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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.71 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Many Semiconductor and Semi-Suppliers stocks are reversing downtrends or breaking out of bases.
• A number of Software related names are showing RS leadership.
• Another bright spot are the Electronic Component suppliers.
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.

Agilysys Inc.

Agilysys is a provider of hospitality software. The company delivers technology solutions for gaming, hotels, resorts and cruise, corporate foodservice management, restaurants, universities, stadia and healthcare. The company provides solutions in the industry, including point of sales, property management, inventory and procurement, payments, and related applications, to manage the entire guest journey. The company is a developer and marketer of software enabled solutions and services to the hospitality industry, including software solutions fully integrated with third party hardware and operating systems; support, maintenance and subscription services; and other services.

Analog Devices Inc.

Analog Devices is an analog technology company. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a portfolio of solutions, including integrated circuits, algorithms, software, and subsystems. The company's analog products include data converter that translate real-world analog signals into digital data and also translate digital data into analog signals, amplifiers that condition analog signals, and power management and reference products that include functions such as power conversion, driver monitoring, sequencing and energy management. The company's digital signal processing products are designed to execute software programs, or algorithms, associated with processing digitized real-time, real-world data.

Applied Materials Inc.

Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and related industries. The company's segments are: Semiconductor Systems, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to support equipment and fab performance and productivity; and Display and Adjacent Markets, which is comprised of products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices.

Axcelis Technologies Inc.

Axcelis Technologies designs, manufactures and services ion implantation and other processing equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. The company also provides aftermarket lifecycle products and services, including used tools, spare parts, equipment upgrades, maintenance services and customer training. The company provides high energy, high current and medium current implanters for all application requirements. The company's Purion systems are all based on a common platform which enables a combination of implant purity, precision and productivity by combining a single wafer end station, with a spot beam architecture. The company's other products include curing systems, and thermal processing systems.

Cree Inc.

Cree is a provider of bandgap semiconductor products for power and radio-frequency (RF) applications and lighting-class light emitting diode (LED) products. The company's products are used for applications such as transportation, power supplies, inverters, wireless systems, indoor and outdoor lighting, electronic signs and signals and video displays. The company operates in two segments: Wolfspeed, which consists of silicon carbide and gallium nitride (GaN) materials, power devices and RF devices based on silicon and bandgap semiconductor materials; and LED Products, which consists of LED chips and LED components. The company's LED chip products include blue and green LED chips based on GaN and related materials.

Dime Community Bancshares Inc.

Dime Community Bancshares is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, Dime Community Bank (the Bank), the company is engaged in commercial banking and financial services. The Bank's primary business is gathering deposits from customers within its market area and via the internet, and investing them primarily in multifamily residential, commercial real estate, and, to an extent, commercial and industrial loans and one-to-four family residential real estate loans, as well as mortgage-backed securities, obligations of the U.S. government and government- sponsored enterprises, and corporate debt and equity securities.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Enanta Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that creates small molecule drugs primarily for the treatment of viral infections and liver diseases. The company's wholly owned research and development programs are in virology, namely respiratory syncytial virus and hepatitis B virus, and in liver disease (non-virology), namely non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and primary biliary cholangitis. Through its Collaborative Development and License Agreement with AbbVie Inc (AbbVie), the company has discovered and out-licensed to AbbVie two protease inhibitor compounds that have been clinically tested, manufactured, and commercialized by AbbVie for the treatment of hepatitis C virus.

EVERTEC Inc.

Evertec is a transaction processing business in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company manages a system of electronic payment networks that process transactions, and provides a suite of services for bank processing, cash processing and technology outsourcing. The company owns and operates the ATH network, a personal identification number debit network in Latin America. The company has four segments: Merchant Acquiring, which provides services to accept electronic methods of payment; Payment Services - Puerto Rico & Caribbean and Payment Services - Latin America, in which the company is a card processor and card network service provider; and Business Solutions, which provides business process management solutions.

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Fidelity Southern Corp.

Fidelity Southern is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Fidelity Bank, the company provides a range of financial products and services for business and retail customers. The company is primarily engaged in accepting deposits from individuals and businesses and using these deposits and borrowed funds to originate commercial, residential mortgage, construction and installment loans. The company sells residential mortgage loans, Small Business Administration loans, and indirect automobile loans. The company provides products and services through a network of 67 retail branch offices and over 30 loan production offices. As of Dec 31 2017, the company had total assets of $4.58 billion and total deposits of $3.87 billion.

Gulf Island Fabrication Inc.

