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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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ADTRAN Inc.

ADTRAN is a provider of networking and communications equipment. The company's solutions and services enable voice, data, video and internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures. The company has two segments: Network Solutions, which provides solutions supporting fiber-, copper- and coaxial-based infrastructures and a number of wireless solutions, lowering the overall cost to deploy services across a range of applications for Carrier and Cable/multiple-service operator networks; and Services and Support, which provides turn-key suit of services to help operators accelerate deployment of their networks including planning, engineering, construction, installation, test, and turn-up.

Advanced Energy Industries Inc.

Advanced Energy Industries designs, manufactures, sells and supports power conversion products that convert power into various usable forms. The company's products enable manufacturing processes that use thin film technology for products such as semiconductor devices, flat panel displays, thin film renewables, architectural glass, optical coating and consumer products decorative and functional coating. The company also supplies thermal instrumentation products for temperature measurement and control for multiple industrial markets. The company's network of global service support centers provides repair services, conversions, improvements, and refurbishments and used equipment to companies using its products.

Allstate Corporation

Allstate is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the property and casualty insurance business. The company's segments include: Allstate Protection, which provides private passenger auto, homeowners, other personal lines and commercial insurance; Service Businesses, which includes SquareTrade that provides consumer protection plans and related technical support; Allstate Life, which provides interest-sensitive and variable life insurance products, as well as distributes non-proprietary retirement products; and Allstate Benefits, which provides voluntary benefits products, including life, accident, critical illness, and other health insurance products.

Ameriprise Financial Inc.

Ameriprise Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of products and services to individual and institutional clients. The company's segments are: Advice and Wealth Management, which provides financial planning and advice, as well as brokerage services, to retail clients through its advisors; Asset Management, which provides investment management, advice and products to clients through the Columbia Threadneedle Investments? brand; Annuities, which provides variable and fixed annuity products to clients; and Protection, which provides products to address the protection and risk management needs of the company's retail clients including life, disability income insurance.

AT&T Inc.

AT&T is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of telecommunications, media and technology services. The company's Communications segment provides wireless and wireline telecom, video and broadband services. The company's WarnerMedia segment includes media and entertainment businesses that principally develop, produce and distribute feature films, television content, and other content globally; and operate digital media properties. The company's Latin America segment provides entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. The company's XANDR segment relies on using data from its customer relationships, to develop digital and video advertising that is relevant to consumers.

Athenex

Athenex is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer. The company has three platforms: its Oncology Innovation Platform, dedicated to the research and development of its proprietary drugs; its Commercial Platform, focused on the sales and marketing of its specialty drugs and the market development of its proprietary drugs; and its Global Supply Chain Platform, dedicated to providing a supply of active pharmaceutical ingredients for its clinical and commercial efforts. The company's clinical pipeline includes: Orascovery, Src Kinase inhibition, T-cell Receptor-engineered T-cells, and arginine deprivation therapy.

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.

BLACKROCK INC.

BlackRock is an investment management firm. The company provides a range of investment and technology services to institutional and retail clients worldwide. Products are provided directly and through intermediaries in a variety of vehicles, including open-end and closed-end mutual funds, iShares? exchange-traded funds, separate accounts, collective investment trusts and other pooled investment vehicles. The company also provides technology services, including the investment and risk management technology platform, Aladdin?, Aladdin Wealth, eFront, Cachematrix and FutureAdvisor, as well as advisory services and solutions to a base of institutional and wealth management clients.

Caesars Entertainment Corporation

Caesars Entertainment is a holding company that provides casino-entertainment and hospitality services. The company's facilities include gaming offerings, food and beverage outlets, hotel and convention space, and non-gaming entertainment options. In addition to its brick and mortar assets, the company operates an online gaming business that provides real money games in certain jurisdictions and provides retail sports wagering in certain jurisdictions. The company's consolidated business is composed of five complementary businesses: casino entertainment, food and beverage, rooms and hotel, casino management services, and entertainment and other business operations, including mobile sports betting.

