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In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.
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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.

Align Technology Inc.

Align Technology is a medical device company engaged in the design, manufacture and marketing of Invisalign? clear aligners and iTero? intraoral scanners and services for orthodontics, restorative and aesthetic dentistry. The company's segments are: Clear Aligner, which includes the Invisalign System, a method for treating malocclusion based on a proprietary computer-simulated virtual treatment plan and a series of doctor-prescribed, custom manufactured, clear plastic, removable aligners; and Scanners and Services, which includes Intraoral scanning that enables the dental practitioner to create a 3D image of the patient's teeth (digital scan) using a handheld intraoral scanner.

America's Car-Mart Inc.

America's Car-Mart is an automotive retailer focused on the Integrated Auto Sales and Finance segment of the used car market. The company's operations are principally conducted through its two operating subsidiaries, America's Car Mart, Inc. and Colonial Auto Finance, Inc. The company primarily sells older model used vehicles and provides financing for substantially all of its customers. The company purchases vehicles primarily from wholesalers, new car dealers, individuals and auctions. The company provides financing to substantially all of its customers who purchase a vehicle at one of its dealerships. A majority of the company's customers make their payments in person at the dealership where they purchased their vehicle.

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.

B.E.S.T. Discoveries Fund, Inc.

BancorpSouth Bank

BancorpSouth Bank conducts commercial banking and financial services operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Illinois. The company's segments are: Mortgage, which includes the mortgage banking activities of originating mortgage loans, selling mortgage loans in the secondary market and servicing the mortgage loans; Insurance Agencies, which serves as agents in the sale of commercial lines of insurance and lines of property and casualty, and life, among others; Wealth Management, which includes credit related products; and General Corporate and Other, which includes other activities not allocated to the segments.

Bank OZK

Bank OZK provides a range of retail and commercial banking services. The company also provides, among other products and services, treasury management services for businesses, individuals and non-profit and governmental entities, including wholesale lock box services, remote deposit capture services, trust and wealth management services for businesses, individuals and non-profit and governmental entities, real estate appraisals, ATMs, telephone banking, online and mobile banking services, debit cards and safe deposit boxes. Through third party providers, the company provides credit cards for consumers and businesses and processing of merchant debit and credit card transactions.

Banner Corporation

Banner is a bank holding company. The company is primarily engaged in the business of planning, directing and coordinating the business activities of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Banner Bank and Islanders Bank (the Banks). Banner Bank provides a variety of commercial banking services and financial products to individuals, businesses and public sector entities. Islanders Bank provides similar banking services to individuals, businesses and public entities located primarily in the San Juan Islands. The Banks's primary business is that of banking institutions, accepting deposits and originating loans in locations surrounding its offices in portions of Washington, Oregon, California, Utah and Idaho.

BOEING COMPANY (THE)

The Boeing is an aerospace firm. The company's segments include: Commercial Airplanes, which develops, produces and markets commercial jet aircraft and provides fleet support services, mainly to the commercial airline industry; Defense, Space and Security, which engages in the research, development, production and modification of manned and unmanned military aircraft and weapons systems for strike, surveillance and mobility, vertical lift, and commercial derivative aircraft; Global Services, which provides supply chain and logistics management, pilot and maintenance training systems and services, and data analytics and digital services; and Boeing Capital, which manages overall financing exposure.

Carnival Corporation

Century Aluminum Co

CIT Group Inc.

CIT Group is a bank and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides financing, leasing and advisory services to middle-market companies and small businesses in a range of industries in North America. The company also provides banking and related services to commercial and individual customers through its banking subsidiary. The company has three operating segments: Commercial Banking, which include Commercial Finance, Rail, Real Estate Finance, and Business Capital; Consumer Banking, which includes Retail Banking, Consumer Lending, and Small Business Administration Lending; and Non-Strategic Portfolios, which includes businesses and portfolios that the company no longer consider strategic.

