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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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ACI Worldwide Inc.

ACI Worldwide develops, markets, installs, and supports a range of software products and solutions primarily focused on facilitating real-time electronic payments. The company's payment capabilities, technologies, and solutions are marketed under the brand name Universal Payments. In addition to its own products, the company distributes, or acts as a sales agent for software developed by third parties. These products and services are used globally by banks, financial intermediaries, and a range of transaction-generating endpoints, including automated teller machines, merchant point-of-sale terminals, bank branches, mobile phones, tablets, corporations, and internet commerce sites.

Advance Auto Parts Inc.

Advance Auto Parts is an automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, serving both professional installers (Professional), and do-it-yourself (DIY), customers as well as independently owned operators. The company's stores and branches provide a range selection of brand name, original equipment manufacturer and private label automotive replacement parts, accessories, batteries and maintenance items for domestic and imported cars, vans, sport utility vehicles and light and heavy duty trucks. Through its integrated operating approach, the company serves its Professional and DIY customers through a variety of channels ranging from brick and mortar store locations to self-service e-commerce sites.

Ashland Global Holdings Inc.

Ashland Global Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in providing chemical solutions to customers in a range of consumer and industrial markets. The company's reportable segments are: Specialty Ingredients, which is a provider in cellulose ethers, vinyl pyrrolidones and biofunctionals and uses natural, synthetic and semisynthetic polymers derived from cellulose ethers, vinyl pyrrolidones, acrylic polymers, polyester and polyurethane-based adhesives, and plant and seed extract; and Intermediates and Solvents, which is a producer of 1,4 butanediol and related derivatives, including n-methylpyrrolidone.

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.

Badger Meter Inc.

Badger Meter is an innovator, manufacturer and marketer of products incorporating flow measurement, control and communication solutions serving markets worldwide. The company's product lines fall into following categories: sales of water meters, radios and related technologies to municipal water utilities and sales of meters, valves and other products for industrial applications in water, wastewater, and other industries. The company provides flow measurement, control and communication portfolios in the market. This portfolio carries brand names including Recordall?, Hedland?, Dynasonics?, Blancett?, and Research Control?, and includes various primary flow meter technologies.

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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.

Canopy Growth Corporation

Canopy Growth is a licensed producer of medical marijuana in Canada. The principal activities of Co. are the production and sale of marijuana out of its facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario as regulated by the "Marijuana for Medical Purposes Regulations".

Centene Corporation

Centene is an insurance holding company. The company's Managed Care segment provides health plan coverage to individuals through government subsidized programs. The company also provides a variety of individual, small group, and large group commercial healthcare products, both to employers and directly to members in the Managed Care segment. The company's Specialty Services segment consists of the company's specialty companies prviding healthcare services and products to state programs, correctional facilities, healthcare organizations, employer groups and other commercial organizations, as well as to its own subsidiaries. The Specialty Service segment also includes the Government Contracts business.

Children's Place Inc.

Children's Place is a children's apparel retailer in North America. The company sells apparel, accessories, footwear and other items for children. The company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell merchandise, the substantial majority of which is under the proprietary The Children's Place, Place and Baby Place brand names. The company has differentiated departments and serves the wardrobe needs of girls and boys, toddler girls and boys and baby. The company's merchandise is also available online at www.childrensplace.com. The company's segments are The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International.

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Corning Inc

Corning is a provider of glass for notebook computers, flat panel desktop monitors, display televisions, and other information display applications; carrier network and enterprise network products for the telecommunications industry; ceramic substrates for gasoline and diesel engines in automotive and heavy duty vehicle markets; laboratory products for the scientific community and specialized polymer products for biotechnology applications; optical materials for the semiconductor industry and the scientific community; and other technologies. The company reportable segments are: Display Technologies, Optical Communications, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials and Life Sciences.

Credicorp Ltd.

CrediCorp is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in investing activities. Co. operates primarily through four operating segments: banking, investment banking, insurance, and pension funds. Banking - principally handling loans, credit facilities, deposits and current accounts. Insurance - principally comprising the issue of insurance policies to cover losses in commercial property, transportation, marine vessels, automobile, life, health and pension funds. Pension funds - providing services of private pension fund management to affiliated pensioners. Investment banking - provide investment brokerage and management to a broad and diverse clientele.

Cummins Inc.