Carbon Black

Carbon Black is a provider of cloud-delivered, endpoint security solutions. The company's data and analytics platform, the CB Predictive Security Cloud (PSC), consolidates endpoint security and IT operations into a cloud platform that prevents threats, provides actionable insight and enables businesses of all sizes to simplify operations. The company's software solutions are designed to address a set of use cases and customer requirements. The CB PSC Platform provides a set of main platform capabilities including endpoint data collection, streaming analytics, collective intelligence and open application program interfaces.

Cboe Global Markets Inc

Cboe Global Markets is an exchange holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides trading and investment solutions to investors. The company provides trading across a range of products in various asset classes and geographies, such as options, futures, United States and European equities, exchange-traded products, global foreign exchange and multi-asset volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index exchange-traded options and futures products. In addition to its exchanges providing a marketplace and listing venue for the trading of securities and derivatives the company calculates proprietary indices that are used as the basis for proprietary products or licensed for use by third parties.

Chimerix Inc

Chimerix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines for patients living with cancer and other serious diseases. The company's two clinical-stage development programs are dociparstat sodium, a potential glycosaminoglycan compound derived from porcine heparin that has low anticoagulant activity but retains the ability to inhibit activities of several key proteins implicated in the retention and viability of AML blasts and leukemic stem cells in the bone marrow during chemotherapy; and brincidofovir, an oral antiviral in development as a medical countermeasure for the treatment of smallpox.

CIRCOR International Inc.

CIRCOR International designs, manufactures and markets technology products and sub-systems for markets including industrial, oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and commercial marine. The company has the following reportable business segments: Energy, which provides integrated flow control solutions, valves and services for the oil & gas and process Instrumentation markets; Aerospace & Defense, which provides valves, pumps, actuation, motors, switches, and high pressure pneumatic systems; and Indusrial, which positive displacement pumps, specialty centrifugal pumps, automatic recirculating valves, control valves, and harsh environment flow control products for steam and cryogenic applications.

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.

DISH Network Corporation Class A

DISH Network is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates two business segments: Pay-TV and Wireless. The company provides pay-TV services under: the DISH? brand, which consists of, among other things, Federal Communications Commission licenses authorizing the company to use direct broadcast satellite and Fixed Satellite Service spectrum, the company's owned and leased satellites, and certain other assets utilized in the company's operations; and the Sling? brand, which consists of, among other things, live-linear streaming over-the-top Internet-based domestic, international and Latino video programming services. In addition, the company invests to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses and related assets.

Easterly Government Properties Inc

Easterly Government Properties is an internally managed real estate investment trust focused primarily on the acquisition, development and management of Class A commercial properties that are leased to U.S. Government agencies. The operations of the company's is carried on primarily through Easterly Government Properties LP (the Operating Partnership) and the wholly owned subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership holds substantially all of the company's assets and conducts substantially all the company's business.

EchoStar Corporation Class A

EchoStar is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of broadband satellite technologies, broadband internet services for home and small office customers, satellite operations and satellite services. The company operates in two business segments: Hughes, which provides broadband satellite technologies and broadband internet services and broadband network technologies, managed services, equipment, hardware, satellite services and communications solutions; and EchoStar Satellite Services, which uses certain of the company's owned and leased in-orbit satellites and related licenses to provide satellite service operations and satellite services.

Encore Capital Group Inc.

Encore Capital Group is an international specialty finance company providing debt recovery solutions and other related services for consumers across a range of financial assets. The company primarily purchases portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as they repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. The company also provides debt servicing and other portfolio management services to credit originators for non-performing loans. The company has one reportable segment, portfolio purchasing and recovery.

Epizyme Inc.

Epizyme is a biopharmaceutical company that is focused on rewriting treatment for people with cancer and other diseases. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval of TAZVERIK? (tazemetostat) for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 16 years and older with metastatic or locally advanced epithelioid sarcoma not eligible for complete resection. Tazemetostat is an oral, selective small molecule inhibitor of the EZH2 histone methyltransferase that the company is developing. The FDA has also granted orphan drug designation to tazemetostat for the treatment of patients with follicular lymphoma, malignant rhabdoid tumors, soft tissue sarcoma, and mesothelioma.

Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.

