hair care, beauty tools and skin care products sold under the Revlon brand; Elizabeth Arden, which markets, distributes and sells fragrances, skin care and color cosmetics under the Elizabeth Arden brand; Portfolio, which includes a lineup of products sold to hair and nail salons and salon distributors, including hair color, shampoos, conditioners, styling products, nail polishes and nail enhancements under the Almay, Cutex and CND brands; and Fragrances, which includes the development, marketing and distribution of certain owned and licensed fragrances.

RigNet

RigNet is a global technology company that provides customized data and communications services. The company's business operations are divided into the following segments: Managed Communications Services, which provides remote communications, telephony and technology services for offshore and onshore drilling rigs and production facilities, support vessels, and other remote sites; Applications and Internet-of-Things, which provides applications over-the-top of network layer including Software as a Service offerings such as cyber security; and Systems Integration, which provides design and implementation services for customer telecommunications systems.

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.

Spirit Airlines Inc.

Spirit Airlines is an airline that provides travel opportunities principally throughout the domestic United States, the Caribbean and Latin America. The company's ultra low-cost carrier business model provides customers low, unbundled base fares with a range of optional services, allowing customers to choose their options. The majority of the company's tickets are sold through direct channels including online via www.spirit.com, its call center and its airport ticket counters, with www.spirit.com being the primary channel. The company also partners with a number of third parties to distribute its tickets, including online and travel agents and electronic global distribution systems.

TEMPUR SEALY INTERNATIONAL INC

Tempur Sealy International develops, manufactures, and markets bedding products. The company's portfolio of product brands includes Tempur?, Tempur-Pedic?, Sealy? featuring Posturepedic? Technology, Stearns & Foster? and Comfort Revolution?. The company operates in two segments: North America and International. The company's North America segment consists of Tempur and Sealy manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries and licensees located in United States and Canada. The company's International segment consists of Tempur and Sealy manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees located in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

Theravance Biopharma Inc

Ulta Beauty Inc

Ulta Beauty is a beauty retailer that provides cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products, and salon services. The company's stores are primarily located in locations such as power centers. The company provides a range of services in all of its stores. The company's stores, website, and mobile applications provides more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 beauty brands across all categories and price points, including its own private label, the Ulta Beauty Collection. The company provides a portfolio across five primary categories: cosmetics; skincare, bath and fragrance; haircare products and styling tools; salon services; and other, which includes nail products and accessories.

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

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