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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
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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.

Altria Group Inc

Altria Group is a holding company. The company's subsidiaries include: Philip Morris USA Inc., which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes; John Middleton Co., which is engaged in the manufacture and sale of machine-made cigars and pipe tobacco; Sherman Group Holdings, LLC and its subsidiaries, which are engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes and the sale of cigars; and UST LLC, which through its subsidiaries, including U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company LLC and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates Ltd., is engaged in the manufacture and sale of smokeless tobacco products and wine. The products of the company's tobacco subsidiaries include smokeable tobacco products and machine-made cigars.

Anthem Inc.

Anthem is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a health benefits company, serving medical members through its affiliated health plans. The company has three segments: Commercial & Specialty Business, which provides fully-insured health products, managed care services to self-funded customers, and other insurance products and services; Government Business, which includes Medicare and Medicaid businesses, its subsidiary, National Government Services, and services provided to the federal government in connection with its Federal Health Products and Services business; and Other, which includes pharmacy benefits management business and integrated health services business.

BancorpSouth Bank

BancorpSouth Bank conducts commercial banking and financial services operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Illinois. The company's segments are: Mortgage, which includes the mortgage banking activities of originating mortgage loans, selling mortgage loans in the secondary market and servicing the mortgage loans; Insurance Agencies, which serves as agents in the sale of commercial lines of insurance and lines of property and casualty, and life, among others; Wealth Management, which includes credit related products; and General Corporate and Other, which includes other activities not allocated to the segments.

BANK OF AMERICA CORP

Bank of America is a bank and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer Banking, which provides credit, banking and investment products and services; Global Wealth & Investment Management, which provides investment management, brokerage, banking and retirement products; Global Banking, which provides lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions, and underwriting and advisory services; and Global Markets, which provides sales and trading services and research services.

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

Bank of New York Mellon divides its businesses into two business segments, Investment Services and Investment Management. The company also has an Other segment, which includes the leasing portfolio, corporate treasury activities, derivatives and other trading activity, corporate and bank-owned life insurance, renewable energy investments and business exits. The company's two principal United States banking subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. The company has four other United States bank and/or trust company subsidiaries concentrating on trust products and services across the United States.

Booking Holdings Inc.

Booking Holdings provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The company's brands include: Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, in which Booking.com provides booking online accommodation reservations, based on room nights booked, and Rentalcars.com provides online rental car reservation services; KAYAK, which provides an online price comparison service; Priceline, which provides consumers hotel, rental car and airline ticket reservation services, and vacation packages and cruises; Agoda, which is an online accommodation reservation service; and OpenTable, which provides online restaurant reservation services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.

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Brady Corporation Class A

Brady is a manufacturer and supplier of identification solutions and workplace safety products that identify and protect premises, products and people. The company is organized within two segments: Identification Solutions, which includes industrial and healthcare identification products in several categories, including facility identification and protection, product identification, wire identification, people identification, patient identification, and custom wristbands; and Workplace Safety, which includes workplace safety and compliance products in several categories, including safety and compliance signs, tags, and labels, informational signage, asset tracking labels, and first aid products.

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

Cathay General Bancorp

Cathay General Bancorp is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Cathay Bank (the Bank), the company accepts checking, savings, and time deposits, and makes commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile, and other installment and term loans. The Bank also provides letters of credit, wire transfers, forward currency spot and forward contracts, traveler's checks, safe deposit, night deposit, Social Security payment deposit, collection, bank-by-mail, drive-up and walk-up windows, automatic teller machines, Internet banking services, and other customary bank services. The Bank primarily services individuals, professionals, and small to medium-sized businesses in the local markets.

Cigna Corporation

Cigna is a global health service organization. The company's segments are: Integrated Medical, which includes its employer-sponsored medical coverage and Medicare offerings for seniors and individual insurance offerings to non-seniors both on and off the public health insurance exchanges; Health Services, which consists of the pharmacy benefit management and certain health management services; International Markets, which provides a range of medical and supplemental health, life, and accident benefits to individuals and employers; and Group Disability and Other, which includes its commercial long- and short-term disability products, and its term life group insurance products.

