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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.02 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Airlines continue to benefit from lower oil prices.

• The test of the October lows appears successful and investors continue to question whether the lows have been made. Apathy and uncertainty often follows a successful retest. We continue to believe the market will continue to have volatility.

• A number of retail stocks have pulled back to logical support with many reversing and turning up near their respective 200-day moving averages.
Underlyings
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.

AMGEN INC.

Amgen is a biotechnology company that discovers, develops, manufactures and delivers human therapeutics. The company's products include: Enbrel? (etanercept), which is used in indications for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis, patients with chronic moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy or phototherapy and patients with active psoriatic arthritis; and Prolia? (denosumab), which is used for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk of fracture or multiple risk factors for fracture, or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy.

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling generic and injectable, inhalation, and intranasal products, as well as insulin active pharmaceutical ingredient. The company has two reportable segments: finished pharmaceutical products and active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) products. The finished pharmaceutical products segment manufactures, markets and distributes enoxaparin, naloxone, phytonadione, lidocaine, medroxyprogesterone acetate, Primatene? Mist, as well as various other critical and non-critical care drugs. The API segment manufactures and distributes recombinant human insulin API and porcine insulin API.

Barnes & Noble Inc.

Barnes & Noble is engaged in the sale of trade books (mainly hardcover and paperback titles), mass market paperbacks (such as mystery, romance, science fiction and other popular fiction), children's books, eBooks and other digital content, NOOK? and related accessories, bargain books, magazines, gifts, caf? products and services, educational toys and games, music and movies. The company's operating segments are: B&N Retail, which provides trade book titles, a cafe, and departments providing juvenile, toys & games, DVDs, music & vinyl, gift, and magazine products, among others; and NOOK, which represents the company's digital business, including the development and support of the company's NOOK? product offerings.

Coca-Cola Company

Coca-Cola is a nonalcoholic beverage company. The company owns or licenses and markets nonalcoholic beverage brands, which it groups into the following category clusters: sparkling soft drinks; water, enhanced water and sports drinks; juice, dairy and plant-based beverages; tea and coffee; and energy drinks. The company's nonalcoholic sparkling soft drink brands are Coca-Cola, Diet Coke, Fanta and Sprite. The company markets, manufactures and sells beverage concentrates and syrups, including fountain syrups; and finished sparkling soft drinks and other nonalcoholic beverages. The company's segments are Europe, Middle East and Africa; Latin America; North America; Asia Pacific; Global Ventures; and Bottling Investments.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation

Deckers Outdoor is engaged in designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel and accessories. The company markets its products primarily under five brands. The UGG brand is comprised of a line of footwear, apparel and accessories for women, men and children. The HOKA brand is a line of footwear and apparel. The Teva brand's product line includes sandals, shoes, and boots. Sanuk brand is comprised of casual shoe and sandal categories. Other brands consist of Koolaburra by UGG brand, a casual footwear fashion using sheepskin and other plush materials. The company's retail stores are primarily UGG brand concept and UGG brand outlet stores.

Deere & Company

Deere & Co. operates the following segments: Agriculture and Turf, which manufactures and distributes a line of agriculture and turf equipment and related service parts, including utility tractors, tractor loaders, combines, cotton pickers, cotton strippers, and sugarcane harvesters; Construction and Forestry, which manufactures and distributes a range of machines and service parts used in construction, earthmoving, road building, material handling and timber harvesting, including backhoe loaders and crawler dozers and loaders; and Financial Services, which finances sales and leases by the company's dealers of new and used agriculture and turf equipment and construction and forestry equipment.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Delta Air Lines provides scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. The company serves the Transatlantic, Transpacific and Latin America markets directly on the company and through joint ventures with airline partners. Internationally, the company has hubs and market presence in Amsterdam, London-Heathrow, Mexico City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle and Seoul-Incheon. These arrangements are commercial joint ventures that include joint sales and marketing coordination, co-location of airport facilities and other commercial cooperation arrangements. The company has other businesses arising from its airline operations, including providing maintenance and engineering support for its regional aircraft.

EHealth Inc.

eHealth is a health insurance marketplace with a technology and service platform that provides consumer engagement, education and health insurance enrollment solutions. The company operates its business in two segments: Medicare, which markets a selection of Medicare-related health insurance plans, and to a lesser extent, ancillary products such as dental and vision insurance, to its Medicare-eligible customers; and Individual, Family and Small Business, which markets individual and family health insurance and small business health insurance plans through its ecommerce platforms (www.eHealth.com and www.eHealthInsurance.com).

Finisar Corporation

Finisar is engaged in optical communications, providing components and subsystems to networking equipment manufacturers, data center operators, telecom service providers, consumer electronics and automotive companies. The company's optical subsystems consist primarily of transmitters, receivers, transceivers, transponders and active optical cables, which provide the optical-electrical, or optoelectronic interface for interconnecting the electronic equipment used in these networks, including the switches, routers, and servers used in wireline networks as well as the antennas and base stations used in wireless networks. The company also provides products known as wavelength selective switches.

