Report
Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.83 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Consumer Discretionary retailers and restaurants continue to be leadership. Many are breaking to new price and RS highs.

• Auto parts and Shoe retailers stand out as leadership.

• Healthcare Equipment & Supplies stocks remains an area of leadership with the Healthcare Sector.
Underlyings
Advance Auto Parts Inc.

Advance Auto Parts is an automotive aftermarket parts provider in North America, serving both professional installers (Professional), and do-it-yourself (DIY), customers as well as independently owned operators. The company's stores and branches provide a range selection of brand name, original equipment manufacturer and private label automotive replacement parts, accessories, batteries and maintenance items for domestic and imported cars, vans, sport utility vehicles and light and heavy duty trucks. Through its integrated operating approach, the company serves its Professional and DIY customers through a variety of channels ranging from brick and mortar store locations to self-service e-commerce sites.

Amedisys Inc.

Amedisys is a healthcare services company focused on providing care in the home. The company's operations involve servicing patients across the United States through its operating divisions: home health, hospice and personal care. The company's Home Health segment provides healthcare to help its patients recover from surgery or illness, live with chronic diseases, and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions. Hospice care is designed to provide comfort and support for those who are dealing with a terminal illness such as heart disease, pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's or cancer. Personal care provides assistance with the activities of daily living.

Calavo Growers Inc.

Calavo Growers is engaged in marketing and distribution of avocados, prepared avocados, and other perishable food products. The company has three business segments: Fresh products, which the company sells avocados under the Calavo family of brand labels, as well as private labels and markets and distributes select other perishable food products, such as tomatoes and papayas; Calavo Foods, which utilizes ultra-high pressure technology equipment to protect and safeguard foods without the need of preservatives on several of its prepared avocado and guacamole products; and Renaissance Food Group, which creates, markets, and distributes nationally a portfolio of packaged food products.

Crocs Inc.

Crocs is engaged in the design, development, marketing, distribution, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. The company provides a variety of footwear products including sandals, flips and slides, which the company collectively refer to as sandals, shoes, and boots. The majority of shoes within the company's collection contains Croslite? material. The company's wholesale channel includes domestic and international multi-brand retailers, e-tailers, and distributors; the company's retail channel consists of company-operated stores; and the company's e-commerce channel includes company-operated e-commerce sites and third-party marketplaces.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation

Deckers Outdoor is engaged in designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel and accessories. The company markets its products primarily under five brands. The UGG brand is comprised of a line of footwear, apparel and accessories for women, men and children. The HOKA brand is a line of footwear and apparel. The Teva brand's product line includes sandals, shoes, and boots. Sanuk brand is comprised of casual shoe and sandal categories. Other brands consist of Koolaburra by UGG brand, a casual footwear fashion using sheepskin and other plush materials. The company's retail stores are primarily UGG brand concept and UGG brand outlet stores.

Express Transport S.A.

Genesco Inc.

Genesco is a retailer and wholesaler of branded footwear, apparel and accessories. The company's segments include: Journeys Group, which includes Journeys, Journeys Kidz and Little Burgundy retail stores, e-commerce and catalog operations and sells footwear and accessories for young men, women and children; Schuh Group, which includes e-commerce operations and sells a range of branded casual and athletic footwear along with a private label offering; Johnston & Murphy Group, which includes retail stores, e-commerce and catalog operations and wholesale distribution; and Licensed Brands, which includes include the sale of footwear marketed under the Dockers? brand.

Haemonetics Corporation

Haemonetics is a healthcare company. The company has three product categories: Plasma, which includes plasma collection devices and disposables, plasma donor management software, and anticoagulant and saline sold to plasma customers; Blood Center, which includes blood collection and processing devices and disposables for red cells, platelets and whole blood as well as related donor management software; and Hospital, which is comprised of Hemostasis Management and Cell Processing products, includes devices and methodologies for measuring coagulation characteristics of blood, surgical blood salvage systems, blood cell processing systems, disposables and blood transfusion management software.

HealthStream Inc.

Healthstream provides workforce and provider solutions for healthcare organizations. The company's segments are: Workforce Solutions, which is comprised primarily of Software-as-a-Service and subscription-based products for clinical development, talent management, training, certification, competency assessment, performance appraisal, and additional needs; and Provider Solutions, which provides EchoCredentialing? and MSOW? platforms that manage medical staff credentialing and privileging processes for hospitals, EchoOneApp? platform for medical groups, and EchoAccess? platform to support hospital call centers with physician referral and provider directories functionalities.

Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.

Helix Energy Solutions Group is an international offshore energy services company that provides specialty services to the offshore energy industry. The company has three business segments: well intervention, which includes vessels and equipment used to perform well intervention services primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea and West Africa; robotics, which includes remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), trenchers and ROVDrills designed to complement offshore construction and well intervention services; and production facilities, which includes the Helix Producer I, a floating production vessel, the Helix Fast Response System, and its ownership interest in Independence Hub, LLC.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods is primarily engaged in the production of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. The company's segments are: Grocery Products, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products; Refrigerated Foods, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, chicken, and turkey products; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded turkey products; and International and Other, which includes Hormel Foods International Corporation that manufactures, markets, and sells the company's products internationally.

MSCI Inc. Class A

MSCI is a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The company's segments are: Index, in which Clients use the company's indexes in various areas of the investment process, including index-linked product creation; Analytics, which provides risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, applications and services; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), which helps institutional investors understand how ESG considerations can impact the long-term risk and reward of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and Real Estate, which includes research, reporting, market data and benchmarking offerings.

Neogen Corporation

Neogen develops, manufactures, and markets a line of products for food and animal safety. The company's segments are: Food Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of diagnostic test kits and related products used by food producers and processors to detect harmful natural toxins, foodborne bacteria, allergens and levels of general sanitation; and Animal Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of products dedicated to animal safety, including a range of consumable products marketed to veterinarians and animal health product distributors, and provides genomic identification and related interpretive bioinformatic services.

O'Reilly Automotive Inc.

O'Reilly Automotive is a retailer of automotive aftermarket parts, tools, supplies, equipment and accessories, selling its products to both do-it-yourself and service provider customers. The company's stores carry a product line, including: new and remanufactured automotive hard parts and maintenance items, such as alternators, batteries, brake system components, belts, chassis parts, driveline parts, engine parts, fuel pumps, hoses, starters, temperature control, water pumps, antifreeze, appearance products, engine additives, filters, fluids, lighting, oil and wiper blades; and accessories, such as floor mats, seat covers and truck accessories.

Oxford Industries Inc.

Oxford Industries is an apparel company that designs, sources, markets and distributes products bearing the trademarks of its Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Southern Tide lifestyle brands, other owned brands and licensed brands as well as private label apparel products. The company's business is primarily operated through its Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer, Lanier Apparel and Southern Tide operating groups. The company distributes its products through its direct to consumer channels, consisting of its Tommy Bahama and Lilly Pulitzer retail stores and its e-commerce sites for Tommy Bahama, Lilly Pulitzer and Southern Tide, and through its wholesale distribution channels.

Proto Labs Inc.

Proto Labs is a digital manufacturer of custom prototypes and production parts. The company's primary manufacturing product lines include Injection Molding, which uses three-dimensional (3D) computer-aided design-to-computer numerical control (CNC) machining technology for the automated design and manufacture of molds; CNC Machining, which uses commercially available CNC machines to provide milling and turning; 3D Printing, which includes stereolithography, selective laser sintering, direct metal laser sintering, Multi Jet Fusion and PolyJet processes; and Sheet Metal, which includes e-commerce-enabled custom sheet metal parts, providing customers with prototype and low-volume production parts.

Sturm Ruger & Company Inc.

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

Vicor Corp.

Vicor designs, develops, manufactures, and markets modular power components and power systems for converting electrical power. Reflecting its Power Component Design Methodology, the company provides a range of modular building blocks enabling design of a power system specific to a customer's needs. The company categorizes its product portfolios as either Advanced Products or Brick Products. The company also sells a range of electrical and mechanical accessories for use with its products. The Advanced Products category consists of products which are used to implement the company's proprietary Factorized Power Architecture?, a power distribution architecture. The Brick Products category consists of integrated power systems.

Wolverine World Wide Inc.

Wolverine World Wide is a designer, marketer and licensor of a range of casual footwear and apparel, performance outdoor and athletic footwear and apparel, kids' footwear, industrial work boots and apparel, and uniform shoes and boots. The company has two segments: Wolverine Michigan Group, consisting of Merrell? footwear and apparel, Cat? footwear, Wolverine? footwear and apparel, Chaco? footwear, Hush Puppies? footwear and apparel, Bates? uniform footwear, Harley-Davidson? footwear and Hytest? safety footwear; and Wolverine Boston Group, consisting of Sperry? footwear and apparel, Saucony? footwear and apparel, Keds? footwear and apparel, and the Kids footwear business.

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