Citigroup Inc.

Citigroup is a financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, trade and securities services and wealth management. The company operates via two primary business segments: Global Consumer Banking, which provides banking services to retail customers through retail banking, Citi-branded cards and Citi retail services; and Institutional Clients Group, which includes banking and markets and securities services.

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.

Corporate Office Properties Trust

Corporate Office Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust. Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (COPLP) and subsidiaries is the entity through which the company, the sole general partner of COPLP, conducts almost all of its operations and owns almost all of its assets. The company owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of the company's portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors that engaged in national security, defense and information technology related activities servicing. The company also owns office properties in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region.

Covanta Holding Corporation

Covanta Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the businesses of waste and energy services. The company provides waste and energy solutions through a variety of service offerings, including its main business of owning and operating infrastructure for the conversion of waste to energy (known as energy-from-waste or EfW). EfW facilities produce energy through the combustion of non-hazardous municipal solid waste (MSW) in power plants. Most of the company's facilities are mass-burn facilities, which combust the MSW on an as-received basis without any pre-processing such as shredding, sorting or sizing.

Crane Co.

Crane is a manufacturer of engineered industrial products. The company's segments are: Fluid Handling, which is a provider of engineered fluid handling equipment; Payment and Merchandising Technologies, which provides payment acceptance products, supplies banknotes and banknote security features designs, and manufactures vending equipment and related solutions; Aerospace and Electronics, which supplies components and systems for the commercial aerospace and military aerospace and defense markets; and Engineered Materials, which manufactures fiberglass-reinforced plastic panels and coils, primarily for use in the manufacturing of recreational vehicles, truck bodies, truck trailers.

CVB Financial Corp.

CVB Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Citizens Business Bank (the Bank), the company's primary operations are related to banking activities. This includes the acceptance of deposits and the lending and investing of money through the operations of the Bank. The company provides a range of bank deposit instruments including checking, savings, money market and time certificates of deposit for both business and personal accounts. The company also serves as a federal tax depository for its business customers. The company provides a range of lending products, including commercial, agribusiness, consumer, small business administration loans, real estate loans and equipment and vehicle leasing.

Douglas Emmett Inc

Douglas Emmett is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns and operates office and multifamily properties located in Los Angeles County, CA and in Honolulu, HI. The company operates two segments: the acquisition, development, ownership and management of office real estate, and the acquisition, development, ownership and management of multifamily real estate. The services for its office segment include primarily rental of office space and other tenant services, including parking and storage space rental. The services for its multifamily segment include primarily rental of apartments and other tenant services, including parking and storage space rental.

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 Bancorp Inc.

Eagle Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Eaglebank (the Bank), the company conducts a community banking business, primarily in Northern Virginia, Suburban Maryland, and Washington, D.C. The Bank provides a range of commercial banking services to its business and clients, as well as consumer banking services to individuals living and/or working primarily in the Bank's market area. The Bank focuses on providing commercial banking services to sole proprietors, small and medium-sized businesses, partnerships, corporations, non-profit organizations and associations, and investors living and working in and near the Bank's primary service area.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that creates small molecule drugs primarily for the treatment of viral infections and liver diseases. The company's wholly owned research and development programs are in virology, namely respiratory syncytial virus and hepatitis B virus, and in liver disease (non-virology), namely non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis. Through its Collaborative Development and License Agreement with AbbVie Inc (AbbVie), the company has discovered and out-licensed to AbbVie two protease inhibitor compounds that have been clinically tested, manufactured, and commercialized by AbbVie for the treatment of hepatitis C virus.