E. W. Scripps Company Class A

Scripps (E.W.) is a media enterprise with interests in local and national media brands. The company's media businesses are organized into the following reportable business segments: Local Media and National Media. The company's Local Media segment is comprised of its local broadcast television stations and their related digital operations. The company produces news, information and entertainment content that informs and engages its local communities. In addition, the company's television stations run network programming, syndicated programming and original programming. The company's National Media segment represents its collection of national media brands including Katz, Stitcher, Triton and Newsy.

Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.

Ethan Allen Interiors, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethan Allen Global, Inc., and Ethan Allen Global, Inc.'s subsidiaries, is an interior design company, manufacturer and retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company aligns its business into two reportable segments: Retail, which sells home furnishings and accents to consumers through a network of the company operated design centers; and Wholesale, which is principally involved in the development of the Ethan Allen brand and encompasses all aspects of design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, sale, and distribution of the company's range of home furnishings and accents. The company's product line includes case goods, upholstery, and home accents.

Exterran Corp.

Exterran is a global systems and process company. The company operates in the following primary business lines: contract operations, which provides compression and processing and treating services through the operation of its natural gas compression equipment and crude oil and natural gas production and process equipment; aftermarket services, which sells parts and components and provides operations, maintenance, repair, overhaul, upgrade, startup and commissioning and reconfiguration services; and product sales, which designs, engineers, manufactures, installs and sells natural gas compression packages as well as equipment used in the treating and processing of crude oil, natural gas and water.

FLEETCOR Technologies Inc.

FleetCor Technologies is provider of commercial payment solutions. The company's five primary product lines are Fuel, which provides fuel payment solutions to businesses and government entities who operate vehicle fleets, as well as to main oil companies;Lodging, which provides lodging payment solutions to employees who travel overnight for work purposes; Tolls, which provides an electronic toll and parking payments product; Corporate Payments, which include virtual cards, purchasing cards, travel and entertainment cards; and Gift, which provides gift card product management and processing services. Additionally, the company provides other payment products including fleet maintenance and employee benefits.

Focus Financial Partners

Focus Financial Partners is a partnership of independent, fiduciary wealth management firms operating in the registered investment advisor industry, with a footprint of several partner firms primarily in the United States. The company's partner firms primarily service high net worth individuals and families by providing wealth management services. The company's wealth management services include investment advice, financial and tax planning, consulting, tax return preparation, family office services, and other services. The company also provides recordkeeping and administration services.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Goodyear Tire & Rubber develops, manufactures, distributes and sells tires and related products and services worldwide. The company manufactures and markets various lines of rubber tires for: automobiles, trucks, buses, aircraft, motorcycles, earthmoving and mining equipment, farm implements, industrial equipment, and various other applications. The company manufactures and sells tires under the Goodyear, Dunlop, Kelly, Debica, Sava and Fulda brands and various other Goodyear owned house brands, and the private-label brands of certain customers. The company operates its business through three operating segments representing its regional tire businesses: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia Pacific.

Hancock Whitney Corporation

Hancock Whitney is a financial holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, Hancock Whitney Bank (the Bank), the company provides a network of full service financial choices. The Bank provides a range of online banking services to commercial, small business and retail customers, providing a variety of transaction and savings deposit products, treasury management services, secured and unsecured loan products (including revolving credit facilities), and letters of credit and similar financial guarantees. The Bank also provides trust and investment management services to retirement plans, corporations and individuals.

Hanesbrands Inc.

Hanesbrands is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under some apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds, DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur Der, Alternative, L'eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, and Gear for Sports. The company's segments are: Innerwear, which includes apparel products, such as men's underwear, women's panties, children's underwear, socks and intimate apparel; Activewear, which includes T-shirts, fleece, performance apparel, sport shirts and thermals; and International, which includes innerwear, activewear, hosiery and home goods products, sold outside of the United States.

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.

