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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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Alleghany Corporation

Alleghany is an insurance holding company. The company classifies its businesses into three reportable segments: reinsurance segment, which consists of property and casualty reinsurance operations conducted by its Transatlantic Holdings, Inc.'s reinsurance subsidiary; insurance segment, which consists of property and casualty insurance operations conducted by Alleghany Insurance Holdings LLC through RSUI Group, Inc.; and Alleghany Capital segment, which owns and manages a portfolio of middle market businesses primarily through the company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Alleghany Capital Corporation and its subsidiaries.

AMERISAFE Inc.

Amerisafe is an insurance holding company. The company provides workers' compensation insurance focused on small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging and lumber, manufacturing, and agriculture. The company provides coverage to employers under state and federal workers' compensation laws, which prescribe wage replacement and medical care benefits that employers are obligated to provide to their injured employees in the course and scope of their employment. The company's workers' compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees for, among other things, temporary or permanent disability, death and medical and hospital expenses.

AutoZone Inc.

AutoZone is a retailer and a distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories. The company operates stores in the United States, including Puerto Rico and Saint Thomas, Mexico, and Brazil. Each store carries a product line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured automotive hard parts, maintenance items, accessories and non-automotive products. In addition, the company has a commercial sales program that provides commercial credit and delivery of parts and other products to local, regional and national repair garages, dealers, service stations and public sector accounts. The company also sells the ALLDATA brand automotive diagnostic and repair software.

Camden Property Trust

Camden Property Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company and all its consolidated subsidiaries are primarily engaged in the ownership, management, development, redevelopment, acquisition, and construction of multifamily apartment communities. The company's properties provide residents with a variety of amenities common to multifamily rental properties. The company's operating properties are located in the following locations: Phoenix/Scottsdale, AZ; Los Angeles/Orange County, and San Diego/Inland Empire, CA; Denver, CO; Washington DC Metro; Southeast Florida, Orlando, and Tampa/St. Petersburg, FL; Atlanta, GA; Charlotte, and Raleigh, NC; and Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, and Houston, TX.

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.

Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc.

Coca-Cola Consolidated distributes, markets and manufactures nonalcoholic beverages. The company's product offerings include both sparkling and still beverages. Sparkling beverages are carbonated beverages and the company's principal sparkling beverage is Coca-Cola. Still beverages include energy products and noncarbonated beverages such as bottled water, tea, ready to drink coffee, enhanced water, juices and sports drinks. The company's sales are divided into two main categories: bottle/can sales and other sales. Bottle/can sales include products packaged primarily in plastic bottles and aluminum cans. Other sales include sales to other Coca-Cola bottlers and post-mix products.

CoreCivic Inc.

CoreCivic is a real estate investment trust. The company is the owner of partnership correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities and prison operators. Through three segments, CoreCivic Safety, CoreCivic Community, and CoreCivic Properties, the company provides a range of solutions to government partners that serve the public good through corrections and detention management, a network of residential reentry centers to help address America's recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. In addition to providing fundamental residential services, the company's correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities provide a variety of rehabilitation and educational programs.

Corporate Office Properties Trust

Corporate Office Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust. Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (COPLP) and subsidiaries is the entity through which the company, the sole general partner of COPLP, conducts almost all of its operations and owns almost all of its assets. The company owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of the company's portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors that engaged in national security, defense and information technology related activities servicing. The company also owns office properties in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region.

DHT Holdings Inc.

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DTE Energy Company

DTE Energy is a holding company. The company is engaged in the generation, purchase, distribution and sale of electricity to customers in southeastern Michigan through its DTE Electric Company subsidiary, as well as in the purchase, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of natural gas throughout Michigan and the sale of storage and transportation capacity through its DTE Gas Company subsidiary. The company's non-utility operations are: gas storage and pipelines, which consists of natural gas pipeline, gathering, transportation, and storage businesses; power and industrial projects; and energy trading, which consists of energy marketing and trading operations.

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Evergy Inc.

Evergy is a public utility holding company. Through its subsidiary, Westar Energy, Inc., the company is a regulated electric utility that provides electricity to customers in the state of Kansas. The company's Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) subsidiary, is a regulated electric utility that provides electricity to customers primarily in the states of Missouri and Kansas. KCP&L's subsidiary, Greater Missouri Operations Company, is a regulated electric utility that provides electricity to customers in the state of Missouri. The company, through its subsidiary, GPE Transmission Holding Company, LLC, partially owns Transource Energy, LLC, which is focused on the development of electric transmission projects.