Ethan Allen Interiors, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethan Allen Global, Inc., and Ethan Allen Global, Inc.'s subsidiaries, is an interior design company, manufacturer and retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company aligns its business into two reportable segments: Retail, which sells home furnishings and accents to consumers through a network of the company operated design centers; and Wholesale, which is principally involved in the development of the Ethan Allen brand and encompasses all aspects of design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, sale, and distribution of the company's range of home furnishings and accents. The company's product line includes case goods, upholstery, and home accents.

First Business Financial Services

First Business Financial Services is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Business Bank (the Bank), the company operates as a business bank, delivering a line of commercial banking products and services for small and medium-sized businesses, business owners, executives, personnel, and individuals. The company's products and services include those for business banking, private wealth, and bank consulting. Within business banking, the company provides commercial lending, consumer and other lending, asset-based lending, accounts receivable financing, equipment financing, vendor financing, Small Business Administration lending and servicing, treasury management services, and company retirement plans.

Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor designs, manufactures, markets, and services a line of Ford cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, electrified vehicles, and Lincoln vehicles, as well as provides financial services through its subsidiary, Ford Motor Credit Company LLC. The company is engaged in electrification; mobility solutions, including self-driving services; and connected vehicle services. The company has three operating segments: Automotive, which includes the sale of Ford and Lincoln vehicles, service parts, and accessories; Mobility, which includes its autonomous vehicles and its investment in mobility through Ford Smart Mobility LLC; and Ford Credit, which includes vehicle-related financing and leasing activities.

Franklin Resources Inc.

Franklin Resources is a holding company that, together with its subsidiaries, operates as Franklin Templeton?. The company is an investment management organization that provides investment management and related services to retail, institutional and investors in jurisdictions worldwide through its investment products. The company's investment products include its sponsored funds, as well as institutional and separate accounts, and sub-advised products. The company's funds include registered and unregistered funds. The company's services include fund administration, sales and distribution, and shareholder servicing. The company also provides sub-advisory services to certain investment products sponsored by other companies.

Hibbett Sports Inc.

Hibbett Sports is an athletic-inspired fashion retailer primarily located in small and mid-sized communities across the country primarily in the South, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest regions. The company's merchandise assortment features a primary selection of brand name merchandise focusing on athletic footwear, athletic and fashion apparel, team sports equipment and related accessories. The company's Hibbett Sports stores includes free-standing stores, and stores in enclosed malls. The company's City Gear stores are located primarily in strip centers. The company's Sports Additions stores provides athletic footwear with the remainder consisting of headwear and apparel.

Hilltop Holdings Inc.

Hilltop Holdings is a financial holding company. The company provides business and consumer banking services from offices located throughout Texas through its subsidiary, PlainsCapital Bank. The company has three business units: PlainsCapital Corporation, which provides banking and wealth, investment and treasury management services, as well as residential mortgage loans throughout the U.S.; Hilltop Securities Holdings LLC, which provides investment banking and other related financial services; and National Lloyds Corporation, which provides fire and homeowners insurance to low value dwellings and manufactured homes primarily in Texas and other areas of the southern U.S.

Howmet Aerospace Inc.

Arconic is engaged in lightweight metals engineering and manufacturing. The company's segments include: Engineered Products and Solutions, which produces products that are used mainly in the aerospace (commercial and defense), industrial, commercial transportation, and power generation end markets; Global Rolled Products, which produces aluminum sheet and plate for a variety of end markets, and also produces aseptic foil for the packaging end market; and Transportation and Construction Solutions, which produces products that are used in the commercial transportation and nonresidential building and construction end markets, and also produces aluminum products for the industrial products end market.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation Class A

Hyatt Hotels is a hospitality company engaged in the development, ownership, operation, management, franchising, licensing or provision of services to a portfolio of properties, consisting of full service hotels, select service hotels, resorts, and other properties, including spas and fitness studios, timeshare, fractional, and other forms of residential and vacation properties. The company also manages, provides services to, or licenses its trademarks with respect to residential ownership units that are often adjacent to a Hyatt-branded hotel. Additionally, for condominium ownership units, the company provides services and/or manage the rental programs or homeowner associations associated with such units.

Installed Building Products Inc.

