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Vermilion Booster Shots: Attractive bottom-fishing stocks

For investors looking for bottom-fishing candidates; stocks that are breaking downtrends, exhibiting ascending reaction lows, and showing stabilizing relative strength.
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Adtalem Global Education Inc.

Adtalem Global Education provides educational services. The company's institutions and companies provide an array of programs across medical and healthcare, financial services and business and law. The company's segments include: Medical and Healthcare, which includes Chamberlain University and Medical and Veterinary Schools that provide educational programs in nursing and health professions, respectively; Financial Services, which includes Becker Professional Education that provides education serving the accounting and finance professions; and Business and Law, which includes Adtalem Education of Brazil institution that focuses in business, engineering, healthcare, law, management, medical and technology.

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.

AIRGAIN

Airgain provides antenna technologies used to enable wireless networking across a range of devices and markets, including consumer, enterprise, and automotive. The company's antennas are deployed in carrier, fleet, enterprise, and public safety wireless networks and systems, including set-top boxes, access points, routers, modems, gateways, media adapters, digital televisions, sensors, fleet and asset tracking devices. Through its engagement in the design, integration, and testing of antenna technology, the company is a provider to the residential wireless local area networking market, supplying to carriers, original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, and chipset manufacturers.

Alcoa Corporation

Alcoa is a vertically integrated aluminum company comprised of bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminum production (smelting, casting, and rolling), and energy generation. Through direct and indirect ownership, the company has 30 operating locations in nine countries around the world, situated primarily in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Spain, and United States.

Alkermes Plc

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

Ally Financial Inc

Ally Financial is a digital-financial services and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services and insurance products to automotive dealerships and consumers. The company's online bank provides mortgage-lending, personal lending and a variety of deposit and other banking products, including savings, money-market and checking accounts, certificates of deposit, and individual retirement accounts. Additionally, the company provides securities-brokerage and investment-advisory services through Ally Invest. The company's corporate-finance business provides capital for equity sponsors and middle-market companies.

AMN Healthcare Services Inc.

AMN Healthcare Services provides talent solutions for the healthcare sector. The company's talent solutions provides management, staffing, recruitment, technology, analytics, and related services to manage healthcare workforce needs. The company provides its healthcare personnel, from nurses, doctors, and allied health personnel to healthcare leaders and executives. The company's workforce solutions and staffing services include: travel nurse staffing; rapid response nurse staffing and labor disruption services; local, or per diem, staffing; locum tenens staffing; allied staffing; physician permanent placement services; interim leadership staffing and executive search services; and recruitment process outsourcing.

Antero Midstream Corp.

Applied Optoelectronics Inc.

Applied Optoelectronics provides fiber-optic networking products, for four networking end-markets: internet data center, cable television, telecommunications, and fiber-to-the-home. The company designs and manufactures a range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies and modules to complete turn-key equipment. The company's components often incorporate one or more of its optical laser chips inside a precision housing that provides mechanical protection as well as standardized electrical contacts. Other optical components may also include optical filters or other optical elements by which optical signals are routed internally within the component.

ArcBest Corporation

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

Archrock Inc.

Archrock is an energy infrastructure company with a pure-play focus on midstream natural gas compression. The company is the provider of natural gas compression services to customers in the oil and natural gas industry and a supplier of aftermarket services to customers that own compression equipment. The company has two primary business segments: Contract Operations, which provides contract operations services, including the personnel, equipment, tools, materials and supplies to meet its customers' natural gas compression needs; and Aftermarket Services, which sells parts and components and provides operation, maintenance, overhaul and reconfiguration services to customers who own compression equipment.

AutoNation Inc.

AutoNation, through its subsidiaries, is an automotive retailer. The company provides a range of automotive products and services, including new vehicles, used vehicles, parts and service, which includes automotive repair and maintenance services as well as wholesale parts and collision businesses, and automotive finance and insurance products, which include vehicle service and other protection products, and the arranging of financing for vehicle purchases through third-party finance sources. The company owns and operates new vehicle franchises from stores located in the United States, in main metropolitan markets in the Sunbelt region. The company has three segments: Domestic, Import, and Premium Luxury.

