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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.93 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Homebuilders and Auto Parts suppliers continue to stage price and RS reversals.

• A number of Industrial Manufacturing are in the process of reversing price and RS downtrends or forming bullish bases.

• Semiconductors and Semi-Suppliers continue to be leadership with many breaking topside of bases and staging price and RS reversals.
Underlyings
Albany International Corp. Class A

Albany International is engaged in two business segments: Machine Clothing and Albany Engineered Composites (AEC). The Machine Clothing segment supplies permeable and impermeable belts used in the manufacture of paper, paperboard, tissue and towel, pulp, nonwovens, fiber cement and other industrial applications. This segment also supplies consumable fabrics used in the manufacturing process in the pulp, corrugator, nonwovens, fiber cement, building products, and tannery and textile industries. The AEC segment provides engineered, composite structures to customers in the aerospace and defense industries. Other AEC programs include the F-35, Boeing 787, Sikorsky CH-53K, and JASSM programs.

Barnes & Noble Education Inc.

Barnes & Noble Education is a contract operator of physical and virtual bookstores for college and university campuses and K-12 institutions. The company is also a textbook wholesaler, inventory management hardware and software provider, and a provider of digital education solutions. The company's segments are: Retail, which provides a range of course materials, including new and used print and digital textbooks; Wholesale, which provides a selection of new and used textbooks as well as sells hardware and a software suite of applications that provides inventory management and point-of-sale solutions; and DSS, which includes direct-to-student product and service to assist students to study.

Care.com

Care.com is an online marketplace for finding and managing family care. The company assists families address their particular lifecycle of care needs, which includes child care, senior care, special needs care and other non-medical family care needs such as pet care, tutoring and housekeeping. In the process, the company also assists caregivers find full-time and part-time employment opportunities. The company's consumer matching solutions allow families to search for, connect with, qualify, vet, and ultimately select caregivers. The company also provides caregivers with solutions. In addition, the company provides its members other products and services to facilitate their interaction with caregivers.

Comfort Systems USA Inc.

Comfort Systems USA provides mechanical contracting services, which include heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, piping and controls, as well as off-site construction, electrical, monitoring and fire protection. The company provides construction, renovation, expansion, maintenance, repair and replacement services for mechanical and related systems in commercial, industrial and institutional properties. The company's installation business related to newly constructed facilities involves the design, engineering, integration, installation and start-up of mechanical and related systems. The company also provides remote monitoring of temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow for HVAC systems.

Cooper Companies Inc.

Cooper Companies is a global medical device company. The company operates through CooperVision and CooperSurgical business units. CooperVision is a manufacturer providing products for contact lens wearers. CooperVision designs its products for astigmatism, presbyopia, myopia, ocular dryness and eye fatigues with a collection of spherical, toric and multifocal contact lenses. CooperVision is engaged in myopia management and specialty eye care markets with products, such as orthokeratology and scleral lenses. CooperSurgical focuses on improving the health of women, babies and families through a portfolio of products and services including medical devices, fertility, diagnostics and contraception.

Copart Inc.

Copart is a provider of online auctions and vehicle remarketing services. The company provides vehicle sellers with a range of services to process and sell vehicles primarily over the Internet through its Virtual Bidding Third Generation Internet auction-style sales technology. Vehicle sellers consist primarily of insurance companies, but also include banks, finance companies, charities, fleet operators, dealers and vehicles sourced directly from individual owners. The company sells the vehicles principally to licensed vehicle dismantlers, rebuilders, repair licensees, used vehicle dealers and exporters and, at certain locations, to the general public.

Dana Incorporated

Dana is engaged in providing power-conveyance and energy-management solutions for vehicles and machinery. The company's operating segments are: Light Vehicle Drive Systems, which include light trucks (full frame), sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, vans, and passenger cars; Commercial Vehicle Drive and Motion Systems, which include medium duty trucks, heavy duty trucks, buses, and specialty vehicles; Off-Highway Drive and Motion Systems, which iinclude construction, earth moving, agricultural, mining, forestry, material handling, and industrial stationary; and Power Technologies, which include medium/heavy vehicle market, and off-highway market.

Deere & Company

Deere & Co. operates the following segments: Agriculture and Turf, which manufactures and distributes a line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts, including utility tractors, tractor loaders, combines, cotton pickers, cotton strippers, and sugarcane harvesters; Construction and Forestry, which manufactures and distributes a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, road building, material handling and timber harvesting, including backhoe loaders and crawler dozers and loaders; and Financial Services, which finances sales and leases by the company's dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment.

