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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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ACCELERATE DIAGNOSTICS INC.

Accelerate Diagnostics is an in vitro diagnostics company. The company's Accelerate Pheno? system utilizes genotypic technology to identify (ID) infectious pathogens and phenotypic technology to conduct antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST), which determines whether live bacterial and fungal cells are resistant or susceptible to a particular antimicrobial. The Accelerate PhenoTest? BC Kit, which is the test kit for the system, provides ID and AST results for patients suspected of bacteremia or fungemia, both conditions with morbidity and mortality risk. The Accelerate Pheno? system comprises of a robotic pipettor for fluidic manipulation, an optical system, and an imaging system.

AES Corporation

AES is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses. The first business line is generation, where the company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where the company owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, the company's utilities also generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.

Affiliated Managers Group Inc.

Affiliated Managers Group is a global asset management company with equity investments in boutique investment management firms (Affiliates). The company provides centralized capabilities to its Affiliates, including strategy, marketing and distribution, and product development. Through its Affiliates, the company provides strategies designed to assist institutional, retail and clients worldwide in achieving their investment objectives. The company provides boutique investment management services to retail investors through advisory and sub-advisory services to return-oriented mutual funds, Undertakings for the Collective Investment of Transferable Securities, collective investment trusts and other retail products.

Alkermes Plc

Alkermes is a biopharmaceutical company. Co.'s products include: ARISTADA, which is an extended-release injectable suspension for the treatment of schizophrenia; VIVITROL, which is for the treatment of alcohol dependence and for the prevention of relapse to opioid dependence; INVEGA SUSTENNA/XEPLION, and RISPERDAL CONSTA, which is for the treatment of schizophrenia and for the treatment of schizoaffective disorder; AMPYRA/FAMPYRA, which is a treatment to improve walking in adults with multiple sclerosis; and BYDUREON is for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Co.'s product candidate include Aripiprazole Lauroxil Two-Month Dose for the treatment of schizophrenia, among others.

AnaptysBio Inc.

AnaptysBio is a clinical stage biotechnology company developing antibody product candidates. Etokimab, the company's anti-IL-33 antibody drug candidate, inhibits the activity of the interleukin-33 cytokine that is applicable to the treatment of atopic inflammatory disorders, such as moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis, eosinophilic asthma, chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, and potentially other allergic conditions. ANB019 inhibits the interleukin-36 receptor, for the treatment of rare inflammatory diseases including generalized pustular psoriasis and palmoplantar pustulosis. The company's wholly-owned pipeline includes anti-inflammatory checkpoint receptor modulator antibodies.

ArcBest Corporation

ArcBest is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a suite of freight transportation services and integrated logistics solutions. The company's operations are conducted through three reportable operating segments: Asset-Based, ArcBest, and FleetNet. The company's Asset-Based segment provides less-than-truckload services through its subsidiary, ABF Freight System, Inc., and certain other subsidiaries' motor carrier operations. The ArcBest and FleetNet reportable segments, combined, represent the company's Asset-Light operations, which provide customers end-to-end logistics solutions, designed to satisfy the supply chain and shipping requirements they encounter.

BorgWarner Inc.

BorgWarner is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global product provider in technology solutions for combustion, hybrid and electric vehicles. The company manufactures and sells these products worldwide, primarily to original equipment manufacturers of light vehicles (passenger cars, sport-utility vehicles, vans and light trucks). The company's segments are: Engine, which provides turbochargers, eBoosters, timing systems, emissions systems, thermal systems, gasoline ignition technology, cabin heaters, battery heaters and battery charging; and Drivetrain, which provides rotating electrical components, power electronics, clutching systems, control modules and all-wheel drive systems.

Cadence Bancorporation

Cadence is a bank holding company. The company is engaged in commercial lending to middle-market customers and provide a range of commercial loans to middle-market commercial businesses, individuals and business owners. The company's loan portfolio includes commercial and industrial loans, residential real estate loans, commercial real estate loans and other consumer loans. The company also provides its customers a variety of deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and other deposit accounts, through multiple channels, including its network of full-service branches, drive-thru branches, ATMs, ITMs, and its online, mobile and telephone banking platforms.

