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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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Alaska Air Group Inc.

Alaska Air Group operates two airlines, Alaska Airlines, Inc. (Alaska) and Horizon Air Industries, Inc. (Horizon). The company's operation also includes McGee Air Services, an aviation services provider. The company has three segments: Mainline, which includes scheduled air transportation on Alaska's Boeing or Airbus jet aircraft for passengers and cargo throughout the United States., and in parts of Canada, Mexico, and Costa Rica; Regional, which includes Horizon's and other third-party carriers' scheduled air transportation for passengers across a shorter distance network within the United States under capacity purchase agreements (CPA); and Horizon, which includes the capacity sold to Alaska under CPA.

Allgemeine Gold- Und Silberscheideanstalt AG

Allgemeine Gold- und Silberscheideanstalt is engaged in the recovery of precious metals and the manufacture of precious metal products. Co. acts as a refinery, receiving refining materials, such as scraps, sweeps and solutions of precious metals from precious metal consuming industries. Co. refines these materials into other products, including sheets and strips, wires, tubes, solder core, casting grain, pre-alloys, gold and silver solders, special alloys, anodes and gold and silver salts for electroplating that are used in jewelry production and industrial applications.

Allison Transmission Holdings Inc.

Allison Transmission Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures fully-automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and medium- and heavy-tactical U.S. defense vehicles. The company's transmissions are in used various applications, including on-highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (mainly school, transit and electric hybrid-transit), motorhomes, off-highway vehicles and equipment (mainly energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked). The company also sells replacement parts, support equipment and other products to service the installed base of vehicles utilizing its transmissions.

Allstate Corporation

Allstate is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the property and casualty insurance business. The company's segments include: Allstate Protection, which provides private passenger auto, homeowners, other personal lines and commercial insurance; Service Businesses, which includes SquareTrade that provides consumer protection plans and related technical support; Allstate Life, which provides interest-sensitive and variable life insurance products, as well as distributes non-proprietary retirement products; and Allstate Benefits, which provides voluntary benefits products, including life, accident, critical illness, and other health insurance products.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Airlines Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's business activity is the operation of a primary network carrier, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. The company's regional carriers provide scheduled air transportation under American Eagle. The American Eagle carriers include the company's regional carriers Envoy Aviation Group Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc., as well as third-party regional carriers including Republic Airline Inc., Mesa Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and Compass Airlines, LLC. The company's cargo division provides freight and mail services, with facilities and interline connections available across the globe.

Antero Midstream Corp.

Argo Group International Holdings Ltd.

Argo Group International Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an international underwriter of insurance and reinsurance products in the property and casualty market. The company's operations include two reportable segments: U.S. Operations, which underwrites primary and excess casualty, property and other coverage for risks and/or distressed businesses that fall outside of the standard insurance market's risk appetite; and International Operations, which focuses in insurance and reinsurance risks worldwide through the broker market, focusing on property insurance, property catastrophe reinsurance, primary/excess casualty and other liability insurance.

AT&T Inc.

AT&T is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of telecommunications, media and technology services. The company's Communications segment provides wireless and wireline telecom, video and broadband services. The company's WarnerMedia segment includes media and entertainment businesses that principally develop, produce and distribute feature films, television content, and other content globally; and operate digital media properties. The company's Latin America segment provides entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. The company's XANDR segment relies on using data from its customer relationships, to develop digital and video advertising that is relevant to consumers.

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.

Bank of New York Mellon Corporation

Bank of New York Mellon divides its businesses into two business segments, Investment Services and Investment Management. The company also has an Other segment, which includes the leasing portfolio, corporate treasury activities, derivatives and other trading activity, corporate and bank-owned life insurance, renewable energy investments and business exits. The company's two principal United States banking subsidiaries engage in trust and custody activities, investment management services, banking services and various securities-related activities. The company has four other United States bank and/or trust company subsidiaries concentrating on trust products and services across the United States.

Blucora Inc.

