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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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Air Lease Corporation Class A

Air Lease is an aircraft leasing company. The company is engaged in purchasing new commercial jet transport aircraft directly from aircraft manufacturers, such as The Boeing Company and Airbus S.A.S., and leasing those aircraft to airlines. In addition to its leasing activities, the company sells aircraft from its operating lease portfolio to third parties, including other leasing companies, financial services companies, airlines and other investors. The company also provides fleet management services to investors and owners of aircraft portfolios. The company provides aircraft to airline customers in Asia, the Pacific Rim, Latin America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and North America.

Amdocs Limited

Applied Materials Inc.

Applied Materials provides manufacturing equipment, services and software to the semiconductor, display and related industries. The company's segments are: Semiconductor Systems, which develops, manufactures and sells a range of manufacturing equipment used to fabricate semiconductor chips; Applied Global Services, which provides integrated solutions to support equipment and fab performance and productivity; and Display and Adjacent Markets, which is comprised of products for manufacturing liquid crystal displays, organic light-emitting diodes and other display technologies for TVs, monitors, laptops, personal computers, electronic tablets, smart phones, and other consumer-oriented devices.

Booking Holdings Inc.

Booking Holdings provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The company's brands include: Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, in which Booking.com provides booking online accommodation reservations, based on room nights booked, and Rentalcars.com provides online rental car reservation services; KAYAK, which provides an online price comparison service; Priceline, which provides consumers hotel, rental car and airline ticket reservation services, and vacation packages and cruises; Agoda, which is an online accommodation reservation service; and OpenTable, which provides online restaurant reservation services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.

Capstead Mortgage Corporation

Capstead Mortgage operates as a self-managed real estate investment trust. The company manages a portfolio of residential mortgage pass-through securities consisting of relatively short-duration adjustable-rate mortgage securities issued and guaranteed by government-sponsored enterprises, either Federal National Mortgage Association or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, or by an agency of the federal government, Government National Mortgage Association.

Cboe Global Markets Inc

Cboe Global Markets is an exchange holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides trading and investment solutions to investors. The company provides trading across a range of products in various asset classes and geographies, such as options, futures, United States and European equities, exchange-traded products, global foreign exchange and multi-asset volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index exchange-traded options and futures products. In addition to its exchanges providing a marketplace and listing venue for the trading of securities and derivatives the company calculates proprietary indices that are used as the basis for proprietary products or licensed for use by third parties.

Central European Media Enterprises Ltd. Cl A

Clearway Energy Inc. Class C

Commercial Metals Company

Commercial Metals, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, recycles and markets steel and metal products, related materials and services. The company has four reportable segments: Americas Recycling, which processes scrap metals for use as a raw material by the company and other manufacturers of new metal products; Americas Mills, which operates electric arc furnace (EAF) mini mills, EAF micro mills, rerolling mill, scrap metal shredders, and scrap metal processing facilities; Americas Fabrication, which includes warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; and International Mill, which consists of an EAF mini mill, recycling and fabrication operations located in Poland.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

Comtech Telecommunications is a provider of communications solutions for both commercial and government customers. The company's reportable operating segments include: Commercial Solutions, which provides satellite ground station technologies (such as modems and amplifiers) and public safety and location technologies (such as 911 call routing and mapping solutions); and Government Solutions, which provides technologies (such as tactical satellite-based networks and ongoing support for communication networks) and transmission technologies (such as troposcatter systems and solid-state amplifiers) to government end-users, international customers and domestic prime contractors.

Cross Country Healthcare Inc.

Cross Country Healthcare provides healthcare staffing, recruiting and workforce solutions. The company's business consists of three business segments: Nurse and Allied Staffing, which provides staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions including temporary and permanent placement of travel and local branch-based nurse and allied personnel; Physician Staffing, which provides physicians, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants under its Medical Doctor Associates brand; and Other Human Capital Management Services, which is comprised of retained and contingent search services for physicians, healthcare executives, and other healthcare personnel.

