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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.
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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.

American Assets Trust Inc.

American Assets Trust is a self-administered real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and develops retail, office, multifamily and mixed-use properties in Southern California, Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Texas and Hawaii. The company operates in four segments: Retail, which primarily include rental of retail space and other tenant services, including tenant reimbursements, parking and storage space rental; Office, which primarily include rental of office space and other tenant services; Multifamily, which include rental of apartments and other tenant services; and Mixed-use, which include rental of retail space and other tenant services.

Atkore Inc

Atkore International Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a manufacturer of Electrical Raceway products primarily for the non-residential construction and renovation markets and Mechanical Products and Solutions (MP&S) for the construction and industrial markets. The company's segments are: Electrical Raceway, which ufactures products that deploy, isolate and protect a structure's electrical circuitry from the original power source to the final outlet; and MP&S, which provides products and services that frame, support and secure component parts in a range of structures, equipment and systems in electrical, industrial and construction applications.

Banco Macro SA Sponsored ADR Class B

BANK OF AMERICA CORP

Bank of America is a bank and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer Banking, which provides credit, banking and investment products and services; Global Wealth & Investment Management, which provides investment management, brokerage, banking and retirement products; Global Banking, which provides lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions, and underwriting and advisory services; and Global Markets, which provides sales and trading services and research services.

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

Bank of New York Mellon divides its businesses into two business segments, Investment Services and Investment Management. The company also has an Other segment, which includes the leasing portfolio, corporate treasury activities, derivatives and other trading activity, corporate and bank-owned life insurance, renewable energy investments and business exits. The company's two principal United States banking subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. The company has four other United States bank and/or trust company subsidiaries concentrating on trust products and services across the United States.

BP PLC ADS

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

China Mobile Ltd.

CI First Asset European Bank ETF

Cinemark Holdings Inc.

Cinemark Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in the motion picture exhibition industry, with theatres in the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Bolivia, Curacao and Paraguay. The company provides a variety of content at its theatres and plays films from various genres, such as dramas, comedies and horror. The company monitors upcoming films and other content and works with film distributors to license the content. The company provides content in both 2-D and 3-D formats in its theatres, and in various locations, it provides either its exhibitor-branded large format, XD, or IMAX.

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.

CNOOC Ltd

Concho Resources Inc.

Concho Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.

Encore Wire Corporation

Encore Wire is a manufacturer of electrical building wire and cable. The company is a supplier of building wire for interior electrical wiring in commercial and industrial buildings, homes, apartments, and manufactured housing. The principal customers for the company's wire are wholesale electrical distributors, who sell building wire and other products to electrical contractors. The company provides an electrical building wire product line that consists primarily of NM-B cable, UF-B cable, THHN/THWN-2, XHHW-2, RHH/RHW-2 and other types of wire products, including tray cable, metal-clad and armored cable. These products are manufactured with copper or aluminum as the current-carrying component of the conductor.

Equity Commonwealth

Equity Commonwealth is a real estate investment trust. The company is primarily engaged in the ownership and operation of office buildings. The company conducts substantially all of its activities through EQC Operating Trust.

Equity Residential

Equity Residential is a real estate investment trust. The company focuses on the acquisition, development and management of rental apartment properties. The company is the general partner of, and owns an ownership interest in ERP Operating Limited Partnership (ERPOP). All of the company's property ownership, development and related business operations are conducted through ERPOP and those entities/subsidiaries owned or controlled by ERPOP (collectively, Operating Partnership). The Operating Partnership holds substantially all of the assets of the company The company, directly or indirectly through investments in title holding entities, owns all or a portion of its properties located in several states and the District of Columbia.

Essex Property Trust Inc.

Essex Property Trust operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns all of its interest in its real estate and other investments directly or indirectly through Essex Portfolio, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. The company is engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of primarily apartment communities, located along the West Coast. The company owns or has an interest in various operating apartment communities, consisting of apartment homes, operating commercial building and a development pipeline.

