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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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Akamai Technologies Inc.

Akamai Technologies provides solutions for securing, delivering and optimizing content and business applications over the Internet. The company provides online solutions for the security, delivery and acceleration of websites and applications. The company's solutions include: cloud security solutions; enterprise security solutions; web and mobile performance solutions; media delivery solutions; carrier solutions; and services and support solutions, which provides an array of service and support offerings that are designed to assist its customers with integrating, configuring, optimizing and managing its main offerings.

Aon Plc Class A

Apartment Investment & Management Co Class A

Apartment Investment and Management is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust, focused on the ownership, management, redevelopment and limited development of apartment communities located in the United States. The company, through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, AIMCO-GP, Inc. and AIMCO-LP Trust, owns a majority of the ownership interests in AIMCO Properties, L.P. (the Aimco Operating Partnership). The company conducts all of its business and owns all of its assets through the Aimco Operating Partnership. The company owns and operates a portfolio of apartment communities in several states and the District of Columbia.

Baxter International Inc.

Baxter International, through its subsidiaries, provides a portfolio of healthcare products, including acute and chronic dialysis therapies; sterile intravenous solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition therapies; inhaled anesthetics; generic injectable pharmaceuticals; and surgical hemostat and sealant products. These products are used by hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctors' offices and by patients at home under physician supervision. The company manages its business based on three geographic segments: Americas (North and South America), Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific.

Blackbaud Inc.

Blackbaud is a cloud software company. The company is engaged in providing software solutions in cloud and hosted environments, providing payment and transaction services, providing software maintenance and support services, and providing services, including implementation, consulting, training, analytic and other services. The company's portfolio provides fundraising and relationship management, marketing and engagement, financial management, grant and award management, organizational and program management (such as education management, church management and ticketing), social responsibility, payment services and analytics.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation

Cabot Oil & Gas is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the development, exploitation, exploration and production of oil and gas properties. The company operates in one segment, natural gas and oil development, exploitation, exploration and production, in the continental United States. The company's operations are primarily concentrated in one unconventional play—the Marcellus Shale in northeast Pennsylvania.

CF Industries Holdings Inc.

CF Industries Holdings is a global fertilizer and chemical company. The company's principal nitrogen fertilizer products are anhydrous ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution and ammonium nitrate. The company's other nitrogen products include diesel exhaust fluid, urea liquor, nitric acid and aqua ammonia, which are sold primarily to its industrial customers, and compound fertilizer products, which are solid granular fertilizer products for which the nutrient content is a combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. The company serves its customers in North America through its production, storage, transportation and distribution network.

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisco Systems designs and sells a range of technologies that power the Internet. The company's business is organized into the following three geographic segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company's products and technologies are grouped into the following categories: Infrastructure Platforms; Applications; Security and Other Products. In addition to its product offerings, the company provides a range of service offerings, including technical support services and other services. The company delivers its technologies through software and services. The company's customers include businesses of all sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers.

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.

Coca-Cola European Partners Plc

EchoStar Corporation Class A

EchoStar is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of broadband satellite technologies, broadband internet services for home and small office customers, satellite operations and satellite services. The company operates in two business segments: Hughes, which provides broadband satellite technologies and broadband internet services and broadband network technologies, managed services, equipment, hardware, satellite services and communications solutions; and EchoStar Satellite Services, which uses certain of the company's owned and leased in-orbit satellites and related licenses to provide satellite service operations and satellite services.

Enbridge Inc.

Enbridge is an energy transportation and distribution companyoperating in 5 segments: Liquids Pipelines, consists of common carrier and contract crude oil, natural gas liquids and refined products pipelines and terminals; Gas Distribution, of Co.'s natural gas utility operations; Gas Pipelines and Processi consists of investments in natural gas pipelines and processing facilities; Green Power and Transmission, consists of Co.'s investments in renewable energy assets and transmission facilities; and Energy Services, consist of physical commodity marketing activity and logistical services.

