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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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AG Mortgage Investment Trust Inc.

AG Mortgage Investment Trust is a real estate investment trust focused on investing in, acquiring and managing a portfolio of residential mortgage assets (RMBS), and other real estate-related securities and financial assets, including Non-Agency RMBS, asset backed securities (ABS), commercial mortgage-backed securities, excess mortgage servicing rights, loans and single-family rental properties. The company has two segments: Securities and Loans, which includes Agency RMBS, Residential Investments, Commercial Investments, and ABS; and Single-Family Rental Properties, which includes a stabilized portfolio of single-family rental properties located predominately in the Southeast U.S.

Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation

Anworth Mortgage Asset is a real estate investment trust. The company invests in, finances and manages a portfolio of residential mortgage-backed securities and residential mortgage loans including agency mortgage-backed securities, which includes residential mortgage pass-through certificates and collateralized mortgage obligations; non-agency mortgage-backed securities, which are securities issued by companies that are not guaranteed by federally sponsored enterprises and that are secured primarily by first-lien residential mortgage loans; residential mortgage loans, which acquire residential mortgage loans from independent loan originators.

Arlington Asset Investment Corp. Class A

Arlington Asset Investment is an investment firm that focuses on acquiring and holding a levered portfolio of residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS), consisting of agency MBS and private-label MBS. Agency MBS include residential mortgage pass-through certificates for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. government agency or government sponsored enterprise (GSE), such as the Federal National Mortgage Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or by a U.S. government agency, such as the Government National Mortgage Association. Private-label MBS include residential MBS that are not guaranteed by a GSE or the U.S. government.

Assembly Biosciences

Assembly Biosciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company's developing platform are: oral therapeutic candidates for the treatment of hepatitis B virus infection and an oral synthetic live biotherapeutic candidates. The company's Microbiome program consists of an integrated platform that includes a disease-targeted strain isolation, identification, characterization and selection process, methods for strain purification and growth under current Good Manufacturing Practice conditions, and a licensed patented delivery system that the company calls GEMICEL?, which is designed to allow for targeted oral delivery of live biologic and conventional therapies to the lower gastrointestinal tract.

Bloom Energy

Bloom Energy designs, manufactures, and sells solid-oxide fuel cell systems, or Energy Servers, for on-site power generation. The company's Energy Servers utilize a fuel cell technology. The company's solution, the Bloom Energy Server, is a stationary power generation platform. The Bloom Energy Server converts standard low-pressure natural gas or biogas into electricity through an electrochemical process without combustion.

Chinook Therapeutics Inc

Aduro Biotech is an immunotherapy company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies for the treatment of patients with diseases, including cancer. The company's primary technologies related to the Stimulator of Interferon Genes (STING) and A Proliferation Inducing Ligand pathways have a pipeline of clinical candidates including ADU-S100 (MIW815), ADU-S100 with spartalizumab, ADU-S100 with ipilimumab, ADU-S100 with anti-PD-1, cGAS-STING pathway inhibitor program, and BION-1301. The company's other programs consist of Anti-CD27 Antibody, which is a co-stimulatory receptor expressed on different immune cells, such as T-lymphocytes and NK cells.

Consolidated Communications Holdings Inc.

Consolidated Communications Holdings is a holding company. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a range of communication solutions to consumer, commercial and carrier channels. The company's business product suite includes: data and Internet solutions, voice, data center services, security services, managed and IT services, and suite of cloud services. The company provides wholesale solutions to wireless and wireline carriers and other service providers including data, voice, network connections and custom fiber builds and last mile connections. The company provides residential Internet, video, phone and home security services as well as multi-service residential and small business bundles.

