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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
Underlyings
Agora ADS

AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. ADS

Anterix Inc

Anterix is a wireless communications company focused on developing and commercializing its assets to enable its infrastructure and enterprise customers to deploy private broadband networks, technologies and solutions.

AudioCodes Ltd.

AudioCodes designs, develops and sells products and services for voice and data over packet networks. Voice over packet, or VoP, networks consist of key network elements such as software switches, application servers, Internet protocol (IP) phones, media gateways and session border controllers (SBC). Co.'s products primarily provide the media gateway and SBC element in the network, as well as voice over Internet protocol, or VoIP, end-points such as IP Phones and VoIP mobile clients. Multi-service business routers integrate media gateway functionality with data routing and network access. The media gateways connect legacy and IP networks.

Bluebird bio Inc.

bluebird bio is a biotechnology company engaged in researching, developing, and commercializing potentially transformative gene therapies for severe genetic diseases and cancer. The company has built a product platform with a range of therapeutic potential in a variety of indications based on its lentiviral gene addition platform, gene editing and cancer immunotherapy capabilities. The company is developing LentiGlobin gene therapy for sickle cell disease; Lenti-D gene therapy for cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy; and in collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb, the company is developing bb2121 (idecabtagene vicleucel) and bb21217 product candidates as treatments for multiple myeloma.

China Mobile Ltd.

China Telecom Corp. Ltd.

Equity Commonwealth

Equity Commonwealth is a real estate investment trust. The company is primarily engaged in the ownership and operation of office buildings. The company conducts substantially all of its activities through EQC Operating Trust.

Exelixis Inc.

Exelixis is an oncology-focused biotechnology company that involved in the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for cancers. The company's marketd products are: CABOMETYX? (cabozantinib) tablets for renal cell carcinoma and previously treated hepatocellular carcinoma; and COMETRIQ? (cabozantinib) capsules for progressive, metastatic medullary thyroid cancer. The company's products resulting from its discovery efforts are: COTELLIC? (cobimetinib), an inhibitor of MEK approved as part of a combination regimen to treat melanoma; and MINNEBRO? (esaxerenone), an oral, non-steroidal, selective blocker of the mineralocorticoid receptor approved for the treatment of hypertension in Japan.

Flowers Foods Inc.

Flowers Foods produces a range of breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, and tortillas and is a producer and marketer of packaged bakery foods in the United States. The company also sells returned and surplus product through a system of thrift stores. The company supplies national and regional restaurants, institutions and foodservice distributors, and retail in-store bakeries with breads and rolls; sells packaged bakery products to wholesale distributors for sale to a variety of food outlets; and sells packaged snack cakes primarily to customers who distribute them nationwide through various channels of distribution, including merchandisers, supermarkets, vending outlets and convenience stores.

Franco-Nevada Corporation

Franco-Nevada is a gold-focused royalty and stream company with additional interests in silver, platinum group metals, oil and gas and other resource assets located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Africa. Co.'s portfolio includes 340 mineral and oil and gas assets covering properties at various stages from production to early stage exploration.

Intel Corporation

Intel is a data-centric company. The company's operating segments are: Data Center Group, which develops platforms for compute, storage, and network functions; Internet of Things Group, which facilitates its customers creating, storing, and processing data; Mobileye, which provides assistance and automation solutions; Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group, which provides memory and storage products based on Intel? Optane? technology and Intel? 3D NAND technology; Programmable Solutions Group, which provides programmable semiconductors; and Client Computing Group, which connects people to data, allowing each person to focus, create, and engage in ways that unlock their individual potential.

Mercury Systems Inc.

Mercury Systems is a commercial provider of sensor and safety processing subsystems. The company delivers solutions for a range of aerospace, commercial aviation, defense and intelligence programs. The company's products and solutions have been deployed in various programs with different defense prime contractors. The company's technologies and capabilities include embedded processing modules and subsystems, mission computers, rack-mount servers, avionics, radio frequency components, multi-function assemblies and subsystems. The company delivers subsystem level engineering capability and ongoing systems integration services to the subsystem market within the defense embedded electronics market segment.

Palomar Holdings

Palomar is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides specialty property insurance. The company offers personal and commercial specialty property insurance products, including residential and commercial earthquake, specialty homeowners, commercial all-risk, hawaii hurricane, residential flood, and real estate investor.

Perdoceo Education Corp

Career Education's academic institutions provide education to students in a variety of disciplines through online, campus-based and blended learning programs. The company's reporting segments are: Colorado Technical University, which provides industry-relevant degree programs and academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, nursing, computer science, engineering, information systems and technology, cybersecurity and healthcare management; and American InterContinental University, which helps personnel get the degree and provides academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, information technologies, education and criminal justice.

Ping Identity Holding

Ping Identity is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides customers, employees, and partners with secure access to any service, application, or application programming interface ("API"), while also managing identity and profile data at scale.

Qualys Inc.

Qualys provides cloud-based platform delivering information technology (IT), security and compliance solutions. The company's cloud platform consists of IT security, compliance monitoring, web application security, global IT asset management and cloud and container security solutions, which it refers to as the Qualys Cloud Apps, that utilizes its shared and extensible primary services and its multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. The company also provides open application program interfaces and other developer tools that allow third parties to embed its technology into their solutions and build applications on its cloud platform. The company's cloud platform utilizes physical and virtual sensors, and cloud agents.

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.

Sprouts Farmers Markets Inc.

Sprouts Farmers Market operates as a healthy grocery store. The company categorizes the varieties of products it sells as perishable and non-perishable. Perishable product categories include produce, meat, seafood, deli, bakery, floral and dairy and dairy alternatives. Non-perishable product categories include grocery, vitamins and supplements, bulk items, frozen foods, beer and wine, and natural health and body care. The company's stores include the following departments: packaged groceries, meat and seafood, deli, vitamins and supplements, dairy and dairy alternatives, bulk items, baked goods, frozen foods, natural health and body care, and beer and wine.

Stamps.com Inc.

Stamps.com is a provider of Internet-based mailing and shipping solutions. The company's software solutions allow customers to print mailing and shipping labels for multiple carriers through downloadable software, web-based user interfaces and application programming interfaces. The company's solutions provide its customers with access to discounted carrier including the United States Postal Service and United Parcel Service. The company's customers primarily include small businesses, home offices, medium-size businesses, enterprises, e-commerce merchants, retailers and shippers including warehouses, fulfillment houses and omni-channel retailers. The company's operations consist of two segments Stamps.com and MetaPack.

TABULA RASA HEALTHCARE

Tabula Rasa HealthCare is engaged in providing patient-specific, data-driven technology and solutions that enable healthcare organizations to support medication regimens to improve patient outcomes, reduce hospitalizations, lower healthcare costs and manage risk. The company delivers its solutions through technology-enabled products and services for medication risk management, which includes bundled prescription fulfillment and reminder packaging services. The company's personalized medication risk management services can be based on its MRM Matrix technology. Elements of the MRM Matrix is available in the EireneRx, MedWise, TruChart, PACElogic and PrescribeWellness platforms.

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Our process begins by organizing all actively traded stocks into coherent sectors, then into logical industry groups. We then apply our proprietary relative strength tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sectors or groups, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. Vermilion offers U.S. and global equity market research products. Vermilion’s research team, which has received numerous awards and accolades, has a combined 70 year of experience in the analysis of investment securities.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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