Del Taco Restaurants Inc.

Del Taco Restaurants is an operator and franchisor of restaurants featuring made-to-order cuisine, including both Mexican inspired and American classic dishes. Majority of the company's Del Taco restaurants are located in the Pacific Southwest. The company serves its customers prepared food with quick service restaurants. The company's menu provides a combination of Mexican-inspired food, such as tacos and burritos, and American classics, such as Double Del cheeseburgers, fries and milkshakes. Additionally, the company's menu features both items such as its Platos plated meals, Epic Burritos?, Handcrafted Ensaladas and Fresca Bowls as well as items on its Buck & Under Menu?.

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.

E.l.f. Beauty Inc.

e.l.f. Beauty is a beauty company. The company conducts business under the name e.l.f. Cosmetics. The company's portfolio spans the eyes, lips, face, kits, tools and skin care categories. The company's primary trademarks include e.l.f., eyes lips face and play beautifully, all of which are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its goods and services of primary interest. These trademarks are also registered or have registrations pending in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Mexico, Russia and other countries or registries.

Encore Capital Group Inc.

Encore Capital Group is an international specialty finance company providing debt recovery solutions and other related services for consumers across a range of financial assets. The company primarily purchases portfolios of defaulted consumer receivables at deep discounts to face value and manages them by working with individuals as they repay their obligations and work toward financial recovery. The company also provides debt servicing and other portfolio management services to credit originators for non-performing loans. The company has one reportable segment, portfolio purchasing and recovery.

Expedia Group Inc.

Expedia Group is an online travel company. The company's portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com?, an online travel brand; Hotels.com?, a global lodging company operating websites with its Hotels.com? Rewards loyalty program; Vrbo?, a global online marketplace with a focus on providing lodging options for families; Egencia?, a corporate travel management company; Hotwire?, an online travel website providing spontaneous travel through its Hot Rate? deals; trivago?, an online hotel metasearch platform; and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., provider of a global rail retail and distribution platform connecting rail carriers and suppliers to both online and offline travel distributors.

FLIR Systems Inc.

FLIR Systems designs, develops, markets, and distributes solutions that detect people, objects and substances that may not be perceived by human senses. The company has three segments: Industrial, which develops hand-held, fixed mount, and desktop imaging and measurement products, and thermal and visible spectrum imaging camera cores and related components; Government and Defense, which develops and manufactures imaging and situational awareness solutions for a variety of military, law enforcement, public safety, and other government entities around the world; and Commercial, which provides security solutions for a multitude of applications, including enterprise and infrastructure security.

Fonar Corp.

Fonar is engaged in the business of designing, manufacturing, selling and servicing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanners, which utilize MRI technology for the detection and diagnosis of human disease, abnormalities, other medical conditions and injuries. The company's medical equipment segment is conducted directly through the company and consists of its Fonar Upright? MRI, a weight-bearing whole-body open MRI system which enables positional MRI (pMRI?) applications. The company's physician management and diagnostic services is conducted through its subsidiary Health Management Corporation of America, which is a management company and performs services of a non-medical nature.

Fortune Brands Home & Security Inc.

Fortune Brands Home & Security is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides home and security products. The company's segments are: Cabinets, which manufactures cabinetry and vanities, for the kitchen, bath and other parts of the home; Plumbing, which manufactures or assembles and sells faucets, accessories, kitchen sinks and waste disposals; and Doors and Security, which manufactures and sells fiberglass and steel entry door systems, composite decking and railing, and urethane millwork, as well as manufactures, sources and distributes locks, safety and security devices, and electronic security products and fire resistant safes, security containers and commercial cabinets.

G1 Therapeutics

G1 Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer. The company's product pipeline includes three clinical candidates: trilaciclib, a short-acting intravenous cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor that preserves hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and immune system function; lerociclib, an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor that inhibits tumor proliferation and growth; and G1T48, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader that inhibits estrogen receptor driven tumor proliferation.

