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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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Allison Transmission Holdings Inc.

Allison Transmission Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures fully-automatic transmissions for medium- and heavy-duty commercial vehicles and medium- and heavy-tactical U.S. defense vehicles. The company's transmissions are in used various applications, including on-highway trucks (distribution, refuse, construction, fire and emergency), buses (mainly school, transit and electric hybrid-transit), motorhomes, off-highway vehicles and equipment (mainly energy, mining and construction) and defense vehicles (wheeled and tracked). The company also sells replacement parts, support equipment and other products to service the installed base of vehicles utilizing its transmissions.

American Equity Investment Life Holding Company

American Equity Investment Life Holding is a holding company. The company is engaged in the development and sale of fixed index and fixed rate annuity products. The company issues fixed annuity products through its subsidiaries, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company, American Equity Investment Life Insurance Company of New York and Eagle Life Insurance Company. The company's products include: Fixed Index Annuities, which allow policyholders to earn index credits based on the performance of a particular index without the risk of loss of their account value; and Fixed Rate Annuities, which include annual reset and multi-year rate guaranteed products, and also sell single premium immediate annuities.

Applied Industrial Technologies Inc.

Applied Industrial Technologies is a distributor of bearings, power transmission products, fluid power components and systems, specialty flow control solutions, and other industrial supplies, operating in North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. In addition, the company provides engineering, design, and systems integration for industrial, fluid power, and flow control applications, as well as customized mechanical, fabricated rubber, fluid power, and flow control shop services. The company has two reportable segments: service center based distribution; and fluid power and flow control.

Associated Banc-Corp

Associated Banc is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking and nonbanking products and services. The company has three segments: Corporate and Commercial Specialty, which includes lending solutions, deposit and cash management solutions, and financial services; Community, Consumer, and Business, which includes lending solutions, deposit and transactional solutions, investable funds solutions, trust and investment management accounts, insurance and benefits-related products and services, and fiduciary services; and Risk Management and Shared Services, which includes corporate risk management, credit administration, finance, treasury, and operations and technology.

Astec Industries Inc.

Astec Industries designs, engineers, manufactures and markets equipment and components used primarily in road building and related construction activities as well as other products. The company also manufactures certain equipment and components unrelated to road construction, including equipment for the mining, quarrying, construction and demolition industries and port and rail yard operators; gas and oil drilling rigs; water well and geothermal drilling rigs; industrial heat transfer equipment; commercial whole-tree pulpwood chippers; horizontal grinders; blower trucks; concrete plants; wood pellet plants; commercial and industrial burners; and combustion control systems.

Axcelis Technologies Inc.

Axcelis Technologies designs, manufactures and services ion implantation and other processing equipment used in the fabrication of semiconductor chips. The company also provides aftermarket lifecycle products and services, including used tools, spare parts, equipment upgrades, maintenance services and customer training. The company provides high energy, high current and medium current implanters for all application requirements. The company's Purion systems are all based on a common platform which enables a combination of implant purity, precision and productivity by combining a single wafer end station, with a spot beam architecture. The company's other products include curing systems, and thermal processing systems.

Banco Latinoamericano de Comercio Exterior S.A. Class E

BancorpSouth Bank

BancorpSouth Bank conducts commercial banking and financial services operations in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas and Illinois. The company's segments are: Mortgage, which includes the mortgage banking activities of originating mortgage loans, selling mortgage loans in the secondary market and servicing the mortgage loans; Insurance Agencies, which serves as agents in the sale of commercial lines of insurance and lines of property and casualty, and life, among others; Wealth Management, which includes credit related products; and General Corporate and Other, which includes other activities not allocated to the segments.

Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son

Bankwell Financial Group

Bankwell Financial Group is a bank holding company. Through its banking subsidiary, Bankwell Bank, the company provides a range of financial services. The company's commercial lending products include owner-occupied commercial real estate loans, commercial real estate investment loans, commercial loans (such as business term loans, equipment financing and lines of credit) to small and medium sized businesses. The company also invests in government agency securities, government guaranteed mortgage backed securities, corporate bonds and municipal securities. In addition, the company provides depository products, including checking, savings, money market and certificates of deposit with a variety of rates.

