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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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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.

Altra Industrial Motion Corp.

Altra Industrial Motion is a designer, producer and marketer of a range of electromechanical power transmission motion control products. The company's technologies are used in various motion related applications. The company's segments include: Power Transmission Technologies, which provides various coupling products, clutches, brakes, electromagnetic clutches and brakes, and gears; and Automation and Specialty, which provides rotary precision motion solutions, miniature motors and motion control products, systems that enable and support the transition of rotary motion to linear motion, and heavy-duty diesel engine brake systems and valve actuation mechanisms.

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.

BancFirst

BancFirst conducts a majority of its operating activities through its subsidiary, BancFirst (BancFirst). The company also conducts operating activities through its subsidiary, Pegasus Bank. BancFirst's main lending activity is the financing of business and industry in its market areas. Most forms of commercial lending are provided, including commercial mortgages, other forms of asset-based financing and working capital lines of credit. BancFirst's range of deposit services include checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, sweep accounts, club accounts, individual retirement accounts and certificates of deposit.

Brixmor Property Group Inc.

Brixmor Property Group is a holding company and an internally-managed real estate investment trust. Brixmor Operating Partnership LP and subsidiaries (the Operating Partnership) is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. Through the Operating Partnership, the company is engaged in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of retail shopping centers. The company owns and operates open-air retail portfolios, comprised primarily of shopping centers located in the United States. The company's shopping centers are primarily anchored by retailers, as well as consumer-oriented service providers.

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.

Capital One Financial Corporation

Capital One Financial is a financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of financial products and services. The company's segments are: Credit Card, which consists of the company's domestic consumer and small business card lending, and international card businesses in Canada and the United Kingdom.; Consumer Banking, which consists of the company's deposit gathering and lending activities for consumers and small businesses, and national auto lending; and Commercial Banking, which consists of the company's lending, deposit gathering, capital markets and treasury management services to commercial real estate and commercial and industrial customers.

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.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

Comtech Telecommunications is a provider of communications solutions for both commercial and government customers. The company's reportable operating segments include: Commercial Solutions, which provides satellite ground station technologies (such as modems and amplifiers) and public safety and location technologies (such as 911 call routing and mapping solutions); and Government Solutions, which provides technologies (such as tactical satellite-based networks and ongoing support for communication networks) and transmission technologies (such as troposcatter systems and solid-state amplifiers) to government end-users, international customers and domestic prime contractors.

ConnectOne Bancorp Inc.

ConnectOne Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides deposit and loan products and services, including personal and business checking accounts, retirement accounts, money market accounts, time and savings accounts, credit cards, wire transfers, access to automated teller services, internet banking, Treasury Direct, automated clearing house origination, and mobile banking by phone. In addition, the company provides other banking services and safe deposit boxes. The company's subsidiary, ConnectOne Bank, also provides remote deposit capture banking for business clients, providing the ability to electronically scan and transmit checks for deposit.

CoreCivic Inc.

CoreCivic is a real estate investment trust. The company is the owner of partnership correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities and prison operators. Through three segments, CoreCivic Safety, CoreCivic Community, and CoreCivic Properties, the company provides a range of solutions to government partners that serve the public good through corrections and detention management, a network of residential reentry centers to help address America's recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. In addition to providing fundamental residential services, the company's correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities provide a variety of rehabilitation and educational programs.

Digital Realty Trust Inc.

Digital Realty Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company is a global provider of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions for customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. The company's Operating Partnership, Digital Realty Trust, L.P., is the entity through which the company conducts its business of owning, acquiring, developing and operating data centers. The company's portfolio of data centers provides available environments for the exchange, processing and storage of electronic information.

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.

Facebook Inc. Class A

Facebook is building and engaging products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and in-home devices. The company's products include: Facebook, which enables people to connect, share, discover, and communicate with each other on mobile devices and personal computers; Instagram, which is a place where people can express themselves through photos, videos, and private messaging, and explore their interests in businesses, creators and communities; Messenger and WhatsApp, which are messaging applications; and Oculus, which connects people through its Oculus virtual reality products.

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.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc.

Fortune Brands Home & Security is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides home and security products. The company's segments are: Cabinets, which manufactures cabinetry and vanities, for the kitchen, bath and other parts of the home; Plumbing, which manufactures or assembles and sells faucets, accessories, kitchen sinks and waste disposals; and Doors and Security, which manufactures and sells fiberglass and steel entry door systems, composite decking and railing, and urethane millwork, as well as manufactures, sources and distributes locks, safety and security devices, and electronic security products and fire resistant safes, security containers and commercial cabinets.