Cambium Networks

Cambium Network provides wireless broadband networking solutions for network operators, including medium-sized wireless internet service providers, enterprises and government agencies. The company's wireless fabric includes intelligent radios, smart antennas, radio frequency, algorithms, wireless-aware switches and its cloud-based network management software. The company's products can be categorized into its PTP backhaul, PMP distribution, Wi-Fi access, cnMatrix switching, and cnReach IIoT solutions. The company also provides a number of other network management and monitoring tools, such as cnMaestro, XMS Cloud, LINKPlanner, cnHeat, and cnArcher, to further improve ease of use and network performance.

Carnival Corporation

Century Aluminum Company

Century Aluminum is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company produces primary aluminum and operates aluminum reduction facilities in the U.S. and Iceland. The company's principal subsidiaries are: Century Kentucky, Inc., which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Hawesville, KY; Nordural ehf, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Grundartangi, Iceland; Century Aluminum Sebree LLC, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Robards, KY; Century Aluminum of South Carolina, which operates a primary aluminum reduction facility in Goose Creek, SC; and Nordural Helguvik ehf, which owns a greenfield primary aluminum project in Helguvik, Iceland.

Chemours Co.

Chemours is a provider of performance chemicals. The company has three reportable segments: Fluoroproducts, Chemical Solutions, and Titanium Technologies. The company's Fluoroproducts segment is a provider of fluoroproducts, including refrigerants and industrial fluoropolymer resins. The company's Chemical Solutions segment is a North American provider of industrial chemicals used in gold production, industrial, and consumer applications. The company's Titanium Technologies segment is a provider of titanium dioxide pigment, a white pigment used to deliver whiteness, brightness, opacity, and protection in a variety of applications.

CIRCOR International Inc.

CIRCOR International designs, manufactures and markets technology products and sub-systems for markets including industrial, oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and commercial marine. The company has the following reportable business segments: Energy, which provides integrated flow control solutions, valves and services for the oil & gas and process Instrumentation markets; Aerospace & Defense, which provides valves, pumps, actuation, motors, switches, and high pressure pneumatic systems; and Indusrial, which positive displacement pumps, specialty centrifugal pumps, automatic recirculating valves, control valves, and harsh environment flow control products for steam and cryogenic applications.

Columbia Banking System Inc.

Columbia Banking System is a bank holding company. Through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Columbia State Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, personnel and individuals throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The company provides its personal banking customers a range of account products including noninterest and interest-bearing checking, savings, money market and certificate of deposit accounts. Through its Columbia Trust Company subsidiary, the company provides a range of fiduciary, investment and administrative trust services, coupled with local, personalized attention to the requirements of each trust.

Columbia Sportswear Company

Columbia Sportswear is engaged in designing, sourcing, marketing, and distributing outdoor, active and everyday lifestyle apparel, footwear, accessories, and equipment products. The company's brands and products include: Columbia?, which is known for outdoor apparel, footwear, accessories and equipment products designed with function suited for all seasons, activities and locations; SOREL?, which provides footwear and accessories primarily to women, as well as to men and youth consumers; Mountain Hard Wear?, which provides apparel, accessories and equipment designed to meet the needs of climbing and climbers' everyday lifestyle; and prAna?, which focuses on clothing.

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.

Covenant Logistics Group Inc

Covenant Transportation Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides truckload transportation and brokerage services through truckload services (Truckload) and Managed Freight segments. The Truckload segment consists of: Expedited, which involves high service freight with delivery standards; Dedicated, which involves longer-term contracts that allocate a specified number of tractors and trailers to a customer; Refrigerated, which includes fresh and frozen foods, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and other freight; and over-the-road. In addition, the company's Managed Freight segment includes freight brokerage, transportation management services, and shuttle and switching services.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc.

Cracker Barrel Old Country Store is principally engaged in the operation and development of the Cracker Barrel Old Country Store? concept. The format of the company's stores consists of a trademarked rustic old country-store design providing a restaurant menu that features home-style country food and a variety of items such as rocking chairs, holiday and seasonal gifts, toys, apparel, cookware and foods. The company's restaurants serve breakfast, lunch and dinner daily. Lunch and dinner items include southern fried chicken, chicken and dumplings, chicken fried chicken, meatloaf, country fried steak, pork chops, fish, steak, roast beef, vegetable plates, sandwiches and a variety of salads.

