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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.71 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

• A number of Healthcare names are pulling back to logical support areas. (ex. EW, EGRX, ARWR, RGEN, LCI, CTLT, and PBH)

• The Technology Sector continues to have a number of technically attractive names that are pulling back to support levels. (ex. FORM, MKSI, NVDA, MU, SYNA, ANSS, COHR, and WDC)

• Defensive Sectors such REITs and Consumer Staples remain leadership. (ex. LW, PEP, UHT, NSA, COR, and LSI)
Underlyings
Activision Blizzard Inc.

Activision Blizzard is a global developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content and services. The company's segments are: Activision Publishing, Inc., which is a global developer and publisher of interactive software products and entertainment content, particularly for the console platform; Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., which is a global developer and publisher of interactive software products and entertainment content, particularly for the personal computers platform; and King Digital Entertainment, which is a global developer and publisher of interactive entertainment content and services, particularly for the mobile platform, including for Google Inc.'s Android and Apple Inc.'s iOS.

ANSYS Inc.

ANSYS develops and markets engineering simulation software and services used by engineers, designers, researchers and students across a spectrum of industries and academia, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics, semiconductors, energy, materials and chemical processing, turbomachinery, consumer products, healthcare, and sports. The company focuses on the development of solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a platform for product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. The company's product portfolio include ANSYS Workbench?, a framework upon which the company's suite of engineering simulation technologies is built.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals develops medicines that treat intractable diseases by silencing the genes that cause them. Using a portfolio of RNA chemistries and several modes of delivery, the company's therapies trigger the RNA interference (RNAi) mechanism to induce knockdown of target genes. The company is focused on developing drugs for diseases with a genetic basis, typically characterized by the overproduction of one or more proteins that are involved with disease. The company's pipeline includes, among others, ARO-AAT, a candidate for the treatment of liver disease, and ARO-APOC3, which is designed to reduce production of Apolipoprotein C-III, a component of triglyceride rich lipoproteins.

Boise Cascade Co.

Boise Cascade is a wood products manufacturer and building materials distributor. The company's line of products is used primarily in new residential construction, residential repair-and-remodeling projects, light commercial construction, and industrial applications. The company has two reportable segments. The company's Wood Products segment manufactures laminated veneer lumber, I-joists, and laminated beams, which are collectively referred to as engineered wood products (EWP). The company's Building Materials Distribution segment sells a line of building materials, including oriented strand board, plywood, lumber, general line items such as siding, composite decking, metal products, insulation, and roofing, and EWP.

Catalent Inc

Catalent is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of delivery technologies and development solutions for drugs, biologics and consumer health products. The company operates in four segments: Softgel Technologies, which provides formulation, development and manufacturing services for soft capsules; Biologics and Specialty Drug Delivery, which provides drug substance development and manufacturing; Oral Drug Delivery, which provides various formulation development and manufacturing technologies; and Clinical Supply Services, which provides manufacturing, packaging, storage, distribution, project management, and inventory management for drugs and biologics in clinical trials.

Coherent Inc.

Coherent is a provider of lasers, laser-based technologies and laser-based system solutions in a range of commercial, industrial and scientific applications. The company reporting segments are: OEM Laser Sources (OLS) and Industrial Lasers and Systems (ILS). The company's OLS business segment is focused on laser sources and optical sub-systems primarily used in microelectronics manufacturing, medical diagnostics and therapeutic medical applications, as well as in scientific research. The company's ILS business segment delivers laser sources, sub-systems and tools used for industrial laser materials processing, serving end markets like automotive, machine tool, consumer goods and medical device manufacturing.

Commercial Metals Company

Commercial Metals, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, recycles and markets steel and metal products, related materials and services. The company has four reportable segments: Americas Recycling, which processes scrap metals for use as a raw material by the company and other manufacturers of new metal products; Americas Mills, which operates electric arc furnace (EAF) mini mills, EAF micro mills, rerolling mill, scrap metal shredders, and scrap metal processing facilities; Americas Fabrication, which includes warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; and International Mill, which consists of an EAF mini mill, recycling and fabrication operations located in Poland.

CORESITE REALTY CORP

The company is a self-administered, and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) and the company conducts certain activities through its taxable REIT subsidiaries. Through its controlling interest in CoreSite, L.P., the company is engaged in the business of ownership, acquisition, construction and operation of data centers in some data center markets in the United States, including the San Francisco Bay area, Los Angeles, the Northern Virginia area (including Washington D.C.), the New York area, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Miami. The company delivers data center and interconnection solutions to a customer ecosystem across eight key North American communication markets.