Hess Corporation

Hess is a global exploration and production company engaged in exploration, development, production, transportation, purchase and sale of crude oil, natural gas liquid (NGL), and natural gas with production operations located primarily in the United States, Guyana, the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, Malaysia and Denmark. The company's Midstream operating segment provides fee-based services, including gathering, compressing and processing natural gas and fractionating NGL; gathering, terminaling, loading and transporting crude oil and NGL; storing and terminaling propane, and water handling services primarily in the Bakken shale play in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota.

Home BancShares Inc.

Home Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Centennial Bank (the Bank), the company is primarily engaged in providing a range of commercial and retail banking and related financial services to businesses, real estate developers and investors, individuals and municipalities. The Bank has branch locations in Arkansas, Florida, South Alabama and New York City. The company originates loans secured by single and multi-family real estate, residential construction and commercial buildings. The company also provides a range of deposit services, including checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit.

Howmet Aerospace, Inc.

Lincoln National Corporation

Lincoln National operates multiple insurance and retirement businesses through its subsidiary companies. The company provides products and services through four segments as follows: Annuities, which provides tax-deferred investment growth and lifetime income opportunities for its clients by providing variable annuities, fixed annuities and indexed variable annuities; Retirement Plan Services, which provides employers with retirement plan products and services, primarily in the defined contribution retirement plan marketplace; Life Insurance, which focuses on the creation and protection of wealth for its clients; and Group Protection, which provides group non-medical insurance products.

MEREDITH CORP

Meredith is a media company. The company is engaged in providing consumers with content and delivering the messages of its advertising and marketing partners. The company operates two business segments: national media and local media. The company's national media segment includes national consumer media brands delivered via multiple media platforms including print magazines, digital and mobile media, brand licensing activities, database-related activities, affinity marketing, and business-to-business marketing products and services. The company's local media segment consists of television stations located across the United States in markets with related digital and mobile media assets.

NMI Holdings Inc. Class A

NMI Holdings is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the provision of mortgage insurance (MI). MI protects lenders and investors from default-related losses on a portion of the unpaid principal balance of a covered mortgage. The company's principal types of MI coverage include: primary MI, which provides default protection on individual mortgage loans at specified coverage percentages; and pool insurance, which is generally used to provide additional credit enhancement for certain secondary market mortgage transactions. The company also provides outsourced loan review services to mortgage originators through its subsidiary, NMI Services, Inc.

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.

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.

Par Pacific Holdings Inc

Par Pacific Holdings owns and operates energy and infrastructure businesses. The company's refining segment consists of a refinery in Kapolei, HI, that produces ultra-low sulfur diesel (ULSD), gasoline, jet fuel, marine fuel, low sulfur fuel oil, and other associated refined products. The company's refinery in Newcastle, WY, produces gasoline, ULSD, jet fuel, and other associated refined products and the company's refinery in Tacoma, WA, produces distillate, gasoline, asphalt, and other associated refined products. The company's retail segment operates retail outlets in Hawaii, Washington, and Idaho. The company's logistics segment owns and operates terminals, pipelines, a single-point mooring, and trucking operations.

Paycom Software Inc.

Paycom Software is a provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solution delivered as Software-as- a-Service. The company provides functionality and data analytics that businesses need to manage the complete employment lifecycle, from recruitment to retirement. The company's solution requires virtually no customization and is based on a core system of record maintained in a single database for various HCM functions, including talent acquisition, time and labor management, payroll, talent management and human resources management applications. The company's solution was developed in-house and is based on a single platform, there is no need to integrate, update or access various databases.

PVH Corp.

PVH is a branded apparel company. The company designs and markets branded dress shirts, neckwear, sportswear, jeanswear, performance apparel, intimate apparel, underwear, swimwear, swim products, handbags, accessories, footwear and other related products. The company also licenses the use of its trademarks to third parties and joint ventures. The company's businesses include: Tommy Hilfiger, which consists of the Tommy Hilfiger North America and Tommy Hilfiger International segments; Calvin Klein, which consists of the Calvin Klein North America and Calvin Klein International segments; and Heritage Brands, which consists of the Heritage Brands Wholesale and Heritage Brands Retail segments.

