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In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.
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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.

Axon Enterprise Inc

Axon Enterprise is provider of law enforcement technology solutions. The company's operations are comprised of two reportable segments: TASER, which is focused on development, manufacture and sale of conducted energy weapons, also known as conducted energy devices, which the company sells under its brand name, TASER; and software and sensors, which is focused on-officer body (Axon Body and Flex) and in-car (Axon Fleet) cameras as well as cloud-based digital evidence management software (Evidence.com), as well as develops, manufactures and sells hardware and cloud-based software solutions that enable law enforcement to capture, store, manage, share and analyze video and other digital evidence.

Big Lots Inc.

Big Lots is a discount retailer. The company's primary merchandising categories include Furniture (upholstery, mattress, and case goods departments), Seasonal (Christmas trim, lawn and garden, and summer departments), Soft Home (fashion bedding, utility bedding, bath, window, decorative textile, home organization, and frames departments), Food (beverage and grocery, candy and snacks departments), Consumables (health, beauty and cosmetics, plastics, paper, chemical, and pet departments), Hard Home (small appliances, table top, food preparation, stationery, greeting cards, and home maintenance departments), and Electronics, Toys, and Accessories (electronics, toys, jewelry, and hosiery departments).

Boston Beer Company Inc. Class A

Boston Beer Company is an alcoholic beverage company and a craft brewer. The company is engaged in the business of selling alcohol beverages throughout the United States and in selected international markets. The company's brands include Samuel Adams?, Twisted Tea?, Truly Hard Seltzer?, Wild Leaf? Hard Tea and Tura? Alcoholic Kombucha. The company produces alcohol beverages including malt beverages, hard cider and hard seltzer at the company-owned breweries and its cidery and under contract arrangements at other brewery locations. The company sells its products mainly in the United States, but also has markets in Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, Mexico, and Central and South America.

BrightSphere Investment Group Inc.

BrightSphere Investment Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global asset management business with interests in a group of boutique investment management firms (Affiliates). The company provides investment management services globally to predominantly institutional investors, in asset classes that include U.S. and global equities, fixed income, real estate, timber and secondary Affiliates' sponsored investment entities. The company's affiliates includes: Acadian Asset Management LLC; Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, LLC; Campbell Global, LLC; Copper Rock Capital Partners LLC; Investment Counselors of Maryland, LLC; Landmark Partners, LLC; and Thompson, Siegel & Walmsley LLC.

Cadence Design Systems Inc.

Cadence Design Systems provides solutions that enable its customers to design electronic products. The company's products offerings include software, hardware, services and reusable integrated circuit (IC) design blocks, which are referred to as intellectual property (IP). The company provides maintenance for its software, hardware, and IP product offerings. The company combines its products and technologies into categories related to design activities: Functional Verification (including hardware for emulation and prototyping); Digital IC Design and Signoff; Custom IC Design and Simulation; System Interconnect and Analysis (printed circuit boards and IC package); and IP (includes design IP and verification IP).

Central Garden & Pet Company

Century Aluminum Co

Conn's Inc.

Conn's is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer that provides consumer goods and related services in addition to proprietary credit solutions for its credit-constrained consumers. The company operates through its retail stores and website. The company's product offerings include furniture and mattresses, home appliances, consumer electronics and home office products. The company's credit offering provides financing solutions to credit-constrained consumers who typically have limited credit alternatives. The company's segments are: retail, which includes furniture and mattress, home appliance, consumer electronics, and home office; and credit, which provides standardized credit decisions.

CoreLogic Inc.

CoreLogic is an information, analytics, data-enabled software platforms, and services provider. The company providesdatabase covering real property and mortgage information, judgments and liens, building and replacement costs, parcel and geospatial data, criminal background records, and eviction information, among other data types. The company's segments are: Property Intelligence and Risk Management Solutions, which delivers housing market and property-level insights, predictive analytics and risk management capabilities; and Underwriting and Workflow Solutions, which provides mortgage origination and monitoring solutions, including underwriting-related solutions and data-enabled valuations and appraisal.

