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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
AeroVironment Inc.

AeroVironment designs, develops, produces, supports and operates a portfolio of products and services for government agencies and businesses. The company supplies unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and related services primarily to organizations within the U.S. Department of Defense and to international allied governments, and tactical missile systems and related services. The company's UAS business focuses primarily on the design, development, production, marketing, support and operation of UAS and tactical missile systems and the delivery of UAS-related services that provide situational awareness, remote sensing, multi-band communications, force protection and other information and mission effects.

BJ's Restaurants Inc.

BJ's Restaurants operates in the casual dining segment of the restaurant industry. The company's restaurants feature a number of menu offerings including: slow roasted entrees, such as, prime rib; EnLIGHTened Entrees? such as its Cherry Chipotle Glazed Salmon; its deep-dish pizza; the Pizookie? dessert; and its BJ's proprietary craft beers. The company owns and operates restaurants located in various states, and its proprietary craft beer is produced at various locations, its Temple, TX brewpub locations and by independent third party brewers using its proprietary recipes. The company also produces its proprietary non-alcoholic craft sodas including root beer, ginger beer, cream, orange and black cherry soda.

Brinker International Inc.

Brinker International is engaged in owning, developing, operating and franchising the Chili's? Grill & Bar (Chili's) and Maggiano's Little Italy? (Maggiano's) restaurant brands. Chili's operates in the bar and grill category of casual dining. Chili's menu includes burgers, fajitas, baby back ribs and margaritas. Chili's To Go menu is available online, by calling the restaurant, or through its mobile app. Maggiano's is a casual restaurant brand providing Italian-American cuisine. Dishes are served in both a la carte and family style. The company provides a range of lunch and dinner options, complimented by a wine list and cocktails.

Caleres Inc.

Caleres is a footwear retailer and wholesaler. The company is engaged in the operation of retail shoe stores and e-commerce websites as well as the design, sourcing and marketing of footwear for women, men and children. The company's Famous Footwear segment includes its Famous Footwear stores, which features a selection of athletic, casual and dress shoes for the entire family. The company's Brand Portfolio segment provides retailers and consumers a portfolio of brands by designing, sourcing and marketing footwear for women and men at a variety of price points. The company's Brand Portfolio segment sells footwear on a wholesale basis to retailers as well as through its branded retail stores and e-commerce businesses.

China Mobile Ltd.

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. ADS

Cimarex Energy Co.

Cimarex Energy is an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. The company's operations are mainly located in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The company's operations are focused in two main areas: the Permian Basin and the Mid-Continent. The company's Permian Basin region encompasses west Texas and southeast New Mexico. The company's Mid-Continent region consists of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

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.

Energizer Holdings Inc.

Energizer Holdings is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of household and specialty batteries, portable lights, and automotive appearance, performance, refrigerants and freshener products. The company provides batteries using various technologies including lithium, alkaline, carbon zinc, nickel metal hydride, zinc air, and silver oxide. The company manufactures, distributes and markets lighting products including headlights, lanterns, children's lights and area lights. The company also provides auto care products in the appearance and fragrance categories including protectants, wipes, tire and wheel care products, glass cleaners, leather care products, air fresheners and washes.

EQT Corporation

EQT is a natural gas production company with operations focus in the Marcellus and Utica shales of the Appalachian Basin.

Greenbrier Companies Inc.

Greenbrier Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, manufactures and markets railroad freight car equipment in North America, Europe, the Gulf Cooperation Council and South America. The company has three segments: Manufacturing, which produces conventional railcars, tank cars, intermodal railcars, automotive and is involved in marine vessel fabrication; Wheels, Repair and Parts, which includes reconditioning of wheels and axles in addition to new axle machining and finishing and downsizing; and Leasing and Services, which includes railcar maintenance management, railcar accounting services, total fleet management, administration and railcar remarketing.

Greif Class A

Greif is a producer of industrial packaging products and services. The company's segments are: Rigid Industrial Packaging and Services, which products including steel, fibre and plastic drums, rigid intermediate bulk containers, closure systems for industrial packaging products, and transit protection products; Paper Packaging and Services, which produces and sells containerboard, corrugated sheets, corrugated containers and other corrugated products; Flexible Products and Services, which produces flexible intermediate bulk containers and related services; and Land Management, which is focused on the harvesting and regeneration of the company's United States timber properties.

Honda Motor ADS

LogMeIn Inc.

LogMeIn provides a portfolio of cloud-based communication and collaboration, identity and access, and customer engagement and support solutions. The company's cloud-based services are categorized into three business lines: Unified Communications and Collaboration, which includes GoToConference, GoToMeeting, GoToTraining, GoToWebinar, Grasshopper, Jive, join.me, join.me pro and join.me business, and OpenVoice; and Customer Engagement and Support, which includes Bold360, Bold360 ai, RescueAssist, GoToAssist Corporate and GoToAssist Seeit, and LogMeIn Rescue; and Identity and Access Management, which includes LogMeIn Central, GoToMyPC, LogMeIn Pro, and LastPass.

Mobile Mini Inc.

Mobile Mini is engaged in providing portable storage solutions. The company is also a provider of specialty containment solutions in the U.S. The company's business is comprised primarily of two product categories: Storage Solutions and Tank and Pump Solutions. The company's storage solutions segment consists of the company's container and ground level office product offerings. The company provides a range of Storage Solutions products in varying lengths and widths with an assortment of differentiated features such as patented locking systems, premium doors, electrical wiring and shelving. The company's Tank and Pump Solutions products consist primarily of liquid and solid containment units, pumps and filtration equipment.