Cytosorbents

Cytosorbents is engaged in critical care immunotherapy, investigating and commercializing its CytoSorb blood purification technology to reduce uncontrolled inflammation in hospitalized patients around the world, to prevent or treat multiple organ failure in life-threatening illnesses and cardiac surgery. CytoSorb, the company's primary product, is approved in the European Union as an extracorporeal cytokine filter and is designed to reduce the cytokine storm that could otherwise cause massive inflammation, organ failure and death in common critical illnesses such as sepsis, burn injury, trauma, lung injury, and pancreatitis. CytoSorb is used during and after cardiac surgery.

Dropbox Inc. Class A

Dropbox is a global collaboration platform that centralizes the flow of information between the products and services its users prefer. Dropbox allows individuals, teams, and organizations to collaborate. Anyone can sign up for free via the company's website or app, and upgrade to a paid subscription plan for additional features. Dropbox is a digital workspace where individuals and teams can create content, access it from anywhere, and share it with collaborators. The company also utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS), for the remainder of its users' storage needs and to help deliver its services. These AWS datacenters are in the United States and Europe, which allows the company to localize where content is stored.

eGain

eGain is a provider of cloud-based customer engagement software with operations in the United States, United Kingdom and India. The company's suite includes applications for digital interaction, knowledge management, and artificial intelligence-based process guidance. The company also provides integrated analytics for contact centers and digital properties to measure, manage, and support resources. The company's eGain solution provides a unified cloud software solution to automate, augment and orchestrate customer engagement in a digital omnichannel world. The company's feature portfolio of applications allows businesses to continuously support the activity for agents, business and customers.

Evolent Health Inc Class A

Evolent Health is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a managed care services firm that supports health systems and physician organizations in their migration toward care and population health management. The company's Services segment provides its customers, who it refers to as partners, with a population health management platform, integrated data and analytics capabilities, claims processing services, including pharmacy benefit management, specialty care management services and health plan administration services. The company's subsidiary, True Health New Mexico, Inc. is a physician-led health plan in New Mexico available via the commercial market for employer-sponsored health coverage.

Focus Financial Partners

Focus Financial Partners is a partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms operating in the registered investment advisor industry, with a footprint of several partner firms primarily in the United States. The company's partner firms primarily service high net worth individuals and families by providing wealth management services. The company's wealth management services include investment advice, financial and tax planning, consulting, tax return preparation, family office services, and other services. The company also provides recordkeeping and administration services.

Gaia Inc Cl A

Gaia operates a global digital video subscription service and on-line community. The company's subscribers have access to a library of films, documentaries, interviews, yoga classes, transformation-related content, and majority of which are available to its subscribers for digital streaming. The company's network includes the following channels: Yoga, which provides access to streaming yoga, Eastern arts, and other movement-based classes; Transformation and Alternative Healing, which features content in the areas of alternative and integrative medicines, holistic healing, longevity, spiritual growth and consciousness; and Seeking Truth, which provides perspectives for today's changing world.

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Gilead Sciences is a research-based biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops and commercializes medicines. The company's primary areas of focus include viral diseases, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases and oncology. The company's products include: Biktarvy for the treatment of HIV-1 infection in certain patients; Vosevi?, a single tablet regimen of sofosbuvir, velpatasvir and voxilaprevir for the re-treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus infection in adults; Vemlidy? for the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in adults with compensated liver disease; and Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory large B-cell lymphoma.

Green Dot Corporation Class A

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

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.

Information Services Group Inc.

Information Services Group is a technology research and advisory firm providing digital transformation services, such as automation, cloud and data analytics, sourcing advisory, managed governance and risk services, network carrier services, technology activity and operations design, change management, market intelligence and technology research and analysis. The company's services are: Research, which provides subscription and custom research services; Consulting, including information technology, business process transformation, program management services and enterprise resource planning; Managed Services, which provides operational governance services; and Events, which provides conferences.

Kezar Life Sciences

Kezar Life Sciences is a clinical-stage biotechnology company, discovering and developing small molecule therapeutics to treat unmet needs in autoimmunity and cancer. The company's product candidate, KZR-616, an immunoproteasome inhibitor, is enrolling a clinical trial across different separate autoimmune indications: lupus nephritis; autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and immune thrombocytopenia; and dermatomyositis, and polymyositis. The company is also utilizing its protein secretion pathway research platform to discover and develop small molecule therapies targeting oncology indications.