Euronav NV

Euronav is a provider of maritime shipping and offshore services engaged primarily in the transportation and storage of crude oil. As of Apr. 4, 2017, Co. owned and operated a modern fleet of 55 vessels (including four chartered-in vessels) with an aggregate carrying capacity of approximately 13.7 million deadweight tons, or dwt, consisting of 31 very large crude carriers, one ultra large crude carrier, 21 Suezmax vessels, and two floating, storage and offloading vessels. Co. has two operating segments: the operation of crude oil tankers on the international markets (tankers) and the floating production, storage and offloading operations.

Federal Signal Corporation

Federal Signal designs, manufactures and supplies products and solutions for municipal, governmental, industrial and commercial customers. Products manufactured and supplied, and services rendered, by the company are divided into two segments: Environmental Solutions Group, which manufactures and supplies a range of street sweeper vehicles, sewer cleaner and vacuum loader trucks, hydro-excavation trucks, waterblasting equipment, dump truck bodies and trailers; and Safety and Security Systems Group, which manufactures and supplies systems and products that law enforcement, fire rescue, emergency medical services, campuses, military facilities and industrial sites use to protect people and property.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

FTI Consulting Inc.

FTI Consulting is a business advisory firm. The company's business segments are: Corporate Finance and Restructuring, providing interim management services; Forensic and Litigation Consulting, which provides business intelligence and risk mitigation services; Economic Consulting, providing law firms, companies, government entities and other parties with analysis of economic issues for use in legal, regulatory and international arbitration proceedings, strategic decision making and public policy debates; Technology, providing information governance, and e-discovery and data analytics software; and Strategic Communications, which designs and executes communications strategies for management teams.

Highwoods Properties Inc.

Highwoods Properties is a real estate investment trust. The company owns, develops, acquires, leases and manages properties primarily in the business districts of Atlanta, Charlotte, Nashville, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Richmond and Tampa. The company's primary business is the operation, acquisition and development of office properties. The company conducts its activities through its subsidiary, Highwoods Realty Limited Partnership. The company provides a line of real estate services to its customers. The company provides its customers with services such as build-to-suit construction and space modification, including tenant improvements and expansions.

Holly Energy Partners L.P.

Holly Energy Partners operates a system of petroleum product and crude pipelines, storage tanks, distribution terminals, loading rack facilities and refinery processing units in Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Kansas, Idaho and Washington. The company has two segments: Pipelines and Terminals, which transports light refined products from HollyFrontier Corporation's (HFC's) Navajo refinery in New Mexico and Delek US Holdings, Inc.'s Big Spring refinery in Texas; and Refinery Processing Unit, which supports HFC's refineries daily operations, which chemically transform crude oil into various petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gases, asphalt.

Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion provides ingredients solutions. The company turns corn, tapioca, potatoes, grains, fruits, and vegetables into ingredients and biomaterials for the food, beverage, brewing and other industries. The company's product lines include starches and sweeteners, animal feed products and edible corn oil. The company's starch-based products include both food-grade and industrial starches, and biomaterials. The company's sweetener products include glucose syrups, maltose syrups, fructose corn syrup, caramel color, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose and syrup solids. The company's products are derived from the processing of corn and other starch-based materials, such as tapioca, potato, and rice.

Juniper Networks Inc.

Juniper Networks designs, develops and sells products and services for networks. The company sells its products in three geographic regions: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa; and Asia Pacific. The company sells its network products and service offerings across routing, switching, and security technologies. In addition, the company provides its customers services, including maintenance and support, services, and education and training programs. The company's products and services address network requirements for its customers within its vertical: Cloud, Service Provider, and Enterprise. The company's portfolio addresses domains in the network: core; edge; access and aggregation; data centers; and campus and branch.

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. Class A

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings is a truckload carrier and a provider of transportation solutions. The company provides multiple truckload transportation, intermodal, and logistics services using a nationwide network of business units and terminals in the United States and Mexico. In addition to its truckload services, the company contracts with third-party capacity providers to provide a range of truckload services to its customers. The company operates company tractors, independent contractor tractors, and trailers within its Knight Trucking, Swift Truckload, Swift Dedicated, and Swift Refrigerated segments. Additionally, the company operates tractors and intermodal containers within its Swift Intermodal segment.

