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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
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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.
Underlyings
Allakos

Allakos is a clinical stage biotechnology company. The company is developing AK002, its wholly owned monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of eosinophilic gastritis, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, and eosinophilic esophagitis and mast cell related diseases. AK002 selectively targets both eosinophils and mast cells, white blood cells that are distributed in the body and play a primary role in the inflammatory response. Inappropriately activated eosinophils and mast cells have been identified as key drivers in a number of severe diseases affecting the gastrointestinal tract, eyes, skin, lungs and other organs. As such, AK002 has the potential to treat a number of severe diseases.

Ambac Financial Group Inc.

Ambac Financial Group is a financial service holding company. The company's provides financial guarantee policies through its principal operating subsidiary, Ambac Assurance Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary Ambac Assurance UK Limited. The company has another wholly-owned subsidiary, Everspan Financial Guarantee Corp. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates in one business segment: financial guarantee insurance, which consists of insurance policies issued provide an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee which protects the holder of a debt obligation against non-payment when due of the principal and interest on the obligations guaranteed.

Bottomline Technologies (de) Inc.

Bottomline Technologies operates settlement networks that facilitate electronic payments and transaction settlement between businesses, their vendors and banks. The company provides solutions that banks use to provide payment, cash management and treasury capabilities to their business customers, as well as solutions that financial institutions use to facilitate customer acquisition. Corporate customers rely on the company's solutions to automate payment and accounts payable processes. The company also provides cyber fraud and risk management solutions that are designed to non-invasively monitor and analyze user behavior and payment transactions to flag behavioral and data anomalies and other suspicious activity.

Edison International

Edison International is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, Southern California Edison Company (SCE), which is an investor-owned public utility, the company is primarily engaged in the business of supplying and delivering electricity to southern California. The company is also the parent company of Edison Energy Group, Inc., a holding company for Edison Energy, LLC, which is engaged in the business of providing energy services to commercial and industrial customers. SCE supplies electricity to its customers through transmission and distribution networks. Its transmission facilities include sub-transmission facilities and are located primarily in California but also in Nevada and Arizona.

Erie Indemnity Company Class A

Erie Indemnity is an attorney-in-fact for the subscribers (policyholders) at the Erie Insurance Exchange (Exchange), a reciprocal insurer that writes property and casualty insurance. The company's main function as attorney-in-fact is to perform policy issuance and renewal services on behalf of the subscribers at the Exchange. The company also acts as attorney-in-fact on behalf of the Exchange with respect to claims handling and investment management services, as well as the service provider for the claims handling, life insurance, and investment management services for its insurance subsidiaries. The company provides policy issuance and renewal services related to the sales, underwriting and issuance of policies.

Fastly

Fastly is engaged in providing cloud computing services. The company provides developers with a programmable and reliable edge cloud platform that they adopt as their own. The company builts an edge cloud platform, designed from the ground up to be programmable and support agile software development. The company's platform consists of four primary components: a programmable edge, a software-defined modern network, safety in depth, and a philosophy of customer empowerment. The company's programmable edge provides developers with real-time visibility and control, where they can write and deploy code to push application logic to the edge. It supports application delivery processes.

Forward Air Corporation

Forward Air is an asset-light freight and logistics company. The company has four segments: Expedited less-than-truckload (LTL), which provides expedited regional, inter-regional and national LTL and final mile services; Truckload Premium Services, which is an asset-light provider of transportation management services, including, but not limited to, expedited truckload brokerage, fleet services, as well as security and temperature-controlled logistics services; Intermodal, which provides first- and last-mile intermodal container drayage services; and Pool Distribution, which provides handling and distribution of time-sensitive product to various destinations in specific geographic regions.

HF Foods Group Inc

HF Foods Group through its subsidiaries is a foodservice distributor operated by Chinese Americans, providing Chinese restaurants, primarily Chinese takeout restaurants located in the southeastern U.S. The company provides one-stop service to Chinese restaurants with over 1,000 types of products, including fresh and frozen meats, Chinese specialty vegetables, sauces, and packaging materials for takeout restaurants. Chinese restaurants, especially small or takeout restaurants, can find almost all the products they need in the company's product lists.