Cyclerion Therapeutics

Cyclerion Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company harnessing the power of sGC pharmacology to discover, develop and commercialize breakthrough treatments for serious and orphan diseases. The company's focus is enabling the full therapeutic potential of next-generation sGC stimulators. sGC stimulators are small molecules that act synergistically with nitric oxide on sGC to boost production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate, or cGMP. cGMP is a key second messenger that, when produced by sGC, regulates diverse and critical biological functions throughout the body including blood flow and vascular dynamics, inflammatory and fibrotic processes, metabolism and neuronal function.

Echo Global Logistics Inc

Echo Global Logistics is a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management solutions. The company utilizes a technology platform to compile and analyze data from its multi-modal network of transportation providers. The company focuses on arranging transportation with truckload and less than truckload carriers. The company also provides intermodal, small parcel, domestic air, expedited and international transportation services. The company's logistics services include carrier selection, dispatch, load management and tracking. The company procures transportation and provides logistics services for clients across manufacturing, construction, food and beverage, consumer products and retail industries.

Emak

Emak SPA. Emak SpA is an Italy-based company engaged in the industrial sector. The Company develops, manufactures and distributes a wide range of products in three business areas complementary to each other: Outdoor Power Equipment (OPE), Pumps and High Pressure Water Jetting (PWJ) and Components and Accessories (C&A). The OPE area includes the development, manufacture and marketing of products for gardening, forestry and small agricultural equipment, such as brush cutters, lawnmowers, garden tractors, chainsaws, tillers and motor cultivators. The PWJ area focuses on diaphragm pumps intended for agriculture, piston pumps for the industrial sector, of professional pressure washers and hydrodynamic units and machines for urban cleaning. The C&A area combines brush cutters, chainsaw accessories, guns, valves and nozzles, precision farming, seats and technical parts for tractors.

EZCORP Inc. Class A

EZCORP is a provider of pawn loans in the United States and Latin America. The company's business consists of the following three reportable segments: United States Pawn, which includes its EZPAWN, Value Pawn and Jewelry and other pawn operations in the United States; Latin America Pawn, which includes its Empeno Facil and other branded pawn operations in Mexico, as well as the company's GuatePrenda and MaxiEfectivo pawn operations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru; and Other International, which includes primarily the company's CASHMAX financial services operations in Canada and its equity interest in the net income of Cash Converters International.

FB Financial Corporation

FB Financial is a bank holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, FirstBank (the Bank), the company is engaged in providing a suite of commercial and consumer banking services to clients. The company's commercial lending products include working capital lines of credit, equipment loans, owner-occupied and non-owner-occupied real estate construction loans, mini-perm real estate term loans, and cash flow loans to a mix of clients, including small and medium sized businesses. The company's consumer lending products include first and second residential mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit and consumer installment loans to purchase cars, boats and other recreational vehicles.

Five Prime Therapeutics Inc.

Five Prime Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on discovering and developing protein therapeutics. The company's key product candidates are: FPA150, which is a CD8 T cell checkpoint inhibitor antibody that targets B7-H4 that it is studying in a clinical trial in multiple cancers; FPT155, which is a soluble CD80 fusion protein that enhances co-stimulation of T cells through CD28 that the company is studying in a clinical trial in multiple cancers; and Cabiralizumab (FPA008) is an antibody that the company and its partner Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, or BMS, are studying in clinical trials in multiple cancers in combination with BMS's PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, Opdivo? (nivolumab).

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor designs, manufactures, markets, and services a line of Ford cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, electrified vehicles, and Lincoln vehicles, as well as provides financial services through its subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company LLC. The company is engaged in electrification; mobility solutions, including self-driving services; and connected vehicle services. The company has three operating segments: Automotive, which includes the sale of Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories; Mobility, which includes its autonomous vehicles and its investment in mobility through Ford Smart Mobility LLC; and Ford Credit, which includes vehicle-related financing and leasing activities.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a mining company. The company operates assets with proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum, and the company is a publicly traded copper producer. The company's portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, copper and gold deposits; and mining operations in North America and South America, including the Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru. The company has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions: North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines.