Encore Wire Corporation

Encore Wire is a manufacturer of electrical building wire and cable. The company is a supplier of building wire for interior electrical wiring in commercial and industrial buildings, homes, apartments, and manufactured housing. The principal customers for the company's wire are wholesale electrical distributors, who sell building wire and other products to electrical contractors. The company provides an electrical building wire product line that consists primarily of NM-B cable, UF-B cable, THHN/THWN-2, XHHW-2, RHH/RHW-2 and other types of wire products, including tray cable, metal-clad and armored cable. These products are manufactured with copper or aluminum as the current-carrying component of the conductor.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

Federal Realty Investment Trust

Federal Realty Investment Trust is an equity real estate investment trust that focuses on the ownership, management, and redevelopment of retail and mixed-use properties located primarily in communities in selected metropolitan markets in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, as well as in California and South Florida. The company owns or has a majority interest in community and neighborhood shopping centers and mixed-use properties which are operated as predominantly retail real estate projects.

First Merchants Corporation

First Merchants is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Merchants Bank (the Bank), the company provides a range of financial services, including accepting time, savings and demand deposits; making consumer, commercial, agri-business and real estate mortgage loans; providing personal and corporate trust services; providing brokerage and private wealth management; and providing letters of credit, repurchase agreements and other services. The Bank also operates First Merchants Private Wealth Advisors (a division of the Bank). The Bank includes banking locations in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan counties. The company provides electronic and mobile delivery channels to its customers.

Gentex Corporation

Gentex designs and manufactures automatic-dimming rearview mirrors and electronics for the automotive industry, dimmable aircraft windows for the aviation industry, and commercial smoke alarms and signaling devices for the fire protection industry. The company's key business involves designing, developing, manufacturing and marketing interior and exterior automatic-dimming automotive rearview mirrors that use electrochromic technology to dim in proportion to the amount of headlight glare from trailing vehicle headlamps. The company also designs, develops and manufactures various electronics features to the interior and exterior automotive rearview mirrors as well as interior visors and overhead consoles.

Glatfelter Corporation

P. H. Glatfelter is a supplier of engineered materials for consumer and industrial applications. The company has two business units: Composite Fibers, which sells single-serve tea and coffee filtration papers, wallcovering base materials, composite laminate papers, technical specialties including substrates for electrical applications, and metallized products; and Advanced Airlaid Materials, which sells airlaid nonwoven fabric-like materials used in feminine hygiene, adult incontinence products, table top, specialty wipes, home care products and other airlaid applications.

Hanover Insurance Group Inc.

The Hanover Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company business operations are property and casualty insurance products and services. The company markets its products and services through independent agents and brokers. The company conducts three operating segments: Commercial Lines, which includes commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, workers' compensation, and other commercial coverages; Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverages; and Other, which provides investment advisory services to affiliates and also manages assets for unaffiliated institutions such as insurance companies, retirement plans and foundations.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Hartford Financial Services Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance, group benefits insurance and services, and mutual funds and exchange-traded products. The company has five segments: Commercial Lines, which provides automobile, property, general liability, and marine coverages; Personal Lines, which provides automobile and homeowners coverages; Property and Casualty Other Operations, which provides group life, group disability, and other products; and Hartford Funds, which provides mutual fund, exchange-traded products, and Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate accounts.

HMS Holdings Corp.

HMS Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of cost containment application in the healthcare marketplace. The company's application include: Coordination of Benefits, which provides verified insurance coverage information; Payment Integrity, which employ data analytics, technologies and clinical knowledge to identify and avoid improper payments, recover those overpayments when they occur, detect and prevent fraud, and ensure compliance with regulations; and Population Health Management, which integrates early risk identification, analytics, various channel outreach and care management components.

Hope Bancorp Inc.

Hope Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of Hope, the company provides a range of commercial and retail banking loan and deposit products. The company accepts deposits and originates a variety of loans, including commercial business loans, real estate loans, trade finance loans, Small Business Administration loans, auto loans, single-family mortgages, warehouse lines of credit, personal loans, and credit cards. The company provides cash management services, which include remote deposit capture, lock box and automated clearing house origination services. The company also provides a mobile banking application for smart devices that extends access to banking services.

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IDACORP Inc.