EZCORP Inc. Class A

EZCORP is a provider of pawn loans in the United States and Latin America. The company's business consists of the following three reportable segments: United States Pawn, which includes its EZPAWN, Value Pawn and Jewelry and other pawn operations in the United States; Latin America Pawn, which includes its Empeno Facil and other branded pawn operations in Mexico, as well as the company's GuatePrenda and MaxiEfectivo pawn operations in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Peru; and Other International, which includes primarily the company's CASHMAX financial services operations in Canada and its equity interest in the net income of Cash Converters International.

FirstEnergy Corp.

FirstEnergy is a public utility holding company. The company and its subsidiaries are principally involved in the transmission, distribution and generation of electricity. The company's reportable operating segments are comprised of: Regulated Distribution, which distributes electricity through the company's utility operating companies and also controls regulated electric generation capacity located primarily in West Virginia, Virginia and New Jersey; and Regulated Transmission, which provides transmission infrastructure owned and operated by the transmission companies and certain of the company's utilities to transmit electricity from generation sources to distribution facilities.

IDACORP Inc.

Idacorp is a holding company. The company's principal operating subsidiary, Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power) is an electric utility engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, and purchase of electric energy and capacity. Idaho Energy Resources Co., a joint venturer in Bridger Coal Company, which mines and supplies coal to the Jim Bridger generating plant owned in part by Idaho Power. The company's other subsidiaries include: IDACORP Financial Services, Inc., an investor in affordable housing and other real estate investments; and Ida-West Energy Company, an operator of small hydroelectric generation projects.

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Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

Mack-Cali Realty is a real estate investment trust. The company owns and operates a real estate portfolio comprised of Class A office and office/flex properties located primarily in the Northeast. The company performs various real estate leasing, management, acquisition and development on an in-house basis. The company's industry segments are: commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate and services. The company provides leasing, property management, acquisition, development, construction and tenant-related services for its commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate portfolio. The company's multi-family services business also provides similar services for third parties.

Misonix Inc.

Misonix designs, manufactures and markets minimally invasive therapeutic ultrasonic medical devices. These products include the BoneScalpel? surgical system, which is used for surgical procedures involving the cutting of bone while sparing soft tissue; the SonaStar? Surgical Aspirator, which is used to emulsify and remove soft and hard tumors, primarily in the neuro and general surgery field; and the SonicOne? Wound Cleansing and Debridement System, which provides tissue debridement and cleansing of wounds and burns for removal of devitalized tissue and fibrin deposits while sparing viable cells.

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.

Office Properties Income Trust

Office Properties Income Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company wholly owns properties located in several states in the United States and the District of Columbia, and it has a noncontrolling ownership interest in properties through its unconsolidated joint ventures.

Otter Tail Corporation

Otter Tail is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's reporting segments include: electric, which includes the production, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota by the company's subsidiary, Otter Tail Power Company; manufacturing, which consists of businesses engaged in the contract machining, metal parts stamping, fabrication and painting, and production of plastic thermoformed horticultural containers, life science and industrial packaging, and material handling components; and plastics, which consists of businesses producing polyvinyl chloride pipe at plants in North Dakota and Arizona.

Post Holdings Inc.

Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company. The company's segments are: Post Consumer Brands, which manufactures, markets and sells branded and private label ready-to-eat (RTE) cereal and hot cereal products; Weetabix, which markets and distributes branded and private label RTE cereal products; Foodservice, which produces and distributes egg and potato products; Refrigerated Retail, which produces and distributes side dishes, eggs and egg, cheese, sausage and other refrigerated products; and BellRing Brands, which markets and distributes ready-to-drink protein shakes, other RTD beverages, powders, nutrition bars and supplements in the nutrition category.

Select Energy Services Inc. Class A

Select Energy Services is a provider of water-management solutions. The company's segments are: Water Services, which provides the services to support new oil and gas well completions as well as ongoing production over the life of the well, including water transfer, flowback and well testing; Water Infrastructure, which develops, builds and operates infrastructure solutions to support both new oil and gas well development; and Oilfield Chemicals, which develops, manufactures and provides a suite of completion and production chemical products, water treatment solutions and services utilized in hydraulic fracturing, stimulation, cementing and related well completion and production processes.