Cummins is a diesel engine manufacturer. The company's segments include: Engine, which manufactures and markets a range of diesel and natural gas powered engines; Distribution, which is the company's primary sales, service, and support channel; Components, which supplies aftertreatment systems, turbochargers, transmissions, filtration products, electronics and fuel systems for commercial diesel and natural gas applications; Power Systems, which includes power generation, industrial, and generator technologies product lines; and New Power, which designs, manufactures, sells and supports electrified power systems ranging from fully electric to hybrid, along with components and subsystems.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation

Deckers Outdoor is engaged in designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel and accessories. The company markets its products primarily under five brands. The UGG brand is comprised of a line of footwear, apparel and accessories for women, men and children. The HOKA brand is a line of footwear and apparel. The Teva brand's product line includes sandals, shoes, and boots. Sanuk brand is comprised of casual shoe and sandal categories. Other brands consist of Koolaburra by UGG brand, a casual footwear fashion using sheepskin and other plush materials. The company's retail stores are primarily UGG brand concept and UGG brand outlet stores.

Domino's Pizza Inc.

Domino's Pizza is a pizza company. The company is primarily engaged in the following business activities: retail sales of food through the company-owned Domino's Pizza stores; sales of food, equipment and supplies to the company-owned and franchised Domino's Pizza stores through the company-owned supply chain centers; receipt of royalties, advertising contributions and fees from United States Domino's Pizza franchisees; and receipt of royalties and fees from international Domino's Pizza franchisees. The company's menu features pizza products with varying sizes and crust types. The company's store also provides oven-baked sandwiches, pasta, boneless chicken and wings, bread side items, desserts and soft drink products.

Domtar Corporation

Domtar is engaged in designing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing a range of fiber-based products including communication papers, specialty and packaging papers and absorbent hygiene products. Co. is also a marketer and producer of a broad line of incontinence care products as well as infant diapers. Co. operates the following business segments: Pulp and Paper, which consists of the design, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of communication, specialty and packaging papers, as well as softwood, fluff and hardwood market pulp; and Personal Care, which consists of the design, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of absorbent hygiene products.

E*TRADE Financial Corporation

E*TRADE Financial is a financial services company that provides brokerage and related products and services. The company also provides investor-focused banking products, primarily sweep deposits, to investors. The company's primary brokerage business is organized into four product areas: Trading, Investing, Corporate Services, and Advisor Services. Additionally, the company provides banking and cash management capabilities, including deposit accounts insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which are fully integrated into customer brokerage accounts. Among other features, checking account customers have access to debit cards with ATM fee refunds, online and mobile bill pay, and mobile check deposits.

Etsy Inc.

Etsy provides sellers a marketplace with buyers along with a range of seller tools and services that are specifically designed to help its creative entrepreneurs generate more sales and scale their businesses. The company's platform includes the Etsy and Reverb Holdings, Inc. (Reverb) online marketplaces, its seller tools and services, its engaged sellers and buyers, and its technology. The company's primary marketplace, Etsy.com, is where buyers come to discover a selection of goods that are hard to find elsewhere. Reverb, the company's subsidiary, operates as a standalone marketplace. This two-sided marketplace connects buyers and sellers of new, used, and vintage musical gear from all over the world.

First Bancorp

First BanCorp is a financial holding company that provides financial services for retail, commercial and institutional clients. The company's segments are: Commercial and Corporate Banking, which provides commercial loans; Mortgage Banking, which provides residential mortgage loans; Consumer (Retail) Banking, which provides consumer lending, deposit-taking and insurance agency activities; Treasury and Investments, which provides treasury and investment management; United States Operations, which consists of banking activities in the United States mainland; Virgin Islands Operations, which consists of banking activities in the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

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.

Kemper Corporation

Kemper is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides automobile, homeowners, life, health, and other insurance products to individuals and businesses. The company conducts its operations through three operating segments: Specialty Property and Casualty Insurance, which provides personal and commercial automobile insurance to consumers who have had difficulty obtaining standard or preferred risk insurance; Preferred Property and Casualty Insurance, which sells preferred automobile insurance, homeowners insurance and other personal insurance; and Life and Health Insurance, which provides individual life and supplemental accident and health insurance products.

LiveRamp Holdings Inc.

LiveRamp Holdings is a global technology company. The company provides enterprise customer management platform that help organizations utilize customer data to deliver products and experiences. A main component of the company's platform is the omnichannel, deterministic identity graph. Utilizing the company's identity graph, the LiveRamp platform resolves a customer's data (first-, second-, or third-party) to consumer identifiers that represent real people in a way that protects consumer privacy.

Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

Mack-Cali Realty is a real estate investment trust. The company owns and operates a real estate portfolio comprised of Class A office and office/flex properties located primarily in the Northeast. The company performs various real estate leasing, management, acquisition and development on an in-house basis. The company's industry segments are: commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate and services. The company provides leasing, property management, acquisition, development, construction and tenant-related services for its commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate portfolio. The company's multi-family services business also provides similar services for third parties.

Madison Square Garden Sports Corp. Class A

Madison Square Garden Sports is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the sports business. The company owns and operates sports franchises, including the New York Knicks and the New York Rangers. The company also owns and operates Hartford Wolf Pack of the American Hockey League, and NBA G League team, the Westchester Knicks. The company's operations also include CLG, a North American esports organization, and Knicks Gaming, the company's franchise that competes in the NBA 2K League. The company also promotes, produces and/or presents a range of live sporting events including boxing, college basketball, college hockey, bull riding, mixed martial arts, esports, and college wrestling.

MEREDITH CORP

Meredith is a media company. The company is engaged in providing consumers with content and delivering the messages of its advertising and marketing partners. The company operates two business segments: national media and local media. The company's national media segment includes national consumer media brands delivered via multiple media platforms including print magazines, digital and mobile media, brand licensing activities, database-related activities, affinity marketing, and business-to-business marketing products and services. The company's local media segment consists of television stations located across the United States in markets with related digital and mobile media assets.

Mettler-Toledo International Inc.

Mettler-Toledo International is a supplier of precision instruments and services. The company manufactures weighing instruments for use in laboratory, industrial, packaging, logistics, and food retailing applications. The company also manufactures several related analytical instruments and provides automated chemistry solutions used in drug and chemical compound discovery and development. In addition, the company manufactures metal detection and other end-of-line inspection systems used in production and packaging and provides solutions for use in certain process analytics applications. The company has five segments: United States Operations, Swiss Operations, Western European Operations, Chinese Operations, and Other.

Nucor Corporation

Nucor manufactures steel and steel products. The company's operations include international trading and sales companies that buy and sell steel and steel products. The company's segments are: steel mills, which produces sheet steel, plate steel, structural steel, and bar steel; steel products, which produces hollow structural section steel tubing, electrical conduit, steel joists and joist girders, steel deck, cold finished steel, steel fasteners, metal building systems, and wire and wire mesh; and raw materials, which produces direct reduced iron (DRI), brokers ferrous and nonferrous metals, pig iron, hot briquetted iron and DRI, supplies ferro-alloys, and processes ferrous and nonferrous scrap metal.

Palo Alto Networks Inc.

Palo Alto Networks provides a platform that allows enterprises, service providers, and government entities to secure their organizations. The company's platform uses a traffic classification engine that identifies network traffic by application, user, and content and provides security across the network, endpoint, and cloud. The company's product, subscription, and support offerings include: firewall appliances and software; and Panorama, which is a centralized security management solution for global control of various firewall appliances and software deployed on an end-customer's network as well as in their instances in public or private cloud environments as a virtual appliance or a physical appliance.

PerkinElmer Inc.

PerkinElmer is a provider of products, services and solutions for the diagnostics, life sciences and applied markets. The company operates in the following segments: Discovery and Analytical Solutions and Diagnostics. The company's Discovery and Analytical Solutions segment serves the life sciences and applied markets. The life sciences market consists of the life sciences research market and laboratory services market whereas the applied markets consist of environmental, food and industrial markets. In its Diagnostics segments, the company provides instruments, reagents, assay platforms, and software to hospitals, medical labs, clinicians, and medical research personnel to help improve the health of families.

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Post Holdings Inc.

Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company. The company's segments are: Post Consumer Brands, which manufactures, markets and sells branded and private label ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal and hot cereal products; Weetabix, which markets and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal products; Foodservice, which produces and distributes egg and potato products; Refrigerated Retail, which produces and distributes side dishes, eggs and egg, cheese, sausage and other refrigerated products; and BellRing Brands, which markets and distributes ready-to-drink protein shakes, other RTD beverages, powders, nutrition bars and supplements in the nutrition category.