Home Point Capital

IRhythm Technologies Inc.

iRhythm Technologies is a digital healthcare company redefining the way cardiac arrhythmias are clinically diagnosed by combining its wearable biosensing technology with cloud-based data analytics and capabilities. The company has developed a long-term continuous ambulatory cardiac monitoring platform known as the Zio service that provides continuous ambulatory cardiac monitoring through Zio XT monitor and Zio AT monitor. While wearing either the Zio XT or Zio AT monitor, patients can mark when symptoms occur by pressing a trigger button on the device and separately recording contextual data like activities and circumstances in a written symptom diary or digitally via the myZio application.

Marten Transport Ltd.

Marten Transport is a temperature-sensitive truckload carrier. The company has four segments: Truckload, which provides regional short-haul and medium-to-long-haul full-load transportation services; Dedicated, which provides customized transportation solutions using temperature-controlled trailers, dry vans and other equipment; Intermodal, which transports customers' freight using its temperature-controlled trailers on railroad flatcars for portions of trips, with the balance of the trips using its tractors or, to a lesser extent, contracted carriers; and Brokerage, which arranges for third-party carriers to transport freight for its customers in temperature-controlled trailers and dry vans.

Olympic Steel Inc.

Olympic Steel is a metals service center that operates in three segments; carbon flat products, specialty metals flat products, and tubular and pipe products. The company's carbon flat products segment's focus is on the direct sale and distribution of large volumes of processed carbon and coated flat-rolled sheet, coil and plate products and fabricated parts. The company's specialty metals flat products segment's focus is on the direct sale and distribution of processed aluminum and stainless flat-rolled sheet and coil products, flat bar products and fabricated parts. The company distributes metal tubing, pipe, bar, valves and fittings and fabricate pressure parts through its tubular and pipe products segment.

Plug Power Inc.

Plug Power is a provider of alternative energy technology focused on the design, development, commercialization and manufacture of hydrogen and fuel cell systems used for the material handling and stationary power markets. The company's products and services include: GenDrive, which is a hydrogen fueled proton exchange membrane fuel cell system providing power to material handling electric vehicles, electric forklifts and ground support equipment; GenFuel, which is a hydrogen fueling delivery, generation, storage and dispensing systems; and ProGen, which is a fuel cell stack and engine technology that used in mobility and stationary fuel cell systems, and as engines in electric delivery vans.

Regis Holdings Ltd. (Mauritius)

Seagen Inc.

SunPower Corporation

SunPower is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an energy company that delivers solar solutions to residential, commercial, and power plant customers worldwide. The company has two segments: SunPower Energy Services, which refers to sales of solar energy solutions in the North America including direct sales of turn-key engineering, procurement and construction services, and sales to resellers, among other; and SunPower Technologies, which refers to its technology development, worldwide solar panel manufacturing operations, equipment supply to resellers, commercial and residential end-customers outside of North America, and worldwide power plant project development and project sales.

Sunrun Inc.

Sunrun is engaged in the design, development, installation, sale, ownership, and maintenance of residential solar energy systems. The company's main solar service offerings are provided through its lease and power purchase agreements, which it refers to as its Customer Agreements. While homeowners have the option to purchase a solar energy system outright from the company, a majority of its customers choose to buy solar as a service through its Customer Agreements. With its solar service offerings, the company installs solar energy systems on its customers' homes and provides them the solar power produced by those systems. In addition, the company monitors, maintains and insures the system during the term of the contract.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.

Take-Two Interactive Software is a developer, publisher and marketer of interactive entertainment for consumers. The company develops and publishes products principally through its two wholly-owned labels Rockstar Games and 2K, as well as its Private Division label and Social Point, a developer of mobile games. The company's products are designed for console gaming systems such as the Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc. PlayStation?4, Microsoft Corporation Xbox One?, and Xbox 360?, the Nintendo Switch, and personal computers, including smartphones and tablets. The company delivers its products through physical retail, digital download, online platforms and cloud streaming services.

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Ross LaDuke

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