RCL Foods Ltd

RCL Foods is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in producing and marketing chicken and its related products. Co. breeds and rears its own livestock which it feeds from its own feed mills, processes, distributes and markets fresh, frozen, value-added and further-processed chicken. Co. operates in the local retail, wholesale and foodservice channels under its own brands, including Rainbow FoodSolutions, Cobb and Epol. Co. consumer brands include Rainbow and Farmer Brown.

SEACOR Holdings Inc.

SEACOR Holdings is a holding company with interests in domestic and international transportation and logistics, risk management consultancy and other businesses. The company has four segments: Ocean Transportation and Logistics Services, which owns and operates a fleet of bulk transportation, port and infrastructure, and logistics assets; Inland Transportation and Logistics Services, which provides customer supply chain solutions; Witt O'Brien's, LLC, which provides crisis and emergency management services for both the public and private sectors; and Other, which includes the activity of its subsidiary, CLEANCOR Energy Solutions LLC, and noncontrolling investments in various other businesses.

Select Medical Holdings Corporation

Select Medical Holdings is managed through four business segments: critical illness recovery hospital, which consists of hospitals designed to serve the needs of patients recovering from critical illnesses; rehabilitation hospital, which consists of hospitals designed to serve patients that require intensive physical rehabilitation care; outpatient rehabilitation, which consists of clinics that provide physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services; and the company's subsidiary, Concentra Inc. segment, which consists of occupational health centers that provide workers' compensation injury care, physical therapy, and consumer health services and onsite clinics.

TripAdvisor Inc.

TripAdvisor is an online travel company. The company operates a travel platform that connects the travelers with travel partners through content, price comparison tools, and online reservation and related services for destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. The company manages its business in the following segments: Hotels, Media and Platform, which provides services such as click-based advertising on Tripadvisor-branded websites, subscription-based and display-based advertising, and other services; Experiences and Dining, which provides information and services for consumers to research and book activities, attractions, and restaurants in travel destinations.

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.

United Community Banks Inc.

United Community Banks is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of commercial and consumer banking services, including checking, savings and time deposit accounts, secured and unsecured loans, mortgage loans, payment services, wire transfers, brokerage, investment advisory services and other related financial services to its customers. The company also provides its customers a variety of deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and other deposit accounts, through multiple channels, including its network of branches and its online, mobile and telephone banking platforms.

Vera Bradley Inc.

Vera Bradley is a designer of women's handbags, luggage and travel items, fashion and home accessories, and gifts. The company sells its products through two reportable segments: Direct and Indirect. The Direct business consists of sales of Vera Bradley products through the company's full-line and factory outlet stores, verabradley.com, the company's online outlet site, direct-to-consumer eBay sales, and the company's annual outlet sale in Fort Wayne, IN. The Indirect business consists of sales of Vera Bradley products to specialty retail locations, as well as department stores, national accounts, third party e-commerce sites, third-party inventory liquidators, and sales generated through licensing agreements.

Visteon Corporation

Visteon is an automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures cockpit electronics and connected car solutions for vehicle manufacturers. The company's products include: Instrument Clusters, which provides standard analog gauge clusters to 2-D, and 3-D display-based devices; Information Displays, which provides information displays for applications within the cockpit; Audio and Infotainment Systems, which includes Phoenix? display audio and embedded infotainment platform; Telematics Solutions, which provides telematics control unit; Head-Up Displays (HUD), which includes combiner HUD; SmartCore? Domain Controller; and DriveCore? Autonomous Driving Controller.

Yelp Inc

Yelp provides a platform to both consumers and businesses by helping each discover and interact with the other. The reviews contributed to the company's platform cover a set of local business categories, including restaurants, shopping, beauty and fitness, arts, entertainment and events, home and local services, health, nightlife, travel and hotel, auto and other categories. The company provides a range of free and paid advertising products to businesses of all sizes, including the ability to deliver targeted search advertising to large local audiences through its website and mobile app. The company also provides several features and consumer-interactive tools.

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