QIAGEN NV

Qiagen is provider of Sample to Insight solutions to transform biological materials into valuable molecular insights. Co.'s sample technologies process DNA, RNA and proteins from blood, tissue and other materials. Assay technologies make these biomolecules visible and ready for analysis. Bioinformatics software interprets data. Automation solutions unite these together in molecular testing workflows. Co. provides these workflows to four classes: Molecular Diagnostics (human healthcare), Applied Testing (forensics, veterinary testing and food safety), Pharma (pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies) and Academia (life sciences research). Co. markets its products in more than 130 countries.

Reata Pharmaceuticals Inc. Class A

Reata Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on identifying, developing, and commercializing therapies. The company focuses on on small-molecule therapeutics with mechanisms of action for the treatment of diseases with few or no approved therapies. The company's key programs are in rare forms of chronic kidney disease (CKD) and a rare neurological disease. The company's key product candidates include bardoxolone methyl (bardoxolone) in patients with CKD caused by Alport syndrome and omaveloxolone in patients with a neurological disorder called Friedreich's ataxia. The company is developing RTA 1701 for the potential treatment of a range of autoimmune, inflammatory, and fibrotic diseases.

REGENXBIO Inc.

REGENXBIO is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company's product candidates include: RGX-314, which is being developed as a gene therapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other additional chronic retinal conditions which cause total or partial vision loss for patients in the U.S., Europe and Japan; RGX-121, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II; RGX-111, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I; and RGX-181, which is for the treatment of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type II disease; and RGX-501, which is for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.

Sarepta Therapeutics is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of RNA-targeted therapeutics, gene therapy and other genetic therapeutic modalities for the treatment of diseases. The company is developing therapeutic candidates for a range of diseases and disorders, including Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), Limb-girdle muscular dystrophies, Mucopolysaccharidosis type IIIA and other neuromuscular and central nervous system. The company's commercial product, EXONDYS 51? (eteplirsen) Injection is indicated for the treatment of DMD in patients who have a confirmed mutation of the DMD gene that is amenable to exon 51 skipping.

Scansource Inc.

ScanSource is a provider of technology solutions and services. The company has two segments that each operate in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Latin American countries, and Europe: Worldwide Barcode, Networking and Security, which provides solutions including enterprise mobile computing, data capture, barcode printing, point-of-sale, payments, networking, electronic physical security, cyber security and other technologies; and Worldwide Communications and Services, which provides solutions including communications technologies and services for voice, video conferencing, wireless, data networking, cyber security, cable, unified communications and collaboration, cloud and technology services.

TD Ameritrade Holding Corporation

TD Ameritrade Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of securities brokerage services and related technology-based financial services to retail clients and independent registered investment advisors. The products and services available to the company's clients include: common and preferred stock, Exchange-Traded Funds, options, futures, foreign exchange, mutual funds, fixed income, new and secondary issue securities, margin lending, cash management services, and annuities. The company provides the client service and support through the following means: websites, branches, email, telephone, TTY services for the hearing impaired, and mobile app.

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Teradata Corporation

Teradata is a hybrid cloud analytics software provider. The company's solution, Teradata Vantage?, is its data warehouse and analytics platform that allows companies to utilize their data across an enterprise, whether on premises, in public or private clouds, or in a hybrid environment. The company's solutions are comprised of software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services. The company's business consulting services include a range of offerings, including consulting to help organizations establish an analytic vision, identify and operationalize analytical opportunities, enable an analytical ecosystem architecture, and ensure their analytical infrastructure delivers value.

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Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant company operating predominately in the casual dining segment. The company operates Texas Roadhouse restaurants and Bubba's 33 restaurants. In addition, the company operates restaurants outside of the casual dining segment. The Texas Roadhouse restaurants provide an assortment of steaks hand-cut on the premises and cooked to order over open grills. In addition to steaks, the company also provides its guests a selection of ribs, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. Bubba's 33 is a sports restaurant. The company's menu features burgers, pizza and wings as well as a variety of appetizers, sandwiches and dinner entrees.

Trinity Industries Inc.

Trinity Industries is a provider of railcar products and services in North America. The company has the following reportable segments: Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, which provides operating leases for freight and tank railcars, as well as originates and manages railcar leases for third-party investors and provides fleet maintenance and management services to industrial shippers; Rail Products Group, which manufactures freight and tank railcars in North America used for transporting a variety of liquids, gases, and dry cargo, and also provides a range of maintenance services and solutions; and All Other, which includes the company's highway products business.

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