Delphi Technologies Plc

DISH Network Corporation Class A

DISH Network is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates two business segments: Pay-TV and Wireless. The company provides pay-TV services under: the DISH? brand, which consists of, among other things, Federal Communications Commission licenses authorizing the company to use direct broadcast satellite and Fixed Satellite Service spectrum, the company's owned and leased satellites, and certain other assets utilized in the company's operations; and the Sling? brand, which consists of, among other things, live-linear streaming over-the-top Internet-based domestic, international and Latino video programming services. In addition, the company invests to acquire certain wireless spectrum licenses and related assets.

Exponent Inc.

Exponent is a science and engineering consulting firm. The company serves clients in chemical, construction, consumer products, energy, food, beverage and nutrition, government, life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, technology, industrial equipment, transportation and other sectors of the economy. The company's service offerings are provided on a project-by-project basis. The company has two segments: Engineering and Other Scientific, which is a service group providing technical consulting in different practices primarily in engineering; and Environmental and Health, which provides a range of consulting services relating to environmental hazards and risks and the effect on both human health and the environment.

First Solar Inc.

First Solar is a provider of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions. The company designs, manufactures and sells PV solar modules with a thin film semiconductor technology, and also develops and sells PV solar power systems that mainly use the modules it manufactures. The company also provides operations and maintenance (O&M) services to system owners. The company's modules segment involves the design, manufacture and sale of cadmium telluride solar modules, which convert sunlight into electricity. The company's second segment is its systems segment, through which it provides power plant solutions, which include project development, engineering, procurement, and construction services and O&M services.

Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc

Hilton Worldwide Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in hospitality with operations organized in two operating segments: management and franchise, which includes all of the hotels the company manages for third-party owners, as well as all franchised hotels operated or managed by someone other than the company; and Ownership, which includes hotels that the company owned or leased or that are owned or leased by entities in which the company owns a noncontrolling financial interest. Hilton Honors is the company's guest loyalty program that rewards guests with points for each stay at nearly all of its properties, which are then redeemable for free nights and other goods and services.

HMS Holdings Corp.

HMS Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of cost containment application in the healthcare marketplace. The company's application include: Coordination of Benefits, which provides verified insurance coverage information; Payment Integrity, which employ data analytics, technologies and clinical knowledge to identify and avoid improper payments, recover those overpayments when they occur, detect and prevent fraud, and ensure compliance with regulations; and Population Health Management, which integrates early risk identification, analytics, various channel outreach and care management components.

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.

Inter Parfums Inc.

Inter Parfums operates in the fragrance business, and manufactures, markets and distributes a range of fragrance and fragrance related products. The company manages its business in two segments, European based operations, which produces and distributes its fragrance products primarily under license agreements with brand owners, and fragrance product sales, as well as built a portfolio of brands, which include Boucheron, Coach, Jimmy Choo, Karl Lagerfeld, Lanvin, Montblanc, Paul Smith, and Repetto; and U.S. based operations, which brand fragrance products are sold under trademarks owned by the company or pursuant to license or other agreements with the owners of brands, which include Abercrombie & Fitch.

ITT Inc.

ITT is a manufacturer of engineered components and customized technology solutions for the transportation, industrial, and oil and gas markets. The company's segments are: Motion Technologies, which manufactures brake pads, shims, shock absorbers, energy absorption components, and sealing technologies; Industrial Process, which provides a portfolio of industrial pumps, valves, and plant optimization systems and services; and Connect and Control Technologies, which designs and manufactures a range of connectors and products for applications supporting various markets including aerospace and defense, industrial, transportation, medical, and oil and gas.

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.

LendingTree Inc.

LendingTree operates the online consumer platform. Services include mortgage loans, mortgage refinances, home equity loans and lines of credit, auto loans, and other related offerings. The company's segments include: Home, in which it partners with lenders throughout the United States to provide geographic lending coverage and to provide a suite of loan offerings on its marketplace; Consumer which provides consumer lending products on its online marketplace and non-lending Consumer products; and Insurance, which includes information, tools and access to insurance quote products, including home and automobile, through which consumers are matched with insurance aggregators to obtain insurance offers.

Lennar Corporation Class A

Lennar is a homebuilder in the United States, an originator of residential and commercial mortgage loans, a provider of title insurance and closing services and a developer of multifamily rental properties. The company's homebuilding operations include the construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes as well as the purchase, development and sale of residential land directly and through unconsolidated entities in which it has investments. The company operates under the Lennar brand name. The company creates and participates in joint ventures that acquire and develop land for its homebuilding operations, for sale to third parties or for use in the ventures' own homebuilding operations.

M.D.C. Holdings Inc.

M.D.C. Holdings is engaged in the homebuilding and financial services. The company's homebuilding operations consist of its subsidiaries that purchase finished or develop lots to the extent necessary for the construction and sale primarily of single-family detached homes to first-time and first-time move-up homebuyers. The company's financial services operations include: HomeAmerican Mortgage Corporation, which originates mortgage loans for its homebuyers; American Home Insurance Agency, Inc., which provides third-party insurance products to its homebuyers; and American Home Title and Escrow Company, which provides title agency services to its homebuilding subsidiaries and its customers in certain states.