G1 Therapeutics

G1 Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer. The company's product pipeline includes three clinical candidates: trilaciclib, a short-acting intravenous cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor that preserves hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and immune system function; lerociclib, an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor that inhibits tumor proliferation and growth; and G1T48, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader that inhibits estrogen receptor driven tumor proliferation.

General Motors Company

General Motors designs, builds and sells trucks, crossovers, cars and automobile parts. The company also provides automotive financing services through its subsidiary, General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (GM Financial). GM Financial provides retail loan and lease lending across the credit spectrum. GM Financial provides commercial lending products to dealers including new and used vehicle inventory floorplan financing and dealer loans, which are loans to finance improvements to dealership facilities, to provide working capital, and to purchase and/or finance dealership real estate. Other commercial lending products include financing for parts and accessories, dealer fleets and storage centers.

Greenlane Holdings

Greenlane is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a distributor of premium vaporization products and consumption accessories in the United States and have a growing presence in Canada. The company offers vaporizers and parts, cleaning products, grinders and storage containers, pipes, rolling papers, and customized lines of specialty packaging. The company also operates e-commerce Websites, such as VaporNation.com and VapeWorld.com. The company operates four distribution centers in the United States and two distribution centers in Canada.

Hanesbrands Inc.

Hanesbrands is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under some apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds, DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur Der, Alternative, L'eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, and Gear for Sports. The company's segments are: Innerwear, which includes apparel products, such as men's underwear, women's panties, children's underwear, socks and intimate apparel; Activewear, which includes T-shirts, fleece, performance apparel, sport shirts and thermals; and International, which includes innerwear, activewear, hosiery and home goods products, sold outside of the United States.

Heartland Financial USA Inc.

Heartland Financial USA is a multi-bank holding company. The company conducts a community banking business through community banks (collectively, the Banks). The principal business of the company's Banks consists of making loans to and accepting deposits from businesses and individuals. The company's Banks provide commercial and retail banking in their communities. The company's lending and investment activities are funded primarily by core deposits. Deposit products include checking and other demand deposit accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, health savings accounts and other time deposits.

Kite Realty Group Trust

Kite Realty Group Trust is a real estate investment trust. Through its majority-owned subsidiary, Kite Realty Group, L.P., owns interests in various operating subsidiaries and joint ventures engaged in the ownership, operation, acquisition, development and redevelopment of neighborhood and community shopping centers in selected markets in the United States. The company is involved in the collection of contractual rents and reimbursement payments from tenants at its properties.

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals

Madrigal Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutic candidates for the treatment of cardiovascular, metabolic and liver diseases. The company's main product candidate, MGL-3196 (resmetirom), is a proprietary, orally administered, small molecule, liver-directed, thyroid hormone receptor-? selective agonist being developed as a once-daily oral pill that can potentially be used to treat a number of disease states including non-alcoholic steatohepatitis.

Marine Products Corp.

Marine Products manufactures fiberglass motorized boats distributed and marketed through its independent dealer network. The company' product offerings include its subsidiaries, Chaparral Boats, Inc. (Chaparral) sterndrive, outboard and jet pleasure boats and Robalo Boats, LLC (Robalo) outboard sport fishing boats. The company designs, manufactures and sells recreational fiberglass powerboats in the sportboat, sport fishing and jet boat markets. The Chaparral product line includes: SSi Sport Boats, SSX Sport Boats, Surf Series, SunCoast Bowriders, OSX Sport Boats, and Vortex Jet Boats. The Robalo product line includes: Center Consoles, Cayman Bay Boats, and Dual Consoles.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

OPKO Health Inc.

Opko Health is a healthcare company. The company manages two segments: Diagnostics, which provides laboratory testing services utilized by healthcare providers in the detection, diagnosis, evaluation, monitoring, and treatment of diseases, including esoteric testing, molecular diagnostics, anatomical pathology, genetics, women's health and correctional healthcare; and Pharmaceutical, which includes Rayaldee for the treatment of secondary hyperparathyroidism in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and vitamin D insufficiency, and Alpharen (Fermagate Tablets) for the treatment of hyperphosphatemia in CKD patients requiring regular hemodialysis.

