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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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Allergan plc

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

Assured Guaranty Ltd.

Assured Guaranty is a Bermuda-based holding company that provides, through its operating subsidiaries, credit protection products to the U.S. and international public finance including infrastructure and structured finance markets. The company markets its financial guaranty insurance directly to issuers and underwriters of public finance and structured finance securities as well as to investors in such obligations. The company guarantees obligations issued in the U.S. and the U.K, and also guarantees obligations issued in other countries and regions. The company's financial guaranty direct and assumed businesses provide credit protection on public finance, infrastructure and structured finance obligations.

Brixmor Property Group Inc.

Brixmor Property Group is a holding company and an internally-managed real estate investment trust. Brixmor Operating Partnership LP and subsidiaries (the Operating Partnership) is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. Through the Operating Partnership, the company is engaged in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of retail shopping centers. The company owns and operates open-air retail portfolios, comprised primarily of shopping centers located in the United States. The company's shopping centers are primarily anchored by retailers, as well as consumer-oriented service providers.

Coherus BioSciences Inc.

Coherus BioSciences is a commercial-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the biosimilar market. The company has received regulatory approval for the marketing of UDENYCA? (pegfilgrastim-cbqv), a biosimilar to Neulasta, a long-acting granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, from the European Commission and received regulatory approval for UDENYCA? from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The company's pre-commercial pipeline includes the following product candidates: CHS-0214 (its etanercept (Enbrel) biosimilar candidate); and CHS-131, its oral, small-molecule drug candidate, which is an oral drug candidate under development for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and other metabolic conditions.

DepoMed Inc.

Depomed is a pharmaceutical company focused on pain and other central nervous system conditions. The company's business includes the following products marketed in the U.S. for various pain states: Gralise

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc.

Donnelley Financial Solutions is a risk and compliance solutions company. The company provides regulatory filing and deal solutions via its software-as-a-service, print and distribution solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms. For corporate clients within its capital markets offerings, the company provides filing solutions that allow U.S. public companies to comply with applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. The company operates in two business segments: U.S, which is comprised of capital markets, investment markets, and language solutions; and International, which includes operations in Asia, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

El Pollo Loco Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., the company develops, franchises, licenses and operates quick-service restaurants under the name El Pollo Loco ?. The restaurants, which are located principally in California but also in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Louisiana, engaged in flame-grilled chicken in a variety of contemporary Mexican-influenced entrees, including chicken burritos, chicken quesadillas, chicken tortilla soup, variations on its Pollo Bowl? and Pollo Salads. The company serves individual and family-sized chicken meals, a variety of Mexican-inspired entrees, and sides, and, on a limited-time basis, additional proteins like shrimp.

Frank's International NV

Genuine Parts Company

Genuine Parts is engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial parts, and business products. The company's reportable business segments are: Automotive, which distributes automotive parts and accessory items and provides inventory, cataloging, marketing, training and other programs to the automotive aftermarket; Industrial, which distributes industrial replacement parts and related supplies such as bearings, mechanical and electrical power transmission products, industrial automation, and hose, among others; and Business Products, which is engaged in the wholesale distribution of a line of office and other business-related products through a customer base of resellers.

Hawkins Inc.

Hawkins distributes, blends and manufactures chemicals and ingredients for its customers. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides industrial chemicals, products and services to industries such as agriculture, chemical processing, and plating; Water Treatment, which provides chemicals, equipment and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water and non-residential swimming pool water; and Health and Nutrition, which provides ingredient distribution, processing and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, health and wellness products.

Henry Schein Inc.

Schein (Henry) provides health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners. The health care distribution segment distributes consumable products, small equipment, laboratory products, large equipment, equipment repair services, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products and vitamins. The company's technology group offerings include practice management software systems for dental and medical practitioners. The company's practice solutions include financial services on a non-recourse basis, e-services, practice technology, network and hardware services, and continuing education services for practitioners.

Kellogg Company

Kellogg is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods. The company's principal products are snacks, such as crackers, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, granola bars and bites; and convenience foods, such as, ready-to-eat cereals, frozen waffles, veggie foods and noodles. The company's snacks brands are marketed under brands such as Kellogg's, Cheez-It, Pringles, Austin, Parati, and RXBAR. The company's cereals and cereal bars are generally marketed under the Kellogg's name, with some under the Kashi and Bear Naked brands. The company's frozen foods are marketed under the Eggo and Morningstar Farms brands.

Knowles Corp.

Knowles is a provider of micro-acoustic, audio processing and precision device solutions, serving the mobile consumer electronics, communications, medtech, defense, automotive, and industrial markets. The company is organized into two reportable: Audio, which designs and manufactures audio products, including microphones and balanced armature speakers, audio processors, and software and algorithms used in applications that serve the mobile, ear, and Internet of Things markets; and Precision Devices, which is focused on the design and delivery of capacitor products and mmWave radio frequency solutions.

Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services is engaged in operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an automated environment. The company's reportable segments are: Retail Supply Chain Group, which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; Capital Assets Group, which provides solutions to sellers and it consists of marketplaces that enable commercial businesses to sell surplus, salvage, and scrap assets; GovDeals, which provides self-directed service solutions; and Machinio, which operates an online platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, among others.

Mattel Inc.

Mattel is a global children's entertainment company that engages in the design and production of toys and consumer products. The company's portfolio of owned and licensed brands and products are organized into the following categories: Dolls, which include brands such as Barbie, American Girl, Enchantimals, and Polly Pocket; Infant, Toddler, and Preschool, which include brands such as Fisher-Price and Thomas & Friends, Power Wheels, Fireman Sam, and Shimmer and Shine (Nickelodeon); Vehicles, which include brands such as Hot Wheels, Matchbox, CARS (Disney Pixar), and Jurassic World (NBCUniversal); Action Figures, Building Sets, and Games, which include brands such as MEGA, UNO and WWE.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

Realty Income Corporation

Realty Income is a real estate investment trust. The company invests in commercial real estate. The company owns a portfolio of properties located in various states, Puerto Rico and United Kingdom.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that discovers, invents, develops, manufactures, and commercializes medicines for the treatment of diseases. The company's commercialized medicines and product candidates in development are designed to assist patients with eye disease, allergic and inflammatory diseases, cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neuromuscular diseases, infectious diseases, and rare diseases. The company's products include: EYLEA (aflibercept) injection, which is used for the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema; and Dupixent (dupilumab) injection, which is used for the treatment of adult patients with atopic dermatitis.

SCANA Corporation

SCANA is a holding company. Through its regulated subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the generation, transmission, distribution and sale of electricity in South Carolina and in the purchase, transmission and sale of natural gas in North Carolina and South Carolina. Through its non-regulated subsidiary, the company markets natural gas to retail customers in Georgia and to wholesale customers in the southeast. In addition, the company's subsidiary, SCANA Services, Inc. provides primarily administrative and management services to the company's other subsidiaries.

SUPERVALU INC.

Supervalu is a distributer of grocery and other products and provision of logistics and professional service solutions to retailers across the U.S. The company's business is classified into two reportable segments: Wholesale, which provides wholesale customers a variety of food and non-food products, including national and regional brands, and the company owns lines of private label products, as well as providing an array of professional services that provide wholesale customers with solutions; and Retail, which provides grocery offering and, depending on size, a variety of additional products, including general merchandise, home, health and beauty care, and pharmacy.

Taubman Centers Inc.

Taubman Centers operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Taubman Realty Group Limited Partnership is a majority-owned partnership subsidiary of the company that owns direct or indirect interests in all of the company's real estate properties. The company owns, manages, leases, acquires, disposes of, develops, and expands shopping centers and interests therein. The company's owned portfolio of operating centers consists of urban and suburban shopping centers operating in the United States, Puerto Rico, South Korea, and China.

The Habit Restaurants

Habit Restaurants is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a casual restaurant concept that focuses on preparing made-to-order char-grilled burgers and sandwiches featuring tri-tip steak, grilled chicken and tuna cooked over an open flame. The company also prepares made-to-order salads and a selection of sides, shakes and malts. The company's burger selection ranges from its Charburger including a choice of mayonnaise, pickles, tomato, lettuce and caramelized onions served on a toasted bun, to its Santa Barbara style Charburger including all the fixings of the Charburger plus cheese and avocado served on grilled sourdough.

Tile Shop Holdings Inc.

Tile Shop Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a retailer of natural stone and man-made tiles, setting and maintenance materials, and related accessories in the U.S. The company provides a range of natural stone and man-made tile products, sourced directly from its suppliers. Natural stone products include marble, travertine, granite, quartz, sandstone, slate, and onyx tiles. Man-made products include ceramic, porcelain, glass, cement, wood look, and metal tiles. The company's accessories, including trim pieces, mosaics, pencils, listellos, and other products. The company also provides a range of setting and maintenance materials, such as thinset, grout, sealers, and accessories.

Williams Companies Inc.

Williams Companies is an energy infrastructure company focused on connecting North America's hydrocarbon resource plays to markets for natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) through its gas pipeline and midstream business. The company's segments are: Transmission & Gulf of Mexico, which includes the company's subsidiary, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC, an interstate natural gas pipeline that extends from the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern seaboard; Northeast G&P, which includes the company's natural gas gathering, compression, processing, and NGL fractionation businesses; and West, which includes the company's interstate natural gas pipeline.

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