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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.20 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:
• Property & Casualty Insurance names are staging price and RS reversal and/or breakouts.

• Airlines are staging price and SR reversals to the upside and/or are breaking out.

• Railroad related names are breaking out.

• We have been bearish on much of the Semiconductor and Suppliers industry since February; however we are seeing some near term reversals at support levels. We will keep you posted of any further changes.
Underlyings
Aflac Incorporated

Aflac, through its subsidiaries, provides financial protection to people worldwide. The company's principal business is supplemental health and life insurance products. The company's insurance business consists of two reporting segments: Aflac Japan, which are designed to help consumers pay for medical and nonmedical costs that are not reimbursed under Japan's national health insurance system; and Aflac U.S., which the insurance products to provide supplemental coverage for people who already have primary medical or primary insurance coverage. The Aflac Japan's insurance products includes of cancer insurance, and medical insurance; and Aflac U.S. products includes of accident insurance, among others.

Allergan plc

Amazon.com Inc.

Amazon.com serves consumers through its online and physical stores. The company also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablet, Fire TV, Echo, and Ring, and the company develops and produces media content. The company operates customer service centers and provides programs that enable sellers to grow their businesses, sell their products in its stores, and fulfill orders through the company The company serves developers and enterprises of various sizes, including start-ups, government agencies, and academic institutions, through its Amazon Web Services segment, which provides a set of global compute, storage, database, and other service offerings. The company also provides services, such as advertising.

American Express Company

American Express is a payments company. The company is engaged in providing credit and charge cards to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies and corporations. The company's reportable operating segments are: Global Consumer Services Group, which provides services to consumers, including travel and lifestyle services; Global Commercial Services, which provides payment and expense management services, as weel as commercial financing products; and Global Merchant and Network Services, which operates a global payments network that processes and settles card transactions, acquires merchants and provides multi-channel marketing programs and capabilities, and services and data analytics.

Anthem Inc.

Anthem is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a health benefits company, serving medical members through its affiliated health plans. The company has three segments: Commercial & Specialty Business, which provides fully-insured health products, managed care services to self-funded customers, and other insurance products and services; Government Business, which includes Medicare and Medicaid businesses, its subsidiary, National Government Services, and services provided to the federal government in connection with its Federal Health Products and Services business; and Other, which includes pharmacy benefits management business and integrated health services business.

Baker Hughes Company Class A

Baker Hughes is an energy technology company. The company's segments are: Oilfield Services, which provides products and services for onshore and offshore operations ranging from drilling, evaluation, completion, production, and intervention; Oilfield Equipment, which provides products and services for the subsea, offshore surface and onshore operating environments; Turbomachinery and Processing Solutions, which provides equipment and related services for mechanical-drive, compression and power-generation applications; and Digital Solutions, which includes condition monitoring, industrial controls, non-destructive technologies, measurement, sensing, and pipeline solutions.

Barnes Group Inc.

Barnes Group provides engineered products, industrial technologies, and solutions. The company's products and services are used in applications including aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, automation, healthcare, and packaging. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides precision components, products and systems for critical applications serving various customer base in end-markets such as transportation, industrial equipment, automation, personal care, packaging, electronics, and medical devices; and Aerospace, which manufactures fabricated and precision machined components and assemblies for turbine engines, nacelles and structures for both commercial and military aircraft.

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.

Echo Global Logistics Inc

Echo Global Logistics is a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management solutions. The company utilizes a technology platform to compile and analyze data from its multi-modal network of transportation providers. The company focuses on arranging transportation with truckload and less than truckload carriers. The company also provides intermodal, small parcel, domestic air, expedited and international transportation services. The company's logistics services include carrier selection, dispatch, load management and tracking. The company procures transportation and provides logistics services for clients across manufacturing, construction, food and beverage, consumer products and retail industries.

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

El Pollo Loco Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., the company develops, franchises, licenses and operates quick-service restaurants under the name El Pollo Loco ?. The restaurants, which are located principally in California but also in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Louisiana, engaged in flame-grilled chicken in a variety of contemporary Mexican-influenced entrees, including chicken burritos, chicken quesadillas, chicken tortilla soup, variations on its Pollo Bowl? and Pollo Salads. The company serves individual and family-sized chicken meals, a variety of Mexican-inspired entrees, and sides, and, on a limited-time basis, additional proteins like shrimp.

Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets products in a single business segment: human pharmaceutical products. The company's human pharmaceutical products include: diabetes and other endocrinology products, immunology products, neuroscience products, oncology products, and other products. The company's diabetes and other endocrinology products include: Baqsimi? and Basaglar?. The company's immunology products include: Olumiant? and Taltz?. The company's neuroscience products include: Cymbalta? and Emgality?. The company's oncology products include: Alimta?, Cyramza?, Erbitux? and Verzenio?. The company's other products include: Cialis?.

Essendant Inc.

Essendant is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a wholesale distributor of workplace items including janitorial, foodservice and breakroom supplies, technology products, office products, industrial supplies, cut sheet paper products, automotive products and office furniture. The company provides brand products within each of its product categories including Universal

Expedia Group Inc.

Expedia Group is an online travel company. The company's portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com?, an online travel brand; Hotels.com?, a global lodging company operating websites with its Hotels.com? Rewards loyalty program; Vrbo?, a global online marketplace with a focus on providing lodging options for families; Egencia?, a corporate travel management company; Hotwire?, an online travel website providing spontaneous travel through its Hot Rate? deals; trivago?, an online hotel metasearch platform; and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., provider of a global rail retail and distribution platform connecting rail carriers and suppliers to both online and offline travel distributors.

Globe Life Inc.

Torchmark is an insurance holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, the company provides a variety of life and supplemental health insurance products and annuities to customers. The company's segments are: life insurance, which writes a variety of nonparticipating ordinary life insurance products including whole-life insurance, term life insurance, and other life insurance; health insurance, which provides Medicare Supplement and limited-benefit supplemental health insurance products that include primarily critical illness and accident plans; annuity, which includes single-premium and flexible-premium deferred annuities; and investment, which consists primarily of investment-grade securities.

Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.

Helix Energy Solutions Group is an international offshore energy services company that provides specialty services to the offshore energy industry. The company has three business segments: well intervention, which includes vessels and equipment used to perform well intervention services primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea and West Africa; robotics, which includes remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), trenchers and ROVDrills designed to complement offshore construction and well intervention services; and production facilities, which includes the Helix Producer I, a floating production vessel, the Helix Fast Response System, and its ownership interest in Independence Hub, LLC.

Henry Schein Inc.

Schein (Henry) provides health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners. The health care distribution segment distributes consumable products, small equipment, laboratory products, large equipment, equipment repair services, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products and vitamins. The company's technology group offerings include practice management software systems for dental and medical practitioners. The company's practice solutions include financial services on a non-recourse basis, e-services, practice technology, network and hardware services, and continuing education services for practitioners.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JPMorgan Chase is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's segments include: Consumer and Community Banking, which provides services through bank branches, ATMs, digital (including mobile and online) and telephone banking; Corporate and Investment Bank, which consists of Banking and Markets and Securities Services, provides a suite of investment banking, market-making, prime brokerage, and treasury and securities products and services; Commercial Banking, which provides financial solutions, including lending, treasury services, investment banking and asset management products; and Asset and Wealth Management, which is engaged in investment and wealth management.

Kellogg Company

Kellogg is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods. The company's principal products are snacks, such as crackers, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, granola bars and bites; and convenience foods, such as, ready-to-eat cereals, frozen waffles, veggie foods and noodles. The company's snacks brands are marketed under brands such as Kellogg's, Cheez-It, Pringles, Austin, Parati, and RXBAR. The company's cereals and cereal bars are generally marketed under the Kellogg's name, with some under the Kashi and Bear Naked brands. The company's frozen foods are marketed under the Eggo and Morningstar Farms brands.

KeyCorp

KeyCorp is a bank holding company. Through its principal subsidiary, KeyBank National Association and certain other subsidiaries, the company has the following main business segments: Consumer Bank, which serves individuals and small businesses by providing a variety of deposit and investment products, personal finance and financial wellness services, lending, mortgage and home equity, student loan refinancing, credit card, treasury services, and business advisory services; and Commercial Bank, which is focused principally on serving the needs of middle market clients in the following industry sectors, including consumer, energy, healthcare, industrial, public sector, real estate, and technology.

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.

Newpark Resources Inc.