Kindred Biosciences Inc

Kindred Biosciences is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of pets. The company's portfolio includes two United States Food and Drug Administration approved products: Mirataz?, which is its transdermal drug for the management of weight loss in cats; and Zimeta?, which is for the control of pyrexia in horses. The company's product candidates include: KIND-016, a fully caninized monoclonal antibody targeting interleukin-31 for the treatment of atopic dermatitis in dogs; KIND-510a, a feline recombinant erythropoietin for the management of anemia in cats; and KIND-511, an anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor treatment for newborn foals.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.

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

Luminex Corp

Luminex develops, manufactures and sells biological testing technologies and products with applications in the life sciences industries, including diagnostics, pharmaceutical and research. The company delivers its products to various market segments, including multiplexing, reduction of labor and ability to test for proteins and nucleic acids. The company's products include: instruments, which include Luminex? 100/200?, FLEXMAP? 3D, MAGPIX?, ARIES?, and ARIES? M1; consumables, which include MicroPlex? Microspheres, MagPlex? Microspheres, and xTAG? Microspheres; software, which includes xPONENT?, TDAS?, SYNCT?, and IDEAS?; and clinical diagnostic assay product families, which include ARIES? Cassettes.

Maui Land & Pineapple Co. Inc.

Maui Land & Pineapple develops, sells, and manages residential, resort, commercial, agricultural and industrial real estate through the following business segments: Real Estate, which includes various land planning, entitlement, development and sales activities of its landholdings on Maui; Leasing, which includes residential, resort, commercial, agricultural and industrial land and property leases, licensing of the company's registered trademarks and trade names, and stewardship and conservation efforts; Utilities, which includes the operations of Kapalua Water Company, Ltd. and Kapalua Waste Treatment Company, Ltd; and Resort Amenities, which includes the operations of the Kapalua Club.

Merchants Bancorp

Merchants Bancorp is a bank holding company. The company operates several lines of business, including multi-family housing and servicing, mortgage warehouse financing, retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, agricultural lending and traditional community banking. The company's business segments are defined as multi-family mortgage banking, mortgage warehousing, and banking. The company's banking segment includes retail banking, commercial lending, agricultural lending, and retail and correspondent residential mortgage banking, and Small Business Administration lending.

Merit Medical Systems Inc.

Merit Medical Systems manufactures and markets proprietary disposable medical devices used in interventional, diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, particularly in cardiology, radiology, oncology, critical care and endoscopy. The company conducts its business through two segments: Cardiovascular, which includes its Peripheral Intervention, Cardiac Intervention, Cardiovascular and Critical Care, Interventional Oncology and Spine and Breast Cancer Localization and Guidance product groups; and Endoscopy, which provides non-vascular stents to treat gastrointestinal and pulmonary disease including AERO?, AEROmini? and AERO DV? Fully Covered Tracheobronchial Stents and Alimaxx-B? Biliary Stent Systems.

Noodles & Company

Noodles & Company is a restaurant concept providing lunch and dinner within the restaurant industry. The company's menu includes a variety of cooked-to-order dishes, including noodles and pasta, soups, salads and appetizers. The company's menu allows customers to customize their meals to meet their tastes and nutritional preferences with its selection of vegetables and proteins. The company's better-for-you platform with the launch of zucchini noodles provide a low-carb, low-calorie option for its customers that can be substituted into any of its dishes such as its Zucchini Spicy Peanut Saute.

Novavax Inc.

Novavax is a late-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of vaccines to prevent serious infectious diseases. The company's vaccine candidates, including its primary candidates, ResVax? and NanoFlu?, are genetically engineered, three-dimensional nanostructures of recombinant proteins critical to disease pathogenesis. The company's product pipeline targets a variety of infectious diseases. The company is also developing immune stimulating saponin-based adjuvants through its wholly owned Swedish subsidiary, Novavax AB. The company's primary adjuvant, Matrix-M?, has been shown to improve immune responses and was well-tolerated in multiple clinical trials.