Installed Building Products is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company primarily install insulation, waterproofing, fire-stopping, fireproofing, garage doors, rain gutters, window blinds, shower doors, closet shelving and mirrors and other products for residential and commercial builders located in the continental U.S. The company provides its portfolio of services for new and existing single-family and multi-family residential and commercial building projects from its national network of branch locations. The company provides a range of insulation materials, including: fiberglass and cellulose insulation, and spray foam insulation.

Invesco Ltd.

Iteris

Iteris is a provider of applied informatics that enable smart transportation and digital agriculture. The company has three segments: Roadway Sensors, which provides detection sensors and systems for traffic intersection management, communication systems and roadway traffic data collection applications; Transportation Systems, which includes engineering and consulting services focused on the planning, design, development and implementation of software and hardware-based intelligent transportation systems; and Agriculture and Weather Analytics, which consists of its ClearPath Weather and ClearAg solutions.

KB Home

KB Home is a homebuilding company. The company builds a variety of homes designed primarily for first-time and first move-up, as well as second move-up and active adult homebuyers, including attached and detached single-family residential homes, townhomes and condominiums. The company's financial services operations provide various insurance products to its homebuyers in the markets where it builds homes and provide title services in certain of those markets. The company's financial services operations also provide mortgage banking services, including residential consumer mortgage loan originations, to its homebuyers indirectly through KBHS Home Loans, LLC, a joint venture the company formed with Stearns Lending, LLC.

LCI Industries

LCI Industries supplies an array of components for the original equipment manufacturers in the recreation and industrial product markets, consisting of recreational vehicles and adjacent industries including buses; trailers used to haul boats, livestock, equipment and other cargo; trucks; boats; trains; manufactured homes; and modular housing. The company also supplies components to the related aftermarkets of these industries, primarily by selling to retail dealers, wholesale distributors and service centers. The company's products include steel chassis and related components, axles and suspension solutions, slide-out mechanisms and solutions, and thermoformed bath, kitchen and other products.

Marriott International Inc. Class A

Marriott International is a worldwide operator, franchisor, and licensor of hotel, residential and timeshare properties under various brand names at different price and service points. The company has operations in the following reportable business segments: North American Full-Service, which includes the company's Luxury and Premium properties located in United States and Canada; North American Limited-Service, which includes the company's Select properties located in United States and Canada; and Asia Pacific, which includes all properties in the company's Asia Pacific region.

Masco Corporation

Masco designs, manufactures and distributes home improvement and building products. The company's Plumbing Products include faucets, showerheads, handheld showers, valves, bath hardware and accessories, bathing units, shower bases and enclosures and toilets. This segment also includes brass, copper and composite plumbing system components and other non-decorative plumbing products. The company's Decorative Architectural Products include cabinet and door hardware, functional hardware, wall plates, hook and hook rail products, and picture hanging accessories. This segment also includes decorative indoor and outdoor lighting fixtures, ceiling fans, landscape lighting and LED lighting systems.

Meridian Bancorp Inc

Meridian Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, East Boston Savings Bank, the company provides a variety of deposit and loan products to individuals and businesses located in its primary market, which consists of Suffolk, Norfolk, Middlesex and Essex Counties, MA. The company accepts deposits from the general public and uses those funds to originate one- to four-family real estate, multi-family and commercial real estate, construction, commercial and industrial, and consumer loans, which it primarily holds for investment. The company's lending business also involves the purchase and sale of loan participation interests.

Meta Financial Group Inc.

Meta Financial Group is a unitary savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, MetaBank (the Bank), the company accepts deposits and invests those funds in its National Lending and Community Banking loan and lease portfolios. The Bank occasionally contracts to sell loans to third party buyers. The Bank also sells and purchases loan participations from time to time to and from other financial institutions, as well as mortgage-backed securities and other investments permissible under applicable regulations. The Bank's divisions issue prepaid cards, design consumer credit products, sponsor automated teller machines, and provide tax refund-transfer services and other products and services.

MetLife Inc.

MetLife, through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management. The company's segments include: United States; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. In the United States, the company provides a variety of insurance and financial services products, including life, dental, disability, property and casualty, guaranteed interest, stable value and annuities to both individuals and groups. Outside the United States, the company provides life, medical, dental, credit and other accident and health insurance, as well as annuities, endowment and retirement and savings products to both individuals and groups.