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.

Chubb Limited

CI Global Infrastructure Private Pool

Columbia Banking System Inc.

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

Covenant Logistics Group Inc

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

Del Taco Restaurants Inc.

Del Taco Restaurants is an operator and franchisor of restaurants featuring made-to-order cuisine, including both Mexican inspired and American classic dishes. Majority of the company's Del Taco restaurants are located in the Pacific Southwest. The company serves its customers prepared food with quick service restaurants. The company's menu provides a combination of Mexican-inspired food, such as tacos and burritos, and American classics, such as Double Del cheeseburgers, fries and milkshakes. Additionally, the company's menu features both items such as its Platos plated meals, Epic Burritos?, Handcrafted Ensaladas and Fresca Bowls as well as items on its Buck & Under Menu?.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

Dream Global Real Estate Investment Trust

Dream Global Real Estate Investment Trust. Dream Global REIT is an open-ended real estate investment trust (REIT). The Trust is an owner and operator of approximately 10 million square feet of office and mixed-use space in Germany and Austria. The Company allows investors to invest in commercial real estate outside of Canada. The Company's portfolio consists of approximately 217 properties, including properties located in Germany, Austria, Belgium and Netherlands. The Company comprises approximately 1.8 million square feet of gross leasable area. The Trust's asset manager is Dream Asset Management Corporation.

Eagle Materials Inc.

Eagle Materials, through its subsidiaries, is a supplier of heavy construction materials, light building materials, and materials used for oil and natural gas extraction in the U.S. The company's products are commodities that are used in commercial and residential construction; public construction projects; projects to build, expand, and repair roads and highways; and in oil and natural gas extraction. The company's business is organized into three sectors: Heavy Materials, which includes the cement and concrete and aggregates segments; Light Materials, which includes the Gypsum wallboard and recycled paperboard segments; and Oil and Gas Proppants, which are used in oil and gas extraction.

Employers Holdings Inc.

Employers Holdings is a holding company. Through its wholly owned insurance subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a providers of workers' compensation insurance and services focused on select, small businesses engaged in low-to-medium hazard industries. The company provides insurance through Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, Employers Compensation Insurance Company, Employers Preferred Insurance Company, Employers Assurance Company and Cerity Insurance Company. Workers' compensation provides insurance coverage for the statutorily prescribed benefits that employers are required to provide to their employees who may be injured or suffer illness in the course of employment.

Equitrans Midstream Corp.

Equitrans Midstream, through its subsidiary EQM Midstream Partners, LP (EQM), is one of the natural gas gatherer in the United States. The company through its control of EQM, provides midstream services to its customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio via its three key assets: the gathering system, which delivers natural gas from wells and other receipt points to transmission pipelines; the transmission and storage system, which delivers natural gas to local demand users and long-haul interstate pipelines for access to demand markets; and the water service system, which consists of water pipelines, impoundment facilities, pumping stations, take point facilities and measurement facilities.

Everest Re Group Ltd.

Everest Re Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company underwrites reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The company's segments are: U.S. Reinsurance, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and specialty lines of business, including Marine, Aviation, Surety and Accident and Health business; International, which focuses on the international reinsurance markets; Bermuda, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and property and casualty reinsurance; and Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance through agents, wholesale and retail brokers and surplus lines brokers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda.

Flotek Industries Inc.

Flotek Industries is a global, technology-driven company. The company's operating segment is Energy Chemistry Technologies, which designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets reservoir-centric fluid systems, including chemistries, for use in oil and gas well drilling, cementing, completion, remediation, and stimulation activities. This segment has a research laboratory and technical services laboratories that focus on design improvements, development and viability testing of new chemistry formulations, and continued improvement of existing products. The company's flagship patented chemistry technologies include Complex nano-Fluid?, Pressure reducing Fluids?, and MicroSolv?.

Gap Inc.

The Gap is an apparel retail company. The company provides apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta, Intermix, and Hill City brands. The company has stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Japan, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mexico, and has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic stores throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Under these agreements, third parties operate stores that sell apparel and related products under the company's brand names.

