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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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AES Corporation

AES is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates a portfolio of electricity generation and distribution businesses. The first business line is generation, where the company owns and/or operates power plants to generate and sell power to customers, such as utilities, industrial users, and other intermediaries. The second business line is utilities, where the company owns and/or operates utilities to generate or purchase, distribute, transmit and sell electricity to end-user customers in the residential, commercial, industrial and governmental sectors within a defined service area. In certain circumstances, the company's utilities also generates and sells electricity on the wholesale market.

AMAG Pharmaceuticals Inc.

AMAG Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on bringing products to patients in the areas of maternal and women's health, anemia management and cancer supportive care, including Feraheme? (ferumoxytol injection) for intravenous use, Makena? (hydroxyprogesterone caproate injection), Intrarosa? (prasterone) vaginal inserts and MuGard? Mucoadhesive Oral Wound Rinse. The company's portfolio also includes three product candidates, Vyleesi? (bremelanotide), which is for the treatment of hypoactive sexual desire disorder in pre-menopausal women, AMAG-423 (digoxin immune fab (ovine)), which is for the treatment of preeclampsia, and ciraparantag, which serves as an anticoagulant reversal agent.

Ambac Financial Group Inc.

Ambac Financial Group is a financial service holding company. The company's provides financial guarantee policies through its principal operating subsidiary, Ambac Assurance Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary Ambac Assurance UK Limited. The company has another wholly-owned subsidiary, Everspan Financial Guarantee Corp. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in one business segment: financial guarantee insurance, which consists of insurance policies issued provide an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee which protects the holder of a debt obligation against non-payment when due of the principal and interest on the obligations guaranteed.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. Class A

AMC Entertainment Holdings is a theatrical exhibition company. Through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including American Multi-Cinema, Inc. and its subsidiaries, the company is principally involved in theatrical exhibition business and owns, operates or has interests in theatres primarily located in the U.S. and Europe. The company provides consumers a range of entertainment alternatives including film programming, independent and foreign films, performing arts, music and sports. The company also provides food and beverage alternatives such as made-to-order meals, customized coffee, snacks, beer, wine, cocktails and dine-in theatre options.

Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited

Aspen Insurance Holdings is a holding company. The company underwrites specialty insurance and reinsurance through its subsidiaries in Bermuda, the U.S. and the U.K. The company has two segments: reinsurance, which consists of property catastrophe reinsurance, other property reinsurance (risk excess, pro rata and facultative), casualty reinsurance (U.S. treaty, international treaty and global facultative) and specialty reinsurance (credit and surety, agriculture insurance and reinsurance, marine, aviation, terrorism, engineering and other specialty lines), and insurance, which consists of property and casualty insurance, marine, aviation and energy insurance and financial and professional lines insurance.

Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.

Big 5 Sporting Goods is a holding company. The company is a sporting goods retailer. The company's product mix includes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, as well as a range of outdoor and athletic equipment for team sports, fitness, camping, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, winter and summer recreation and roller sports. The company's stores carry a range of products from brand name manufacturers, including adidas, Coleman, Columbia, Everlast, New Balance, Nike, Rawlings, Skechers, Spalding, Under Armour and Wilson. The company also provides brand name merchandise produced for it, private label merchandise and items the company purchases through opportunistic buys of vendor over-stock and close-out merchandise.

Bojangles' Inc.

Bojangles' is a restaurant operator and franchisor focused on serving customers with food made from its Southern recipes. The company's menu includes its buttermilk biscuits; its fried chicken; its fixin's; 500 Calorie or Under menu items such as salads, the company's grilled chicken sandwich, and fat-free green beans; its baked and delicious sweets menu; and its Legendary Iced Tea. As of Dec 31 2017, there was 325 Company-operated restaurants, 62 related party franchised restaurants, and 377 independent franchised restaurants operating under the Bojangles'

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.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods is primarily engaged in the production of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. The company's segments are: Grocery Products, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products; Refrigerated Foods, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, chicken, and turkey products; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded turkey products; and International and Other, which includes Hormel Foods International Corporation that manufactures, markets, and sells the company's products internationally.

LSC Communications Inc.

LSC Communications is engaged in providing digital print, print-related services and office products. The company's service offering includes e-services, logistics, warehousing and fulfillment and supply chain management services. The company's segment and product and service offerings include: The Magazines, Catalogs and Logistics, which produces magazines and catalogs and provides logistics solutions to the company and other third parties as well as provides certain other print-related services, including mail services; and Office Products, which manufactures and sells branded and private label products in five categories: filing products, envelopes, note-taking products, binder products, and forms.

Noble Energy Inc.

Noble Energy is an independent energy company, engaged in crude oil and natural gas exploration and production. The company's operating areas include: U.S. onshore, primarily the DJ Basin, Delaware Basin and Eagle Ford Shale; U.S. offshore Gulf of Mexico; Eastern Mediterranean; and West Africa. The company's Midstream segment develops, owns, operates and acquires domestic midstream infrastructure assets, or invests in other midstream entities, with existing focus areas being the DJ and Delaware Basins. The company's activities include geophysical and geological evaluation; analysis of commercial, regulatory and political risks; and exploratory and development drilling leading to production, where appropriate.

NOV Inc.

National Oilwell Varco is an independent provider of equipment and technology to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's segments include: Wellbore Technologies, which designs, manufactures, rents, and sells a variety of equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations; Completion and Production Solutions, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation, well intervention, onshore production, and offshore production; and Rig Technologies, which designs, manufactures and sells land rigs, offshore drilling equipment packages, and drilling rig components that mechanize and automate the drilling process and rig functionality.

Precigen Inc

Intrexon is engaged in the field of synthetic biology, focusing on programming biological systems to alleviate disease, remediate environmental challenges, and provide sustainable food and industrial chemicals. Using its suite of technologies, the company designs, builds and regulates gene programs, which are DNA sequences that consist of primary genetic components. A single gene program or a complex, multi-genic program is fabricated and stored within a DNA vector. Vectors are segments of DNA used as a vehicle to transmit genetic information. The company's primary domestic operations are in California, Florida, Maryland, and Virginia, and its primary international operations are in Hungary.

Transocean Ltd.

TripAdvisor Inc.

TripAdvisor is an online travel company. The company operates a travel platform that connects the travelers with travel partners through content, price comparison tools, and online reservation and related services for destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. The company manages its business in the following segments: Hotels, Media and Platform, which provides services such as click-based advertising on Tripadvisor-branded websites, subscription-based and display-based advertising, and other services; Experiences and Dining, which provides information and services for consumers to research and book activities, attractions, and restaurants in travel destinations.

Ulta Beauty Inc

Ulta Beauty is a beauty retailer that provides cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products, and salon services. The company's stores are primarily located in locations such as power centers. The company provides a range of services in all of its stores. The company's stores, website, and mobile applications provides more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 beauty brands across all categories and price points, including its own private label, the Ulta Beauty Collection. The company provides a portfolio across five primary categories: cosmetics; skincare, bath and fragrance; haircare products and styling tools; salon services; and other, which includes nail products and accessories.

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