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  • Ross LaDuke
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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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

ArcelorMittal

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.

Diodes Incorporated

Diodes is a manufacturer and supplier of application-specific standard products. The company's product line includes: discrete semiconductor products, which include performance Schottky rectifiers, performance Schottky diodes, Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes; analog products, which include power management devices; standard logic products including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing these products; and Frequency Control Products, which are electronic components that provide frequency references.

Dover Corporation

Dover is a manufacturer and solutions provider. The company provides services through five segments: Engineered Products, which provides a range of products, software and services; Fueling Solutions, which provides components, equipment and software and service solutions enabling transport of fuels and other hazardous fluids; Imaging and Identification, which includes supplying precision marking and coding; Pumps and Process Solutions, which includes manufacturing of pumps; and Refrigeration and Food Equipment, which provides equipment and systems that serve the commercial refrigeration, heating and cooling and food equipment markets.

ENOVIS CORPORATION

Enphase Energy Inc.

Enphase Energy is a global energy technology company. The company designs, develops, manufactures and sells home energy solutions that connect energy generation, energy storage and control and communications management on one platform. The company's semiconductor-based microinverter converts energy at the individual solar module level and, combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control. The Enphase Home Energy Solution with IQ consists of four primary components: Enphase microinverters, the AC Battery?, an Envoy gateway, and Enlighten cloud-based software.

Ero Copper

Ero Copper Corp is a Canada-based company focused on copper production from the Vale do Curaca Property that is located in Bahia, Brazil. The Company's primary asset is a Brazilian copper mining company, Mineracao Caraba S.A. (MCSA), owner of the Vale do Curaca Property. The Company mines copper ore from the Pilar underground mine, the Surubim open pit mine and its newly constructed Vermelhos underground mine. In addition to the Vale do Curaca Property, the Company owns the Boa Esperanca development project, an Iron oxide copper gold ore deposits (IOCG)-type copper project located in Para Brazil. Integrated operations of the Company's mining complex include underground and open pit mining activities, a conventional three-stage crush and flotation mill and supporting infrastructure required to produce a clean concentrate grading 35% copper.

Franco-Nevada Corporation

Franco-Nevada is a gold-focused royalty and stream company with additional interests in silver, platinum group metals, oil and gas and other resource assets located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Africa. Co.'s portfolio includes 340 mineral and oil and gas assets covering properties at various stages from production to early stage exploration.

Franklin Electric Co. Inc.

Franklin Electric Company designs, manufactures and distributes water and fuel pumping systems, composed primarily of submersible motors, pumps, electronic controls and related parts and equipment. The company's business consists of three segments: Water Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells motors, pumps, drives, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment; Fueling Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells pumps, pipe, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices and related parts and equipment; and Distribution, which operates as a collection of wholly owned groundwater distributors known as the Headwater Companies.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a mining company. The company operates assets with proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum, and the company is a publicly traded copper producer. The company's portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, copper and gold deposits; and mining operations in North America and South America, including the Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru. The company has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions: North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines.

GASFRAC Energy Services, Inc.

IDEX CORP

IDEX is an applied solutions business that sells pumps, valves, flow meters and other fluidics systems and components and engineered products. The company's segments are: Fluid and Metering Technologies, which designs, produces and distributes positive displacement pumps, flow meters, injectors and other fluid-handling pump modules and systems; Health and Science Technologies, which designs, produces and distributes fluidics, rotary lobe pumps, centrifugal and positive displacement pumps, roll compaction and drying systems; and Fire and Safety/Diversified Products, which designs, produces and distributes firefighting pumps, valves and controls, rescue tools, and lifting bags.

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LITHIUM ARGENTINA CORP

Matthews International Corporation Class A

Matthews International is a provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The company's reporting segments are: SGK Brand Solutions, which includes brand development, deployment and delivery; Memorialization, which includes a line of memorialization products used primarily in cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories; and Industrial Technologies, which designs, manufactures and distributes a range of marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation solutions, and warehouse automation systems, as well as manufactures and markets products and systems that employ different marking technologies, including laser and ink-jet printing.

MKS Instruments Inc.

MKS Instruments is a provider of instruments, subsystems and process control solutions. The company has two segments: Vacuum & Analysis, which provides instruments, components, subsystems and software which are derived from its knowledge in pressure measurement and control, flow measurement and control, gas and vapor delivery, gas composition analysis, residual gas analysis, leak detection, control and information technology, ozone generation and delivery, radio frequency and data communication power, reactive gas generation and vacuum technology; and Light & Motion, which provides instruments, components and subsystems which are derived from its knowledge in lasers, photonics and optics.

MP Materials Corp (A)

Newell Brands Inc

Newell Brands is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products. The company's segments include: Appliances and Cookware, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Food and Commercial, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes a various line of household products; Home and Outdoor Living, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes home fragrance and home security products; and Learning and Development, which designs, manufactures, sources, markets and distributes writing instruments, including markers and highlighters, pens and pencils.

Nordson Corporation

Nordson engineers, manufactures and markets differentiated products and systems used for dispensing, applying and controlling of adhesives, coatings, polymers, sealants, biomaterials, and other fluids, to test and inspect for quality, and to treat and cure surfaces. The company serves a range of consumer non-durable, consumer durable and technology end markets including packaging, nonwovens, electronics, medical, appliances, energy, transportation, building and construction, and general product assembly and finishing. The company has three operating segments: Adhesive Dispensing Systems, Advanced Technology Systems, and Industrial Coating Systems.

ON Semiconductor Corporation

ON Semiconductor is engaged in energy efficient electronics. The company is organized into three segments: Power Solutions Group, which provides a range of discrete, module and integrated semiconductor products; Analog Solutions Group, which designs and develops analog, mixed-signal, and advanced logic application specific integrated circuits and Application Specific Standard Product, and power solutions; and Image Sensor Group, which designs and develops complementary metal oxide semiconductor and charge-coupled device image sensors, as well as proximity sensors, image signal processors and actuator drivers for autofocus and image stabilization for automotive and industrial markets, among others.

Regal Beloit Corp

Regal Beloit is a manufacturer of electric motors, electrical motion controls, power generation and power transmission products. The company is comprised of four operating segments: Commercial Systems, which produces AC and DC motors, electronic variable speed controls, fans, and blowers for commercial applications; Industrial Systems, which produces motors, generators, alternators and switchgear for industrial applications, along with aftermarket parts and kits to support such products; Climate Solutions, which produces small motors, electronic variable speed controls and air moving solutions; and Power Transmission Solutions, which produces, sells and services belt and chain drives.

SIGMA LITHIUM CORP

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.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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