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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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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.

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.

Brighthouse Financial Inc.

Brighthouse Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of annuity products and life insurance products. The company has three segments: annuities, which consists of variable, fixed, index-linked and income annuities designed to address contract holders' needs for protected wealth accumulation on a tax-deferred basis, wealth transfer and income security; life, which consists of insurance products and services, including term, universal, whole and variable life products designed to address policyholders' needs for financial security and protected wealth transfer; and run-off, which consists of products no longer actively sold and which are separately managed.

Carnival Corporation

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

Children's Place Inc.

Children's Place is a children's apparel retailer in North America. The company sells apparel, accessories, footwear and other items for children. The company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell merchandise, the substantial majority of which is under the proprietary The Children's Place, Place and Baby Place brand names. The company has differentiated departments and serves the wardrobe needs of girls and boys, toddler girls and boys and baby. The company's merchandise is also available online at www.childrensplace.com. The company's segments are The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International.

Clearwater Seafoods Inc.

Clearwater Seafoods is engaged in the ownership and operation of assets and property in connection with the harvesting, processing, distribution and marketing of seafood.

Concho Resources Inc.

Concho Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.

Confidence International AB

CURO Group Holdings Corp.

CURO Group Holdings is a finance company serving a range of underbanked consumers in the United States and Canada. The company provides unsecured installment loans, secured installment loans, open-end loans, single-pay loans and a number of ancillary financial products, including check cashing, proprietary reloadable prepaid debit cards, credit protection insurance in the Canadian market, gold buying, retail installment sales and money transfer services. The company operates in the United States under the Speedy Cash and Rapid Cash brands, as well as under the Avio Credit brand. The company operates in Canada under Cash Money and LendDirect brands, which provides installment loans online and at certain stores.

Delek US Holdings Inc

Delek US Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the downstream energy business focused on petroleum refining, the transportation, storage and wholesale distribution of crude oil, intermediate and refined products and convenience store retailing. The company's segments are: refining, which processes crude oil and other feedstocks for the manufacture of transportation motor fuels; logistics, which gathers, transports and stores crude oil and markets, distributes, transports and stores refined products; and retail, which includes the operations of Alon USA Energy, Inc.'s convenience store sites located primarily in central and West Texas and New Mexico.

Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe is engaged in providing payment solutions. The company's marketing solutions and other services provides products and services designed to meet its customers' sales and marketing needs, as well as various other service offerings. The company's forms, accessories and other products provides printed business forms, including deposit tickets, billing forms, work orders, job proposals, purchase orders, invoices and personnel forms, as well as computer forms compatible with accounting software packages commonly used by small businesses. The company also provides other customized products, including envelopes, office supplies, ink stamps, labels, deposit tickets, check registers and checkbook covers.

Eneti Inc.

Scorpio Bulkers is an international shipping company based in Monaco. Co.'s vessels transport a range of major and minor bulk commodities, including ores, coal, grains, and fertilizers, along worldwide shipping routes, and are, or are expected to be, employed primarily in the spot market or in spot market-oriented pools of similarly sized vessels. As of Dec. 31, 2017, Co.'s operating fleet of 56 vessels consists of 55 wholly-owned or finance leased drybulk vessels and one chartered-in drybulk vessel. Co. also has contracts for the construction of 1 newbuilding drybulk vessel.

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.

G1 Therapeutics

G1 Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of small molecule therapeutics for the treatment of patients with cancer. The company's product pipeline includes three clinical candidates: trilaciclib, a short-acting intravenous cyclin-dependent kinases (CDK) 4/6 inhibitor that preserves hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells and immune system function; lerociclib, an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor that inhibits tumor proliferation and growth; and G1T48, an oral selective estrogen receptor degrader that inhibits estrogen receptor driven tumor proliferation.

Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.