Global Net Lease Inc

Global Net Lease is a real estate investment trust company. The company invests in commercial properties, with a focus on sale-leaseback transactions involving single tenant net-leased commercial properties. Substantially all of the company's business is conducted through the Global Net Lease Operating Partnership, L.P. The company may also originates or acquires first mortgage loans, preferred equity or securitized loans secured by real estate. The company's properties are located in the U.S., the U.K. and across continental Europe.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is a military shipbuilding company and a provider of services to partners in government and industry. The company's segments include: Ingalls Shipbuilding, which designs and constructs non-nuclear ships for the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, including amphibious assault ships, expeditionary warfare ships, surface combatants, and national security cutters; Newport News Shipbuilding, which is designing and constructing nuclear-powered ships, such as aircraft carriers and submarines, and the refueling and overhaul and the inactivation of such ships; and Technical Solutions, which includes businesses that are focused on life-cycle sustainment services.

ICU Medical Inc.

ICU Medical is an infusion therapy company with a range of product portfolio that includes intravenous (IV) solutions, IV smart pumps, dedicated and nondedicated IV sets and needle free connectors, along with pain management and safety software technology. In addition, the company manufactures automated pharmacy IV compounding systems. The company's product lines include: Infusion Consumables; Infusion Systems, which include infusion pump hardware, IV mediation safety software, and rofessional pservices; IV Solutions, which include IV therapy and diluents and irrigation; and Critical Care, which help clinicians get real-time access to patients' hemodynamic and cardiac status.

INCYTE CORP

Incyte is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics. JAKAFI (ruxolitinib) has been approved for the treatment of patients with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis, for the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera, and for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease in adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older. The company has also obtained a license to develop and commercialize ICLUSIG (ponatinib) in Europe and other select countries. In the European Union, ICLUSIG is approved for the treatment of adult patients with chronic phase, accelerated phase or blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia.

JetBlue Airways Corporation

JetBlue Airways provides air transportation services. The company also provides Fare Options pricing model, at one of three branded fares: Blue, Blue Plus, and Blue Flex. Each fare includes different offerings such as checked bags, reduced change fees, and additional TrueBlue? points, with all fares including the company's primary offering of in-flight entertainment, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. TrueBlue? is the company's customer loyalty program designed to reward and recognize loyal customers. The company operates Airbus A321, Airbus A320 and Embraer E190 aircraft types. The company also sells vacation packages through JetBlue Vacations?, a vacation service for self-directed packaged travel planning.

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is a holding company engaged in the research and development, manufacture and sale of a range of products in the health care field. The company has three business segments: Consumer, which includes a range of products focused on personal healthcare used in the beauty, over-the-counter pharmaceutical, baby care, oral care, women's health and wound care markets; Pharmaceutical, which is focused on six therapeutic areas: immunology, infectious diseases, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism and pulmonary hypertension; and Medical Devices, which includes products used in the orthopaedic, surgery, interventional solutions, and eye health fields.

Kaman Corporation Class A

Kaman conducts business in the aerospace, medical and industrial markets. The company produces and markets proprietary aircraft bearings and components; super precision, miniature ball bearings; proprietary spring energized seals, springs and contacts; complex metallic and composite aerostructures for commercial, military and general aviation fixed and rotary wing aircraft; and safe and arming solutions for missile and bomb systems for the United States and allied militaries. The company also manufactures and supports its K-MAX? manned and unmanned medium-to-heavy lift helicopters and restores, modifies and supports its SH-2G Super Seasprite maritime helicopters. The company has one business segment, Aerospace.

MGM Resorts International

MGM Resorts International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts across the United States and in Macau. The company's segments include: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, which consists of casino resorts such as Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur, and Park MGM; Regional Operations, which consists of casino resorts such as MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike Tunica, Borgata, MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield, Empire City, and MGM Northfield Park; and MGM China, which owns and operates casino resorts and the related gaming subconcession and land concessions.