Magellan Health Inc.

Magellan Health provides managed care services for some of the areas of healthcare. The company provides services to health plans and other managed care organizations, employers, labor unions, various military and governmental agencies and third-party administrators. The company operates the following segments: Healthcare, which consists of the following reporting units, Behavioral and Specialty Health, and Magellan Complete Care; and Pharmacy Management, which is comprised of services that provide clinical and financial management of pharmaceuticals paid under both the medical and the pharmacy benefit.

Monro Inc

Monro is engaged principally in providing automotive undercar repair and tire sales and services. The company provides a range of services on passenger cars, light trucks and vans for brakes; mufflers and exhaust systems; and steering, drive train, suspension and wheel alignment. The company also provides other products and services, including tires and routine maintenance services, including state inspections. The company focuses on the repair and replacement of parts which periodically replaced as they wear out. The company does not perform under-the-hood repair services except for oil change services, various flush and fill services and some minor tune-up services.

NeoGenomics Inc.

NeoGenomics operate a network of cancer-focused testing laboratories in the United States as well as laboratories in Switzerland and Singapore. The company's testing services include the following: Cytogenetics (karyotype analysis), a study of chromosomes and their relationship to disease; Fluorescence In-Situ Hybridization, a molecular cytogenetic technique that focuses on detecting and localizing the presence or absence of specific DNA sequences and genes on chromosomes; Flow cytometry, a technique utilized to measure the characteristics of cell populations; Immunohistochemistry and Digital Imaging; Molecular testing; and Morphologic analysis, a process of analyzing cells under the microscope.

OSHKOSH CORP

Oshkosh is a designer, manufacturer and marketer of access equipment, specialty vehicles and truck bodies for the primary markets of access equipment, defense, fire and emergency and municipal, refuse hauling, concrete placement as well as airport services. The company's segments are: access equipment, which designs and manufactures aerial work platforms and telehandlers; defense, which designs and manufactures tactical wheeled vehicles and related service; fire and emergency, which designs and manufactures fire apparatus assembled on custom chassis; and commercial, which designs and manufactures front- and rear-discharge concrete mixers and portable and stationary concrete batch plants.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

Universal Display Corporation

Universal Display is engaged in the research, development and commercialization of organic light emitting diode (OLED) technologies and materials for use in displays and lighting applications. The company manufactures and sells its proprietary OLED materials to customers for evaluation and use in commercial OLED products. The company also enters into agreements with manufacturers of OLED display and lighting products under which the company grants them licenses to practice under the company's patents and to use the company's proprietary know-how. At the same time, the company works with these and other companies that are evaluating the company's OLED technologies and materials for possible use in commercial OLED display and lighting products.

Versum Materials Inc.

Versum Materials is a provider of solutions to the semiconductor and display industries with knowledge in the development, manufacturing, transportation and handling of specialty materials. The company has two segments: Materials, which provides materials for deposition, metallization, chamber cleaning and etching, chemicals mechanical planarization slurries, organosilanes, organometallics and liquid dopants for thin film deposition, and chemical products; and Delivery Systems and Services, which designs, manufactures, installs, operates, and maintains chemical and gas delivery and distribution systems for specialty gases and chemicals delivered directly to the company's customers' manufacturing tools.

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Whirlpool is a home appliance company. The company manufactures and markets a line of home appliances and related products. The company's principal products are laundry appliances, refrigerators and freezers, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers and other small domestic appliances. The company manufactures and markets products under brand names such as Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Hotpoint. The company's operating and reportable segments consist of North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia.

Winnebago Industries Inc.

Winnebago Industries is a manufacturer with a portfolio of recreation vehicles and marine products used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The company's reportable segments include: Towable, which is comprised of products which are not motorized and are generally towed by another vehicle as well as other related manufactured products and services; and Motorhome, which is comprised of products that include a motorized chassis as well as other related manufactured products and services. The company's subsidiary, Chris-Craft USA, Inc., manufactures and sells boats in the recreational powerboat industry through a network of independent authorized dealers.

World Fuel Services Corporation

World Fuel Services is a global fuel services company. The company's segments are: aviation, which provides global aviation fuel supply and service solutions to main commercial airlines, second and third-tier airlines, cargo carriers, regional and low-cost carriers, airports, fixed based operators, corporate fleets, fractional operators and private aircraft; land, which provides fuel, heating oil, propane, natural gas, lubricants and related products, advisory and fulfillment solutions, transaction management services, and transportation logistics for its product deliveries; and marine, which markets fuel, lubricants and related products and services to a base of marine customers.

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Ross LaDuke

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