Halliburton Company

Halliburton assists its customers throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir, from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion and optimizing production throughout the life of the asset. The company's segments are: Completion and Production, which delivers cementing, stimulation, intervention, pressure control, specialty chemicals, artificial lift and completion products and services; and Drilling and Evaluation, which provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation and wellbore placement solutions that enable customers to model, measure, drill and optimize their well construction activities.

Hanesbrands Inc.

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

Harsco Corporation

Harsco is a provider of environmental solutions for industrial and specialty waste streams, and equipment and technology for the rail sector. The company's segments are: Harsco Environmental, which is a provider of environmental services and material processing to the global steel and metals industries; Harsco Clean Earth, which provides processing and reuse solutions for hazardous wastes, contaminated materials, and dredged volumes through its facilities; and Harsco Rail, which is a supplier of equipment, after-market parts and services for the construction and maintenance of railway track as well as a supplier of collision avoidance and warning systems.

Healthcare Services Group Inc.

Healthcare Services Group provides management, administrative and operating capability and services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance and dietary service departments of the health care industry, including nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers and hospitals. The company's reportable segments are: housekeeping, laundry, linen and other services, which focuses on cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing of resident rooms, as well as the laundering and processing of the bed linens, uniforms, resident personal clothing and other assorted linen items; and dietary department services, which focuses on food purchasing, meal preparation and dietitian services.

Ingevity Corporation

Ingevity is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and activated carbon materials. The company reports in two business segments: Performance Materials, which manufactures and sells hardwood-based, chemically activated carbon products, produced through a technical and specialized process primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks, motorcycles and boats; and Performance Chemicals, which is comprised of four application areas (pavement technologies, oilfield technologies, industrial specialties, and engineered polymers), develops, manufactures, and sells a range of specialty chemicals primarily derived from co-products of the kraft pulping process and caprolactone.

IQVIA Holdings Inc

IQVIA Holdings is a provider of analytics, technology solutions and contract research services to the life sciences industry. The company's reportable segments are: Technology and Analytics Solutions, which provides information, technology solutions and real world solutions and services to life science clients; Research and Development Solutions, which primarily serves biopharmaceutical clients, is engaged in research and development and provides clinical research and clinical trial services; and Contract Sales and Medical Solutions, which provides contract sales to both biopharmaceutical clients and the healthcare market.

MobileIron Inc.

MobileIron provides a purpose-built mobile information technology platform. The company's customers can deploy MobileIron as either a cloud service or on-premises software. They can choose subscription or perpetual licensing. The company primarily targets midsize and large enterprises around the world across a range of industries including financial services, government, healthcare, legal, manufacturing, other services, retail, technology, and telecommunications. The company's zero trust security platform includes: MobileIron Unified Endpoint Management; MobileIron Access; MobileIron Threat Defense; and MobileIron Secure Applications for End-user Productivity.

NETGEAR Inc.

Netgear provides networking and Internet connected products to consumers and businesses. The company operates in the following two segments: The Connected Home, which is focused on consumers and consists of 4G/5G mobile, Wi-Fi internet networking solutions and smart devices such as Orbi Voice smart speakers and Meural digital canvas; and Small and Medium Business, which is focused on small and medium-sized businesses and consists of business networking, storage, wireless local area network and security solutions. The company is organized into the following geographic territories: Americas; Europe, Middle-East and Africa and Asia Pacific.

Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc

Rayonier Advanced Materials is a manufacturer of cellulose products, lumber, and pulp & paper products. The company's operating segments are: High Purity Cellulose, which manufactures and markets cellulose, which is sold as either cellulose specialties or commodity products that is primarily used in dissolving chemical applications; Forest Products, which the lumber, primarily spruce, pine, or fir, is used in the construction of residential and multi-family homes, light industrial and commercial facilities, and the home repair and remodel markets; Pulp, which manufactures and markets pulp products; and Paper, which manufactures and markets paper products consisting of paperboard and newsprint.

Rayonier Inc.

Rayonier is a timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in the softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. The company operates in five reportable business segments: Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber, New Zealand Timber, Real Estate and Trading. The Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber and New Zealand Timber segments include all activities related to the harvesting of timber in addition to lease and license activities, other non-timber activities and carbon credit sales. The company's Real Estate segment reflects all of its land or leasehold sales. The Trading segment reflects the log trading activities conducted by its New Zealand subsidiary.