Federal Signal Corporation

Federal Signal designs, manufactures and supplies products and solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial and commercial customers. Products manufactured and supplied, and services rendered, by the company are divided into two segments: Environmental Solutions Group, which manufactures and supplies a range of street sweeper vehicles, sewer cleaner and vacuum loader trucks, hydro-excavation trucks, waterblasting equipment, dump truck bodies and trailers; and Safety and Security Systems Group, which manufactures and supplies systems and products that law enforcement, fire rescue, emergency medical services, campuses, military facilities and industrial sites use to protect people and property.

Heartland Express Inc.

Heartland Express is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier. The company primarily provides asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers from Washington to Florida and New England to California. The company also provides temperature-controlled truckload services, which are not significant to its operations. The company operates terminal facilities throughout the contiguous United States in addition to its terminal and corporate headquarters in North Liberty, IA.

HORIZONS CDN INS

IDACORP Inc.

Idacorp is a holding company. The company's principal operating subsidiary, Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power) is an electric utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy and capacity. Idaho Energy Resources Co., a joint venturer in Bridger Coal Company, which mines and supplies coal to the Jim Bridger generating plant owned in part by Idaho Power. The company's other subsidiaries include: IDACORP Financial Services, Inc., an investor in affordable housing and other real estate investments; and Ida-West Energy Company, an operator of small hydroelectric generation projects.

Innoviva Inc.

Innoviva is a company with a portfolio of royalties that include respiratory assets. The company's Long-Acting Beta2 Agonist (LABA) collaboration has developed the combination products: RELVAR? /BREO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily combination medicine consisting of a LABA, vilanterol (VI), and an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), fluticasone furoate (FF); ANORO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily medicine combining a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), umeclidinium bromide (UMEC), with a LABA, VI; and RELEGY? ELLIPTA? (the combination FF/UMEC/VI), a once-daily combination medicine consisting of an ICS, LAMA and LABA.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Juniper Networks designs, develops and sells products and services for networks. The company sells its products in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific. The company sells its network products and service offerings across routing, switching, and security technologies. In addition, the company provides its customers services, including maintenance and support, services, and education and training programs. The company's products and services address network requirements for its customers within its vertical: Cloud, Service Provider, and Enterprise. The company's portfolio addresses domains in the network: core; edge; access and aggregation; data centers; and campus and branch.

Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.

Keurig Dr Pepper is a beverage company with a portfolio of flavored (non-cola) carbonated soft drinks (CSDs), non-carbonated beverages, and is a producer of single serve brewing systems. The company's Coffee Systems segment develops and sells a variety of Keurig brewers, brewer accessories and other coffee-related equipment. The company's Packaged Beverages segment manufactures and distributes packaged beverages of its brands. The company's Beverage Concentrates segment manufactures and sells beverage concentrates. The company's Latin America Beverages segment participates mainly in the carbonated mineral water, flavored CSD, bottled water and vegetable juice categories.

L3Harris Technologies Inc

L3Harris Technologies is a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company's segments are: Integrated Mission Systems, including multi-mission intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and communication systems; Space and Airborne Systems, including space payloads, sensors and full-mission solutions; Communication Systems, including tactical communications, broadband communications, integrated vision solutions, and public safety; and Aviation Systems, including defense aviation products, security, detection and other commercial aviation products, commercial and military pilot training, and mission networks for air traffic management.

Lincoln National Corporation

Lincoln National operates multiple insurance and retirement businesses through its subsidiary companies. The company provides products and services through four segments as follows: Annuities, which provides tax-deferred investment growth and lifetime income opportunities for its clients by providing variable annuities, fixed annuities and indexed variable annuities; Retirement Plan Services, which provides employers with retirement plan products and services, primarily in the defined contribution retirement plan marketplace; Life Insurance, which focuses on the creation and protection of wealth for its clients; and Group Protection, which provides group non-medical insurance products.

Neenah Inc

Neenah is a producer of technical products and fine papers and packaging. The company is organized into two primary businesses: technical products, which is a producer of fiber-formed, coated and/or saturated media that provides benefits to customers, such as filtration media for transportation, water and other filtration markets, and saturated and coated performance materials used for specialty tapes, abrasives, performance labels, digital image transfer, and a variety of other end markets; and fine paper and packaging, which manufactures and sells writing, text, cover and papers and envelopes used in commercial printing services, corporate identity packages, and advertising collateral.