Mohawk Industries Inc.

Mohawk Industries is a global flooring manufacturer for residential and commercial spaces around the world. The company has three segments: Global Ceramic, which designs, manufactures, sources, distributes and markets a line of ceramic, porcelain and natural stone tile products used for floor and wall applications; Flooring North America, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes broadloom carpet, carpet tile, rugs and mats, carpet pad, laminate, medium-density fiberboard, luxury vinyl tile (LVT) and sheet vinyl; and Flooring Rest of the World, which designs, manufactures, sources and distributes laminate, LVT and sheet vinyl, wood flooring, broadloom carpet and carpet tile collections.

Nasdaq Inc.

Nasdaq is a holding company. Nasdaq is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manages, operates and provides its products and services in business segments: Market Services, which includes equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing and trade management services businesses; Corporate Services, which includes listing services and corporate solutions businesses; Information Services, which includes market data, index, and investment data and analytics; and Market Technology, which provides and delivers solutions across the trade lifecycle via the Nasdaq Financial Framework.

Navient Corp

Navient is a provider of education loan management and business processing solutions. The company's segments include: Federal Education Loans, in which the company holds and acquires Federal Family Education Loan Program Loans and performs servicing and asset recovery services on its own loan portfolio, federal education loans owned by the United States Department of Education and other institutions; Consumer Lending, in which the company holds, originates and acquires consumer loans and performs servicing activities on its own education loan portfolio; and Business Processing, which performs revenue cycle management and business processing services for non-education related government and healthcare clients.

New Senior Investment Group Inc

New Senior Investment Group is a real estate investment trust with a portfolio of primarily private pay senior housing properties located across the U.S. The company's portfolio is comprised of primarily private pay senior housing properties located across various states. The company conducts its business through three reportable segments: Managed Independent Living Properties, Managed Assisted Living/Memory Care Properties and Triple Net Lease Properties. The company's managed properties are managed by affiliates or subsidiaries of Holiday Retirement, FHC Property Management LLC, Jerry Erwin Associates, Inc., Thrive Senior Living LLC, Grace Management, Inc. and Watermark Retirement Communities, Inc.

NXP Semiconductors NV

NXP Semiconductors is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged as a global semiconductor company and a long-standing supplier in the industry. Co. provides High-Performance Mixed-Signal and Standard Product solutions. Co.'s product solutions are used in automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. Co. engages with original equipment manufacturers (OEM) and sell products in all major geographic regions.

PIERIS PHARMACEUTICALS

Pieris Pharmaceuticals is a clinical stage biotechnology company that discovers and develops Anticalin-based drugs. The company's development plans focuses on two primary pillars, respiratory diseases and IO. The company's respiratory Anticalin drug candidate, PRS-060, binds to the IL-4 receptor alpha-chain, thereby inhibiting the actions of IL-4 and IL-13, two cytokines (small proteins mediating signaling between cells within the human body) known to be key mediators in the inflammatory cascade that causes asthma and other inflammatory diseases. The company's PRS-080 is a polyethylene glyco, conjugated Anticalin protein that binds to hepcidin, a natural regulator of iron levels in the blood.

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

PNC Financial Services Group is a bank holding company. The company has businesses engaged in retail banking, including residential mortgage, corporate and institutional banking and asset management, providing its products and services nationally. The company's segments are: Retail Banking, which provides deposit, lending, brokerage, insurance services, investment management and cash management products and services; Corporate and Institutional Banking, which provides lending, treasury management, and capital markets-related products and services; Asset Management Group, which provides personal wealth management; and BlackRock, which provides a range of investment and technology services.

Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Portola Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of therapeutics in the areas of thrombosis, other hematologic diseases and inflammation for patients who have limited or no approved treatment options. The company's primary product is Andexxa, an antidote for patients treated with rivaroxaban or apixaban, when reversal of anticoagulation is needed due to life-threatening or uncontrolled bleeding. Bevyxxa is an anticoagulant approved for hospital and extended duration prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism in adult patients. Cerdulatinib is the company's investigational oral, dual spleen tyrosine kinase and janus kinase inhibitor.

Principal Financial Group Inc.

