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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.93 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Many Consumer Discretionary names are staging reversals or developing bullish bases. (ex. SGMS, BLMN, EAT, PZZA, and HIBB)

• The Healthcare Sector has a significant number of names reversing downtrend, breaking out of bases, and in uptrends (ex. HSKA, RMD, HNGR, HSTM, NXGN, VRTX, INVA, and PCRX)
Underlyings
ALLEGIANCE BANCSHARES

Allegiance Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Allegiance Bank, the company provides a range of commercial banking services primarily to small to medium-sized businesses within the Houston region, professionals and individual customers. The company provides a range of commercial and retail lending services, including commercial loans, loans to small businesses guaranteed by the Small Business Administration, mortgage loans, home equity loans, personal loans and automobile loans, among others. The company provides a variety of deposit products and services, with an emphasis on small to medium-sized businesses.

American Assets Trust Inc.

American Assets Trust is a self-administered real estate investment trust that owns, operates, acquires and develops retail, office, multifamily and mixed-use properties in Southern California, Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Texas and Hawaii. The company operates in four segments: Retail, which primarily include rental of retail space and other tenant services, including tenant reimbursements, parking and storage space rental; Office, which primarily include rental of office space and other tenant services; Multifamily, which include rental of apartments and other tenant services; and Mixed-use, which include rental of retail space and other tenant services.

American Vanguard

American Vanguard is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, AMVAC Chemical Corporation (AMVAC), the company is primarily a specialty chemical manufacturer that develops and markets products for agricultural, commercial and consumer uses. The company manufactures and formulates chemicals for crops, turf and ornamental plants, and human and animal health protection. These chemicals, which include insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, molluscicides, growth regulators, and soil fumigants, are marketed in liquid, powder, and granular forms. AMVAC primarily synthesizes, formulates, and distributes its own proprietary products or custom manufactures or formulates for others.

Bloomin' Brands Inc.

Bloomin' Brands is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a casual dining restaurant company. The company has four concepts: Outback Steakhouse, which is a casual steakhouse restaurant concept focused on steaks and Australian decor; Carrabba's Italian Grill, which provides Italian cuisine; Bonefish Grill, which focuses on fish, wood-grilled items and cocktails; and Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, which is a steakhouse concept featuring beef, chops, fish, seafood and poultry, salads and side dishes. The company owns and operates restaurants across the U.S., Puerto Rico, Guam and other countries.

Brinker International Inc.

Brinker International is engaged in owning, developing, operating and franchising the Chili's? Grill & Bar (Chili's) and Maggiano's Little Italy? (Maggiano's) restaurant brands. Chili's operates in the bar and grill category of casual dining. Chili's menu includes burgers, fajitas, baby back ribs and margaritas. Chili's To Go menu is available online, by calling the restaurant, or through its mobile app. Maggiano's is a casual restaurant brand providing Italian-American cuisine. Dishes are served in both a la carte and family style. The company provides a range of lunch and dinner options, complimented by a wine list and cocktails.

Cincinnati Bell Inc.

Cincinnati Bell provides communications and Intellectual Technologies (IT) solutions. The company's Entertainment and Communications segment provides products and services that can be categorized as either Consumer/SMB Fiber, Enterprise Fiber or Legacy. Products and services include high-speed internet, data transport, local voice, video and other services. The IT Services and Hardware segment provides a range of managed IT solutions, telephony and IT equipment sales, and professional IT staffing services. The company classifies the products and services of its IT Services and Hardware segment into four practices, Consulting, Cloud, Communications, and Infrastructure Solutions.

Community Healthcare Trust Incorporated

Community Healthcare Trust is a healthcare real estate company. The company owns and acquires real estate properties that are leased to hospitals, doctors, healthcare systems or other healthcare service providers in its target submarkets. The company's investment portfolio is diversified among healthcare facility type and segments such as medical office buildings, physician clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, behavioral facilities, dialysis clinics, oncology centers, acute care hospitals, assisted living facilities, post-acute care hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and specialty hospitals.

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.

Darling Ingredients Inc.

Darling Ingredients is a global developer and producer of natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. The company's segments include: Feed Ingredients, which includes the collection and processing of beef, poultry and pork animal by-products in North America and Europe into non-food grade oils and protein meals; Food Ingredients, which includes the purchase and processing of beef and pork bone chips, beef hides, pig skins, and fish skins into collagen in Europe, China, South America and North America; and Fuel Ingredients, which converts animal fats, recycled greases, used cooking oil, inedible corn oil, soybean oil, or other feedstocks into renewable diesel.

