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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
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ALLEGIANT TRAVEL CO

Allegiant Travel is a travel company. The company's travel services and products are: scheduled service air transportation, which provides scheduled air transportation on flights mainly between cities and other destinations; ancillary air-related products and services, which provides unbundled air-related services and products in conjunction with air transportation; third party products and services, which provides third party travel products such as hotel rooms and ground transportation for sale to its passengers; and fixed fee contract air transportation, which provides air transportation through fixed fee agreements and charter service on a year-round and ad-hoc basis.

ALLETE Inc.

Allete is an energy company. The company's Regulated Operations includes its regulated utilities, Minnesota Power and Superior Water, Light and Power Company, as well as its investment in American Transmission Company LLC, a regulated utility that owns and maintains electric transmission assets in parts of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois. ALLETE Clean Energy focuses on developing, acquiring, and operating clean and renewable energy projects. United States Water Services provides integrated water management for industry by combining chemical, equipment, engineering and service for customized solutions to reduce water and energy usage, and improve efficiency.

AMN Healthcare Services Inc.

AMN Healthcare Services provides talent solutions for the healthcare sector. The company's talent solutions provides management, staffing, recruitment, technology, analytics, and related services to manage healthcare workforce needs. The company provides its healthcare personnel, from nurses, doctors, and allied health personnel to healthcare leaders and executives. The company's workforce solutions and staffing services include: travel nurse staffing; rapid response nurse staffing and labor disruption services; local, or per diem, staffing; locum tenens staffing; allied staffing; physician permanent placement services; interim leadership staffing and executive search services; and recruitment process outsourcing.

Columbia Banking System Inc.

Columbia Banking System is a bank holding company. Through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Columbia State Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to small and medium-sized businesses, personnel and individuals throughout Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The company provides its personal banking customers a range of account products including noninterest and interest-bearing checking, savings, money market and certificate of deposit accounts. Through its Columbia Trust Company subsidiary, the company provides a range of fiduciary, investment and administrative trust services, coupled with local, personalized attention to the requirements of each trust.

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuicao Grupo Pao de Acucar Pref ADS

Dril-Quip Inc.

Dril-Quip designs, manufactures, sells and services drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The company's products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors, diverters and safety valves. The company provides technical advisory assistance during installation of its products, as well as rework and reconditioning services. The company's customers may rent or purchase running tools from the company for use in the installation and retrieval of its products.

Embraer S.A. Sponsored ADR

Enerpac Tool Group Corp.

Everest Re Group Ltd.

Everest Re Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company underwrites reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The company's segments are: U.S. Reinsurance, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and specialty lines of business, including Marine, Aviation, Surety and Accident and Health business; International, which focuses on the international reinsurance markets; Bermuda, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and property and casualty reinsurance; and Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance through agents, wholesale and retail brokers and surplus lines brokers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda.

First Midwest Bancorp Inc.

First Midwest Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its principal subsidiary, First Midwest Bank (the Bank), the company provides a range of commercial, retail, treasury management, and wealth management products and services to commercial and industrial, agricultural, commercial real estate, municipal, and consumer customers. The Bank operates in the markets of Illinois as well as other market areas including northwestern Indiana and eastern Iowa. The Bank provides a range of deposit products and services, including checking, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal, money market, and savings accounts and various types of short and long-term certificates of deposit.

Great Western Bancorp Inc.

Great Western Bancorp is a bank holding company focused on relationship-based business and agri-business banking. The company serves its customers through branches in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company focuses on business banking, complemented by its agri-business banking, retail banking and wealth management services. The company's loan portfolio consists mainly of business loans, comprised of commercial real estate loans and commercial non-real estate loans. The company also provides a range of deposit and loan products to its retail customers. The company is engaged in private banking, financial planning, investment management and insurance operations.

Hexcel Corporation

Hexcel is a composites company with two reportable segments. The Composite Materials segment manufactures and markets carbon fibers, fabrics and specialty reinforcements, prepregs and other fiber-reinforced matrix materials, structural adhesives, honeycomb, molding compounds, tooling materials, polyurethane systems and laminates that are incorporated into several applications, including military and commercial aircraft, wind turbine blades, recreational products, transportation and other industrial applications. The Engineered Products segment manufactures and markets composite structures and precision machined honeycomb parts primarily for use in the aerospace industry.

S&T Bancorp Inc.

S&T Bancorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through S&T Bank and its non-bank subsidiaries, the company provides consumer, commercial and small business banking services, which include accepting time and demand deposits and originating commercial and consumer loans, brokerage services and trust services including serving as executor and trustee under wills and deeds and as guardian and custodian of employee benefits. The company also manages private investment accounts for individuals and institutions through its registered investment advisor.

SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO

Southwest Airlines operates Southwest Airlines, a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States and near-international markets. The company has Boeing 737 aircraft in its fleet and serves destinations in various states, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and other near-international countries such as Mexico, Jamaica, The Bahamas, Aruba, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos. The company principally provides point-to-point service, which allows for direct nonstop routing. The company also provides a suite of digital platforms to support Customers' needs prior to and during the course of their travel.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc. Class A

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings is an independent non-Original Equipment Manufacturer commercial aerostructures designer and manufacturer. The company has three segments: Fuselage Systems, which includes development, production and marketing of forward, mid and rear fuselage sections and systems, and related spares and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services; Propulsion Systems, which includes development, production and marketing of struts/pylons, nacelles, and related engine structural components, and related spares and MRO services; and Wing Systems, which includes development, production and marketing of wings and wing components, as well as related spares and MRO services.

TriMas Corporation

TriMas is an industrial manufacturer of products for customers in the consumer products, aerospace, industrial, petrochemical, refinery and oil and gas end markets. The company's brands include Rieke?, TriMas Aerospace?, Lamons? and Norris Cylinder? and Arrow? Engine Company. The company operates businesses in three reportable segments: Packaging, which is a designer and manufacturer of closure and dispensing systems for a range of end markets; Aerospace segment, which is comprised of TriMas Aerospace, which includes the Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Allfast Fastening Systems and Martinic Engineering brands; Specialty Products segment, which is comprised of Norris Cylinder, Lamons and Arrow Engine Company.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust

Washington Real Estate Investment Trust is a self-administered equity real estate investment trust. The company's business consists of the ownership and operation of real estate properties in Washington metro region. The company owns a portfolio of multifamily and commercial (office and retail) properties. The company's reportable segments include: office and multifamily. Office properties provide office space for various types of businesses and professions. Multifamily properties provide rental housing for individuals and families throughout the Washington metro region.

Washington Trust Bancorp Inc.

Washington Trust Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly, the company provides a range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses, including commercial, residential and consumer lending, retail and commercial deposit products, and wealth management and trust services. The company's deposit accounts consist of noninterest-bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing demand deposits, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and time deposits.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

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