OptiNose

OptiNose is pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of products for patients treated by ear, nose and throat and allergy specialists. The company's first commercial product, XHANCE? (fluticasone propionate) nasal spray, 93 mcg, is a therapeutic utilizing its key Optinose Exhalation Delivery System (EDS) that delivers a topically-acting corticosteroid for the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps and, if approved, chronic rhinosinusitis without nasal polyps (chronic sinusitis). The company's other candidate includes OPN-300, which combines an Optinose EDS with oxytocin to target two orphan indications: Prader-Willi syndrome and autism spectrum disorder.

Pzena Investment Management

Pzena Investment Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an investment management firm. The company manages assets in a variety of investment strategies across a range of market capitalizations in both United States and non-United States capital markets. The company manages separate accounts on behalf of institutions, acts as sub-investment adviser for a variety of Securities and Exchange Commission-registered mutual funds and non-United States funds, and acts as investment adviser for the Pzena mutual funds, certain private placement funds and non-United States funds. The company functions as the sole managing member of its operating company, Pzena Investment Management, LLC.

Quaker Chemical Corporation

Quaker Chemical develops, produces, and markets a range of formulated specialty chemical products and provides chemical management services for various industrial and manufacturing applications throughout its four segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; Asia/Pacific; and Global Specialty Businesses. The primary product lines of the company include metal removal fluids, cleaning fluids, corrosion inhibitors, metal drawing and forming fluids, die cast mold releases, heat treatment and quenchants, metal forging fluids, hydraulic fluids, specialty greases, offshore sub-sea energy control fluids, rolling lubricants, rod and wire drawing fluids and surface treatment chemicals.

Rogers Corporation

Rogers designs, develops, manufactures and sells engineered materials and components. The company's segments are: Advanced Connectivity Solutions, which designs, develops, manufactures and sells circuit materials and solutions enabling connectivity for applications in wireless infrastructure, automotive, aerospace and defense, connected devices, and wired infrastructure; Elastomeric Material Solutions, which designs, develops, manufactures and sells engineered material solutions such as polyurethane and silicone materials used in cushioning; and Power Electronics Solutions, which designs, develops, manufactures and sells ceramic substrate materials, busbars and cooling solutions.

ROYAL CARIBBEAN GROUP

Sabre Corp.

Sabre is a technology solutions provider to the travel and tourism industry. The company operates through three business segments: Travel Network, which consists primarily of its global distribution system (GDS) and a range of solutions that integrate with its GDS; Airline Solutions, which provides a portfolio of software technology products and solutions, through software-as-a-service (SaaS) and hosted delivery model, to airlines and other travel suppliers and provides software solutions; and Hospitality Solutions, which provides software and solutions, through SaaS and hosted delivery model, to hoteliers around the world.

Sealed Air Corporation

Sealed Air is a global provider of packaging solutions for the food, e-Commerce, electronics and industrial markets. The company serves an array of end markets including food and beverage processing, food service, retail, commercial and consumer applications, by providing food safety and security, product protection and equipment. The company's segments include: Food Care, which serves perishable food processors, predominantly in chilled, smoked and processed meat, poultry and dairy-solid markets worldwide, and maintains positions in target applications; and Product Care, in which its solutions are designed to protect goods in shipping.

Sensient Technologies Corporation

Sensient Technologies is a manufacturer and marketer of colors, flavors and fragrances. The company's three reportable segments are: Flavors & Fragrances Group, which develops, manufactures, and supplies flavor and fragrance systems for the food, beverage, personal care, and household-products industries; Color Group, which provides natural and synthetic color systems for use in foods, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and nutraceuticals, colors and other ingredients for cosmetics; and Asia Pacific Group, which provides a range of products from its Flavors & Fragrances Group and Color Group, as well as products developed by regional technical teams to appeal to local preferences.

SkyWest Inc

SkyWest, through its subsidiaries, SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. (ExpressJet), operates regional airlines in the U.S. Substantially all of the company's flights are operated as Delta Connection, United Express, American Eagle or Alaska Airlines flights under code-share arrangements with Delta, United, American or Alaska, respectively. The company has two operating platforms: SkyWest, which provides regional jet service to airports throughout the U.S., as well as Mexico and Canada; and ExpressJet, which provides regional jet service to airports primarily located in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., as well as Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.