Graphic Packaging Holding Company

Graphic Packaging Holding is a provider of paper-based packaging solutions for a range of products to food, beverage, foodservice and other consumer products companies. The company's segments are: Paperboard Mills, which produces primarily coated-recycled paperboard, coated unbleached kraft paperboard, and solid bleached sulfate paperboard; Americas Paperboard Packaging, which includes paperboard packaging, primarily folding cartons, sold to Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies, and cups, among others; and Europe Paperboard Packaging, which includes paperboard packaging, primarily folding cartons, sold primarily to CPG companies serving the food, beverage and consumer product markets in Europe.

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.

Itron Inc.

Itron is engaged in the Industrial Internet of Things, providing solutions that enable utilities and municipalities to operate their infrastructure. The company's solutions include the deployment of smart networks, software, services, devices, sensors, and data analytics. The company's solutions and data analytics address the challenges facing the energy, water, and municipality sectors, including non-technical loss, leak detection, and environmental and regulatory compliance. The company also provides managed services, software-as-a-service, technical support services, licensing hardware technology, and consulting services. The company operates under three segments: Device Solutions, Networked Solutions, and Outcomes.

Jack in the Box Inc.

Jack in the Box operates and franchises Jack in the Box? quick-service restaurants (QSRs). Jack in the Box restaurants provide a selection of products including burgers like its Jumbo Jack? and product lines such as Buttery Jack? burgers. The company also provides breakfast sandwiches with cracked eggs, tacos and curly fries, along with sandwiches, salads and real ice cream shakes, among other items. The company allows its guests to customize their meals and order any product, including breakfast items any time of the day (or night). The company operates and franchises Jack in the Box QSRs, primarily in the western and southern United States, including in Guam.

JELD-WEN Holding Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a door and window manufacturer. The company designs, produces, and distributes a range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl, and aluminum windows, and related products for use in the construction and repair and remodel of residential homes and, to a lesser extent, non-residential buildings. The company markets its products under the JELD-WEN brand, along with several brands such as Swedoor and DANA in Europe and Corinthian, Stegbar, and Trend in Australia. The company's customers include wholesale distributors and retailers as well as individual contractors and consumers. The company has three segments: North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Kimball International Inc. Cl B

Kimball International creates furnishings. The company's furniture solutions are used in collaborative and open work spaces, conference and meeting/huddle rooms, training rooms, private offices, learning areas, classrooms, lobby/reception areas, and dining/cafe areas with a mix of wood, metal, laminate, paint, fabric, solid surface, and plastic options. In addition, the company provides products designed for the healthcare market, such as casegoods and seating for patient exam rooms and lounge areas. In the hospitality industry, the company's products include headboards, tables, seating, vanities, casegoods, lighting, and products with technology features.

Kronos Worldwide Inc.

Kronos Worldwide is a producer and marketer of titanium dioxide pigments (TiO2), a base industrial product used in a range of applications. The company, along with its distributors and agents, sells and provides technical services for customers in countries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The company operates two ilmenite mines in Norway pursuant to a governmental concession with an unlimited term. The company also manufactures and sells iron-based chemicals, which are co-products and processed co-products of the sulfate and chloride process TiO2 pigment production. The company manufactures and sells titanium oxychloride and titanyl sulfate, which are side-stream products from the production of TiO2.

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

Louisiana-Pacific is a provider of building solutions serving the new home construction, repair and remodeling and outdoor structures markets. The company has four segments: siding, which includes LP SmartSide? Strand and Fiber trim and siding, as well as LP Outdoor Building Solutions? products for outdoor buildings; oriented strand board (OSB), which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel products; engineered wood products, which include LP SolidStart? I-Joist, Laminated Veneer Lumber, and other related products; and South America, which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel and siding products in South America and certain export markets.

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.

MGM Resorts International

MGM Resorts International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts across the United States and in Macau. The company's segments include: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, which consists of casino resorts such as Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur, and Park MGM; Regional Operations, which consists of casino resorts such as MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike Tunica, Borgata, MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield, Empire City, and MGM Northfield Park; and MGM China, which owns and operates casino resorts and the related gaming subconcession and land concessions.

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.

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.

Newmont Corporation

Newmont is primarily a gold producer with operations and/or assets in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Peru, Suriname, Argentina, Chile, Australia and Ghana. The company is also engaged in the production of copper, silver, lead and zinc. The company's operations are organized in five geographic regions; North America, South America, Australia, Africa and Nevada.

OSHKOSH CORP

Oshkosh is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of access equipment, specialty vehicles and truck bodies for the primary markets of access equipment, defense, fire and emergency and municipal, refuse hauling, concrete placement as well as airport services. The company's segments are: access equipment, which designs and manufactures aerial work platforms and telehandlers; defense, which designs and manufactures tactical wheeled vehicles and related service; fire and emergency, which designs and manufactures fire apparatus assembled on custom chassis; and commercial, which designs and manufactures front- and rear-discharge concrete mixers and portable and stationary concrete batch plants.