Blucora is a provider of technology-enabled financial solutions. The company has two reportable segments: Wealth Management and Tax Preparation. The Wealth Management business consists of the operations of Avantax Wealth Management, which provides tax-focused wealth management solutions for financial advisors, tax preparers, certified public accounting firms, and their clients and is a tax-focused independent broker-dealer. The Tax Preparation business consists of the operations of TaxAct, Inc., which provides digital do-it-yourself tax preparation solutions for consumers, small business owners and tax personnel through its website www.TaxAct.com.

CalAmp Corp.

CalAmp is a telematics solutions provider. The company's software applications, cloud services, and intelligent devices collect and assess data including industrial machines, commercial and passenger vehicles, their drivers and contents. The company operates under two reportable segments: Telematics Systems, which provide a series of telematics and stolen vehicle recovery products for the connected vehicle and emerging Internet of Machines marketplace; and Software and Subscription Services, which provide cloud-based application enablement and telematics service platforms that facilitate integration of its own applications, as well as those of third parties, through open Application Programming Interfaces.

Carnival Corporation

Carter's Inc.

Carter's is a marketer of apparel for babies and young children. The company's Carter's and OshKosh product offerings include apparel and accessories for babies (sizes newborn to 24 months), toddlers (sizes 2T to 5T), and kids (sizes 4 o14). Under its Skip Hop brand, the company designs, sources, and markets products that are sold primarily to families with young children. The company's Skip Hop brand focuses on its diaper bags. The Skip Hop brand offering also includes products for playtime, travel, mealtime, kid's bags, bathtime, and homegear. The company's reportable segments are U.S. Retail, U.S. Wholesale, and International.

Citigroup Inc.

Citigroup is a financial services holding company whose businesses provide consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, trade and securities services and wealth management. The company operates via two primary business segments: Global Consumer Banking, which provides banking services to retail customers through retail banking, Citi-branded cards and Citi retail services; and Institutional Clients Group, which includes banking and markets and securities services.

CME Group Inc. Class A

CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company exchanges provides a range of global benchmark products across asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange (FX), agricultural, energy and metal commodities. The company provides futures and options on futures trading across asset classes through its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Globex platform, cash and repo fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and cash and OTC FX trading via EBS. In addition, the company operates central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing, a division of CME. The company also provides optimization, reconciliation and processing services through TriOptima, Traiana and Reset.

CONSOL Energy Inc

CONSOL Energy is a producer of bituminous coal, focused on the extraction and preparation of coal in the Appalachian Basin. The company's primary businesses consist of its: Pennsylvania Mining Complex; CONSOL Coal Resources LP (CCR or Partnership) Ownership, in which the company owns directly or indirectly, through CCR's general partner, an interest in the partnership; CONSOL Marine Terminal, in which through its subsidiary, CONSOL Marine Terminals LLC, the company provides coal export terminal services through the Port of Baltimore; and Greenfield Reserves, in which the company has ownership of undeveloped coal reserves located in the Northern Appalachian Basin, the Central Appalachian Basin, and the Illinois Basin.

Delek US Holdings Inc

Delek US Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the downstream energy business focused on petroleum refining, the transportation, storage and wholesale distribution of crude oil, intermediate and refined products and convenience store retailing. The company's segments are: refining, which processes crude oil and other feedstocks for the manufacture of transportation motor fuels; logistics, which gathers, transports and stores crude oil and markets, distributes, transports and stores refined products; and retail, which includes the operations of Alon USA Energy, Inc.'s convenience store sites located primarily in central and West Texas and New Mexico.

Devon Energy Corporation

Devon Energy is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's operations are concentrated in various onshore areas in United States. The company's areas of operation include Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Powder River Basin and the STACK development, located primarily in Oklahoma's Canadian, Kingfisher and Blaine counties.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

FirstCash Inc.

FirstCash is an operator of retail pawn stores in the United States and Latin America. The company has stores in the United States and the District of Columbia, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Colombia. The company's primary business is the operation of pawn stores, also known as pawnshops, which make pawn loans secured by personal property such as jewelry, electronics, tools, appliances, sporting goods and musical instruments. Pawn loans can be accessed by customers who often have limited access to credit products. Pawn stores also retail consumer products acquired through collateral forfeitures on forfeited pawn loans and direct purchases of such merchandise from the general public.