Neurocrine Biosciences Inc.

Neurocrine Biosciences is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing treatments for patients with neurological, endocrine and psychiatric disorders. The company is primarily focused on the commercialization of INGREZZA? (valbenazine) in the United States. The company's late-stage pipeline includes opicapone as an adjunctive therapy to levodopa/DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors in adult Parkinson's disease patients, elagolix for the treatment of heavy menstrual bleeding associated with uterine fibroids in women, valbenazine for the treatment of chorea in adult patients with Huntington's disease and NBIb-1817 (VY-AADC) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease patients.

New Jersey Resources Corporation

New Jersey Resources is an energy services holding company whose principal business is the distribution of natural gas through a regulated utility, providing other retail and wholesale energy services to customers and investing in clean energy projects and midstream assets. The company's segments are: Natural Gas Distribution, which consists of regulated natural gas services, off-system sales, capacity and storage management operations; Clean Energy Ventures, which consists of capital investments in clean energy projects; Energy Services, which consists of unregulated wholesale and retail energy operations; and Midstream, which consists of investments in the midstream natural gas market.

NorthWestern Corporation

Northwestern provides electricity and/or natural gas to customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. The company's segments are: electric operations; and natural gas operations. In Montana, the company's regulated electric utility business includes generation, transmission and distribution. The company also transmits electricity for nonregulated entities owning generation, and utilities, cooperatives, and power marketers serving the electricity market. The company's regulated natural gas utility business includes production, storage, transmission and distribution. The company transmits natural gas from production receipt points and storage facilities to distribution points and other nonaffiliated transmission systems.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Occidental Petroleum has three reporting segments: oil and gas, which explores for, develops and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas; chemical, which mainly manufactures and markets basic chemicals (chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated organics, potassium chemicals, ethylene dichloride, chlorinated isocyanurates, sodium silicates and calcium chloride) and vinyls (vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride and ethylene); and marketing and midstream, which purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGL, natural gas, carbon dioxide and power.

Phillips 66 Partners LP

Rite Aid Corporation

Rite Aid is a pharmacy retail healthcare company. The company's Retail Pharmacy segment sells brand and generic prescription drugs, as well as an assortment of front-end products including health and beauty aids, personal care products, seasonal merchandise, and a private brand product line. The company's Pharmacy Services segment provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) options through its EnvisionRxOptions and MedTrak PBMs, respectively. EnvisionRxOptions also provides mail-order and specialty pharmacy services through EnvisionPharmacies; a claims adjudication software platform in Laker Software; and a national Medicare Part D prescription drug plan through its EnvisionRx Plus product offering.

S&T Bancorp Inc.

S&T Bancorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through S&T Bank and its non-bank subsidiaries, the company provides consumer, commercial and small business banking services, which include accepting time and demand deposits and originating commercial and consumer loans, brokerage services and trust services including serving as executor and trustee under wills and deeds and as guardian and custodian of employee benefits. The company also manages private investment accounts for individuals and institutions through its registered investment advisor.

Shinhan Financial Group Co. Ltd.

Signature Bank

Signature Bank is a commercial bank with private client offices located in the New York metropolitan area, providing a variety of business and personal banking products and services. The company also has a private client banking office in San Francisco. The company provides a variety of financing and leasing products, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services, and a range of municipal finance and tax-exempt lending and leasing products to government entities, including state and local governments, school districts, fire and police and other municipal entities. Additionally, the company purchases, securitizes and sells the guaranteed portions of U.S. Small Business Administration loans.

SiriusPoint Ltd

Suncor Energy Inc.

Suncor Energy is an energy company. Co.'s operations include oil sands development and upgrading, onshore and offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining, and product marketing under the Petro-Canada brand. Co.'s segments include: oil sands, which develop and produce synthetic crude oil and related products through the recovery and upgrading of bitumen; exploration and production, which include offshore activity, and the exploration and production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids; and refining and marketing, which include the refining of crude oil products, and the distribution and marketing of these and other purchased products, as well as a lubricants plant.

