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

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key points:

Utilities and REITS remain leadership

Consumer Discretionary remains weak; retailers are breaking down.

Energy continues to be one of the weakest sectors.
Underlyings
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.

Alarm.com Holdings Inc.

Alarm.com is a platform for the intelligently connected property. The company provides a suite of cloud-based solutions for smart residential and commercial properties. The company's service provider partners can deploy its interactive security, video monitoring, intelligent automation and energy management solutions as stand-alone offerings or as combined solutions to address the needs of a range of customers. The company's subscribers can connect to their property through the company's family of mobile apps, websites, and engagement platforms like voice control through Amazon Echo and Google Home, wearable devices like the Apple Watch and TV platforms such as Apple TV and Amazon Fire TV.

American International Group Inc.

American International Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of property casualty insurance, life insurance, retirement solutions, and other financial services. The company's businesses include General Insurance, which provides insurance products and services for commercial and personal insurance customers; Life and Retirement, which brings together a portfolio of life insurance, retirement and institutional products provided through a multichannel distribution network; and Other Operations, which include Blackboard U.S. Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary focused on delivering commercial insurance solutions using digital technology, data analytics and automation.

American States Water Company

American States Water is a holding company. The company is the parent company of Golden State Water Company (GSWC) and American States Utility Services, Inc. (ASUS). The company segments are: water, electric and contracted services. Within the segments, the company has two principal business units: water and electric service utility operations conducted through GSWC, and contracted services conducted through ASUS and its subsidiaries. GSWC is engaged in the purchase, production, distribution and sale of water as well as distributes electricity in California. ASUS, through its subsidiaries has contracted with United States government to provide water and/or wastewater services at various military installations.

Assurant Inc.

Assurant is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of lifestyle and housing solutions. The company operates in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific through three segments: Global Lifestyle, which provides mobile device solutions and extended service products and related services for consumer electronics and appliances; Global Housing, which provides lender-placed homeowners insurance, lender-placed manufactured housing insurance and lender-placed flood insurance; renters insurance and related products and voluntary manufactured housing insurance; and Global Preneed, which provides pre-funded funeral insurance, final need insurance and related services.

Astec Industries Inc.

Astec Industries designs, engineers, manufactures and markets equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities as well as other products. The company also manufactures certain equipment and components unrelated to road construction, including equipment for the mining, quarrying, construction and demolition industries and port and rail yard operators; gas and oil drilling rigs; water well and geothermal drilling rigs; industrial heat transfer equipment; commercial whole-tree pulpwood chippers; horizontal grinders; blower trucks; concrete plants; wood pellet plants; commercial and industrial burners; and combustion control systems.

AvalonBay Communities Inc.

AvalonBay Communities is a real estate investment trust. The company develops, redevelops, acquires, owns and operates multifamily communities primarily in New England, the New York/New Jersey metro area, the Mid-Atlantic, the Pacific Northwest, and Northern and Southern California. The company owns or holds a direct or indirect ownership interest in: operating apartment communities containing apartment homes in various states and the District of Columbia; communities under development; and rights to develop an additional communities.

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.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Robinson (C.H.) Worldwide is a third party logistics company. The company provides freight transportation services and logistics solutions to companies. The company's segments are: North American Surface Transportation, which provides freight transportation services across North America through a network of offices; and Global Forwarding, which provides global logistics services through an international network of offices and also contracts with independent agents; and All Other and Corporate, which includes Robinson Fresh? that provides sourcing services including the buying, selling, and marketing of fresh fruits, vegetables, and other perishable items, and managed services that provides Managed TMS?.

Calavo Growers Inc.

Calavo Growers is engaged in marketing and distribution of avocados, prepared avocados, and other perishable food products. The company has three business segments: Fresh products, which the company sells avocados under the Calavo family of brand labels, as well as private labels and markets and distributes select other perishable food products, such as tomatoes and papayas; Calavo Foods, which utilizes ultra-high pressure technology equipment to protect and safeguard foods without the need of preservatives on several of its prepared avocado and guacamole products; and Renaissance Food Group, which creates, markets, and distributes nationally a portfolio of packaged food products.

CareTrust REIT Inc

CareTrust REIT is a self-administered, publicly-traded real estate investment trust engaged in the ownership, acquisition, development and leasing of seniors housing and healthcare-related properties. The company leases healthcare-related properties to healthcare operators in triple-net lease arrangements, under which the tenant is solely responsible for the costs related to the property (including property taxes, insurance, and maintenance and repair costs). The company's real estate portfolio consists of skilled nursing facilities, multi-service campuses, assisted living facilities and independent living facilities.

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.

CNX Resources Corporation

CNX Resources is an independent oil and gas company focused on the exploration, development, production, gathering, processing and acquisition of natural gas properties primarily in the Appalachian Basin. The company's operations are centered on unconventional shale formations, primarily the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale. The company operates, develops and explores for natural gas in Appalachia (Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, and Virginia).

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.