PACCAR Inc

PACCAR is a multinational company operating in three principal industry segments: the Truck segment includes the design, manufacture and distribution of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, which are configured with engine in front of cab or cab-over-engine; the Parts segment includes the distribution of aftermarket parts for trucks and related commercial vehicles; and the Financial Services segment includes finance and leasing products and services provided to customers and dealers. The company's other business includes the manufacturing of industrial winches in two United States plants and marketing them under the Braden, Carco and Gearmatic nameplates.

PotlatchDeltic Corporation

PotlatchDeltic is a real estate investment trust. The company's businesses are organized into three reportable operating segments: Resource, which engages in activities such as hunting leases, recreation permits and leases, mineral rights leases, biomass production and carbon sequestration; Wood Products, which manufactures and markets lumber, plywood and residual products primarily for use in home building, repair and remodeling, industrial products and other construction activity; and Real Estate, which consists primarily of the sale of non-core timberlands in the categories of other use, rural recreational real estate and non-strategic properties.

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.

Radius Health Inc.

Radius Health is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing endocrine therapeutics in the areas of osteoporosis and oncology. The company's commercial product, TYMLOSTM (abaloparatide) injection is designed for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. The company is developing an abaloparatide transdermal patch for potential use in the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The company is also developing its Elacestrant, a selective estrogen receptor degrader, for potential use in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

REV Group Inc.

REV Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of specialty vehicles and related aftermarket parts and services. The company provides customized vehicle solutions for applications including: essential needs (ambulances, fire apparatus, school buses and municipal transit buses), industrial and commercial (terminal trucks, cut-away buses and sweepers) and consumer leisure (recreational vehicles (RVs), and coaches). The company's segments are: Fire and Emergency, which sells fire apparatus equipment and ambulances; Commercial, which produces buses, terminal trucks and sweepers; and Recreation, which provides motorized and towable RV models.

Scorpio Tankers Inc.

SEI Investments Company

SEI Investments is holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of investment processing, investment management and investment operations solutions. The company's segments are: private banks, which provides outsourced investment processing and investment management platforms; investment advisors, which provides investment management and investment processing platforms; institutional investors, which provides investment management and administrative outsourcing platforms; investment managers, which provides investment operations outsourcing solutions; and investments in new businesses, which focuses on providing investment management solutions to families residing in the U.S.

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.

SYNDAX PHARMACEUTICALS

Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of cancer therapies. The company's primary product candidate, entinostat is a once-weekly, oral, small molecule, Class I HDAC inhibitor, which is being evaluated in the Phase 3 E2112 registrational clinical trial in combination with exemestane for hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative, breast cancer, an indication for which entinostat has been granted therapy designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration. SNDX-5613, the company's clinical-stage product candidate, is a small molecule inhibitor of the interaction of menin with the mixed lineage leukemia protein.

T. Rowe Price Group

T. Rowe Price Group is a financial services holding company that provides global investment management services. The company provide a range of United States mutual funds, subadvised funds, separately managed accounts, and other T. Rowe Price products. The company also provides certain investment advisory clients with related administrative services, including distribution, mutual fund transfer agent, accounting, and shareholder services; participant recordkeeping and transfer agent services for defined contribution retirement plans; brokerage; and trust services. The company also provide non-discretionary advisory planning services to fund shareholders and potential investors.

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.

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.

Vera Bradley Inc.

Vera Bradley is a designer of women's handbags, luggage and travel items, fashion and home accessories, and gifts. The company sells its products through two reportable segments: Direct and Indirect. The Direct business consists of sales of Vera Bradley products through the company's full-line and factory outlet stores, verabradley.com, the company's online outlet site, direct-to-consumer eBay sales, and the company's annual outlet sale in Fort Wayne, IN. The Indirect business consists of sales of Vera Bradley products to specialty retail locations, as well as department stores, national accounts, third party e-commerce sites, third-party inventory liquidators, and sales generated through licensing agreements.

Williams-Sonoma Inc.

Williams-Sonoma is a retailer of products for the home. The company has two reportable segments, e-commerce and retail. The e-commerce segment has the following merchandise strategies: Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm, PBteen, Williams Sonoma Home, Rejuvenation and Mark and Graham, which sell the company's products through its e-commerce websites and direct-mail catalogs. The retail segment, which includes the company's franchise operations, has the following merchandise strategies: Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, West Elm and Rejuvenation, which sell the company's products through its retail stores.

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