Rosetta Stone Inc.

Rosetta Stone develops, markets and supports a suite of language-learning and literacy solutions consisting of web-based software subscriptions, perpetual software products, online and other services, audio practice products and mobile applications. The company has three segments: Literacy, which includes Lexia Learning suite of subscription-based English literacy-learning and assessment solutions; Enterprise and Education Language, which provides web-based subscriptions to interactive language-learning solutions for schools, business and other organizations that are primarily available online; and Consumer Language, which provides technology-based learning products for personal use to consumer.

Simply Good Foods Co

Simply Good Foods is a developer, marketer and seller of nutritional foods and snacking products. The company's product portfolio consists primarily of nutrition bars, ready-to-drink shakes, snacks and confectionery products marketed under the Atkins?, SimplyProtein?, and Atkins Endulge? brand names. The Atkins brand approach focuses on a healthy eating approach with reduced levels of refined carbohydrates and sugars and encourages the consumption of lean protein, fiber, fruits, vegetables and healthy fats. Through third-party partnerships, the company provides complementary Atkins branded frozen meals.

SunPower Corporation

SunPower is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an energy company that delivers solar solutions to residential, commercial, and power plant customers worldwide. The company has two segments: SunPower Energy Services, which refers to sales of solar energy solutions in the North America including direct sales of turn-key engineering, procurement and construction services, and sales to resellers, among other; and SunPower Technologies, which refers to its technology development, worldwide solar panel manufacturing operations, equipment supply to resellers, commercial and residential end-customers outside of North America, and worldwide power plant project development and project sales.

Tupperware Brands Corporation

Tupperware Brands is a direct-to-consumer company engaged in the manufacture and sale of Tupperware? products and cosmetics and personal care products under a range of trade names, including Avroy Shlain?, Fuller?, NaturCare?, Nutrimetics? and Nuvo?. The company's products include: Tupperware, which includes preparation, storage, and serving solutions for the kitchen and home, and provides a line of cookware, knives, microwave products, microfiber textiles, water-filtration related items and a range of products for on-the-go consumers; and Beauty, which manufactures and distributes skin and hair care products, cosmetics, bath and body care, toiletries, fragrances, jewelry and nutritional products.

Valvoline Inc.

Valvoline is a marketer and supplier of engine and automotive maintenance products and services. The company's segments are: Quick Lubes, which services the passenger car and light truck quick lube market via the company-owned, independent franchises and joint venture retail quick lube service center stores, as well as independent Express Care stores that service vehicles with the company's products; Core North America, which sells Valvoline? and other branded and private label engine and automotive maintenance products in the United States and Canada; and International, which sells Valvoline? and other branded engine and automotive products for the maintenance of consumer and commercial vehicles and equipment.

Vulcan Materials Company

Vulcan Materials is a supplier of construction aggregates and a producer of asphalt mix and ready-mixed concrete. The company has four segments: Aggregates, which produces and sells aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel, sand, and other aggregates) and related products and services; Asphalt, which produces and sells asphalt mix in Alabama, Arizona, California, New Mexico, Tennessee and Texas, and includes asphalt construction paving in Alabama, Tennessee and Texas; Concrete, which produces and sells ready-mixed concrete; and Calcium, which consists of a Florida facility that mines, produces and sells calcium products.

W. R. Berkley Corporation

W. R. Berkley is an insurance holding company. The company operates in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance, which includes commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the United States, as well as insurance business in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia; and Reinsurance, which provides reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa.

Wabash National Corporation

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

WESCO International Inc.

WESCO International is a distributor of products and provider of supply chain management and logistics services used primarily in industrial, construction, utility and commercial, institutional and government markets. The company is a provider of electrical, industrial, and communications maintenance, repair and operating and original equipment manufacturers products, construction materials, and supply chain management and logistics services. The company's primary product categories include general supplies, wire, cable and conduit, communications and security, electrical distribution and controls, lighting and sustainability, and automation, controls and motors.

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