Devon Energy Corporation

Devon Energy is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's operations are concentrated in various onshore areas in United States. The company's areas of operation include Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Powder River Basin and the STACK development, located primarily in Oklahoma's Canadian, Kingfisher and Blaine counties.

Dril-Quip Inc.

Dril-Quip designs, manufactures, sells and services drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The company's products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors, diverters and safety valves. The company provides technical advisory assistance during installation of its products, as well as rework and reconditioning services. The company's customers may rent or purchase running tools from the company for use in the installation and retrieval of its products.

Eagle Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Eagle Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing injectable products, mainly in the critical care and oncology areas, using the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) 505(b)(2) New Drug Application regulatory pathway. The company's product portfolio includes four products: Argatroban, an anti-coagulant, thrombin inhibitor for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia; Ryanodex, a muscle relaxant for malignant hyperthermia; Belrapzo; and Bendeka. The company also has advanced product candidates which include EP-4104 (dantrolene sodium for exertional heat stroke), EP-5101 (PEMFEXY?), a pemetrexed injection ready-to-dilute formulation and EGL-5385-C-1701 (fulvestrant).

EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORP

Edwards Lifesciences is engaged in patient-focused medical for structural heart disease, as well as critical care and surgical monitoring. The company is a manufacturer of heart valve systems and repair products used to replace or repair a patient's diseased or defective heart valve. The company is also engaged in hemodynamic and noninvasive brain and tissue oxygenation monitoring systems used to measure a patient's cardiovascular function in the hospital setting. The company's products and technologies are categorized into four main areas: Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Transcatheter Mitral and Tricuspid Therapies, Surgical Structural Heart, and Critical Care.

FormFactor Inc.

FormFactor is a provider of test and measurement technologies. The company's products provide electrical information from a range of semiconductor and electro-optical devices and integrated circuits from research, to development through production. The company designs, manufactures and sells multiple product lines, including probe cards, analytical probes, probe stations, thermal sub-systems, and related services. The company's customers use its products to test semiconductor device types, including mobile application processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, graphic processors, radio frequency, analog, mixed signal, image sensors, opto-electrical, DRAM memory, NAND flash memory and NOR flash memory devices.

Helen of Troy Limited

Helen of Troy is a designer, developer, importer, marketer, and distributor of a portfolio of brand-name consumer products. The company operates three segments: Housewares, which includes food preparation tools and storage containers, cleaning, bath and garden tools and accessories, infant and toddler care products, and insulated beverage and food containers; Health and Home, which focuses on healthcare devices such as thermometers, humidifiers, heating pads, water filtration systems, and small home appliances; and Beauty, which includes electric hair care, beauty care and wellness appliances, grooming tools and accessories, and liquid-, solid- and powder-based personal care and grooming products.

HollyFrontier Corporation

HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner that produces products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, other lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The company's segments are: Refining, which involves the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale and marketing of refined products; Lubricants and Specialty Products, which includes the production of lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, other products and finished lubricants; and the company's subsidiary, Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and processing units.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a surface transportation, delivery, and logistics company. The company's service offerings include transportation of full-truckload containerized freight, which it directly transports utilizing its equipment and company drivers or independent contractors. The company also provides customized freight movement, revenue equipment, labor, systems, and delivery services. The company's local and home delivery services typically are provided through a network of cross-dock service centers throughout the continental United States. The company's segments include Intermodal, Dedicated Contract Services?, Integrated Capacity Solutions, and Truckload.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc.

Lamb Weston Holdings is a producer, distributor, and marketer of frozen potato products. French fries represent the majority of the company's frozen potato product portfolio. The company's segments include: Global, which includes branded and private label frozen potato products sold in North America and international markets; Foodservice, which includes branded and private label frozen potato products sold throughout the U.S. and Canada; Retail, which includes consumer facing retail branded and private label frozen potato products sold primarily to grocery, mass merchants, club, and specialty retailers; and Other, which includes the company's vegetable and dairy businesses.

Lannett Company Inc.