Great Western Bancorp Inc.

Great Western Bancorp is a bank holding company focused on relationship-based business and agri-business banking. The company serves its customers through branches in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company focuses on business banking, complemented by its agri-business banking, retail banking and wealth management services. The company's loan portfolio consists mainly of business loans, comprised of commercial real estate loans and commercial non-real estate loans. The company also provides a range of deposit and loan products to its retail customers. The company is engaged in private banking, financial planning, investment management and insurance operations.

Hanmi Financial Corporation

Hanmi Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Hanmi Bank (the Bank), the company is a community bank conducting general business banking, with its primary market encompassing the Korean-American community as well as other ethnic communities across California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Lending activities include real estate loans (commercial property, construction and residential property), commercial and industrial loans (commercial term, commercial lines of credit and international), equipment lease financing, consumer loans and Small Business Administration loans.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Hartford Financial Services Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance, group benefits insurance and services, and mutual funds and exchange-traded products. The company has five segments: Commercial Lines, which provides automobile, property, general liability, and marine coverages; Personal Lines, which provides automobile and homeowners coverages; Property and Casualty Other Operations, which provides group life, group disability, and other products; and Hartford Funds, which provides mutual fund, exchange-traded products, and Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate accounts.

Haynes International Inc.

Haynes International develops, manufactures, markets and distributes alloys primarily for use in the aerospace, chemical processing and industrial gas turbine industries. The company's products are high-temperature resistant alloys (HTA) and corrosion-resistant alloys (CRA). The company's HTA products are used by manufacturers of equipment that is subjected to high temperatures, such as jet engines for the aerospace market, gas turbine engines for power generation and industrial heating equipment. The company's CRA products are used in applications that require resistance to corrosive media found in chemical processing, power plant emissions control and hazardous waste treatment.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

HollyFrontier Corporation

HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner that produces products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, other lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The company's segments are: Refining, which involves the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale and marketing of refined products; Lubricants and Specialty Products, which includes the production of lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, other products and finished lubricants; and the company's subsidiary, Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and processing units.

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M&T BANK CORPORATION

M&T Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides individuals, corporations and other businesses, and institutions with commercial and retail banking services, including loans and deposits, trust, mortgage banking, asset management, insurance and other financial services. Banking activities are primarily focused on consumers residing in New York State, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia and on small and medium-size businesses based in those areas. Certain subsidiaries also conduct activities in other areas.

Macerich Company

Macerich is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company is involved in the acquisition, ownership, development, redevelopment, management and leasing of regional and community/power shopping centers. The company is the sole general partner of, and owns a majority of the ownership interests in, The Macerich Partnership, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The Operating Partnership owns or has an ownership interest in regional shopping centers and community/power shopping centers. The company conducts all of its operations through the Operating Partnership and its management companies, including Macerich Property Management Company, LLC and Macerich Management Company.

Magna International Inc.

Magna is a global automotive supplier whose product capabilities include producing body, chassis, exterior, seating, powertrain, electronic, vision, closure and roof systems and modules, as well as vehicle engineering and contract manufacturing. Co.'s operations are segmented on a geographic basis. Co.'s segments consist of North America, Europe, Asia and Rest of World.

Manitowoc Company Inc.

Manitowoc is a provider of engineered lifting solutions. The company designs, manufactures and distributes a line of crawler-mounted lattice-boom cranes, which it sells under the Manitowoc brand name. The company also designs and manufactures top-slewing and self-erecting tower cranes, which it sells under the Potain brand name. The company designs and manufactures mobile telescopic cranes, which it sells under the Grove, Shuttlelift and National Crane brand names. The company provides crane product parts and services and crane rebuilding, remanufacturing and training services, which are delivered under the Manitowoc Crane Care brand name. The company's segments are: Americas, Europe and Africa, and Middle East and Asia Pacific.