Hartford Financial Services Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides property and casualty insurance, group benefits insurance and services, and mutual funds and exchange-traded products. The company has five segments: Commercial Lines, which provides automobile, property, general liability, and marine coverages; Personal Lines, which provides automobile and homeowners coverages; Property and Casualty Other Operations, which provides group life, group disability, and other products; and Hartford Funds, which provides mutual fund, exchange-traded products, and Talcott Resolution life and annuity separate accounts.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

HollyFrontier Corporation

HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner that produces products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, other lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The company's segments are: Refining, which involves the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale and marketing of refined products; Lubricants and Specialty Products, which includes the production of lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, other products and finished lubricants; and the company's subsidiary, Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and processing units.

LivaNova Plc

LivaNova is a medical device company focused on the development and delivery of therapeutic solutions. Co. has three product franchises: Neuromodulation, which engaged in the design, development and marketing of neuromodulation therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and treatment resistant depression; Cardiac Surgery, which engaged in the development, production and sale of cardiovascular surgery products; and Cardiac Rhythm Management, which engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.

Madison Pacific Properties Inc. Cl B

Madison Pacific Properties is engaged in owning, developing and operating industrial and commercial real estate properties located in British Columbia. As of Dec 31 2010, Co.'s property portfolio was comprised of interests in 1,152,358 sq. ft. of net rentable area of industrial properties, 190,383 sq.ft. of net rentable area of retail/highway commercial properties, and 59,080 sq.ft. of net rentable area of office property for a combined total of 1,401,821 sq. ft.

Marathon Oil Corporation

Marathon Oil is an independent exploration and production company focused on the United States resource plays. The company also has international operations in Equatorial Guinea (E.G.). The company's segments are: United States, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas in the United States; and International, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of the United States as well as produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol, in E.G.

Myriad Genetics Inc.

Myriad Genetics is a precision medicine company acting as a trusted advisor to transform patient lives through molecular diagnostics. The company's molecular diagnostic tests include: myRisk? Hereditary Cancer for assessing the risks for hereditary cancers; BRACAnalysis? for assessing the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer; riskScore? that improves the company's myRisk Hereditary Cancer test; GeneSight? to support psychotropic drug selection for depressed patients; Vectra?DA for assessing the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis; and Prolaris? for assessing the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The company also provides pharmaceutical and clinical services.

NACCO Industries Inc. Cl A

NACCO Industries is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries the company operates in the mining and natural resources industries. The Coal Mining segment operates surface coal mines under long-term contracts with power generation companies and activated carbon producers pursuant to a service-based business model. The North American Mining segment provides contract mining and other services for producers of aggregates, lithium and other minerals. This segment provides contract mining services for independently owned mines and quarries. NAMining operates primarily at limestone quarries in Florida. The minerals management segment promotes the development of the company's oil, gas and coal reserves.

Newpark Resources Inc.

Newpark Resources is engaged in providing products, rentals, and services primarily to the oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. The company has two reportable segments: Fluids Systems, which provides customized drilling, completion, and stimulation fluids solutions to E&P customers; and Mats and Integrated Services, which provides composite mat rentals utilized for temporary worksite access, along with related site construction services to customers in various markets including E&P, electrical transmission & distribution, pipeline, solar, petrochemical, and construction industries across North America and Europe. The company also sells composite mats to customers around the world.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions Inc.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a land oilfield focused service company, with a set of well completion and production services across active basins. The company provides its services through its operating subsidiaries to exploration and production customers. Also, the company provides its services in several active basins in the United States, including the Permian, the Marcellus Shale/Utica, the Eagle Ford and the Bakken/Rockies. The company is organized into two segments: Completion Services, which includes Hydraulic Fracturing and Wireline Technologies; and Well Construction and Intervention Services, which includes Cementing and Coiled Tubing.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

NOV Inc.