FormFactor Inc.

FormFactor is a provider of test and measurement technologies. The company's products provide electrical information from a range of semiconductor and electro-optical devices and integrated circuits from research, to development through production. The company designs, manufactures and sells multiple product lines, including probe cards, analytical probes, probe stations, thermal sub-systems, and related services. The company's customers use its products to test semiconductor device types, including mobile application processors, microprocessors, microcontrollers, graphic processors, radio frequency, analog, mixed signal, image sensors, opto-electrical, DRAM memory, NAND flash memory and NOR flash memory devices.

General Motors Company

General Motors designs, builds and sells trucks, crossovers, cars and automobile parts. The company also provides automotive financing services through its subsidiary, General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (GM Financial). GM Financial provides retail loan and lease lending across the credit spectrum. GM Financial provides commercial lending products to dealers including new and used vehicle inventory floorplan financing and dealer loans, which are loans to finance improvements to dealership facilities, to provide working capital, and to purchase and/or finance dealership real estate. Other commercial lending products include financing for parts and accessories, dealer fleets and storage centers.

Guess? Inc.

GUESS? designs, markets, distributes and licenses collections of apparel and accessories for men, women and children. The lines include collections of clothing, including jeans, pants, skirts, dresses, shorts, blouses, shirts, jackets, knitwear and intimate apparel. In addition, the company selectively grants licenses to design, manufacture and distribute a range of products that complement its apparel lines, including eyewear, watches, handbags, footwear, kids' and infants' apparel, outerwear, fragrance, jewelry and other fashion accessories. The company's businesses are grouped into five reportable segments: Americas Retail, Americas Wholesale, Europe, Asia and Licensing.

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.

Integer Holdings Corporation

Integer Holdings is a medical device outsource manufacturing company. The company provides medical technologies and develops batteries for applications in energy, military, and environmental markets. The company's brands include Greatbatch Medical?, Lake Region Medical? and Electrochem?. The company organizes its business into two reportable segments, Medical and Non-Medical, and derive its sales from four principle product lines. The Medical segment includes the Cardio & Vascular, Cardiac & Neuromodulation and Advanced Surgical, Orthopedics & Portable Medical product lines and the Non-Medical segment is comprised of the Electrochem product line.

JetBlue Airways Corporation

JetBlue Airways provides air transportation services. The company also provides Fare Options pricing model, at one of three branded fares: Blue, Blue Plus, and Blue Flex. Each fare includes different offerings such as checked bags, reduced change fees, and additional TrueBlue? points, with all fares including the company's primary offering of in-flight entertainment, snacks and non-alcoholic beverages. TrueBlue? is the company's customer loyalty program designed to reward and recognize loyal customers. The company operates Airbus A321, Airbus A320 and Embraer E190 aircraft types. The company also sells vacation packages through JetBlue Vacations?, a vacation service for self-directed packaged travel planning.

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.

LTC Properties Inc.

LTC Properties is a health care real estate investment trust. The company invests in seniors housing and health care properties. The company primarily invest in: Skilled nursing centers, which provide restorative, rehabilitative and nursing care for people not requiring the treatment available at acute care hospitals; Assisted living communities, which serves people who require assistance with activities of daily living, but do not require the constant supervision that skilled nursing facilities provide; Independent living communities, known as retirement communities or senior apartments; and Memory care communities, which provide options for people with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

Moog Inc. Class A

Moog designs, manufactures and integrates precision motion and fluid controls and controls systems. Co. has four segments: Aircraft Controls, which provides flight controls for military and commercial aircraft; Space and Defense Controls, which provides controls for satellites, space vehicles, launch vehicles, armored combat vehicles, tactical and strategic missiles, security and surveillance and other defense applications; Industrial Systems, which serves a customer base across a range of markets including the industrial automation market; and Components, with product categories including slip rings and fiber optic rotary joints, motors, and infusion and enteral pumps and associated sets.

NextEra Energy Inc.

NextEra Energy is a holding company, engaged in electric power and energy infrastructure. The company has two principal businesses, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) and NextEra Energy Resources, LLC (NEER). FPL is a rate-regulated electric utility engaged primarily in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electric energy in Florida. FPL provides service to its electric customers through a transmission and distribution system that links its generation facilities to its customers. NEER, through its subsidiaries, owns, develops, constructs, manages and operates electric generation facilities in wholesale energy markets primarily in the United States and Canada.

OFG Bancorp

OFG Bancorp is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking and financial services to its clients through a range of banking and financial solutions. The company's business segments include: Banking, which provides deposits and commercial, consumer and mortgage loans, and mortgage banking activities; Wealth Management, which include financial planning, money management, investment banking, brokerage services, insurance sales activity, corporate and individual trust, and retirement services, as well as retirement plan administration services; and Treasury, which encompasses all of the company's asset/liability management activities.