Idacorp is a holding company. The company's principal operating subsidiary, Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power) is an electric utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy and capacity. Idaho Energy Resources Co., a joint venturer in Bridger Coal Company, which mines and supplies coal to the Jim Bridger generating plant owned in part by Idaho Power. The company's other subsidiaries include: IDACORP Financial Services, Inc., an investor in affordable housing and other real estate investments; and Ida-West Energy Company, an operator of small hydroelectric generation projects.

Illumina Inc.

Illumina is engaged in sequencing- and array-based solutions for genetic and genomic analysis. The company provides whole-genome sequencing, genotyping, noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), and product support services. Using the company's services, customers can perform whole-genome sequencing projects and microarray projects (including large-scale genotyping studies and whole-genome association studies). The company provides NIPT services through its partner laboratories that direct samples to the company on a test send-out basis in its Clinical Laboratory Improvements Amendments-certified, College of Pathologists-accredited laboratory. The company also provides support services to customers who have purchased its products.

Independent Bank Corp.

Independent Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Rockland Trust Company (the Bank), the company is engaged in the community banking business, providing a range of banking services, including lending activities, acceptance of demand, savings, and time deposits, and investment management. The Bank's market area is generally comprised of Eastern Massachusetts, including Greater Boston, the South Shore, Cape Cod and the Islands, as well as Worcester County and Rhode Island.

Inter Parfums Inc.

Inter Parfums operates in the fragrance business, and manufactures, markets and distributes a range of fragrance and fragrance related products. The company manages its business in two segments, European based operations, which produces and distributes its fragrance products primarily under license agreements with brand owners, and fragrance product sales, as well as built a portfolio of brands, which include Boucheron, Coach, Jimmy Choo, Karl Lagerfeld, Lanvin, Montblanc, Paul Smith, and Repetto; and U.S. based operations, which brand fragrance products are sold under trademarks owned by the company or pursuant to license or other agreements with the owners of brands, which include Abercrombie & Fitch.

Kaiser Aluminum Corporation

Kaiser Aluminum manufactures and sells semi-fabricated specialty aluminum mill products. The company's aerospace and high strength products include heat treat plate and sheet, hard alloy extruded shapes, cold finish rod and bar, drawn tube and billet used for a variety of end uses in the aerospace and defense industries. Automotive Extrusions consist of extruded aluminum products for several North American automotive applications. The company's general engineering products consists of 6000-series alloy plate, sheet, rod, bar, tube, wire and standard extruded shapes. Other products consist of extruded, drawn and cast billet aluminum products for a range of North American industrial end uses.

Kearny Financial Corp.

Kearny Financial is the holding company for Kearny Bank (the Bank), a nonmember New Jersey stock savings bank. The Bank is engaged in the business of accepting deposits from the general public in New Jersey and New York and using these deposits, together with other funds, to originate or purchase loans for its portfolio and invest in securities. The company's loan portfolio is comprised of loans collateralized by commercial and residential real estate augmented by secured and unsecured loans to businesses and consumers. The company's deposit products include interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit accounts.

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Ligand Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. The company employs research technologies such as antibody discovery technologies, structure-based drug design, formulation science and liver targeted pro-drug technologies to assist companies in their work toward securing prescription drug and biologic approvals. The company's collaboration partners and licensees have programs in clinical development targeting cancer, seizure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, muscle wasting, liver disease, and kidney disease, among others.

Methode Electronics Inc.

Methode Electronics is a manufacturer of component and subsystem devices. The company's business segments are: Automotive, which supplies electronic and electro-mechanical devices and related products; Industrial, which manufactures external lighting solutions, industrial safety radio remote controls, braided flexible cables, current-carrying laminated busbars and devices; Interface, which provides a variety of copper and fiber-optic interface and interface solutions for the appliance, commercial food service, construction, consumer, material handling, point-of-sale and telecommunications markets; and Medical, which includes surface support technology aimed at pressure injury prevention.