Newpark Resources is engaged in providing products, rentals, and services primarily to the oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. The company has two reportable segments: Fluids Systems, which provides customized drilling, completion, and stimulation fluids solutions to E&P customers; and Mats and Integrated Services, which provides composite mat rentals utilized for temporary worksite access, along with related site construction services to customers in various markets including E&P, electrical transmission & distribution, pipeline, solar, petrochemical, and construction industries across North America and Europe. The company also sells composite mats to customers around the world.

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.

Oil States International Inc.

Oil States International, through its subsidiaries, is an oilfield products and services company serving the drilling, completion, subsea, production and infrastructure sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company is also a provider of completion services to the industry. The company operates through three segments: well site services, whose operations primarily include completion-focused equipment and services as well as land drilling services; downhole technologies, which provides oil and gas perforation systems and downhole tools; and offshore/manufactured products, which designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment utilized on floating production systems, among others.

Omnicell Inc.

Omnicel is a provider of medication and supply dispensing automation, central pharmacy automation, analytics software, and medication adherence solutions. The company manages its business as two operating segments: Automation and Analytics, and Medication Adherence. The Automation and Analytics segment is organized around the design, manufacturing, selling and servicing of medication and supply dispensing systems, pharmacy inventory management systems and related software and services. The Medication Adherence segment primarily includes the development, manufacturing and selling of solutions to assist patients in becoming and remaining adherent to their medication regimens.

Pfizer Inc.

Pfizer is a research-based biopharmaceutical company. The company is engaged in discovering, developing, manufacturing and distributing of healthcare products, including medicines and vaccines. The company manages its commercial operations through three businesses: Pfizer Biopharmaceuticals Group, which includes Oncology, Inflammation and Immunology, Rare Disease, Hospital, Vaccines and Internal Medicine business units, as well as a hospital business unit; Upjohn, which includes the company's solid oral dose brands such as Lyrica, Lipitor, Norvasc, Celebrex, Viagra, and certain generic medicines; and Consumer Healthcare, which is an over-the-counter medicines business.

SkyWest Inc

SkyWest, through its subsidiaries, SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and ExpressJet Airlines, Inc. (ExpressJet), operates regional airlines in the U.S. Substantially all of the company's flights are operated as Delta Connection, United Express, American Eagle or Alaska Airlines flights under code-share arrangements with Delta, United, American or Alaska, respectively. The company has two operating platforms: SkyWest, which provides regional jet service to airports throughout the U.S., as well as Mexico and Canada; and ExpressJet, which provides regional jet service to airports primarily located in the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., as well as Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean.

Superior Industries International Inc.

Superior Industries International is engaged in the design and manufacture of aluminum wheels for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America and Europe and aftermarket distributors in Europe. The company's OEM aluminum wheels are primarily sold for factory installation on vehicle models manufactured by BMW (including Mini), Daimler AG Company (Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Smart), FCA, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mazda, Nissan, PSA, Renault, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, VW Group (Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley) and Volvo. The company also sells aluminum wheels to the European aftermarket under the brands ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO.

U.S. Silica Holdings Inc.

U.S. Silica Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a performance materials company and a producer of commercial silica used in industrial applications and in the oil and gas industry. The company is also engaged in the production of products derived from diatomaceous earth, perlite, engineered clays, and non-activated clays. The company's segments include: Oil and Gas Proppants, which serves the oil and gas recovery market by providing and delivering fracturing sand; and Industrial and Specialty Products, which provides products and materials for building and construction products, fillers and extenders, filtration, glassmaking, absorbents, foundry, and sports and recreation.

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.

Waste Management Inc.

Waste Management is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of waste management environmental services. The company partners with its residential, commercial, industrial and municipal customers and the communities it serves to manage and reduce waste at each stage from collection to disposal, while recovering resources and creating renewable energy. The company's Solid Waste business is operated and managed by its subsidiaries that focus on various geographic areas and provide collection, transfer, disposal, and recycling and resource recovery services. Through its subsidiaries, the company is also a developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities.

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.

ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS INC.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings is engaged in musculoskeletal healthcare. The company's products are: Knees, which includes knee replacement surgeries; Hips, which includes hip replacement surgeries; S.E.T., which includes surgical, sports medicine, biologics, foot and ankle, extremities and trauma products; Spine and Craniomaxillofacial and Thoracic, which designs, manufactures and distributes medical devices and surgical instruments, as well as provides face and skull reconstruction products; Dental, which manufactures and/or distributes dental reconstructive implants, dental prosthetic products and dental regenerative products; and Other, which includes bone cement and office based technology products.

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