Electronic Arts Inc.

Electronic Arts develops, markets, publishes and distributes games, content and services that can be played and watched on a variety of platforms, including game consoles, personal computers, and mobile phones. The company markets and sells its games and services through digital distribution channels and through retail channels. Digitally, the company's console games and services can be purchased through third-party storefronts. In its games and services, the company utilizes brands that it either wholly own or license from others. The company develops and publishes games and services across genres. Within and alongside its games, the company provides live services, including in-game purchases, downloadable content, and esports.

Franklin Electric Co. Inc.

Franklin Electric Company designs, manufactures and distributes water and fuel pumping systems, composed primarily of submersible motors, pumps, electronic controls and related parts and equipment. The company's business consists of three segments: Water Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells motors, pumps, drives, electronic controls, monitoring devices, and related parts and equipment; Fueling Systems, which designs, manufactures and sells pumps, pipe, sumps, fittings, vapor recovery components, electronic controls, monitoring devices and related parts and equipment; and Distribution, which operates as a collection of wholly owned groundwater distributors known as the Headwater Companies.

Hibbett Sports Inc.

Hibbett Sports is an athletic-inspired fashion retailer primarily located in small and mid-sized communities across the country primarily in the South, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest regions. The company's merchandise assortment features a primary selection of brand name merchandise focusing on athletic footwear, athletic and fashion apparel, team sports equipment and related accessories. The company's Hibbett Sports stores includes free-standing stores, and stores in enclosed malls. The company's City Gear stores are located primarily in strip centers. The company's Sports Additions stores provides athletic footwear with the remainder consisting of headwear and apparel.

HP Inc.

HP is a provider of personal computing and other access devices, imaging and printing products, and related technologies, solutions and services. The company's segments are: Personal Systems, which provides commercial and consumer desktop and notebook personal computers, workstations, thin clients, commercial mobility devices, retail point-of-sale systems, displays and other related accessories, software, support and services; Printing, which provides consumer and commercial printer hardware, supplies, solutions and services, as well as scanning devices; and Corporate Investments, which includes HP Labs and certain business incubation and investment projects.

Innoviva Inc.

Innoviva is a company with a portfolio of royalties that include respiratory assets. The company's Long-Acting Beta2 Agonist (LABA) collaboration has developed the combination products: RELVAR? /BREO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily combination medicine consisting of a LABA, vilanterol (VI), and an inhaled corticosteroid (ICS), fluticasone furoate (FF); ANORO? ELLIPTA?, a once-daily medicine combining a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), umeclidinium bromide (UMEC), with a LABA, VI; and RELEGY? ELLIPTA? (the combination FF/UMEC/VI), a once-daily combination medicine consisting of an ICS, LAMA and LABA.

Insteel Industries Inc.

Insteel Industries is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a manufacturer of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications. The company manufactures and markets prestressed concrete strand and welded wire reinforcement, including engineered structural mesh, concrete pipe reinforcement and standard welded wire reinforcement. The company's products are sold primarily to manufacturers of concrete products that are used in nonresidential construction. The company's operations are focused on the manufacture and marketing of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications.

Janus Henderson Group PLC

Janus Henderson Group is a global investment manager. Co. manages a range of investment products for institutional and retail investors, across five capabilities, being European Equities, Global Equities, Global Fixed Income, Multi-Asset and Alternatives, including Private Equity and Property. Management operates across product lines, distribution channels and geographic regions. All investment product types are sold in most, if not all, of these regions and are managed in various locations. As of Dec 31 2016, Co. had total assets under management of £101.00 billion.

MSCI Inc. Class A

MSCI is a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The company's segments are: Index, in which Clients use the company's indexes in various areas of the investment process, including index-linked product creation; Analytics, which provides risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, applications and services; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), which helps institutional investors understand how ESG considerations can impact the long-term risk and reward of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and Real Estate, which includes research, reporting, market data and benchmarking offerings.

Nasdaq Inc.

Nasdaq is a holding company. Nasdaq is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manages, operates and provides its products and services in business segments: Market Services, which includes equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing and trade management services businesses; Corporate Services, which includes listing services and corporate solutions businesses; Information Services, which includes market data, index, and investment data and analytics; and Market Technology, which provides and delivers solutions across the trade lifecycle via the Nasdaq Financial Framework.

