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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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Underlyings
Accenture Plc Class A

ASAN PARDAKHT PERSIAN ORD

ASTERA LABS INC

AtriCure Inc.

AtriCure is a provider of treatments for atrial fibrillation and left atrial appendage management. The company provides product lines for left atrial appendage management and open and minimally invasive cardiac tissue ablation. The company's Radio Frequency Ablation devices include; CryoICE Cryoablation System, which is used in open ablation procedures and consists of the cryoICE Box generator along with a single-use disposable probe; EPi-Sense Guided Coagulation System with VisiTrax Technology, which utilizes monopolar energy for the coagulation of tissue; and LARIAT System, which is a suture-based solution for soft-tissue closure and is compatible with a range of anatomical shapes.

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corporation Class A

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding is a holding company. The company provides management and technology consulting, analytics, engineering, digital solutions, mission operations, and cyber knowledge to U.S. and international governments, corporations, and non-profit organizations. The company's services are: Consulting, which focuses on solving client problems and developing mission-oriented solutions; Analytics, which includes decision analytics, automation, and data science solutions; Digital Solutions, which develops, designs, and implements solutions; Engineering, which delivers engineering services and solutions; and Cyber, which focuses on active prevention, detection, and cost effectiveness.

BOWMAN CONSULTING GROUP LTD

Brown & Brown Inc.

Brown & Brown is an insurance agency, wholesale brokerage, insurance programs and service organization. The company's segments are: Retail, which provides a range of insurance products and services, and non-insurance risk-mitigating products; National Programs, which provides professional liability and related package products, a range of insurance products, and flood coverage, and targeted products and services; Wholesale Brokerage, which markets and sells excess and surplus commercial and personal lines insurance; and Services, which provides insurance-related services, including third-party claims administration and medical utilization management services, as well as Medicare Set-aside services.

CARIS LIFE SCIENCES INC

CGI Inc. Class A

CGI Group is engaged in managing information technology services, including outsourcing, systems integration and consulting, software licenses and maintenance, as well as business process services to help clients realize their strategies and create added value.

Chewy Inc. Class A

Chewy is a pure play e-commerce business geared toward pet products for dogs, cats, fish, birds, small pets, horses, and reptiles. The company serves its customers through its retail website, www.chewy.com, and its mobile applications and focuses on delivering exceptional customer service, a large selection of high-quality pet food, treats and supplies, price, convenience (including Chewy's Autoship subscription program), fast shipping, and hassle-free returns.

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation Class A

Cognizant Technology Solutions is a services company, transforming customers' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. The company's services include digital services and solutions, consulting, application development, systems integration, application testing, application maintenance, infrastructure services and business process services. Additionally, the company develops, licenses, implements and supports proprietary and third-party software products and platforms. The company has organized its services and solutions into four practice areas: Digital Business, Digital Operations, Digital Systems and Technology and Consulting.

Copart Inc.

Copart is a provider of online auctions and vehicle remarketing services. The company provides vehicle sellers with a range of services to process and sell vehicles primarily over the Internet through its Virtual Bidding Third Generation Internet auction-style sales technology. Vehicle sellers consist primarily of insurance companies, but also include banks, finance companies, charities, fleet operators, dealers and vehicles sourced directly from individual owners. The company sells the vehicles principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers and exporters and, at certain locations, to the general public.

CryoLife Inc.

CryoLife is engaged in the manufacturing, processing, and distribution of medical devices and implantable human tissues used in cardiac and vascular surgical procedures for patients with aortic disease. The company has the following product families: BioGlue? Surgical Adhesive products, JOTEC stent grafts and surgical products, On-X mechanical heart valves and surgical products, and implantable cardiac and vascular human tissues. The company's medical devices and preservation services are primarily used by cardiac and vascular surgeons to treat patients with aortic disease, including heart valve disease, and to a lesser extent, other conditions in cardiac and vascular surgery.

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.

Flutter Entertainment Plc

Paddy Power Betfair is a sports betting and gaming operator. Co. operates four sports betting and gaming brands: Paddy Power, Betfair, Sportsbet, and TVG. In addition, Co. operates across four operating divisions: Online, which is an online sports betting operator in the U.K. and Ireland; Australian, which is known as Sportsbet and is focused on sports betting, with products and marketing around national sports events; Retail, which operates Paddy Power betting shops across the U.K. and Ireland; and U.S., which consists of TVG, a horseracing TV channel and online pari-mutuel wagering operator active in over 30 states, and Betfair, an online casino and horse-racing Exchange in New Jersey.

Franklin Electric Co. Inc.

Franklin Electric Company designs, manufactures and distributes water and fuel pumping systems, composed primarily of submersible motors, pumps, electronic controls and related parts and equipment. The company's business consists of three segments: Water Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells motors, pumps, drives, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment; Fueling Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells pumps, pipe, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices and related parts and equipment; and Distribution, which operates as a collection of wholly owned groundwater distributors known as the Headwater Companies.

Gentherm Incorporated

Gentherm designs, develops, and manufactures thermal management technologies. The company's products provide solutions for automotive passenger comfort, battery thermal management, remote power generation, patient temperature management, and other consumer and industrial temperature control needs. The company has two segments: Automotive, which includes climate comfort systems, automotive cable systems, battery thermal management, and automotive electronic and software systems; and Industrial, which includes the company's remote power generation systems business, its patient temperature management systems business, its environmental testing equipment business and its research and product development division.

Genuine Parts Company

Genuine Parts is engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial parts, and business products. The company's reportable business segments are: Automotive, which distributes automotive parts and accessory items and provides inventory, cataloging, marketing, training and other programs to the automotive aftermarket; Industrial, which distributes industrial replacement parts and related supplies such as bearings, mechanical and electrical power transmission products, industrial automation, and hose, among others; and Business Products, which is engaged in the wholesale distribution of a line of office and other business-related products through a customer base of resellers.