EBay Inc.

eBay is a global commerce provider, which includes its Marketplace, StubHub and Classifieds platforms. The company's Marketplace platforms include its online marketplace located at www.ebay.com, its localized counterparts and the eBay suite of mobile apps. The company's StubHub platforms include its online ticket platform located at www.stubhub.com, its localized counterparts and the StubHub mobile apps. These platforms connect fans with their favorite sporting events, shows and artists and enable them to buy and sell tickets whenever and wherever they want. The company's Classifieds platforms include a collection of brands such as mobile.de, Kijiji, Gumtree, Marktplaats, eBay Kleinanzeigen and others.

Electronic Arts Inc.

Electronic Arts develops, markets, publishes and distributes games, content and services that can be played and watched on a variety of platforms, including game consoles, personal computers, and mobile phones. The company markets and sells its games and services through digital distribution channels and through retail channels. Digitally, the company's console games and services can be purchased through third-party storefronts. In its games and services, the company utilizes brands that it either wholly own or license from others. The company develops and publishes games and services across genres. Within and alongside its games, the company provides live services, including in-game purchases, downloadable content, and esports.

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.

Generac Holdings Inc.

Generac Holdings is a designer and manufacturer of a range of power generation equipment and other power products serving the residential, light commercial and industrial markets. The company's products include residential, commercial and industrial standby generators, as well as portable and mobile generators used in a range of applications. Other engine powered products that the company designs and manufactures include light towers which provide temporary lighting for various end markets; commercial and industrial mobile heaters and pumps used in the oil and gas, construction and other industrial markets; and a product line of outdoor power equipment for residential and commercial use.

Glu Mobile Inc.

Glu Mobile develops, publishes and markets a portfolio of mobile games designed to appeal to users who download and make purchases within the company's games through direct-to-consumer digital storefronts, such as the Apple App Store, Google Play store, and others. The company has a portfolio of games based on its own intellectual property as well as games based on third party licensed brands. The company sells virtual currency to consumers. In addition to in-app purchases of virtual currency, the company also monetizes its games through offers and in-game advertising. Offers enable users to acquire virtual currency without paying cash but by instead taking specified actions such as downloading another application.

Green Dot Corporation Class A

Green Dot is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a collection of banking and financial services products marketed directly to consumers through its banking platforms. The company's reportable segments include: Account Services, which provides several deposit account programs that can be acquired through its omni-channel branchless distribution platform, including consumer and small business checking account products, network-branded reloadable prepaid debit cards and secured credit programs; and Processing and Settlement Services, which provides several products and services that engage in facilitating the movement of funds on behalf of consumers and businesses.

Grocery Outlet Holding

Grocery Outlet is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates a chain of grocery stores in the United States. The company offers products in various categories, such as grocery, dairy and deli, produce, refrigerated and frozen, floral, beer and wine, general merchandise, and health and beauty care, as well as fresh meat and seafood; and natural, organic, specialty, and healthy products. As of Mar. 30, 2019, the company operates 323 stores across the West Coast and Pennsylvania, including the company's expansion into Southern California.

GRUBHUB INC

Grubhub and its wholly-owned subsidiaries provide an online and mobile platform for restaurant pick-up and delivery orders. The company connects diners and restaurants through restaurant technology and platforms. Diners enter their delivery address or use geo-location within the mobile applications and the company displays the menus and other relevant information for restaurants in its network. Orders may be placed directly online, via mobile applications or over the phone. The company primarily charges the restaurant a per order commission that is fee based. In several markets, the company also provides delivery services to restaurants on its platform that do not have their own delivery operations.