National Oilwell Varco is an independent provider of equipment and technology to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's segments include: Wellbore Technologies, which designs, manufactures, rents, and sells a variety of equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations; Completion and Production Solutions, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation, well intervention, onshore production, and offshore production; and Rig Technologies, which designs, manufactures and sells land rigs, offshore drilling equipment packages, and drilling rig components that mechanize and automate the drilling process and rig functionality.

Oceaneering International Inc.

Oceaneering International is a provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry. The company's segments are: Energy Services and Products; and Advanced Technologies. The company's business segments within the Energy Services and Products business are remotely operated vehicles, subsea products, subsea projects and asset integrity. The company's Advanced Technologies segment consists of government; and commercial business units: Government services and products include engineering and related manufacturing in defense and space exploration activities. The company's commercial business unit provides a turnkey solution that includes program management, and engineering design.

Oil States International Inc.

Oil States International, through its subsidiaries, is an oilfield products and services company serving the drilling, completion, subsea, production and infrastructure sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company is also a provider of completion services to the industry. The company operates through three segments: well site services, whose operations primarily include completion-focused equipment and services as well as land drilling services; downhole technologies, which provides oil and gas perforation systems and downhole tools; and offshore/manufactured products, which designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment utilized on floating production systems, among others.

Orthofix Medical Inc.

Orthofix Medical is a medical device company focused on musculoskeletal products and therapies. The company manages its business by its four reporting segments: Global Spine, represented by three product categories; Bone Growth Therapies, which manufactures, distributes, and provides support services for bone growth stimulation devices; Spinal Implants, which designs, develops and markets a portfolio of motion preservation and implant products; and Biologics, which provides a portfolio of regenerative products and tissue forms; and Global Extremities, which provides products and solutions that allow physicians to treat a variety of orthopedic conditions unrelated to the spine.

Patterson-UTI Energy Inc.

Patterson-UTI Energy is an oilfield services company that primarily owns and operates fleets of land-based drilling rigs and a fleet of pressure pumping equipment. The company's business segments are: contract drilling services, which markets its contract drilling services to independent and other oil and natural gas operators; pressure pumping services, which provides pressure pumping services to oil and natural gas operators, primarily in Texas, the Mid-Continent region and the Appalachian region; and directional drilling services, which provides a suite of directional drilling services, including directional drilling and downhole performance motors in various onshore oil and natural gas basins.

PDC Energy Inc.

PDC Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores and develops properties for the production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids with operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and the Delaware Basin in Texas. The company's operations in the Wattenberg Field are focused in the horizontal Niobrara and Codell plays and its Delaware Basin operations are primarily focused in the Wolfcamp zones. The company is engaged in two operating segments: its oil and gas exploration and production segment and its gas marketing segment.

Penn Virginia Corporation

Penn Virginia is an independent oil and gas company engaged in the onshore exploration, development and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas. The company's operations consist primarily of drilling unconventional horizontal development wells and operating its producing wells in the Eagle Ford Shale, in Gonzales, Lavaca, Fayette and DeWitt Counties in South Texas. The company operates in one segment, which is the exploration, development and production of crude oil, NGLs and natural gas. The company sells its oil, NGL and natural gas products using short-term floating price physical and spot market contracts.

Radius Health Inc.

Radius Health is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing endocrine therapeutics in the areas of osteoporosis and oncology. The company's commercial product, TYMLOSTM (abaloparatide) injection is designed for the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture, or patients who have failed or are intolerant to other available osteoporosis therapy. The company is developing an abaloparatide transdermal patch for potential use in the treatment of postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. The company is also developing its Elacestrant, a selective estrogen receptor degrader, for potential use in the treatment of hormone receptor-positive breast cancer.

Rare Element Resources

RBB BANCORP

RBB Bancorp is a financial holding company. Through its wholly-owned banking subsidiaries, Royal Business Bank and RBB Asset Management Company, the company provides business banking services to the Chinese-American communities, including remote deposit, E-banking, mobile banking, commercial and investor real estate loans, business loans and lines of credit, Small Business Administration 7A and 504 loans, mortgage loans, trade finance and a range of depository accounts. The company provides depository products, including checking, savings, money market and certificates of deposits, to individuals, businesses, municipalities and other entities through its branch network throughout its market areas.

