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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.

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.

Antero Resources Corporation

Antero Resources is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and oil properties. The company focuses on unconventional reservoirs, which can generally be characterized as fractured shale formations. The company's drilling operations are focused in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin. The company's industry segments are: the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, NGLs, and oil; marketing of excess firm transportation capacity; and the gathering and processing of natural gas. All of the company's operations are conducted in the United States.

ATN International Inc.

ATN International is a holding company that, directly and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates telecommunications and renewable energy businesses in North America, India, Bermuda and the Caribbean. The company has three segments: U.S. Telecom, which provides wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional, local and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located mainly in the Southwest and Midwest U.S.; International Telecom, which includes voice and data services to retail customers in Bermuda, Guyana and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and Renewable Energy, which provides distributed generation solar power to corporate, utility and municipal customers.

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'

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.

Chipotle Mexican Grill together with its subsidiaries operates Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants, which feature a menu of burritos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla), tacos, and salads. The company operates Chipotle restaurants throughout the United States, international Chipotle restaurants, and non-Chipotle restaurants. The company uses various herbs, spices and seasonings to prepare its meats and vegetables. The company also serves tortilla chips that seasoned with lime juice and salt, with sides of hand mashed guacamole, salsas, or queso. In addition to sodas, fruit and tea drinks, and organic milk, most of the company's restaurants also provide a selection of beer and margaritas.

CyberOptics Corp.

CyberOptics is a developer and manufacturer of high precision 3D sensors and system products for inspection and metrology. The company also develops and manufactures its WaferSense? products, a family of wireless, wafer-shaped sensors that provide measurements of critical factors in the semiconductor fabrication process. In addition, the company manufactures 3D and 2D optical sensors for use in its own proprietary inspection system products and for sale to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and end customers in the surface mount technology and semiconductor markets.

DEXCOM INC.

DexCom is a medical device company primarily focused on the design, development and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems for use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers. The company's products include: DecCom G6?, which allows the company's transmitter to run an algorithm to generate a glucose value and to communicate to a patient's mobile device; DexCom G4? PLATINUM, which is used to adjust therapy and to educate and motivate patients to modify their behavior after viewing the effects that specific foods, exercise, stress and medications have on their glucose levels; and DexCom Share?, which transmits glucose information to the mobile devices of designated recipients.

FirstEnergy Corp.

FirstEnergy is a public utility holding company. The company and its subsidiaries are principally involved in the transmission, distribution and generation of electricity. The company's reportable operating segments are comprised of: Regulated Distribution, which distributes electricity through the company's utility operating companies and also controls regulated electric generation capacity located primarily in West Virginia, Virginia and New Jersey; and Regulated Transmission, which provides transmission infrastructure owned and operated by the transmission companies and certain of the company's utilities to transmit electricity from generation sources to distribution facilities.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Genesis Healthcare

Genesis Healthcare is a holding company. The company's services focus primarily on the medical and physical issues facing elderly patients and are provided by its nursing facilities, assisted/senior living communities, integrated and third-party rehabilitation therapy business, and other ancillary services. The company's reportable operating segments comprised of: inpatient services, which includes the operation of skilled nursing facilities and assisted/senior living facilities; rehabilitation therapy services, which includes the company's third-party rehabilitation and respiratory therapy services; and other services, which provides a range of other medical services, including physician services.

Hersha Hospitality Trust Class A

Hersha Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company invests primarily in institutional grade hotels in primary urban gateway markets including New York, Washington, District of Columbia, Boston, Philadelphia, South Florida and select markets on the West Coast. The company owns its hotels and its investments in joint ventures through its operating partnership, Hersha Hospitality Limited Partnership, for which the company serves as the sole general partner. The majority of the company's wholly-owned hotels are managed by Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P., a management company owned by certain of its trustees and executive officers and other unaffiliated third party investors.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. Class A

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is a gastrointestinal (GI), healthcare company focusing on developing the treatment of GI diseases. The company's commercial product, LINZESS? (linaclotide), a guanylate cyclase type C agonists, is indicated for adult men and women suffering from irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, or chronic idiopathic constipation. In addition, the company is developing MD-7246, an oral, intestinal, non-opioid, pain-relieving agent for patients with abdominal pain associated with certain GI diseases. The company is also developing IW-3718, a gastric retentive formulation of a bile acid sequestrant for the potential treatment of refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Navigant Consulting Inc.