ONE Gas Inc.

ONE Gas is a regulated natural gas distribution utility. The company provides natural gas distribution services to its customers and is a natural gas distributor in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. The company primarily serves residential, commercial and transportation customers in all three states. The company's natural gas distribution markets are Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka, KS; and Austin and El Paso, TX. The company's three divisions, Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service and Texas Gas Service, distribute natural gas to the natural gas distribution customers in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.

PepsiCo Inc.

PepsiCo is a food and beverage company. The company's segments include: Frito-Lay North America, which includes food and snack businesses in the United States and Canada; Quaker Foods North America, which includes cereal, rice, pasta and other food businesses in the United States and Canada; PepsiCo Beverages North America, which includes beverage businesses in the United States and Canada; Latin America, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Latin America; Europe, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Europe; and Africa, Middle East and South Asia, which includes beverage, food and snack businesses in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.

PNM Resources Inc.

PNM Resources is a holding company. Through its regulated utilities, the company provides electricity and electric services in New Mexico and Texas. The company's electric utilities are Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) and Texas-New Mexico Power Company (TNMP). PNM is an electric utility that provides electric generation, transmission, and distribution service to its rate-regulated customers in area of north central New Mexico, including the cities of Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Santa Fe, and certain areas of southern New Mexico. TNMP is a regulated utility that provides transmission and distribution services in Texas under the provisions of TECA and the Texas Public Utility Regulatory Act.

PRA Health Sciences Inc.

PRA Health Sciences is a contract research organization engaged in providing outsourced clinical development and data solution services to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. The company has two reportable segments: Clinical Research, which performs a range of services across the spectrum of clinical development programs, from the filing of investigational new drug applications and similar regulatory applications to conducting all phases of clinical trials; and Data Solutions, which provides data, analytics, technology, and consulting solutions to the life sciences market including market intelligence services, consulting and services, and apps and technology.

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc

Public Service Enterprise Group, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the energy industry. The company conducts its business through two subsidiaries, Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and PSEG Power LLC (PSEG Power). PSE&G is a public utility, which is engaged in the transmission of electricity and distribution of electricity and natural gas in certain areas of New Jersey; and PSEG Power is a multi-regional energy supply company that integrates the operations of its merchant nuclear and fossil generating assets with its power marketing businesses and fuel supply functions through energy sales in energy markets primarily in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

Shake Shack Inc. Class A

Shake Shack is a roadside burger stand serving an American menu of burgers, hot dogs, crispy chicken, frozen custard, crinkle cut fries, shakes, beer, wine and others. The company operates and licenses Shake Shack restaurants. The company's menu include: Burgers & Chicken, which includes the SmokeShack?, 'Shroom Burger? (Co.'s vegetarian burger), Shack Stack? and Hamburger, as well as Chick'n Shack?; Crinkle Cut Fries, which are made from Yukon potatoes; Hot Dogs, which includes beef hot dogs and chicken dogs; Frozen Custard, which is made from vanilla and chocolate recipes and milk; Beer, Wine and Beverages, which provides local craft beers; and Dogs Are Welcome Too, which provides dog biscuits.

Shoe Carnival Inc.

Shoe Carnival is a family footwear retailers. The company provides customers a a range of dress, casual and athletic footwear for men, women and children with an emphasis on national name brands. The company operates stores in the states and Puerto Rico and provides online shopping at www.shoecarnival.com. The company's stores carry complementary accessories such as socks, belts, shoe care items, handbags, sport bags, backpacks, scarves and wallets, while its e-commerce site provides certain handbags, sport bags and backpacks. Women's, men's and children's non-athletic footwear categories are further divided into dress, casual, sport, sandals and boots.

Tivity Health Inc.

Tivity Health engages in fitness programs. Through its three programs, SilverSneakers? senior fitness, Prime? fitness and WholeHealth Living?, the company is focused on health and vitality in aging populations. The SilverSneakers senior fitness program is provided to members of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Group Retiree plans. The company provides Prime fitness, a fitness facility access program, via commercial health plans and employers. The company's network of fitness centers delivers both SilverSneakers and Prime fitness. Via its WholeHealth Living program, which the company sells to health plans, the company provides services related to complementary, alternative, and physical medicine.

Under Armour Inc. Class A

Under Armour is engaged in the development, marketing and distribution of apparel, footwear and accessories for men, women and youth. The company provides HEATGEAR?, which is designed to be worn in warm to hot temperatures under equipment or as a single layer; and COLDGEAR?, which is designed to wick moisture from the body while circulating body heat from hot spots to help maintain core body temperature. The company's footwear products include running, basketball, cleated sports, slides, training, and outdoor. The company provides digital fitness subscriptions, along with digital advertising through its MapMyFitness, MyFitnessPal and Endomondo applications.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

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