Gulf Island Fabrication is a fabricator of steel structures, modules and marine vessels. The company's operating divisions include: Fabrication, which fabricates modules and piping systems for onshore refining, petrochemical, liquified natural gas and industrial facilities; Shipyard, which fabricates newbuild marine vessels, including offshore support vessels, multi-purpose service vessels, research vessels, tugboats, salvage vessels, towboats, drydocks, anchor handling vessels and lift boats; and Services, which provides services on offshore platforms, including welding, interconnect piping and other services required to connect production equipment and service modules and equipment on a platform.

Hill-Rom Holdings Inc.

Hill-Rom Holdings is a medical technology company. The company's reportable segments are: Patient Support Systems, which include a variety of frames and surfaces (such as medical surgical (med-surg) beds, intensive care unit beds, and bariatric patient beds), patient mobility solutions (such as lifts and other devices used to move patients), non-invasive therapeutic products and surfaces, and its information technologies and software solutions; Front Line Care, which includes its patient monitoring and diagnostics products and its respiratory health products; and Surgical Solutions, which include tables, lights, and pendants utilized within the surgical setting.

INCYTE CORP

Incyte is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics. JAKAFI (ruxolitinib) has been approved for the treatment of patients with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis, for the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera, and for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease in adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older. The company has also obtained a license to develop and commercialize ICLUSIG (ponatinib) in Europe and other select countries. In the European Union, ICLUSIG is approved for the treatment of adult patients with chronic phase, accelerated phase or blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia.

Insperity Inc.

Insperity provides a range of human resources (HR) and business solutions. The company's HR services offerings are provided through its Workforce Optimization? and Workforce Synchronization? solutions, which encompass a range of human resources functions, including payroll and employment administration, employee benefits, workers' compensation, government compliance, performance management, and training and development services, along with its cloud-based human capital management platform, its Insperity Premier?. In addition to its Professional Employer Organization HR Outsourcing solutions, the company provides Workforce Acceleration?, a payroll and human capital management solution.

Integer Holdings Corporation

Integer Holdings is a medical device outsource manufacturing company. The company provides medical technologies and develops batteries for applications in energy, military, and environmental markets. The company's brands include Greatbatch Medical?, Lake Region Medical? and Electrochem?. The company organizes its business into two reportable segments, Medical and Non-Medical, and derive its sales from four principle product lines. The Medical segment includes the Cardio & Vascular, Cardiac & Neuromodulation and Advanced Surgical, Orthopedics & Portable Medical product lines and the Non-Medical segment is comprised of the Electrochem product line.

KLA Corporation

KLA is a supplier of process control and yield management solutions for the semiconductor and related nanoelectronics industries. The company provides process control and process-enabling solutions for manufacturing and testing wafers and reticles, integrated circuits, packaging, light emitting diodes, power devices, compound semiconductor devices, microelectromechanical systems, data storage, printed circuit boards (PCBs), and flat and flexible panel displays, as well as general materials research. The company has four reportable segments which include Semiconductor Process Control; Specialty Semiconductor Process; PCB, Display and Component Inspection; and Other.

LivePerson Inc.

LivePerson is a cloud computing or software-as-a-service provider of solutions on a hosted basis. The company is organized into two operating segments: Business and Consumer. The Business segment enables brands to utilize the company's LiveEngage's engine to connect with consumers through an integrated suite of mobile and online business messaging technologies. The Consumer segment facilitates online transactions between independent service providers and individual consumers seeking information and knowledge for a fee via mobile and online messaging. The company's products and services include: LiveEngage, Professional Services and Consumer Offering.

LSB Industries Inc.

LSB Industries is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures and markets chemical products. Within its agricultural products, the company produces and sells urea ammonia nitrate, high density ammonium nitrate (HDAN) and ammonia, all of which are nitrogen-based fertilizers. Within its industrial acids and other chemical products, the company manufactures and sells industrial acids and other chemical products primarily to the polyurethane intermediates, paper, fibers, emission control, and electronics industries. Within its mining products, the company produces and sells low density ammonium nitrate, HDAN and ammonium nitrate (AN) solution to the mining industry.

Matrix Service Company

Matrix Service provides engineering, fabrication, infrastructure, construction, and maintenance services. The company's segments are: Electrical Infrastructure, which consists of power delivery services provided to investor owned utilities; Oil Gas and Chemical, which serves customers who are engaged in refining crude oil and processing, fractionating, and marketing of natural gas and natural gas liquids; Storage Solutions, which consists of work related to aboveground storage tanks and terminals; and Industrial, which consists of work for integrated iron and steel companies, main mining and minerals companies engaged in the extraction of copper, as well as companies in other industries.

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.

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.

Monolithic Power Systems Inc.

Monolithic Power Systems is a fabless semiconductor company. The company designs, develops and markets power solutions for systems found in consumer, computing and storage, automotive, industrial, communications and consumer applications. The company's primary product families include the following: Direct Current (DC) to DC products, which are used to convert and control voltages within a range of electronic systems such as portable electronic devices, wireless Local Area Network access points, computers, and monitors, automobiles and medical equipment; and Lighting Control Products, which include lighting control integrated circuits that are used in backlighting and general illumination products.