Navigant Consulting is a global professional services firm. The company's segments include: Healthcare, which provides consulting services and business process management services; Energy, which provides solutions that help clients transform their businesses in changing energy environment, manage complexity, accelerate operational performance, meet compliance requirements and transform their organizations and systems; and Financial Services Advisory and Compliance, which provides strategic, operational, risk management, investigative and compliance advisory services to clients primarily in the financial services industry, including financial and insurance institutions.

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.

Parsley Energy Inc. Class A

Parsley Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and production of unconventional oil and natural gas properties in the Permian Basin. The Permian Basin is located in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The company's properties are located in two sub areas of the Permian Basin, the Midland and Delaware Basins, where the company focuses on horizontal development drilling.

PDC Energy Inc.

PDC Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores and develops properties for the production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids with operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and the Delaware Basin in Texas. The company's operations in the Wattenberg Field are focused in the horizontal Niobrara and Codell plays and its Delaware Basin operations are primarily focused in the Wolfcamp zones. The company is engaged in two operating segments: its oil and gas exploration and production segment and its gas marketing segment.

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.

QEP Resources Inc.

QEP Resources is an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in two regions of the United States: the Southern Region (primarily in Texas) and the Northern Region (primarily in North Dakota). The company has an inventory of developed and identified undeveloped drilling locations in the Permian Basin in western Texas and the Williston Basin in North Dakota. The company sells oil and condensate and natural gas liquids volumes to refiners, marketers, midstream service providers and other companies. In addition, the company sells gas volumes to wholesale marketers, industrial users, local distribution companies, midstream service providers and utility companies.

Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic is a publisher and distributor of children's books, a provider of print and digital instructional materials for pre-kindergarten to grade 12, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The company creates books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, classroom magazines and other products that, in combination, provides schools, as well as parents and children, solutions to support children's learning and reading both at school and at home. The company is the operator of school-based book clubs and book fair proprietary channels. It distributes its products and services through these channels, as well as directly to schools and libraries.

Transocean Ltd.

Under Armour Inc. Class A

Under Armour is engaged in the development, marketing and distribution of apparel, footwear and accessories for men, women and youth. The company provides HEATGEAR?, which is designed to be worn in warm to hot temperatures under equipment or as a single layer; and COLDGEAR?, which is designed to wick moisture from the body while circulating body heat from hot spots to help maintain core body temperature. The company's footwear products include running, basketball, cleated sports, slides, training, and outdoor. The company provides digital fitness subscriptions, along with digital advertising through its MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and Endomondo applications.

Veritiv Corp

Veritiv is a business-to-business distributor of packaging, facility solutions, print and publishing products and services. Co has the following reportable segments: Packaging, which provides standard as well as custom packaging solutions; Facility Solutions, which sources and sells cleaning, break-room and other supplies such as towels, tissues, wipers and dispensers, can liners, commercial cleaning chemicals, soaps and sanitizers; Print, which sells and distributes commercial printing, writing, copying, digital, specialty products, graphics consumables and graphics equipment; and Publishing and Print Management, which sells and distributes coated and uncoated commercial printing papers.

Village Super Market Inc. Cl A

Village Super Market is engaged in the retail sale of food and nonfood products. The company operates a chain of ShopRite supermarkets in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York City. The company is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation, a retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite and Gourmet Garage names. This relationship provides the company with purchasing, distribution, private label products, retail technology, marketing and advertising. Certain of the company's stores include a Village Food Garden, featuring a restaurant style kitchen and a variety of store prepared foods for both take-home and in-store dining. The company's products include: groceries, dairy and frozen, bakery, liquor, and other.

Weis Markets Inc.

Weis Markets is engaged in the retail sale of food in Pennsylvania. The company's retail food stores sell groceries, dairy products, frozen foods, meats, seafood, fresh produce, floral, pharmacy services, deli products, prepared foods, bakery products, beer and wine, fuel and general merchandise items, such as health and beauty care and household products. The store product selection includes national, local and private brands including natural, gluten-free and organic varieties. All retail food store locations operate as conventional supermarkets. The company utilizes a loyalty marketing program, Weis Club Preferred Shopper, which enable customers to receive discounts, promotions and fuel rewards.

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