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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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AGILE THERAPEUTICS

Agile Therapeutics is a women's healthcare company. The company's primary product candidate, Twirla, also known as AG200-15, is a once-weekly prescription combination hormonal contraceptive patch that is at the end of clinical development. Twirla is a combined hormonal contraceptives patch that contains the active ingredients ethinyl estradiol, which is a synthetic estrogen, and levonorgestrel, which is a type of progestin, a synthetic steroid hormone. The company also has a pipeline of other transdermal contraceptive products, including AG200-ER, which is a regimen designed to allow a woman to extend the length of her cycle, and AG200-SP, which is a regimen designed to provide shorter lighter periods.

American Electric Power Company Inc.

American Electric Power Company is a public utility holding company. The public utility subsidiaries of the company provide electric service, consisting of generation, transmission and distribution, on an integrated basis to their retail customers. The service areas of the company's public utility subsidiaries cover portions of the states of Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia. Transmission networks are interconnected with distribution facilities in the territories served. The company's service company subsidiary provides accounting, administrative, information systems, engineering, financial, legal, maintenance and other services.

Atmos Energy Corporation

Atmos Energy is engaged in the regulated natural gas distribution and pipeline and storage businesses. The company delivers natural gas through regulated sales and transportation arrangements to residential, commercial, public-authority and industrial customers. The company's segments are: Distribution, which is comprised of its regulated natural gas distribution and related sales operations; and Pipeline and Storage, which consists of the pipeline and storage operations of its Atmos Pipeline-Texas Division (APT) and its natural gas transmission operations in Louisiana. APT has intrastate pipeline operations in Texas with a focus on the natural gas-producing areas of central, northern and eastern Texas.

Easterly Government Properties Inc

Easterly Government Properties is an internally managed real estate investment trust focused primarily on the acquisition, development and management of Class A commercial properties that are leased to U.S. Government agencies. The operations of the company's is carried on primarily through Easterly Government Properties LP (the Operating Partnership) and the wholly owned subsidiaries of the Operating Partnership. The Operating Partnership holds substantially all of the company's assets and conducts substantially all the company's business.

Entergy Corporation

Entergy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an integrated energy company engaged mainly in electric power production and retail distribution operations. The company owns and operates power plants. The company has two segments: Utility, which generates, transmits, distributes and sells electric power to retail and wholesale customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas; and Entergy Wholesale Commodities, which includes the ownership, operation, and decommissioning of nuclear power plants, located in the northern United States, the sale of the electric power produced by its operating plants to wholesale customers, and also provides services to other nuclear power plant owners.

GEO GROUP INC. (THE)

GEO Group is a real estate investment trust focusing on the ownership, leasing and management of secure facilities, processing centers and reentry facilities and the provision of community-based services and youth services. The company owns, leases and operates a range of secure facilities including maximum, medium and minimum security facilities, processing centers, as well as community-based reentry facilities. The company provides compliance technologies, monitoring services, and evidence-based supervision and treatment programs for community-based parolees, probationers and pretrial defendants. The company also provides transportation services for offender and detainee populations as contracted.

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.

Southern Company

Southern is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Alabama Power Company, Georgia Power Company, and Mississippi Power Company, the company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, and purchase of electricity and the sale of electric service in Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. The company's Southern Power Company subsidiary develops, constructs, acquires, owns, and manages power generation assets, including renewable energy projects, and sells electricity at market-based rates in the wholesale market. The company's Southern Company Gas subsidiary is an energy services holding company whose primary business is the distribution of natural gas in Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, and Tennessee.

Southwest Gas Holdings Inc.

Southwest Gas Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Southwest Gas Corporation and Centuri Group, Inc. (Centuri), the company operates two segments: Natural Gas Operations, which purchases and distributes or transports natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California; and Utility Infrastructure Services, which is engaged in the installation, replacement, repair, and maintenance of energy distribution systems, as well as developing industrial construction solutions, and the primary focus of Centuri operations is replacement of natural gas distribution pipe and electric service lines as well as new infrastructure installations.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc.

Universal Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance and insurance services. The company's products and services include: Insurance Products, which provide various types of personal residential insurance such as homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and dwelling/fire; Risk Management, in which its subsidiary, Evolution Risk Advisors, Inc., advises on actuarial issues, oversees distribution, administers claims payments, performs policy administration and underwriting, and assists with reinsurance negotiations; and Distribution, which provides policies through its direct-to-consumer online distribution platforms.

Verisk Analytics Inc

Verisk Analytics is a data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. The company has three segments: Insurance, which provides underwriting and ratings and claims insurance data for the United States property and casualty insurance industry; Energy and Specialized Markets, which provides research and consulting data analytics for the global energy, chemicals, and metals and mining industries; and Financial Services, which provides benchmarking, decisioning algorithms, business intelligence, and customized analytic services to financial institutions, payment networks and processors, alternative lenders, regulators and merchants.

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