National Beverage Corp.

National Beverage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company develops, produces, markets and sells a range of sparkling waters, juices, energy drinks and carbonated soft drinks. The company's brands consist of beverages for active and health-conscious consumer (Power+ Brands) including sparkling waters, energy drinks, and juices. The company's portfolio of Power+ Brands includes LaCroix?, LaCroix Curate?, LaCroix NiCola? and Shasta? Sparkling Water products; Rip It? energy drinks and shots; and Everfresh?, Everfresh Premier Varietals? and Mr. Pure? 100% juice and juice-based products. Additionally, the company produces and distributes carbonated soft drinks including Shasta? and Faygo? brands.

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.

Pacira Biosciences Inc.

Pacira BioSciences is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a pharmaceutical company focused on delivering non-opioid pain management and regenerative health solutions to surgeons and anesthesiologist. The company's marketed product, EXPAREL (bupivacaine liposome injectable suspension) is indicated for single-dose infiltration in adults to produce postsurgical local analgesia and as an interscalene brachial plexus nerve block to produce postsurgical regional analgesia. EXPAREL consists of bupivacaine, an amide-type local anesthetic, encapsulated in DepoFoam, the company's extended release drug delivery technology, that delivers bupivacaine over time for extended analgesia.

Papa John's International Inc.

Papa John's International operates and franchises pizza delivery and carryout restaurants and, in certain international markets, dine-in and delivery restaurants. The company has four reportable segments: domestic the company-owned restaurants, which engages in retail sales of pizza and side items; North America commissaries, which includes the operations of the company's regional dough production and product distribution centers; North America franchising, which includes the company's franchise sales and support activities; and international operations, which includes the distribution sales to franchised Papa John's restaurants in the United Kingdom and its franchise sales and support activities.

PriceSmart Inc.

PriceSmart owns and operates United States style membership shopping warehouse clubs in Central America, the Caribbean and Colombia. The company also functions as a wholesale supplier to a retailer in the Philippines. The company sells brand name and private label consumer products to individuals and businesses. The company provides three types of memberships: Business, Diamond and Platinum. Businesses qualify for Business membership. The Diamond membership is targeted at individuals and families. The Platinum membership provides members with a 2% rebate on several items, up to an annual maximum of $500.

RE/MAX Holdings Inc.

Re/Max Holdings is a holding company. The company's only business is to act as the sole manager of RMCO, LLC. The company is a franchisor in the real estate industry, franchising real estate brokerages globally under the RE/MAX (RE/MAX) brand, and mortgage brokerages within the U.S. under the Motto Mortgage (Motto) brand. RE/MAX and Motto are fully franchised - the company does not own any of the brokerages that operate under these brands. All of the RE/MAX branded brokerage office locations are being operated by franchisees. The company operates under the following three segments: RE/MAX Franchising, Motto Franchising and booj.

Scientific Games Corporation

Scientific Games is a developer of technology-based products and services and associated content for the worldwide gaming, lottery and interactive gaming industries. The company's portfolio activities primarily includes supplying gaming machines and game content, casino-management systems and table game products and services to licensed gaming entities; providing instant and draw-based lottery products, lottery systems and lottery content and services to lottery operators; providing social casino solutions to retail consumers and regulated gaming entities; and providing a suite of digital real-money gaming and sports wagering solutions, distribution platforms, content, products and services.

Triumph Bancorp Inc.

Triumph Bancorp is a financial holding company. Through its bank subsidiary, TBK Bank, SSB, the company provides banking services, commercial finance product lines focused on businesses that require financial solutions. The company's banking offerings include a suite of lending and deposit products and services focused on its local market areas. The company originates a suite of commercial and retail loans including commercial real estate loans, construction and development loans, residential real estate loans, commercial agriculture, general commercial loans, and consumer loans primarily focused on customers in and around its community banking markets.

Vector Group Ltd.

Vector Group is a holding company. The company is engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the U.S. through its Liggett Group LLC (Liggett) and Vector Tobacco Inc. subsidiaries; and the real estate business through its New Valley LLC (New Valley) subsidiary. The company's business segments were Tobacco, and Real Estate. The Tobacco segment consists of the manufacture and sale of conventional cigarettes. The Real Estate segment includes the company's investment in New Valley, which includes Douglas Elliman, Escena, Sagaponack and investments in real estate ventures.

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