Orchid Island Capital Inc.

Orchid Island Capital is a real estate investment trust and a finance company that invests in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). The principal and interest payments of these RMBS are guaranteed by the Federal National Mortgage Association, the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or the Government National Mortgage Association and backed mainly by single-family residential mortgage loans. The company refers to these RMBS as Agency RMBS. The company's portfolio consists of two categories of Agency RMBS: pass-through Agency RMBS; and structured Agency RMBS, such as collateralized mortgage obligations, interest only securities, inverse interest only securities, and principal only, among others.

Potbelly Corp.

Potbelly is a sandwich concept providing warm toasty sandwiches, salads, hand-dipped shakes and other menu items, customized just the way customers want them. The company's menu includes toasty warm sandwiches, salads, soups, chili, sides, desserts and, in its breakfast locations, breakfast sandwiches and steel cut oatmeal. The company's main sandwich offerings include Turkey Breast, Italian, Grilled Chicken and Cheddar, Smoked Ham, A Wreck, Chicken Salad, Meatball, Pizza Sandwich, Mediterranean, Roast Beef, Tuna Salad and the Turkey Club. Additionally, customers can choose side dishes of coleslaw, macaroni salad, potato salad, potato chips or a whole dill pickle.

RCI Hospitality Holdings

RCI Hospitality Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the hospitality and related businesses. The company's reportable segments include: Nightclubs, which owns and/or operates adult nightclubs serving primarily businessmen and personnel, and also owns and operates a Studio 80 dance club; and Bombshells, which owns and operates restaurants and sports bars under the brand name Bombshells Restaurant & Bar. The company's subsidiaries own a media division, including the trade magazine serving the adult nightclubs industry and the adult retail products industry. The company also owns an industry trade show, an industry trade publication and various industry and social media websites.

Realogy Holdings Corp.

Realogy Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of residential real estate services. The company reports four segments: Realogy Franchise Group, which is a franchisor of residential real estate brokerages through its portfolio of brokerage brands, including Century 21?, Coldwell Banker?, and Coldwell Banker Commercial?; Realogy Brokerage Group, which provides full-service residential brokerage services; Realogy Title Group, which assists with the closing of real estate transactions by providing full-service title and settlement (closing and escrow) services; and Realogy Leads Group, which consists of affinity programs as well as broker-to-broker referrals.

REGENXBIO Inc.

REGENXBIO is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company's product candidates include: RGX-314, which is being developed as a gene therapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other additional chronic retinal conditions which cause total or partial vision loss for patients in the U.S., Europe and Japan; RGX-121, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II; RGX-111, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I; and RGX-181, which is for the treatment of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type II disease; and RGX-501, which is for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

Rite Aid Corporation

Rite Aid is a pharmacy retail healthcare company. The company's Retail Pharmacy segment sells brand and generic prescription drugs, as well as an assortment of front-end products including health and beauty aids, personal care products, seasonal merchandise, and a private brand product line. The company's Pharmacy Services segment provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) options through its EnvisionRxOptions and MedTrak PBMs, respectively. EnvisionRxOptions also provides mail-order and specialty pharmacy services through EnvisionPharmacies; a claims adjudication software platform in Laker Software; and a national Medicare Part D prescription drug plan through its EnvisionRx Plus product offering.

Scholar Rock Holding Corporation

Scholar Rock is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's primary product candidate, SRK-015, is a selective, fully human, monoclonal antibody, with a mechanism of action that results in inhibition of the activation of the growth factor, myostatin, in skeletal muscle. The company's second product candidate is SRK-181 and is being developed for the treatment of cancers resistant to checkpoint blockade therapies, such as anti-PD1 antibodies. The company's third antibody program targets the signaling of bone morphogenetic protein 6, another member of the TGF? superfamily, which is involved in a set of biological processes in various parts of the body.