Superior Group of Companies

Superior Group of Companies manufactures and sells a range of uniforms, corporate identity apparel, career apparel and accessories. The company operates three business segments: Uniforms and Related Products, which manufactures and sells a range of uniforms, corporate identity apparel, career apparel and accessories for the hospital and healthcare fields; hotels; fast food and other restaurants; transportation; and the private security, industrial and commercial markets. The company services its Remote Staffing Solutions segment through multiple The Office Gurus entities. The company's Promotional Products segment services customers that primarily purchase promotional and related products.

Travere Therapeutics Inc.

Retrophin is a biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing and delivering therapies to people living with rare diseases. The company sells the following three products: Chenodal? (chenodeoxycholic acid), which is for the treatment of patients suffering from gallstones in whom surgery poses an unacceptable health risk due to disease or advanced age; Cholbam? (cholic acid), which is for the treatment of bile acid synthesis disorders due to single enzyme defects and is further indicated for adjunctive treatment of patients with peroxisomal disorders; and Thiola? (tiopronin), which is for the prevention of cystine (kidney) stone formation in patients with homozygous cystinuria.

Veritiv Corp

Veritiv is a business-to-business distributor of packaging, facility solutions, print and publishing products and services. Co has the following reportable segments: Packaging, which provides standard as well as custom packaging solutions; Facility Solutions, which sources and sells cleaning, break-room and other supplies such as towels, tissues, wipers and dispensers, can liners, commercial cleaning chemicals, soaps and sanitizers; Print, which sells and distributes commercial printing, writing, copying, digital, specialty products, graphics consumables and graphics equipment; and Publishing and Print Management, which sells and distributes coated and uncoated commercial printing papers.

VMware Inc. Class A

VMware is engaged in the development and application of technologies with x86 server-based computing, separating application software from the underlying hardware. The company's product and service solutions are organized into three main product groups: Software-Defined Data Center, which is designed to transform the data center into an on-demand service that addresses application requirements; Hybrid Cloud Computing, which is comprised of VMware Cloud Provider Program and VMware Cloud Services; and End-User Computing solution, which consists of VMware Workspace ONE, its digital workspace platform, that includes Unified Endpoint Management and VMware Horizon application and desktop virtualization.

Wabash National Corporation

Wabash National provides solutions for the transportation, logistics, and distribution industries. The company's segments are: Commercial Trailer Products, which designs and manufactures dry and refrigerated vans, platform trailers and other transportation related equipment; Diversified Products, which designs and manufactures liquid transportation systems, isolators, stationary silos and downflow booths, and various proprietary products, including a line of aerodynamic solutions to improve overall trailer aerodynamics and fuel economy; and Final Mile Products, which designs and manufactures cutaway and dry-freight van bodies and refrigerated and stake bodies.

Westlake Chemical Corporation

Westlake Chemical operates as a manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and building products. The company operates in two operating segments: Olefins, which manufactures and markets polyethylene, styrene monomer and various ethylene co-products; and Vinyls, which manufactures and markets polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer, ethylene dichloride, chlor-alkali (chlorine and caustic soda), chlorinated derivative products and ethylene, as well as manufactures and sells building products fabricated from PVC, including residential siding, trim and mouldings, pipe and fittings for various water, sewer and industrial applications, and profiles for windows and doors.

Workday Inc. Class A

Workday is a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. The company's products include: Workday Financial Management, an application with financial capabilities, analytics and metrics, and auditable process management; and Workday Human Capital Management, which includes global human resources management (workforce lifecycle management, organization management, compensation, absence, and employee benefits administration) and global talent management (goal management, performance management, succession planning, and career and development planning). The company's other solutions include Adaptive Insights Business Planning Cloud, as well as Workday Data-as-a-Service.

Xilinx Inc.

Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies, including: integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips and three-dimensional ICs; Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, a multi-core heterogeneous compute platform; software design tools to program the PLDs; software development environments and embedded platforms; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and intellectual property (IP), which consists of the company and third-party verification and IP cores. In addition to its programmable platforms, the company provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support.

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