TC Energy Corporation

TransCanada is an energy company. Co. operates three business segments: natural gas pipeline, which transports natural gas across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and has regulated natural gas storage facilities in Michigan with a total capacity of 250 billion cubic ft.; liquids pipelines, which consists of wholly-owned and operated crude oil pipeline systems that connects Alberta and U.S. crude oil supplies to U.S. refining markets, as well as connecting U.S. crude oil supplies from the Cushing, OK hub to refining markets in the U.S Gulf Coast; and energy, which includes a portfolio of power generation assets in Canada and the U.S., and unregulated natural gas storage assets in Alberta.

Telecomunicacoes de Sao Paulo S/A ADS

Tredegar Corp.

Tredegar is engaged in the manufacture of polyethylene (PE) plastic films, polyester (PET) films and aluminum extrusions. The company's business segments are: PE Films, which manufactures plastic films, elastics and laminate materials; Flexible Packaging Films, which produces PET-based films for use in packaging applications that have properties, such as heat resistance, strength, barrier protection and the ability to accept print graphics; and Aluminum Extrusions, which produces soft-alloy and medium-strength aluminum extrusions primarily for building and construction, automotive, consumer durables, machinery and equipment, electrical and distribution markets.

UDR Inc.

UDR is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires, renovates, develops, redevelops, disposes of, and manages multifamily apartment communities generally located in markets located throughout the United States. In addition, the company has an ownership interest in completed or to-be-completed apartment homes through unconsolidated joint ventures or partnerships, including apartment homes owned by entities in which the company hold preferred equity investments. The company's operating partnership, United Dominion Realty, L.P., has a consolidated real estate portfolio that includes communities located in several markets.

United Bankshares Inc.

United Bankshares is a financial holding company. Through its banking subsidiary, United Bank, the company provides a range of commercial and retail banking services and products. The company operates in two business segments: community banking and mortgage banking. Through its community banking segment, the company provides range of banking products and services through various delivery channels. The mortgage banking segment engages primarily in the origination and acquisition of residential mortgages for sale into the secondary market though George Mason Mortgage, LLC, an indirectly owned subsidiary of the company

Valero Energy Corporation

Valero Energy is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels and petrochemical products. The company's segments include: Refining, which includes its refining operations, the associated marketing activities, and logistics assets that support its refining operations; Ethanol, which includes its ethanol operations, the associated marketing activities, and logistics assets that support its ethanol operations; and Renewable Diesel, which includes the operations of its joint ventture, Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC, which owns and operates a renewable diesel plant in Norco, LA.

Viavi Solutions Inc

Viavi Solutions is a provider of network test, monitoring and assurance solutions to communications service providers, enterprises, network equipment manufacturers, civil government, military and avionics customers. The company operates the following business segments: Network Enablement, which provides testing solutions that access the network to perform build-out and maintenance tasks; Service Enablement, which provides embedded systems and enterprise performance management solutions; and Optical Security and Performance Products, which designs, manufactures, and sells products targeting anti-counterfeiting, consumer and industrial, government, healthcare and other markets.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Werner Enterprises is a transportation and logistics company engaged primarily in transporting truckload shipments of general commodities in both interstate and intrastate commerce. The company has two reportable segments: Truckload Transportation Services, which includes the medium-to-long-haul van fleet that transports a variety of consumer nondurable products and other commodities in truckload quantities over irregular routes using dry van trailers, the expedited fleet that provides truckload services, and the regional short-haul fleet that provides truckload van service across the U.S; and Werner Logistics, which is a non-asset-based transportation and logistics provider.

Xperi Holding Corporation

Xperi, through its operating subsidiaries, creates, develops and licenses audio, imaging, semiconductor packaging and interconnect technologies. The company's segments are: Product Licensing, which is comprised of its audio and imaging businesses that the company licenses through the brands DTS, HD Radio and FotoNation, whereby these licenses include the delivery of software and/or hardware-based solutions to its customers or to their suppliers; and Semiconductor and IP Licensing, which includes the company's subsidiaries, Tessera, Inc. and Tessera Advanced Technologies, Inc. and Invensas Corporation that license semiconductor packaging and interconnect technologies and associated intellectual property.

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