Senseonics Holdings

Senseonics Holdings is a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of an implantable continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system to improve the lives of people with diabetes. The company's Eversense and Eversense XL CGM systems are designed to measure glucose levels in people with diabetes via an under-the-skin sensor, a removable and rechargeable smart transmitter, and an app for real-time diabetes monitoring and management for a period of up to 90 and 180 days, respectively. The Eversense system can be used as a therapeutic CGM in the United States to replace fingerstick blood glucose measurement to make treatment decisions, including insulin dosing.

Shotspotter

ShotSpotter provides precision-policing and security solutions for law enforcement and security personnel to help deter gun violence. The company's solutions include: ShotSpotter Flex, which serves cities and municipalities seeking to identify, locate and deter gun violence by incorporating a real-time gunshot detection system into their policing systems; ShotSpotter Missions, which provides crime forecasting and mission planning to enable deployment of patrol resources and reports on mission activity and tactics for command staff; and ShotSpotter SecureCampus, which helps to mitigate risk and improve security by notifying authorities and first responders of an active-shooter event.

TPI Composites Inc.

TPI Composites is a holding company that conducts all of its business operations through its direct and indirect subsidiaries. The company is engaged as an independent manufacturer of composite wind blades for the wind energy market. The company is a supplier to its original equipment manufacturers customers in the manufacture of wind blades and related molding and assembly systems. The company uses its composite technology to supply composite products to the transportation market. The company's tooling solutions include wind blade patterns, molding and assembly systems, including modular tooling techniques. The company's geographic segments are: the United States, Asia, Mexico, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

Uniti Group Inc.

Uniti Group is a real estate investment trust engaged in the acquisition and construction of infrastructure in the communications industry. The company's four lines of business are: Uniti Fiber, which is a provider of infrastructure solutions, including cell site backhaul and small cell for wireless operators and ethernet; Uniti Towers, which constructs and leases space on communications towers to wireless service providers and other tenants; Uniti Leasing, which is engaged in acquiring communications assets, such as fiber, data centers, consumer broadband, coaxial and upgradeable copper; and Talk America Services, LLC, which provides local telephone, high-speed internet and long distance service.

Vocera Communications Inc.

Vocera Communications is a provider of communication and workflow solutions focusing on mobile workers in healthcare, hospitality, energy, and other mobile work environments. The company's products, technology and services include: Vocera Communication System and Workflow System, which is comprised of a software platform that connects communication devices; Vocera Care Experience, which provides caregivers communication solutions that span the entire care continuum - before admission, during treatment and after discharge; and Services, which include Professional services, Software Maintenance and Technical support, Experience Innovation Network, and Vocera University.

WideOpenWest Inc.

WideOpenWesta is an integrated provider of high-speed data, cable television, digital telephony services to residential customers and provides a range of products and services to business customers. The company's products are available either as a bundle or as an individual service to residential and business service customers. In the Midwest, the company provides services in Detroit and Lansing, MI; Chicago, IL; Cleveland and Columbus, OH; Evansville, IN and Baltimore, MD. The Southeastern markets include Augusta, Columbus, Newnan and West Point, GA; Charleston, South Carolina; Dothan, Auburn, Huntsville and Montgomery, AL; Knoxville, TN; and Panama City and Pinellas County, FL.

Zix Corp.

Zix is a provider of cloud email security, productivity and compliance solutions. The company delivers a solutions for email encryption and data loss prevention (DLP), threat protection and archiving. The company serves organizations in the healthcare, financial services, and insurance and government sectors. Co.'s email encryption and DLP capabilities enable the secure exchange of email that includes sensitive information. Through a secure messaging service, Email Encryption allows an enterprise to use policy-driven rules to determine which email messages should be sent securely or quarantined for review to comply with regulations or company-defined policies.

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