Principal Financial Group is an insurance holding company, engaged in investment management. The company provides businesses, individuals and institutional clients a range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through its financial services companies. The company provides long-term investment strategies to institutional, retirement, high net worth and retail clients by providing a range of capabilities including equity, fixed income, real estate and other alternative investments, as well as fund offerings. The company's segments include: retirement and income solutions; principal global investors; principal international; and United States insurance solutions.

Prudential Financial Inc.

Prudential Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the company provides a range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related products and services, mutual funds and investment management. The company provides these products and services to individual and institutional customers. The company's principal operations are comprised of PGIM (its global investment management business), its United States Businesses (consisting of its United States Workplace Solutions, United States Individual Solutions, and Assurance IQ divisions), its International Businesses, the Closed Block division and its Corporate and Other operations.

Raymond James Financial Inc.

Raymond James Financial is a bank holding company and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in financial services activities. The company's segments include: Private Client Group, which provides financial planning and securities transaction services through a branch office network; Capital Markets, which conducts institutional sales, securities trading, equity research, investment banking and the syndication and management of investments that qualify for tax credits; Asset Management, which provides portfolio management and related administrative services for retail and institutional clients; and Raymond James Bank, N.A., which provides loans such as corporate loans.

Reinsurance Group of America Incorporated

Reinsurance Group of America is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of life and health reinsurance and financial solutions. The company is engaged in providing reinsurance, which includes individual and group life and health, disability, and critical illness reinsurance. The company also provides financial solutions, which includes longevity reinsurance, asset-intensive products, primarily annuities, financial reinsurance, capital solutions and stable value products. The company has five geographic-based and business-based operational segments: United States and Latin America, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Corporate and Other.

Shutterfly Inc.

Shutterfly is a digital retailer and manufacturer personalized products and services that provides a range of personalized photo-based products and services. The company's segments are Consumer, which includes sales activity from its brands and variety of products, such as cards and stationery, photo books, home decor, personalized gifts, and other photo-based merchandise, and the related shipping as well as its BorrowLenses brand, an online marketplace for photographic and video equipment rentals; and Shutterfly Business Solutions (SBS), which consist of personalized direct marketing and other end-consumer communications as well as just-in-time, inventory-free printing for its business customers.

SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc.

SiteOne Landscape Supply is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a national wholesale distributor of landscape supplies in the U.S. and Canada. The company's customers are primarily residential and commercial landscape personnel who focuses on the design, installation and maintenance of lawns, gardens, golf courses and other outdoor spaces. Through its North American network, the company provides irrigation supplies, fertilizer and control products, landscape accessories, nursery goods, hardscapes, outdoor lighting and ice melt products. The company also provides consultative services, as well as a series of technical and business management seminars that it calls SiteOne University.

Spark Energy Inc-Class A

Spark Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent retail energy services company. The company's segments include: Retail Electricity, where the company purchases electricity supply through physical and financial transactions with market counterparties and independent system operators and supplies electricity to residential and commercial consumers pursuant to fixed-price and variable-price contracts; and Retail Natural Gas, where the company purchases natural gas supply through physical and financial transactions with market counterparties and supplies natural gas to residential and commercial consumers pursuant to fixed-price and variable-price contracts.

Spok Holdings

Spok Holdings provides a suite of unified clinical communication and collaboration solutions that include call center operations, clinical alerting and notifications, one-way and two-way wireless messaging services, mobile communications and public safety solutions. The company also develops, sells and supports enterprise-wide systems for hospitals and other organizations needing to automate, centralize and standardize mission clinical communications. These solutions are used for contact centers, clinical alerting and notification, mobile communications and messaging and for public safety notifications.

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.

Toll Brothers Inc.

Toll Brothers designs, builds, markets, sells, and arranges financing for residential single-family detached, attached home, master planned resort-style golf, and urban communities. The company also designs, builds, markets, and sells urban condominiums through Toll Brothers City Living?. The company operates its own architectural, engineering, mortgage, title, land development, golf course development, and landscaping subsidiaries. The company also operates its own security company, TBI Smart Home Solutions, which provides homeowners with home automation and technology options. In addition, the company operates its own lumber distribution, house component assembly, and manufacturing operations.