NMI Holdings Inc. Class A

NMI Holdings is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the provision of mortgage insurance (MI). MI protects lenders and investors from default-related losses on a portion of the unpaid principal balance of a covered mortgage. The company's principal types of MI coverage include: primary MI, which provides default protection on individual mortgage loans at specified coverage percentages; and pool insurance, which is generally used to provide additional credit enhancement for certain secondary market mortgage transactions. The company also provides outsourced loan review services to mortgage originators through its subsidiary, NMI Services, Inc.

OSI Systems Inc.

OSI Systems, together with its subsidiaries, is a designer and manufacturer of electronic systems and components for applications. The company sells its products and provides related services in various markets, including homeland security, healthcare, defense and aerospace. The company's operating divisions are: Security, which provides security and inspection systems, security screening solutions and related services; Healthcare, which provides patient monitoring, diagnostic cardiology, and anesthesia delivery and ventilation systems; Optoelectronics and Manufacturing, which provides electronic components and electronic manufacturing services for the Security and Healthcare divisions.

QuinStreet

QuinStreet provides marketplace products and technologies. The company focuses on customer acquisition for clients in markets or verticals including financial services, education, home services and business-to-business technology. The company delivers marketing results to its clients, typically in the form of a qualified click, lead, inquiry, call, application, or customer. Clicks, leads, inquiries, calls, and applications can then convert into a customer or sale for clients at a rate that results in an acceptable marketing cost to them. The company is typically paid by clients when it delivers qualified clicks, leads, inquiries, calls, applications, or customers as defined by its agreements with them.

RH
RH

RH is a holding company. Together with its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company provides merchandise assortments across a number of categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bathware, decor, outdoor and garden, and child and teen furnishings. The company positions its Galleries as showrooms for its brand, while its Source Books and websites act as virtual extensions of its stores. The company's business is integrated across its various channels of distribution, consisting of its stores, Source Books, and websites. The company operates its retail Galleries throughout the U.S. and Canada, and its Waterworks showrooms throughout the U.S. and in the U.K.

Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Silicon Laboratories is a provider of silicon, software and solutions for the Internet of Things (IoT), Internet infrastructure, industrial automation, consumer and automotive markets. The company provides analog-intensive, mixed-signal solutions for use in a variety of electronic products in a range of applications for the IoT including connected home and security, industrial automation and control, smart metering, smart lighting, commercial building automation, consumer electronics, asset tracking and medical instrumentation. The company provides a range of timing and isolation products for infrastructure applications including clocks and oscillators for networking equipment, and data centers.

Starbucks Corporation

Starbucks is a roaster, marketer and retailer of coffee. The company's segments are: Americas, which is inclusive of the United States, Canada, and Latin America; International, which is inclusive of China, Japan, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Channel Development. The company's Americas and International segments include both company-operated and licensed stores. The company's Channel Development segment includes roasted whole bean and ground coffees, Seattle's Best Coffee?, Starbucks- and Teavana-branded single-serve products, a variety of ready-to-drink beverages, and other products sold worldwide outside of the company's company-operated and licensed stores.

TD SYNNEX CORP

Synnex is a business process services company, providing a range of distribution, logistics and integration services for the technology industry and providing outsourced services focused on customer engagement to a range of enterprises. The company's segments are: Technology Solutions, which distributes peripherals, information technologysystems including data center server and storage solutions, system components, software, networking, communications and security equipment; and Concentrix, which provides a portfolio of solutions and business services focused on customer engagement, process optimization, technology innovation, front and back-office automation and business transformation to clients.

Wynn Resorts Limited

Wynn Resorts is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, developer, and operator of resorts featuring hotel rooms, retail space, an array of dining and entertainment options, meeting and convention facilities, and gaming. Through its subsidiary, Wynn Macau, Limited, the company operates two integrated resorts in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau. In Las Vegas, NV, the company also operates and, with the exception of certain retail space, own Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor, an integrated resort in Everett, MA, adjacent to Boston.

Xilinx Inc.

Xilinx designs and develops programmable devices and associated technologies, including: integrated circuits (ICs) in the form of programmable logic devices (PLDs), including programmable System on Chips and three-dimensional ICs; Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platform, a multi-core heterogeneous compute platform; software design tools to program the PLDs; software development environments and embedded platforms; targeted reference designs; printed circuit boards; and intellectual property (IP), which consists of the company and third-party verification and IP cores. In addition to its programmable platforms, the company provides design services, customer training, field engineering and technical support.

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Ross LaDuke

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