Marathon Oil Corporation

Marathon Oil is an independent exploration and production company focused on the United States resource plays. The company also has international operations in Equatorial Guinea (E.G.). The company's segments are: United States, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas in the United States; and International, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of the United States as well as produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol, in E.G.

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

Mercury General Corporation

Mercury General is an insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries, the company writes personal automobile insurance. The company also writes homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical protection, and umbrella insurance. The company provides the following types of automobile coverage: collision, property damage, bodily injury, comprehensive, personal injury protection, underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. The company provides the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, fire, and other hazards. The company sells its policies through a network of independent agents, its insurance agencies, and directly through internet sales portals.

NACCO Industries Inc. Cl A

NACCO Industries is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries the company operates in the mining and natural resources industries. The Coal Mining segment operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies and activated carbon producers pursuant to a service-based business model. The North American Mining segment provides contract mining and other services for producers of aggregates, lithium and other minerals. This segment provides contract mining services for independently owned mines and quarries. NAMining operates primarily at limestone quarries in Florida. The minerals management segment promotes the development of the company's oil, gas and coal reserves.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions Inc.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a land oilfield focused service company, with a set of well completion and production services across active basins. The company provides its services through its operating subsidiaries to exploration and production customers. Also, the company provides its services in several active basins in the United States, including the Permian, the Marcellus Shale/Utica, the Eagle Ford and the Bakken/Rockies. The company is organized into two segments: Completion Services, which includes Hydraulic Fracturing and Wireline Technologies; and Well Construction and Intervention Services, which includes Cementing and Coiled Tubing.

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Occidental Petroleum has three reporting segments: oil and gas, which explores for, develops and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas; chemical, which mainly manufactures and markets basic chemicals (chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated organics, potassium chemicals, ethylene dichloride, chlorinated isocyanurates, sodium silicates and calcium chloride) and vinyls (vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride and ethylene); and marketing and midstream, which purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGL, natural gas, carbon dioxide and power.

OceanFirst Financial Corp.

OceanFirst Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, OceanFirst Bank N.A. (the Bank), the company accepts retail and business deposits in the communities surrounding its branch offices and invests those deposits primarily in loans, consisting of commercial real estate and other commercial loans, and single-family, owner-occupied residential mortgage loans. The Bank also invests in other types of loans, including residential construction and consumer loans. The Bank also provides loan and deposit products, Bankcard services, wealth management services and sells alternative investment products including mutual funds, annuities and life insurance.

ProPetro Holding Corp.

ProPetro Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged as an oilfield services company providing hydraulic fracturing and other services to upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin. In addition to its core hydraulic fracturing operations, the company provides complementary well completion and production services, including cementing, coiled tubing, flowback services and drilling. The company conducts its business through five segments: hydraulic fracturing (inclusive of acidizing), cementing, coil tubing, flowback and drilling.

Scansource Inc.

ScanSource is a provider of technology solutions and services. The company has two segments that each operate in the United States, Canada, Brazil, Latin American countries, and Europe: Worldwide Barcode, Networking and Security, which provides solutions including enterprise mobile computing, data capture, barcode printing, point-of-sale, payments, networking, electronic physical security, cyber security and other technologies; and Worldwide Communications and Services, which provides solutions including communications technologies and services for voice, video conferencing, wireless, data networking, cyber security, cable, unified communications and collaboration, cloud and technology services.

Schlumberger NV

Schlumberger provides technology for reservoir characterization, drilling, production and processing to the oil and gas industry. The company has four segments: Reservoir Characterization, which consists of the principal technologies involved in finding and defining hydrocarbon resources; Drilling, which consists of the principal technologies involved in the drilling and positioning of oil and gas wells; Production, which consists of the principal technologies involved in the lifetime production of oil and gas reservoirs; and Cameron, which consists of the principal technologies involved in pressure and flow control for drilling and intervention rigs, oil and gas wells and production facilities.

SM Energy Company

SM Energy is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids in the state of Texas. The company's operations are concentrated in the Midland Basin and South Texas.