Intelligent Ultrasound Group

Medaphor Group is a holding company. Co. is engaged in the development, marketing and distribution of ultrasound simulation devices for use in the training of medical personnel. Co.'s subsidiary, Inventive Medical Limited, develops three ultrasound training and examination simulators: ScanTrainer, an ultrasound scanning skills training simulator and CPD education platform; ScanTrainer Examine, a cloud-based ultrasound diagnostic skills training simulator; and HeartWorks, a simulation solution for education in echocardiography, cardiac anatomy and lung ultrasound. Co.'s other subsidiaries are engaged in the development and sale of ultrasound training equipment.

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.

LivePerson Inc.

LivePerson is a cloud computing or software-as-a-service provider of solutions on a hosted basis. The company is organized into two operating segments: Business and Consumer. The Business segment enables brands to utilize the company's LiveEngage's engine to connect with consumers through an integrated suite of mobile and online business messaging technologies. The Consumer segment facilitates online transactions between independent service providers and individual consumers seeking information and knowledge for a fee via mobile and online messaging. The company's products and services include: LiveEngage, Professional Services and Consumer Offering.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company engages in business as a multi-channel retailer of hard-surface flooring, and hard-surface flooring improvements and accessories, operating as a single operating segment. The company provides exotic and domestic hardwood species, engineered hardwood, laminate, resilient vinyl, waterproof vinyl plank and porcelain tile flooring direct to the consumer. The company features the renewable flooring products, bamboo and cork, and provides a selection of flooring improvements and accessories, including moldings, noise-reducing underlayment, adhesives and flooring tools. The company also provides in-home delivery and installation services.

MarineMax Inc.

MarineMax is a recreational boat and yacht retailer. Through its retail locations, the company sells new and used recreational boats, including pleasure and fishing boats. The company also sells related marine products, including engines, trailers, parts, and accessories. In addition, the company provides repair, maintenance, and slip and storage services; arranges related boat financing, insurance, and extended service contracts; provides boat and yacht brokerage sales; yacht charter services; and operates a yacht charter business in the British Virgin Islands. The company also owns Fraser Yachts Group S.R.L., a yacht brokerage and yacht services company with operations in various countries.

Meridian Bioscience Inc.

Meridian Bioscience is a life science company with principal businesses in the development, manufacture, sale and distribution of diagnostic test kits, primarily for certain gastrointestinal and respiratory infectious diseases, and elevated blood lead levels, and the manufacture and distribution of bulk antigens, antibodies, PCR/qPCR reagents, nucleotides, and bioresearch reagents used by IVD manufacturers and researchers in immunological and molecular tests for human, animal, plant and environmental applications. The company's reportable segments are: Diagnostics, which products span a menu of testing platforms and technologies; and Life Science.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

Newmont Corporation

Newmont is primarily a gold producer with operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Ghana. The company is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead and zinc. The company's operations are organized in five geographic regions; North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Nevada.

OraSure Technologies Inc.

OraSure Technologies is engaged in two principal segments. The first is the company's OSUR business, which consists of the development, manufacture, marketing and sale of oral fluid diagnostic products and specimen collection devices using its proprietary technologies, as well as other diagnostic products including immunoassays and other in vitro diagnostic tests that are used on other specimen types. The second segment is the company's DNAG or molecular products and services business and is operated primarily through its subsidiaries. In the DNAG business, the company manufactures and sells kits that are used to collect, stabilize, transport and store biological samples of genetic material for molecular testing.

Quidel Corporation

Quidel is engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of diagnostic testing solutions. The company provides diagnostic testing solutions under various brand names, including, among others, the following: Quidel?, QuickVue?, QuickVue+?, Sofia?, Triage?, AmpliVue?, Solana?, Virena?, MicroVue?, Lyra?, FreshCells?, D3?, FastPoint?, ReadyCells?, Super E-Mix?, InflammaDry?, AdenoPlus?, ELVIRA?, ELVIS? and Thyretain?. The company's diagnostic testing solutions are separated into its four product categories: rapid immunoassay, cardiac immunoassay, specialized diagnostic solutions and molecular diagnostic solutions.

RE/MAX Holdings Inc.