Molson Coors Beverage Company Class B

Molson Coors Brewing is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a brewer and has a portfolio of brands, including Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Staropramen, Carling, Molson Canadian and other brands, as well as craft and specialty beers such as Creemore Springs, Cobra, Doom Bar, Henry's Hard and Leinenkugel's. The company's segments include: MillerCoors LLC operating in the U.S.; Molson Coors Canada operating in Canada; Molson Coors Europe operating in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K. and various other European countries; and Molson Coors International operating in various other countries.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

Nordstrom Inc.

Nordstrom is a fashion retailer providing a selection of brand-name and private label apparel, shoes, cosmetics and accessories for women, men, young adults and children. The company serves customers through two businesses: Full-Price and Off-Price. The company's operations consist of the company's Nordstrom U.S. and Canada full-line stores, U.S. and Canada Nordstrom Rack stores, Jeffrey boutiques, Last Chance clearance stores, Trunk Club clubhouses and Nordstrom Local. Additionally, customers are served online through Nordstrom.com, Nordstromrack.com, HauteLook and TrunkClub.com.

NorthWestern Corporation

Northwestern provides electricity and/or natural gas to customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. The company's segments are: electric operations; and natural gas operations. In Montana, the company's regulated electric utility business includes generation, transmission and distribution. The company also transmits electricity for nonregulated entities owning generation, and utilities, cooperatives, and power marketers serving the electricity market. The company's regulated natural gas utility business includes production, storage, transmission and distribution. The company transmits natural gas from production receipt points and storage facilities to distribution points and other nonaffiliated transmission systems.

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

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PS Business Parks Inc.

PS Business Parks is a self-advised and self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and develops commercial properties, primarily multi-tenant industrial, flex and office space. Substantially all of the company's assets are held, and its business conducted, through PS Business Parks, L.P. The company owns and operates commercial space, comprising business parks, in California, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Maryland and Washington. The company owns flex space, representing industrial buildings that are configured with a combination of warehouse and office space and can be designed to fit a variety of uses.

Renasant Corporation

Renasant is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial, wealth management, fiduciary and insurance services. The company's segments include: Community Banks, which provides business and personal loans, interim construction loans, commercial lending, treasury management services and checking and savings accounts, as well as safe deposit boxes and night depository facilities; Wealth Management, which provides a variety of fiduciary services and administer retirement plans, profit sharing and other employee benefit plans, personal trusts and estates; and Insurance, which provides various lines of commercial and personal insurance through primary carriers.

S&T Bancorp Inc.

S&T Bancorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through S&T Bank and its non-bank subsidiaries, the company provides consumer, commercial and small business banking services, which include accepting time and demand deposits and originating commercial and consumer loans, brokerage services and trust services including serving as executor and trustee under wills and deeds and as guardian and custodian of employee benefits. The company also manages private investment accounts for individuals and institutions through its registered investment advisor.

Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic is a publisher and distributor of children's books, a provider of print and digital instructional materials for pre-kindergarten to grade 12, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The company creates books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, classroom magazines and other products that, in combination, provides schools, as well as parents and children, solutions to support children's learning and reading both at school and at home. The company is the operator of school-based book clubs and book fair proprietary channels. It distributes its products and services through these channels, as well as directly to schools and libraries.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc.

Schweitzer-Mauduit International is a producer of materials, including papers, nets and films. The company operates and manages two reportable segments based on product lines: Advanced Materials and Structures, which manufactures resin-based products used in applications in the filtration, infrastructure and construction, transportation, industrial, and medical end-markets; and Engineered Papers, which produces cigarette papers and reconstituted tobacco products for cigarette and cigar manufacturers, as well as various other non-tobacco paper products.

Selective Insurance Group Inc.

Selective Insurance Group has four segments: Standard Commercial Lines, which is comprised of property and casualty insurance products and services provided in the standard marketplace to commercial enterprises; Standard Personal Lines, which is comprised of property and casualty insurance products and services provided to individuals acquiring coverage in the standard marketplace; Excess and Surplus Lines, which is comprised of insurance products and services provided to customers who are unable to obtain coverage in the standard marketplace; and Investments, which invests the premiums collected by the company's insurance operations and amounts generated through its capital management strategies.