Safe Bulkers Inc.

Safe Bulkers is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along worldwide shipping routes for consumers of marine drybulk transportation services. As of Feb. 9, 2018, Co. had a fleet of 39 drybulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 3,513,800 dwt and an average age of 7.6 years. Co. deploys its vessels on both period time charters and spot time charters. The vessels on period time charters provide Co. with relatively stable cash flow and utilization rates, while the vessels in the spot market allow Co. to maintain its flexibility in low charter market conditions.

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.

SunCoke Energy Inc.

SunCoke Energy is an independent producer of coke. The company owns and operates a logistics business that provides handling and/or mixing services to steel, coke (including some of its domestic cokemaking facilities), electric utility, coal producing and other manufacturing based customers. The company's segments are: Domestic Coke, which consists of Jewell, Indiana Harbor, Haverhill, Granite City, and Middletown facilities; Brazil Coke, which operates the ArcelorMittal Brasil S.A. cokemaking facility; and Logistics, which consists of Convent Marine Terminal, Kanawha River Terminal, SunCoke Lake Terminal, and Dismal River Terminal.

United Fire Group Inc.

United Fire Group is an insurance holding company. Through its consolidated subsidiaries and affiliates, the company is engaged in the business of writing property and casualty insurance through a network of independent agencies. The company's insurance company subsidiaries are licensed as a property and casualty insurer in various states, plus the District of Columbia. The company has one business segment: property and casualty insurance, which is comprised of commercial lines insurance, including surety bonds, personal lines insurance and assumed reinsurance. All of the company's property and casualty insurance subsidiaries and its affiliate belong to an intercompany reinsurance pooling arrangement.

Universal Corp

Universal is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged in supplying leaf tobacco. The company has the following segments: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, which are involved in flue-cured and burley leaf tobacco operations for supply to cigarette manufacturers; Dark Air-Cured, which supplies dark air-cured tobacco to manufacturers of cigars, pipe tobacco, and smokeless tobacco products; Oriental, which supplies oriental tobacco to cigarette manufacturers; and Special Services, which provides laboratory services, including physical and chemical product testing, electronic nicotine delivery system and e-liquid testing, and smoke testing for customers.

UNUM GROUP

Unum Group is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of financial protection benefits in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company has three segments: Unum US, which includes group long-term and short-term disability products, group life and accidental death and dismemberment products, and supplemental and voluntary lines of business, including individual disability and dental and vision products; Unum International, which includes its operations in the United Kingdom and Poland; and Colonial Life, which includes accident, sickness, and disability products, including dental and vision products, life products, and cancer and critical illness products.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's commercial portfolio is comprised of two products, HETLIOZ? for the treatment of Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder (Non-24) and Fanapt? for the treatment of schizophrenia. The company has a number of drugs in development, including: HETLIOZ? (tasimelteon), which is for the treatment of jet lag disorder, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, pediatric Non-24 and delayed sleep phase disorder; Tradipitant (VLY-686), which is a small molecule neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, gastroparesis and motion sickness; and VTR-297, which is a small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitor for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Vistra Corp.

Vistra Energy operates an integrated retail and generation business in markets throughout the U.S. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in electricity market activities, including electricity generation, wholesale energy sales and purchases, commodity risk management and retail sales of electricity. The company has six segments: Retail, ERCOT, PJM, NY/NE (comprising NYISO and ISO-NE), MISO and Asset Closure. The Retail segment is engaged in retail sales of electricity and related services. The ERCOT, PJM, NY/NE and MISO segments are engaged in electricity generation, among others. The Asset Closure segment is engaged in the decommissioning and reclamation of retired plants and mines.

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.

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