Lannett Company develops, manufactures, packages, markets, and distributes solid oral and extended release (tablets and capsules), topical, liquids, nasal and oral solution finished dosage forms of drugs, generic forms of both small molecule and biologic medications, that address various therapeutic areas. The company's products are: Levothyroxine Sodium tablets, which are used for the treatment of thyroid deficiency; Fluphenazine tablets, which are used for the management of manifestations of psychotic disorders; Verapamil SR tablets, which are used in the treatment of high blood pressure, arrhythmia and angina; and Ursodiol Capsules, which are used for the treatment and prevention of gallstones.

Life Storage Inc.

Life Storage is a real estate investment trust, that owns its assets and conducts its operations through Life Storage LP (the Operating Partnership) and subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The company acquires, owns and manages self-storage properties. The company's self-storage properties in the United States conduct business under the name Life Storage?. The company manages certain properties located in the province of Ontario, Canada, under the Bluebird Self Storage brand. The company's self-storage facilities provide storage space to residential and commercial users. In addition to storage space, various facilities also provide outside storage for automobiles, recreational vehicles and boats.

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Live Nation Entertainment is a live entertainment company. The company's segments are: Concerts, which involves the global promotion of live music events, the operation and management of music venues, the production of music festivals, the creation of associated content and the provision of management and other services to artists; Ticketing, which is an agency business that sells tickets for events on behalf of its clients and retains a fee, or service charge, for these services; and Sponsorship and Advertising, which employs a sales force that creates and maintains relationships with sponsors that allow businesses to reach customers through its concert, festival, venue and ticketing assets.

Micron Technology Inc.

Micron Technology provides memory and storage solutions. The company's portfolio of memory and storage technologies include Dynamic Random Access Memory, Not And, 3D XPoint? memory, and Not Or. The company's segments are: Compute and Networking Business, which includes memory products sold into client, cloud server, enterprise, graphics, and networking markets; Mobile Business, which includes memory products sold into smartphone and other mobile-device markets; Storage Business, which includes Solid-State Drives and component-level solutions sold into enterprise and cloud, client, and consumer storage markets; and Embedded Business, which includes memory and storage products.

MKS Instruments Inc.

MKS Instruments is a provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions. The company has two segments: Vacuum & Analysis, which provides instruments, components, subsystems and software which are derived from its knowledge in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, leak detection, control and information technology, ozone generation and delivery, radio frequency and data communication power, reactive gas generation and vacuum technology; and Light & Motion, which provides instruments, components and subsystems which are derived from its knowledge in lasers, photonics and optics.

National Storage Affiliates Trust

National Storage Affiliates Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on the self storage sector. The company serves as the sole general partner of its operating partnership subsidiary, NSA OP, LP (operating partnership), to conduct its business, which is focused on the ownership, operation, and acquisition of self storage properties located within metropolitan statistical areas throughout the U.S. The company also owns certain of its self storage properties through other consolidated limited partnership subsidiaries of its operating partnership.

NVIDIA Corporation

NVIDIA engages in graphics processing unit (GPU)-based visual computing and accelerated computing platforms. The company has two segments, GPU and Tegra Processor, which are based on a single underlying architecture. The company's GPU product brands are aimed at markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for artificial intelligence data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. The company's Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUs to drive supercomputing for autonomous robots, drones, and cars, as well as for game consoles and mobile gaming and entertainment devices.

Papa John's International Inc.

Papa John's International operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout restaurants and, in certain international markets, dine-in and delivery restaurants. The company has four reportable segments: domestic the company-owned restaurants, which engages in retail sales of pizza and side items; North America commissaries, which includes the operations of the company's regional dough production and product distribution centers; North America franchising, which includes the company's franchise sales and support activities; and international operations, which includes the distribution sales to franchised Papa John's restaurants in the United Kingdom and its franchise sales and support activities.

PepsiCo Inc.

PepsiCo is a food and beverage company. The company's segments include: Frito-Lay North America, which includes food and snack businesses in the United States and Canada; Quaker Foods North America, which includes cereal, rice, pasta and other food businesses in the United States and Canada; PepsiCo Beverages North America, which includes beverage businesses in the United States and Canada; Latin America, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Latin America; Europe, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Europe; and Africa, Middle East and South Asia, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

Prestige Consumer Healthcare Inc

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

Repligen Corporation

Repligen is a life sciences company that develops and commercializes bioprocessing technologies and systems used in the process of manufacturing biological drugs. The company's bioprocessing business is comprised of: Chromatography, which includes products used in downstream purification, development, manufacturing and quality control of biological drugs; Filtration, which includes XCell Alternating Tangential Flow systems that are used in upstream perfusion cell culture processing; Process Analytics, which complements and supports its Filtration, Chromatography and Proteins franchises; and OEM products, which are represented by its Protein A affinity ligands and cell culture growth factor products