Ultra Clean Holdings Inc.

Ultra Clean Holdings is engaged in designing, engineering, and manufacturing of production tools, modules and subsystems for the semiconductor capital equipment industry and industry segments with similar requirements including display, consumer and medical. The company designs, develops, prototypes, manufactures and tests subsystems, and cleans and analyzes tool parts, primarily for the semiconductor market. The company's products include precision robotic solutions, gas delivery systems, a variety of industrial and automation production equipment products; and subsystems that includes wafer cleaning modules, chemical delivery modules, top-plate assemblies, frame assemblies, and process modules.

Universal Electronics Inc.

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

USA Technologies

USA Technologies is a provider of solutions, including wireless networking, cashless transactions, asset monitoring and other services that facilitate electronic payment transactions primarily within the unattended point of sale market. The company is a provider in the small ticket beverage and food vending industry and is expanding its solutions and services in other unattended market segments. The company has designed and marketed systems and solutions that facilitate electronic payment options, as well as telemetry and Internet of Things services, which include the ability to remotely monitor, control, and report on the results of distributed assets containing its electronic payment solutions.

Visa Inc. Class A

Visa is engaged in digital payments. The company facilitates payments between consumers and businesses. The company is focused on its proprietary network, VisaNet, to provide products and services. The company provides a portfolio of business payment solutions, including small business, corporate (travel) cards, purchasing cards, virtual cards/digital credentials, non-card cross-border business-to-business payment options and disbursement accounts, covering various main industry segments around the world. The company also provides several capabilities and services, including fraud prevention and security, processing, loyalty, merchant and digital solutions, consulting and data solutions.

Watsco Inc.

Watsco is a distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies in North America. The products the company distributes consist of: equipment, including residential ducted and ductless air conditioners, gas, electric, and oil furnaces, commercial air conditioning and heating equipment systems, and other equipment; parts, including replacement compressors, evaporator coils, motors, and other component parts; supplies, including thermostats, insulation material, refrigerants, ductwork, grills, registers, sheet metal, tools, copper tubing, concrete pads, tape, adhesives, and other ancillary supplies; and plumbing and bathroom remodeling supplies.

Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc

Wesco Aircraft Holdings is a distributor and provider of supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry. The company's services range from distribution to the management of supplier relationships, quality assurance, kitting, just-in-time (JIT) delivery, chemical management services, third-party logistics or fourth-party logistics programs and point-of-use inventory management. The company supplies active stock-keeping units, including C-class hardware, chemicals, electronic components, bearings, tools and machined parts. In addition to the central stocking facilities, the company uses a network of forward-stocking locations to service its customers in a JIT and or ad hoc manner.

Western Union Company

Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. The company's segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which is focused on individual money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, in which the company facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. The company's remaining businesses and services include its electronic-based and cash-based bill payment services.

William Lyon Homes Class A

Lyon (William) Homes is a regional homebuilder. The company is primarily engaged in the design, construction, marketing and sale of single-family detached and attached homes in California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Texas. The company's primary markets include Orange County, Los Angeles, the Inland Empire, the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Austin and San Antonio. The company builds and sells across a range of product lines at a variety of price points with sales to entry-level, first-time move-up and second-time move-up homebuyers, as well as a luxury brand and an active adult target segment.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is a hotel franchisor, licensing its hotel brands to hotel owners around the world. The company operates in the following segments: Hotel franchising, which licenses the company's lodging brands and provides related services to third-party hotel owners and others; and Hotel management, which provides hotel management services for full-service and limited-service hotels as well as several hotels that are owned by the company

Zillow Group Inc. Class A

Zillow Group Inc. Class C

Zillow Group operates real estate and home-related brands on mobile and the web which focus on all stages of the home lifecycle: renting, buying, selling and financing. The company's portfolio of consumer brands includes Zillow, Trulia, Mortgage Lenders of America, StreetEasy, HotPads, Naked Apartments, RealEstate.com and Out East. The company operates a number of business brands for real estate, rental and mortgage personnel. The company provides advertising products and services for real estate, rental, and mortgage personnel that enable them to create and promote content for consumers. In addition, the company provides consumers with information products and services to enable them to make decisions about homes.

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