Re/Max Holdings is a holding company. The company's only business is to act as the sole manager of RMCO, LLC. The company is a franchisor in the real estate industry, franchising real estate brokerages globally under the RE/MAX (RE/MAX) brand, and mortgage brokerages within the U.S. under the Motto Mortgage (Motto) brand. RE/MAX and Motto are fully franchised - the company does not own any of the brokerages that operate under these brands. All of the RE/MAX branded brokerage office locations are being operated by franchisees. The company operates under the following three segments: RE/MAX Franchising, Motto Franchising and booj.

SBA Communications Corp. Class A

SBA Communications is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure, including tower structures, rooftops, and other structures that support antennas used for wireless communications. The company's operations are in the U.S. and its territories. In its site leasing business, the company leases antenna space to wireless service providers on towers that the company owns or operates and manages rooftop and tower sites for property owners under various contractual arrangements. In its site development business, the company assists wireless service providers in developing and maintaining their own wireless service networks.

Simulations Plus

Simulations Plus is a developer of drug discovery and development software for mechanistic modeling and simulation, and for machine-learning-based prediction of properties of molecules solely from their structure. The company also provides consulting services. The company provides various software products for pharmaceutical research and development, including: simulation programs that provide time-dependent results based on solving sets of differential equations: GastroPlus?; DDDPlus?; MembranePlus?; DILIsym?; and NAFLDsym?; programs that are based on predicting and analyzing static properties of chemicals: ADMET Predictor?; MedChem Designer?; and MedChem Studio?; PKPlus?; and KIWI?.

SPARTANNASH CO

SpartanNash is a grocery distributor and grocery retailer. The company operates three segments: Food Distribution, which provides grocery products and perishable food products to independent retailers, the company's corporate owned retail stores, food service distributors and various other customers; Military, which contracts with manufacturers to distribute a range of grocery products, including dry groceries, beverages, meat, and frozen foods, primarily to military commissaries and exchanges; and Retail, which operated corporate owned retail stores in the Midwest region primarily under banners including Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Markets, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket and Family Fresh Market.

Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.

Sturm, Ruger & Company is primarily engaged in the design, manufacture, and sale of firearms to domestic customers. The company has two reportable operating segments, which are firearms and castings. The firearms segment manufactures and sells rifles, pistols, and revolvers under the Ruger name and trademark. Most firearms are available in several models based upon caliber, finish, barrel length, and other features. The castings segment manufactures and sells investment castings made from steel alloys and metal injection molding (MIM) parts for internal use in the firearms segment. The castings and MIM parts sold to outside customers, either directly or through manufacturers' representatives.

Synopsys Inc.

Synopsys is a supplier of electronic design automation (EDA) software that engineers use to design and test integrated circuits. The company also provides semiconductor intellectual property products, which are pre-designed circuits that engineers use as components of larger chip designs rather than designing those circuits themselves. The company provides software and hardware used to validate the electronic systems that incorporate chips and the software that runs on them. The company is also a provider of software tools and services that improve the security and quality of software code in a variety of industries, including electronics, financial services, media, automotive, medicine, energy and industrials.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Take-Two Interactive Software is a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers. The company develops and publishes products principally through its two wholly-owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, as well as its Private Division label and Social Point, a developer of mobile games. The company's products are designed for console gaming systems such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. PlayStation?4, Microsoft Corporation Xbox One?, and Xbox 360?, the Nintendo Switch, and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. The company delivers its products through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services.

Vista Outdoor Inc

Vista Outdoor is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of consumer products in the outdoor sports and recreation markets. The company's Outdoor Products product lines are action sports, archery/hunting accessories, outdoor cooking, golf, hydration products, optics, shooting accessories and tactical products. The Shooting Sports segment designs, develops, produces, and sources ammunition and firearms for the hunting and sport shooting markets, as well as ammunition for local law enforcement, the U.S. government and international markets. The Shooting Sports product lines include centerfire ammunition, rimfire ammunition, shotshell ammunition, reloading components, and firearms.

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