RH
RH

RH is a holding company. Together with its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company provides merchandise assortments across a number of categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bathware, decor, outdoor and garden, and child and teen furnishings. The company positions its Galleries as showrooms for its brand, while its Source Books and websites act as virtual extensions of its stores. The company's business is integrated across its various channels of distribution, consisting of its stores, Source Books, and websites. The company operates its retail Galleries throughout the U.S. and Canada, and its Waterworks showrooms throughout the U.S. and in the U.K.

SYNAPTICS INC

Synaptics is a developer and supplier of custom-designed human interface semiconductor product solutions that enable people to interact with a variety of mobile computing, communications, entertainment, and other electronic devices. The company targets the markets for smartphones, tablets, personal computer, products, Internet of Things, products and other select electronic devices, including devices in automobiles. The company's family of products includes: ClearPad?, ClearView?, TouchView?, Natural ID?, TouchPad?, SecurePad?, ClickPad?, ForcePad?, AudioSmart?, VideoSmart?, ImagingSmart?, and other product solutions.

UNIFI INC

Unifi manufactures and sells recycled and synthetic products made from polyester and nylon primarily to other yarn manufacturers and knitters and weavers that produce yarn and/or fabric for the apparel, hosiery, home furnishings, automotive, industrial and other end-use markets. The company has four segments: Polyester, which sells polyester-based products to other yarn manufacturers, knitters and weavers that produce yarn and/or fabric; Nylon, which sells nylon-based products to knitters and weavers that produce fabric for the apparel and hosiery markets; and Brazil and Asia, which sells polyester-based products to knitters that produce fabric for the apparel markets in South America and in Asia.

Universal Electronics Inc.

Universal Electronics develops control and sensor technology solutions and manufactures a line of pre-programmed and universal remote control products, audio-video accessories, and intelligent wireless security and smart home products. The company provides subscription broadcasting providers with its universal remote control devices and integrated circuits, on which its software and device code libraries are embedded. The company also sells integrated circuits, on which its software and device control code libraries are embedded, and licenses its device control database to original equipment manufacturers that manufacture televisions, digital audio and video players, streamer boxes, among others.

Universal Health Realty Income Trust

Universal Health Realty Income Trust is real estate investment trust. The company invests in health care and human service related facilities including acute care hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, sub-acute facilities, medical office buildings, free-standing emergency departments and childcare centers.

Urban Outfitters Inc.

Urban Outfitters is engaged in the operation of a general consumer product retail and wholesale business selling to customers through various channels including retail locations, websites, catalogs and mobile applications. The company has two segments: Retail, which consists of its Anthropologie, Bhldn, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands and its Food and Beverage division; and Wholesale, which designs, develops and markets young women's contemporary casual apparel, intimates, FP Movement activewear and shoes under the Free People brand, home goods, including gifts, tabletop and textiles, under the Anthropologie brand and the BDG apparel collection under the Urban Outfitters brand.

Western Digital Corporation

Western Digital is a developer, manufacturer, and provider of data storage devices and solutions. The company's portfolio of technology and products address the following markets: Client Devices, which consist of hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices, flash-based embedded storage products, and flash-based memory wafers and components; Data Center Devices and Solutions, which consist of enterprise HDDs and enterprise SSDs, data center software and system solutions; and Client Solutions, which consist of HDDs and SSDs embedded into external storage products and removable flash-based products, such as cards, universal serial bus flash drives and wireless drives.

Wingstop Inc.

Wingstop is a franchisor and operator of restaurants that focuses on cooked-to-order, hand-sauced and tossed chicken wings. The company provides its guests several flavors on its bone-in and boneless chicken wings and tenders paired with seasoned fries, Ranch, and Bleu Cheese dips. The company's proprietary flavors, which range from extremely hot to mild includes Atomic, Mango Habanero, Cajun, Original Hot, Spicy Korean Q, Louisiana Rub, Mild, Hickory Smoked BBQ, Lemon Pepper, Garlic Parmesan, and Hawaiian. To complement its wings, the company serves seasoned fries, as well as carrots and celery and Ranch and Bleu Cheese Dips made with buttermilk.

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