Molson Coors Beverage Company Class B

Molson Coors Brewing is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a brewer and has a portfolio of brands, including Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Staropramen, Carling, Molson Canadian and other brands, as well as craft and specialty beers such as Creemore Springs, Cobra, Doom Bar, Henry's Hard and Leinenkugel's. The company's segments include: MillerCoors LLC operating in the U.S.; Molson Coors Canada operating in Canada; Molson Coors Europe operating in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K. and various other European countries; and Molson Coors International operating in various other countries.

MSC Industrial Direct Co. Inc. Class A

MSC Industrial Direct Co. is a distributor of metalworking and maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) products and services. The company provides stock-keeping units through its eCommerce channels, including its website, mscdirect.com; its inventory management solutions; catalogs and brochures; and call-centers and branches. The company's range of MRO products includes cutting tools, measuring instruments, tooling components, metalworking products, fasteners, flat stock, raw materials, abrasives, machinery hand and power tools, safety and janitorial supplies, plumbing supplies, materials handling products, power transmission components, and electrical supplies.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

Nutanix Inc. Class A

Nutanix provides an enterprise cloud platform that consists of software solutions. The company's solution allows its customers to virtualize various clouds - private, public, distributed - into one cloud enabling enterprises to choose the right cloud for the right application. The company's enterprise cloud platform converges compute, virtualization, storage, networking, desktop, governance and security services in one integrated solution. Acropolis is the foundation of the company's enterprise cloud platform. Acropolis is comprised of four foundational components: Virtualization, Enterprise Storage Capabilities, Platform Services, and Networking Services.

PetroChina Co Ltd

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals

Rhythm Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's primary product candidate is setmelanotide, which is a melanocortin-4 (MC4) receptor agonist peptide for the treatment of rare genetic disorders of obesity caused by MC4 pathway deficiencies. MC4 pathway deficiencies result in the disruption of satiety signals and energy homeostasis in the body, which, in turn, leads to intense feelings of hunger and to obesity. The company is evaluating setmelanotide for the treatment of six single gene related MC4 pathway deficiencies: pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC), leptin receptor, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, Alstrom syndrome, POMC heterozygous, and POMC epigenetic disorders.

RMR Group Inc. Class A

RMR Group is a holding company. Substantially various of the business of the company is conducted by its subsidiary, The RMR Group LLC (RMR LLC). The company's business consists of providing management services to its Managed Equity Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and its real estate operating companies (Managed Operators). As manager of the Managed Equity REITs, the company implements investment strategies and manages day to day operations, subject to supervision and oversight by each Managed Equity REIT's board of trustees. RMR Advisors LLC, a subsidiary of RMR LLC, is an investment advisor which provides advisory services to the RMR Real Estate Income Fund.

Ryanair Holdings PLC ADS

State Street Corporation

State Street is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors. The company's clients include mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers. The company's Investment Servicing line of business performs custody and related functions, such as providing institutional investors with clearing, settlement and payment services. The company's Investment Management line of business, through State Street Global Advisors, provides a range of investment management strategies and products for its clients.

Taubman Centers Inc.

Taubman Centers operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership is a majority-owned partnership subsidiary of the company that owns direct or indirect interests in all of the company's real estate properties. The company owns, manages, leases, acquires, disposes of, develops, and expands shopping centers and interests therein. The company's owned portfolio of operating centers consists of urban and suburban shopping centers operating in the United States, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and China.

Teradata Corporation

Teradata is a hybrid cloud analytics software provider. The company's solution, Teradata Vantage?, is its data warehouse and analytics platform that allows companies to utilize their data across an enterprise, whether on premises, in public or private clouds, or in a hybrid environment. The company's solutions are comprised of software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services. The company's business consulting services include a range of offerings, including consulting to help organizations establish an analytic vision, identify and operationalize analytical opportunities, enable an analytical ecosystem architecture, and ensure their analytical infrastructure delivers value.

Ternium S.A. Sponsored ADR

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant company operating predominately in the casual dining segment. The company operates Texas Roadhouse restaurants and Bubba's 33 restaurants. In addition, the company operates restaurants outside of the casual dining segment. The Texas Roadhouse restaurants provide an assortment of steaks hand-cut on the premises and cooked to order over open grills. In addition to steaks, the company also provides its guests a selection of ribs, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. Bubba's 33 is a sports restaurant. The company's menu features burgers, pizza and wings as well as a variety of appetizers, sandwiches and dinner entrees.

Trinity Industries Inc.

Trinity Industries is a provider of railcar products and services in North America. The company has the following reportable segments: Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, which provides operating leases for freight and tank railcars, as well as originates and manages railcar leases for third-party investors and provides fleet maintenance and management services to industrial shippers; Rail Products Group, which manufactures freight and tank railcars in North America used for transporting a variety of liquids, gases, and dry cargo, and also provides a range of maintenance services and solutions; and All Other, which includes the company's highway products business.

United Therapeutics Corporation

United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company. The company markets and sells four commercial therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Remodulin? (treprostinil) Injection; Tyvaso? (treprostinil) Inhalation Solution; Orenitram? (treprostinil) Extended-Release Tablets; and Adcirca? (tadalafil) Tablets. The company also markets and sells an oncology product, Unituxin? (dinutuximab) Injection for treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma. The company also engages in research and development of new indications and formulations and delivery devices for its existing products, as well as new products to treat PAH and other conditions. The company also engages in organ transplantation-related technologies.

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.

Vodafone Group PLC (ADR)

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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