Kroger Co.

Kroger operates as a retailer. The company also manufacture and process some of the food for sale in its supermarkets. Supermarkets are operated under one of the following formats: combination food and drug stores (combo stores); multi-department stores; marketplace stores; or price impact warehouses. The combo stores provide food and organic sections, pharmacies, general merchandise, pet centers and perishables such as seafood and organic produce. Marketplace provide grocery, pharmacy and health and beauty care departments as well as perishable offering and general merchandise area that includes apparel, home goods and toys.

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.

Murphy Oil Corporation

Murphy Oil is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids worldwide. The company's principal exploration and production activities are conducted in United States by wholly owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA and its subsidiaries, in Canada by wholly-owned Murphy Oil Company Ltd. and its subsidiaries, and in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Mexico and Vietnam by wholly-owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - International and its subsidiaries. The company's hydrocarbon production is in United States, Canada and Brunei.

National Instruments Corporation

National Instruments is engaged in providing flexible application software and modular, multifunction hardware that users combine with computers, networks and third party devices to create measurement system. The company provides products used to create virtual instrumentation systems for general, commercial, industrial and scientific applications. The company's softwares include NI LabVIEW, NI LabWindows/CVI, NI Measurement Studio, NI TestStand, NI VeriStand, Flexlogger, NI InsightCM Enterprise, NI DIAdem, and NI SystemLink. The company also provides software maintenance services, hardware services and maintenance and training and certificate for its customers.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

Northwest Natural Holding Co.

Northwest Natural Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Northwest Natural Gas Company (NW Natural), the company distributes natural gas to residential, commercial, and industrial customers in Oregon and southwest Washington. The Natural Gas Distribution (NGD) segment is the only reportable segment for the company The NGD segment includes NW Natural local gas distribution business, NWN Gas Reserves LLC, which is a subsidiary of Northwest Energy Corporation, and the NGD-portion of NW Natural's Mist storage facility in Oregon. All other business activities, including certain gas storage activities, water businesses, and other investments and activities are aggregated and reported as other.

NuVasive Inc.

Nuvasive is a medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedurally integrated solutions for spine surgery. The company's principal product offering includes a minimally disruptive surgical platform, Maximum Access Surgery. The platform includes the company's proprietary software-driven nerve detection and avoidance systems, and Intraoperative Monitoring services and support; MaXcess, an integrated split-blade retractor system; and implants and biologics. The company's spine surgery product line offerings, which include products for the thoracolumbar and the cervical spine, are used to enable surgeon access to the spine to perform restorative and fusion procedures.

Perrigo Co. Plc

Proofpoint Inc.

Proofpoint is a security-as-a-service provider that enables organizations worldwide to defend, protect, archive and govern their data. The company's security-and compliance platform is comprised of an integrated suite of threat protection, information protection, and brand protection solutions, including email protection, threat protection, email authentication, data loss prevention, digital risk, web browser isolation, email encryption, archiving, phishing simulation and security awareness computer-based training. The company's platform services primarily consist of: threat detection, threat intel extraction, nexus threat graph, real-time detection, information classification and intelligent policy.

RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD.

RenaissanceRe Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of reinsurance and insurance. The company's segments are: Property, which includes its catastrophe class of business, comprising excess of loss reinsurance and excess of loss retrocessional reinsurance to insure insurance and reinsurance companies against natural and man-made catastrophes, and its other property class of business, comprising proportional reinsurance, property per risk, property (re)insurance, binding facilities and regional United States multi-line reinsurance; and Casualty and Specialty, in which the company provides its casualty and specialty reinsurance products and excess of loss coverage.

Sandstorm Gold Ltd.

Sandstorm Gold is a resource based company that seeks to acquire gold streams ("Gold Streams") from companies that have advanced stage development projects or operating mines. In return for making upfront payments to acquire a Gold Stream, Co. receives the right to purchase, at a fixed price per ounce, a percentage of a mine's gold production for the life of the mine. Co. is focused on acquiring Gold Streams from mines with low production costs, signicant exploration potential and strong management teams.