New Senior Investment Group Inc

New Senior Investment Group is a real estate investment trust with a portfolio of primarily private pay senior housing properties located across the U.S. The company's portfolio is comprised of primarily private pay senior housing properties located across various states. The company conducts its business through three reportable segments: Managed Independent Living Properties, Managed Assisted Living/Memory Care Properties and Triple Net Lease Properties. The company's managed properties are managed by affiliates or subsidiaries of Holiday Retirement, FHC Property Management LLC, Jerry Erwin Associates, Inc., Thrive Senior Living LLC, Grace Management, Inc. and Watermark Retirement Communities, Inc.

News Corporation Class A

News is a media and information services company. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, subscription video services in Australia, book publishing and digital real estate services, that are distributed under brands, including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, The Australian, Herald Sun, The Sun, The Times, HarperCollins Publishers, Foxtel, FOX SPORTS Australia, realestate.com.au, realtor.com?, talkSPORT and others. The company distributes its content to consumers across platforms consisting of print and television, as well as digital platforms including websites, applications for mobile devices and tablets, social media and e-book devices.

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.

PACCAR Inc

PACCAR is a multinational company operating in three principal industry segments: the Truck segment includes the design, manufacture and distribution of light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks, which are configured with engine in front of cab or cab-over-engine; the Parts segment includes the distribution of aftermarket parts for trucks and related commercial vehicles; and the Financial Services segment includes finance and leasing products and services provided to customers and dealers. The company's other business includes the manufacturing of industrial winches in two United States plants and marketing them under the Braden, Carco and Gearmatic nameplates.

Principal Financial Group Inc.

Principal Financial Group is an insurance holding company, engaged in investment management. The company provides businesses, individuals and institutional clients a range of financial products and services, including retirement, asset management and insurance through its financial services companies. The company provides long-term investment strategies to institutional, retirement, high net worth and retail clients by providing a range of capabilities including equity, fixed income, real estate and other alternative investments, as well as fund offerings. The company's segments include: retirement and income solutions; principal global investors; principal international; and United States insurance solutions.

Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Progenics Pharmaceuticals is an oncology company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer. The company's product candidates include: AZEDRA, which is a radiotherapeutic for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with iobenguane scan positive or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma who require systemic anticancer therapy; and PyL?, which is a fluorinated prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeted PET imaging agent that enables visualization of both bone and soft tissue metastases to determine the presence or absence of recurrent and/or metastatic prostate cancer.

Radius Health Inc.

Radius Health is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing endocrine therapeutics in the areas of osteoporosis and oncology. The company's commercial product, TYMLOSTM (abaloparatide) injection is designed for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. The company is developing an abaloparatide transdermal patch for potential use in the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The company is also developing its Elacestrant, a selective estrogen receptor degrader, for potential use in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

SiteOne Landscape Supply Inc.

SiteOne Landscape Supply is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a national wholesale distributor of landscape supplies in the U.S. and Canada. The company's customers are primarily residential and commercial landscape personnel who focuses on the design, installation and maintenance of lawns, gardens, golf courses and other outdoor spaces. Through its North American network, the company provides irrigation supplies, fertilizer and control products, landscape accessories, nursery goods, hardscapes, outdoor lighting and ice melt products. The company also provides consultative services, as well as a series of technical and business management seminars that it calls SiteOne University.

SYNDAX PHARMACEUTICALS

Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of cancer therapies. The company's primary product candidate, entinostat is a once-weekly, oral, small molecule, Class I HDAC inhibitor, which is being evaluated in the Phase 3 E2112 registrational clinical trial in combination with exemestane for hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative, breast cancer, an indication for which entinostat has been granted therapy designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration. SNDX-5613, the company's clinical-stage product candidate, is a small molecule inhibitor of the interaction of menin with the mixed lineage leukemia protein.

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