Sempra Energy

Sempra Energy is an energy-services holding company. The company's segments are: San Diego Gas & Electric Company, which provides electric services and natural gas services in Southern California; Southern California Gas Company, which owns and operates a natural gas distribution, transmission and storage system that supplies natural gas in Southern California and portions of central California; Sempra Texas Utilities, which includes Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC that provides electricity to consumers; Sempra Mexico, which develops, owns and operates, or holds interests in, energy infrastructure in Mexico; and Sempra LNG, which develops projects for the export of liquefied natural gas.

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Skechers U.S.A. Inc. Class A

Skechers USA designs and markets Skechers-branded lifestyle footwear for men, women and children, and performance footwear for men and women under the Skechers Performance brand name. The company also designs and markets men's and women's Skechers branded lifestyle apparel, and license the Skechers brand to others for accessories, leather goods, eyewear and scrub manufacturers, among others. The company's product offering is sold through department and specialty stores, athletic and independent retailers, boutiques and internet retailers. In addition to wholesale distribution, the company's footwear is available at its direct-to-consumer websites and its own retail stores.

State Auto Financial Corp.

State Auto Financial is a property and casualty insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in writing personal and business insurance. The company's reportable insurance segments are personal insurance and commercial insurance. In its personal insurance segment, the company writes standard insurance covering personal exposures to individuals. The primary coverages provided are personal auto, homeowners, and other personal. In its commercial insurance segment, the company writes standard insurance covering small to medium sized commercial exposures. The company provides coverages including commercial auto, small commercial package, farm and ranch, workers' compensation and other commercial.

Telephone and Data Systems Inc.

Telephone and Data Systems provides communications services to customers with wireless connections and wireline and cable connections. The company conducts its wireless operations through its majority-owned subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular). The company has three business segments comprised of: U.S. Cellular, which provides service to postpaid and prepaid customers from a variety of demographic segments; and TDS Telecommunications LLC's Wireline and Cable, which provides a range of communications services to both residential and commercial customers.

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.

United Insurance Holdings Corp.

United Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the residential personal and commercial property and casualty insurance business in the United States. The company's insurance subsidiaries provide personal residential and commercial property and casualty insurance products that protect its policyholders against losses due to damages to structures and their contents. Some of the company's insurance subsidiaries sell policies that protect against liability for accidents as well as property damage. The company's non-insurance subsidiaries support its insurance and investment operations. The company writes in Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, and other various states.

United States Cellular Corp

United States Cellular provides wireless telecommunications services. The company's customers are able to choose from a variety of national plans with voice, messaging and data usage options and pricing. The company's fourth generation Long-Term Evolution network features smartphone messaging, data and internet services that allow customers to access the internet; text, picture and video message; utilize GPS navigation; and browse and download applications to customize their wireless devices to fit their lifestyles. The company also provides wireless solutions to consumers and business and government customers, including a suite of connected machine-to-machine solutions and software applications.

Universal Insurance Holdings Inc.

Universal Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance and insurance services. The company's products and services include: Insurance Products, which provide various types of personal residential insurance such as homeowners, renters/tenants, condo unit owners, and dwelling/fire; Risk Management, in which its subsidiary, Evolution Risk Advisors, Inc., advises on actuarial issues, oversees distribution, administers claims payments, performs policy administration and underwriting, and assists with reinsurance negotiations; and Distribution, which provides policies through its direct-to-consumer online distribution platforms.

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.

Weyco Group Inc.

Weyco Group is engaged in one line of business: the design and distribution of footwear. The company designs and markets footwear principally for men, but also for women and children, under a portfolio of brand names including: Florsheim, Nunn Bush, Stacy Adams, BOGS, and Rafters. The company's products consist primarily of mid-priced leather dress shoes and casual footwear composed of man-made materials or leather. The company's footwear is available in a range of sizes and widths. In the company's wholesale segment, its products are sold to footwear, department and specialty stores, primarily in the U.S. and Canada. The company's retail segment consisted of brick and mortar retail stores and internet businesses in the U.S.

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