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure

Solaris Oilfield Infrastructure is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of supply chain management and logistics solutions for the oil and natural gas industry. The company's offerings include: system rental, which manufactures and rents equipment to manage the delivery, handling and storage of proppant and chemicals at the well site; field services, which provides trained personnel to maintain and support its systems, train its customers to operate the systems and assist in the transportation of its systems; and transloading services, which provides manifest and unit-train transloading services, as well as provides forward staging storage of regional and local proppant.

Spirit Realty Capital Inc.

Spirit Realty Capital is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust with in-house capabilities, including asset management, acquisition, credit, research, finance, information technology and accounting functions. The company primarily invests in single-tenant real estate throughout the U.S., which is generally acquired through sale-leaseback transactions and subsequently leased on a long-term, triple-net basis to tenants with business operations within predominantly retail, but also office and industrial property types. The company's operations are carried out through Spirit Realty, L.P. (Operating Partnership).

TreeHouse Foods Inc.

TreeHouse Foods is a consumer packaged food and beverage manufacturer operating across the United States, Canada, and Italy. The company's reportable segments are: Baked Goods, which sells bars, candy, cookies, crackers; in-store bakery products, pita chips, pretzels, refrigerated dough, and retail griddle waffles, pancakes, and French toast; Beverages, which sells broths, liquid non-dairy creamer, non-dairy powdered creamers, powdered drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, single serve hot beverages, teas, and sweeteners; and Meal Solutions, which sells aseptic cheese and pudding products, baking and mix powders, hot cereals, pasta, and skillet dinners, among others.

Tyson Foods Inc. Class A

Tyson Foods is a food company. The company's operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc., the company is engaged as poultry breeding stock supplier. The company also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company produces a range of fresh, frozen and refrigerated food products. The company operates in Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods segments.

U.S. Bancorp

U.S. Bancorp is a multi-state financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services, including lending and depository services, cash management, capital markets, and trust and investment management services. The company also engages in credit card services, merchant and ATM processing, mortgage banking, insurance, brokerage and leasing. The company's subsidiary, U.S. Bank National Association, is engaged in the general banking business, principally in domestic markets. The company's bank and trust subsidiaries provide a range of asset management and fiduciary services for individuals, estates, foundations, business corporations and charitable organizations.

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

United Airlines Holdings is a holding company and its principal, wholly-owned subsidiary is United Airlines, Inc. (United). The company is engaged in the transportation of people and cargo throughout North America and to destinations in Asia, Europe, Africa, the Pacific, the Middle East and Latin America. The company, through United and its regional carriers, operates flights to airports, with its hubs at Newark Liberty International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Denver International Airport, George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Los Angeles International Airport, A.B. Won Pat International Airport, San Francisco International Airport and Washington Dulles International Airport.

Universal Corp

Universal is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged in supplying leaf tobacco. The company has the following segments: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, which are involved in flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco operations for supply to cigarette manufacturers; Dark Air-Cured, which supplies dark air-cured tobacco to manufacturers of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products; Oriental, which supplies oriental tobacco to cigarette manufacturers; and Special Services, which provides laboratory services, including physical and chemical product testing, electronic nicotine delivery system and e-liquid testing, and smoke testing for customers.

Washington Federal Inc.

Washington Federal is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Washington Federal, National Association, the company's business consists of accepting deposits from the general public and investing these funds in loans of several types, including first lien mortgages on single-family dwellings, construction loans, land acquisition and development loans, loans on multi-family, commercial real estate and other income producing properties, home equity loans and business loans. The company invests in certain United States government and agency obligations and other investments permitted by applicable laws and regulations. Through its subsidiaries, the company is also engaged in insurance brokerage activities.

Wynn Resorts Limited

Wynn Resorts is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, developer, and operator of resorts featuring hotel rooms, retail space, an array of dining and entertainment options, meeting and convention facilities, and gaming. Through its subsidiary, Wynn Macau, Limited, the company operates two integrated resorts in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau. In Las Vegas, NV, the company also operates and, with the exception of certain retail space, own Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor, an integrated resort in Everett, MA, adjacent to Boston.

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