Shenandoah Telecommunications Company

Shenandoah Telecommunications provide wireless personal communications service under the Sprint brand, and telephone service, cable television, unregulated communications equipment sales and services, and internet access under the Shentel brand. The company's reportable segments include: Wireless, which provides personal communications services through a digital wireless telephone and data network; Cable, which video, internet and voice services to customers in franchise areas, and leases fiber optic facilities throughout its service area; and Wireline, which provides regulated and unregulated voice services, internet broadband, long distance access services, and leases fiber optic facilities.

Signature Bank

Signature Bank is a commercial bank with private client offices located in the New York metropolitan area, providing a variety of business and personal banking products and services. The company also has a private client banking office in San Francisco. The company provides a variety of financing and leasing products, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services, and a range of municipal finance and tax-exempt lending and leasing products to government entities, including state and local governments, school districts, fire and police and other municipal entities. Additionally, the company purchases, securitizes and sells the guaranteed portions of U.S. Small Business Administration loans.

Simmons First National Corporation Class A

Simmons First National is a financial holding company. The company, through its subsidiaries, provides banking and other financial products and services in markets located in Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. The company's subsidiary, Simmons Bank, provides loans for corporate purposes, including financing commercial real estate, construction of particular properties, commercial and industrial uses, acquisition and equipment financings, and other general corporate needs. Simmons Bank also engages in small business administration and agricultural finance lending, and it provides corporate credit card products, as well as deposit and treasury management services.

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South Jersey Industries Inc.

South Jersey Industries is a holding company. The company provides a variety of energy-related products and services through its subsidiaries. The company's subsidiary, SJI Utilities, Inc. owns South Jersey Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in the southernmost counties of New Jersey; Elizabethtown Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in northern and central New Jersey; and Elkton Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in northern Maryland. The company also operates through its other subsidiaries, among other, South Jersey Energy Company, which acquires and markets electricity to retail end users.

Suncor Energy Inc.

Suncor Energy is an energy company. Co.'s operations include oil sands development and upgrading, onshore and offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining, and product marketing under the Petro-Canada brand. Co.'s segments include: oil sands, which develop and produce synthetic crude oil and related products through the recovery and upgrading of bitumen; exploration and production, which include offshore activity, and the exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; and refining and marketing, which include the refining of crude oil products, and the distribution and marketing of these and other purchased products, as well as a lubricants plant.

TCF Financial Corporation

TCF Financial is a financial holding company. The company's subsidiary, Chemical Bank, provides a range of banking and fiduciary products and services. These include business and personal checking accounts, savings and individual retirement accounts, time deposit instruments, electronically accessed banking products, residential and commercial real estate financing, commercial lending, consumer financing, debit cards, safe deposit box services, money transfer services, automated teller machines, access to insurance and investment products, corporate and personal wealth management services, mortgage banking and other banking services.

Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a provider of medical technology products. The company primarily designs, develops, manufactures and supplies single-use medical devices used by hospitals and healthcare providers for common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in critical care and surgical applications. The company's product categories within its geographic segments include vascular access, which provides devices that facilitate a variety of critical care therapies and other applications; anesthesia, which comprised of airway and pain management product lines; and interventional, which consist of a variety of coronary catheters, structural heart therapies, and peripheral intervention products.

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Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.

Tootsie Roll Industries and its subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products. The company's products are marketed in a variety of packages designed for display and sale in different types of retail outlets. They are sold through candy and grocery brokers and by the company itself to customers throughout the United States. These customers include wholesale distributors of candy and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, mass merchandisers, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, the United States military and fund-raising charitable organizations.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc.

Universal Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance and insurance services. The company's products and services include: Insurance Products, which provide various types of personal residential insurance such as homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and dwelling/fire; Risk Management, in which its subsidiary, Evolution Risk Advisors, Inc., advises on actuarial issues, oversees distribution, administers claims payments, performs policy administration and underwriting, and assists with reinsurance negotiations; and Distribution, which provides policies through its direct-to-consumer online distribution platforms.

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