Core Laboratories NV

Core Laboratories is a holding company. Co. is a provider of reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management services to the oil and gas industry. Co. has three segments: reservoir description, which encompasses the characterization of petroleum reservoir rock, fluid and gas samples; production enhancement, which includes products and services relating to reservoir well completions, perforations, stimulations and production; and reservoir management, which combines and integrates information from reservoir description and production enhancement services to increase production and improve recovery of oil and gas from its clients' reservoirs.

Costco Wholesale Corporation

Costco Wholesale and its subsidiaries are principally engaged in the operation of membership warehouses based on the concept of providing its members low prices on a selection of nationally branded and private-label products. The company's merchandise are: food and sundries, which include dry foods, packaged foods, and groceries, snack foods, candy, alcoholic and nonalcoholic beverages, and cleaning supplies; hardlines, which include appliances, electronics, health and beauty aids, hardware, and garden and patio; fresh food, which include meat, produce, deli, and bakery; softlines, which include apparel and small appliances; and ancillary, which include gas stations and pharmacy businesses.

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.

Exelon Corporation

Exelon is a utility services holding company engaged in the generation, delivery and marketing of energy through Exelon Generation Company, LLC and the energy distribution and transmission businesses through Commonwealth Edison Company, PECO Energy Company, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, Potomac Electric Power Company, Delmarva Power & Light Company and Atlantic City Electric Company. Through its business services subsidiary Exelon Business Services Company, LLC, the company provides its subsidiaries with a variety of support services.

Exterran Corp.

Exterran is a global systems and process company. The company operates in the following primary business lines: contract operations, which provides compression and processing and treating services through the operation of its natural gas compression equipment and crude oil and natural gas production and process equipment; aftermarket services, which sells parts and components and provides operations, maintenance, repair, overhaul, upgrade, startup and commissioning and reconfiguration services; and product sales, which designs, engineers, manufactures, installs and sells natural gas compression packages as well as equipment used in the treating and processing of crude oil, natural gas and water.

Getty Realty Corp.

Getty Realty is a real estate investment trust. The company is engaged in ownership, leasing and financing of convenience store and gasoline station properties. The company's properties are operated under a variety of brands including, among others, 76, BP, Citgo, Conoco, Exxon, Getty, Gulf, Mobil, Shell, Sunoco and Valero. The company's properties are concentrated in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. Most of the company's properties are leased on a triple-net basis primarily to petroleum distributors, convenience store retailers and, to a lesser extent, individual operators.

HCI Group Inc.

HCI Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in a variety of business activities, including property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, real estate and information technology. The company's property and casualty insurance provides various forms of residential insurance products such as homeowners insurance, flood insurance and wind-only insurance to homeowners, condominium owners and tenants for properties primarily located in Florida. The company's real estate operations consist of various properties it owns and operates for investment purposes and also properties it owns and uses for its own operations. The company's other operations consist of information technology products.

Independence Realty Trust Inc.

Independence Realty Trust is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company's primary businesses are to acquire, own, operate, improve and manage multifamily apartment communities in non-gateway markets. The company owns and operates multifamily apartment properties. The company's properties are located in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, and Alabama. The company owns substantially all of its assets and conducts its operations through Independence Realty Operating Partnership, LP, of which the company is the sole general partner.

INTL FCStone

INTL FCStone is a global brokerage and financial services firm. The company's services include risk management advisory services for clients; clearing and execution of debt and equity securities, listed futures and options on futures contracts on securities and commodity exchanges; structured over-the-counter products in a range of commodities; physical trading and hedging of precious and base metals; trading of foreign currencies; market-making in international equities; fixed income; debt origination and asset management. The company organizes its business activities into five reportable segments: Commercial Hedging, Physical Commodities, Clearing and Execution Services, Securities, and Global Payments.

Kemper Corporation

Kemper is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides automobile, homeowners, life, health, and other insurance products to individuals and businesses. The company conducts its operations through three operating segments: Specialty Property and Casualty Insurance, which provides personal and commercial automobile insurance to consumers who have had difficulty obtaining standard or preferred risk insurance; Preferred Property and Casualty Insurance, which sells preferred automobile insurance, homeowners insurance and other personal insurance; and Life and Health Insurance, which provides individual life and supplemental accident and health insurance products.

Lantheus Holdings Inc

Lantheus Holdings develops, manufactures and commercializes diagnostic medical imaging agents and products that assist clinicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases. The company's products include: DEFINITY, which is an ultrasound contrast imaging agent and is indicated for use in patients with suboptimal echocardiograms; TechneLite, which is a self-contained system or generator of Technetium, a radioactive isotope with a six hour half-life, used by radiopharmacies to prepare various nuclear imaging agents; and Xenon Xe 133 Gas, which is a radiopharmaceutical gas that is inhaled and used to assess pulmonary function and also to image cerebral blood flow.

Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services is engaged in operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an automated environment. The company's reportable segments are: Retail Supply Chain Group, which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; Capital Assets Group, which provides solutions to sellers and it consists of marketplaces that enable commercial businesses to sell surplus, salvage, and scrap assets; GovDeals, which provides self-directed service solutions; and Machinio, which operates an online platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, among others.

Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Marathon Petroleum is an independent petroleum refining and marketing, retail and midstream company. The company's segments include: Refining and Marketing, which refines crude oil and other feedstocks at its refineries, purchases refined products and ethanol for resale and distributes refined products; Retail, which sells transportation fuels and convenience products in the retail market across the U.S.; and Midstream, which transports, stores, distributes and markets crude oil and refined products via refining logistics assets, pipelines, terminals, towboats and barges, gathers, processes and transports natural gas, and gathers, transports, fractionates, stores and markets natural gas liquids.

Marcus Corporation

Marcus is engaged primarily in two business segments: movie theatres and hotels and resorts. The movie theatres segment operates multiscreen motion picture theatres in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia, a family entertainment center in Wisconsin and a retail center in Missouri. The hotels and resorts segment owns and operates full service hotels and resorts in Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma and Nebraska and manages full service hotels, resorts and other properties in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Nevada, California and Nebraska.

Photronics Inc.

Photronics is a manufacturer of photomasks, which are photographic quartz or glass plates containing microscopic images of electronic circuits. Photomasks are a main element in the manufacture of semiconductors and flat-panel displays (FPDs), and are used as masters to transfer circuit patterns onto semiconductor wafers and FPD substrates during the fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs or semiconductors), and a variety of FPDs and, to a lesser extent, other types of electrical and optical components. The company supports customers across the spectrum of IC production and FPD technologies by manufacturing photomasks using electron beam or optical (laser-based) systems.

PS Business Parks Inc.

PS Business Parks is a self-advised and self-managed real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and develops commercial properties, primarily multi-tenant industrial, flex and office space. Substantially all of the company's assets are held, and its business conducted, through PS Business Parks, L.P. The company owns and operates commercial space, comprising business parks, in California, Texas, Virginia, Florida, Maryland and Washington. The company owns flex space, representing industrial buildings that are configured with a combination of warehouse and office space and can be designed to fit a variety of uses.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of diseases. The company's commercialized medicines and product candidates in development are designed to assist patients with eye disease, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neuromuscular diseases, infectious diseases, and rare diseases. The company's products include: EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, which is used for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema; and Dupixent (dupilumab) injection, which is used for the treatment of adult patients with atopic dermatitis.

SCANA Corporation

SCANA is a holding company. Through its regulated subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in South Carolina and in the purchase, transmission and sale of natural gas in North Carolina and South Carolina. Through its non-regulated subsidiary, the company markets natural gas to retail customers in Georgia and to wholesale customers in the southeast. In addition, the company's subsidiary, SCANA Services, Inc. provides primarily administrative and management services to the company's other subsidiaries.

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.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system diseases. The company has launched Oxtellar XR and Trokendi XR, its two treatments for epilepsy. In addition, the company has launched Trokendi XR for the prophylaxis of migraine headache in adults and adolescents. The company's product candidates for the treatment of psychiatric disorders include: SPN-810 to treat impulsive aggression in children and adolescents who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); SPN-812, a non-stimulant candidate to treat patients who have ADHD; SPN-809 for the treatment of depression; and SPN-604 for the treatment of bipolar.

Triumph Group Inc.

Triumph Group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a portfolio of aerospace and defense systems, components, and structures. The company provides its products and services through three segments: Triumph Integrated Systems, which is engaged in the design, development and support of proprietary components, subsystems and systems, as well as production of assemblies using external designs; Triumph Aerospace Structures, whose companies supply commercial, business, regional and military manufacturers with metallic and composite structures and produce close-tolerance parts; and Triumph Product Support, whose companies provide solutions for commercial, regional and military aircraft.

Trustco Bank Corp.

TrustCo Bank is a savings and loan holding company. Through its principal subsidiary, Trustco Bank (the Bank), the company provides general banking services to individuals, partnerships, and corporations. The primary part of such business consists of accepting deposits and making loans and investments. The Bank provides personal and business banking services. The Bank's subsidiary, Trustco Realty Corp., is a real estate investment trust that acquires, holds and manages real estate mortgage assets, including residential mortgage loans and mortgage backed securities.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's commercial portfolio is comprised of two products, HETLIOZ? for the treatment of Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder (Non-24) and Fanapt? for the treatment of schizophrenia. The company has a number of drugs in development, including: HETLIOZ? (tasimelteon), which is for the treatment of jet lag disorder, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, pediatric Non-24 and delayed sleep phase disorder; Tradipitant (VLY-686), which is a small molecule neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, gastroparesis and motion sickness; and VTR-297, which is a small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitor for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

WPX Energy Inc.

WPX Energy is an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company engaged in the exploitation and development of long-life unconventional properties. The company is focused on exploiting, developing and growing its oil positions in the Delaware Basin (a subset of the Permian Basin) in Texas and New Mexico and the Williston Basin in North Dakota.

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