Sanmina Corporation

Sanmina is a provider of manufacturing solutions, components, products and repair, logistics and after-market services. The company manages its operations as two businesses: Integrated Manufacturing Solutions, which consists of printed circuit board assembly and test, final system assembly and test, and direct-order-fulfillment; and Components, Products and Services, which includes product design and engineering, printed circuit boards, backplanes and backplane assemblies, cable assemblies, plastic injection molded products, mechanical systems, optical technology, products for aircraft systems and tactical communications, and cloud-based manufacturing execution solution, among others.

Scholastic Corporation

Scholastic is a publisher and distributor of children's books, a provider of print and digital instructional materials for pre-kindergarten to grade 12, and a producer of educational and entertaining children's media. The company creates books and ebooks, print and technology-based learning materials and programs, classroom magazines and other products that, in combination, provides schools, as well as parents and children, solutions to support children's learning and reading both at school and at home. The company is the operator of school-based book clubs and book fair proprietary channels. It distributes its products and services through these channels, as well as directly to schools and libraries.

Scorpio Tankers Inc.

Shaw Communications Inc. Class B

Shaw Communications is a communications and media company. Co. has four operating segments: consumer, which provides cable telecommunications and satellite video services to residential customers; business network services, which provides data networking, cable telecommunications, satellite video and fleet tracking services to businesses and public sector entities; business infrastructure services, which provides data centre colocation, cloud technology and managed Information Technology solutions to businesses; and media, which provides programming content.

Signature Bank

Signature Bank is a commercial bank with private client offices located in the New York metropolitan area, providing a variety of business and personal banking products and services. The company also has a private client banking office in San Francisco. The company provides a variety of financing and leasing products, brokerage, asset management and insurance products and services, and a range of municipal finance and tax-exempt lending and leasing products to government entities, including state and local governments, school districts, fire and police and other municipal entities. Additionally, the company purchases, securitizes and sells the guaranteed portions of U.S. Small Business Administration loans.

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).

Sprott

Sprott, through its partnerships, is a global asset manager providing investors with access to precious metals and real assets investment strategies. Co.'s nvestment products include physical bullion trusts, mining ETFs, and private equity and debt strategies. Co. also partners with natural resource companies to help meet their capital needs through Co.'s merchant banking and resource lending activities. Co. is organized into business units based on its products, services and geographical location and has seven reportable segments: Exchange Listed Products; Alternative Asset Management; Global Lending; Consulting; Merchant Banking and Advisory Services and Corporate.

Teleflex Incorporated

Teleflex is a provider of medical technology products. The company primarily designs, develops, manufactures and supplies single-use medical devices used by hospitals and healthcare providers for common diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in critical care and surgical applications. The company's product categories within its geographic segments include vascular access, which provides devices that facilitate a variety of critical care therapies and other applications; anesthesia, which comprised of airway and pain management product lines; and interventional, which consist of a variety of coronary catheters, structural heart therapies, and peripheral intervention products.

Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.

Tootsie Roll Industries and its subsidiaries are engaged in the manufacture and sale of confectionery products. The company's products are marketed in a variety of packages designed for display and sale in different types of retail outlets. They are sold through candy and grocery brokers and by the company itself to customers throughout the United States. These customers include wholesale distributors of candy and groceries, supermarkets, variety stores, dollar stores, chain grocers, drug chains, discount chains, cooperative grocery associations, mass merchandisers, warehouse and membership club stores, vending machine operators, the United States military and fund-raising charitable organizations.

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.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Werner Enterprises is a transportation and logistics company engaged primarily in transporting truckload shipments of general commodities in both interstate and intrastate commerce. The company has two reportable segments: Truckload Transportation Services, which includes the medium-to-long-haul van fleet that transports a variety of consumer nondurable products and other commodities in truckload quantities over irregular routes using dry van trailers, the expedited fleet that provides truckload services, and the regional short-haul fleet that provides truckload van service across the U.S; and Werner Logistics, which is a non-asset-based transportation and logistics provider.

Western Union Company

Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. The company's segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which is focused on individual money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, in which the company facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. The company's remaining businesses and services include its electronic-based and cash-based bill payment services.

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