GRID DYNAMICS HOLDINGS INC.

Hercules Capital Inc.

Hercules Capital is a specialty finance company focused on providing senior secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in a variety of technology, life sciences and sustainable and renewable technology industries. The company invests primarily in structured debt with warrants and, to a lesser extent, in senior debt and equity investments. The company invests primarily in private companies but also has investments in public companies. The company also makes investments in qualifying small businesses through Hercules Technology III, L.P., which is its wholly-owned small business investment company.

Insperity Inc.

Insperity provides a range of human resources (HR) and business solutions. The company's HR services offerings are provided through its Workforce Optimization? and Workforce Synchronization? solutions, which encompass a range of human resources functions, including payroll and employment administration, employee benefits, workers' compensation, government compliance, performance management, and training and development services, along with its cloud-based human capital management platform, its Insperity Premier?. In addition to its Professional Employer Organization HR Outsourcing solutions, the company provides Workforce Acceleration?, a payroll and human capital management solution.

LendingTree Inc.

LendingTree operates the online consumer platform. Services include mortgage loans, mortgage refinances, home equity loans and lines of credit, auto loans, and other related offerings. The company's segments include: Home, in which it partners with lenders throughout the United States to provide geographic lending coverage and to provide a suite of loan offerings on its marketplace; Consumer which provides consumer lending products on its online marketplace and non-lending Consumer products; and Insurance, which includes information, tools and access to insurance quote products, including home and automobile, through which consumers are matched with insurance aggregators to obtain insurance offers.

LUCID GROUP INC.

NUSCALE POWER CORP

PATTERN GROUP INC.

Q2 HLDGS INC

Q2 Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides cloud-based digital solutions. The company's digital banking platform provides digital banking services to their end users. The company's Q2 Cloud Lending, digital lending and leasing platform is a cloud-based, end-to-end lending and leasing solution that allows to automate and digitize their lending and leasing activities, supporting digital lending and leasing applications, scoring, underwriting, servicing and collections for various assets classes. The company's Q2 Open is a portfolio of open application programming interface financial services which are designed to develop and support their own applications and digital financial services.

QuantumScape

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.

SLM Corp

SLM is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in a business which originates and services Private Education Loans Co. makes to students and their families. Private Education Loans are education loans for students or their families that are not made, insured or guaranteed by any state or federal government. The Smart Option Student Loan is the company's Private Education Loan product that focuses on in-school payment. The company's Private Education Loans include protections for the family, including loan forgiveness in case of death or permanent disability of the student borrower and study services to help students with a Smart Option Student Loan.

SOFI TECHNOLOGIES INC

Sprouts Farmers Markets Inc.

Sprouts Farmers Market operates as a healthy grocery store. The company categorizes the varieties of products it sells as perishable and non-perishable. Perishable product categories include produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, floral and dairy and dairy alternatives. Non-perishable product categories include grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk items, frozen foods, beer and wine, and natural health and body care. The company's stores include the following departments: packaged groceries, meat and seafood, deli, vitamins and supplements, dairy and dairy alternatives, bulk items, baked goods, frozen foods, natural health and body care, and beer and wine.

Stantec Inc

Stantec is a provider of comprehensive professional services in the area of infrastructure and facilities for clients in the public and private sectors. Co.'s services include planning, engineering, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, surveying and geomatics, project management, environmental sciences, and project economics for infrastructure and facilities projects.

Talanx AG

Talanx is a financial and management holding company. Co. is internationally active in primary insurance and reinsurance and in both property/casualty and life business. In the more than 100 years of Co.'s history, Co. has evolved from a single-line liability insurer for industry into a global insurance group with a focus on the industrial and retail lines and reinsurance business. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in five business segments: Life/Health Reinsurance; Non-Life Reinsurance; Retail Germany; Industrial Lines; and Retail International.

U.S. Lime & Minerals

United States Lime & Minerals through its Lime and Limestone Operations, is a manufacturer of lime and limestone products, supplying primarily the construction (highway, road and building contractors), industrial (paper and glass manufacturers), environmental (municipal sanitation and water treatment facilities and flue gas treatment processes), metals (steel producers), oil and gas services, roof shingle manufacturers and agriculture (poultry and cattle feed producers) industries. The company, through its wholly owned subsidiary has royalty interests and a non-operated working interest with respect to oil and gas rights on the company's land located in Johnson County, TX, in the Barnett Shale Formation.

Waste Connections Inc.

Waste Connections is a solid waste services company in North America, providing waste collection, transfer, disposal and recycling services in mostly exclusive and secondary markets in the U.S. and Canada. Through its R360 Environmental Solutions subsidiary, Co. is also a provider of non-hazardous exploration and production (E&P), waste treatment, recovery and disposal services in several of the natural resource producing areas in the U.S. Co. also provides intermodal services for the rail haul movement of cargo and solid waste containers in the Pacific Northwest through a network of intermodal facilities.

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.

Workiva

Workiva is a provider of cloud-based solutions for connected data, reporting and compliance. The company's platform, Wdesk provides controlled collaboration, data linking, data integrations, granular permissions, process management and a full audit trail. Wdesk enables the company's users to collect, aggregate and prepare their unstructured and structured data in a cloud-based environment. Numbers, narrative, charts and graphics can be linked inside Wdesk. The company's Wdesk platform enables customers to collect, link, manage, report and analyze business data for a range of use cases across public and private companies, government agencies and higher-education institutions.

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Ross LaDuke

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