Barnes Group Inc.

Barnes Group provides engineered products, industrial technologies, and solutions. The company's products and services are used in applications including aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, automation, healthcare, and packaging. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides precision components, products and systems for critical applications serving various customer base in end-markets such as transportation, industrial equipment, automation, personal care, packaging, electronics, and medical devices; and Aerospace, which manufactures fabricated and precision machined components and assemblies for turbine engines, nacelles and structures for both commercial and military aircraft.

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

Bed, Bath & Beyond is an omnichannel retailer providing products, services and solutions for the home and life events. The company operates an ecommerce platform consisting of various websites and applications, including bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, harmondiscount.com, and facevalues.com. The company sells an assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings (including furniture and wall decor), consumables and certain juvenile products.

BG STAFFING INC

BG Staffing is a provider of temporary staffing services. The company provides field talent to a range of client partners that are seeking to match their workforce requirements to their business needs. The company's real estate segment provides office and maintenance field talent to various apartment communities and commercial buildings. The company's professional segment provides IT personnel with knowledge in SAP, Workday, Olik View, Hyperion, Oracle, project management and other IT staffing skills to client partners on a national basis. The company's light industrial segment provides field talent to manufacturing, distribution, and logistics client partners needing a flexible workforce.

Boyd Gaming Corporation

Boyd Gaming is a multi-jurisdictional gaming company. The company operates owned gaming entertainment properties in Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania. The company has three reportable business segments: Las Vegas Locals, which includes casinos that primarily serve the resident population of the Las Vegas metropolitan area; Downtown Las Vegas, focuses on gaming enthusiasts from Hawaii and tour and travel agents in Hawaii; and Midwest and South, which includes land-based casinos, dockside riverboat casinos, racinos and barge-based casinos. The company also operates a travel agency and a captive insurance company that underwrites travel-related insurance.

Bryn Mawr Bank Corp.

Bryn Mawr Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, The Bryn Mawr Trust Company (the Bank), the company provides a range of personal and business banking services, consumer and commercial loans, equipment leasing, mortgages, insurance and wealth management services, including investment management, trust and estate administration, retirement planning, custody services, and tax planning and preparation. The Bank is engaged in commercial and retail banking business, providing basic banking services, including the acceptance of demand, time and savings deposits and the origination of commercial, real estate and consumer loans and other extensions of credit including leases.

Cabot Corporation

Cabot is a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. The company's principal products are rubber and specialty grade carbon blacks, specialty compounds, fumed metal oxides, activated carbons, inkjet colorants, and aerogel. The company's segments are: Reinforcement Materials, which combines the rubber blacks and elastomer composites product lines; Performance Chemicals, which combines its specialty grades of carbon black, fumed metal oxides and aerogel product lines in its Performance Additives business, and combines its specialty compounds and inkjet product lines in its Formulated Solutions business; and Purification Solutions, which represents the company's activated carbon business.

Central Garden & Pet Company

Chico's FAS Inc.

Chico's FAS is a retailer of women's private branded, casual-to-dressy apparel, intimates and complementary accessories. The company operates under the Chico's, White House Black Market (WHBM) and Soma brand names. Chico's primarily sells private branded clothing focusing on women 45 and older. WHBM primarily sells clothing focusing on women 35 and older with clothing and accessory items including everyday basics, polished casual apparel, relaxed workwear, black and white pieces, and feminine all-occasion dresses. The Soma brand primarily sells lingerie, sleepwear and loungewear products focusing on women. The company's boutiques are located in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.

Citi Trends Inc.

Citi Trends is a retailer of fashion apparel and accessories for the entire family. The company also provides a variety of products from less recognized brands and a lesser amount representing private label products under its brands. The company's merchandise includes apparel, accessories and home. Within apparel, the company provides fashion sportswear for men, women and children, including offerings for newborns, infants, toddlers, boys and girls. Accessories include handbags, jewelry, footwear, belts, intimate apparel, scrubs and sleepwear. Home includes functional bedroom, bathroom and kitchen products, as well as beauty and toys.

Commercial Metals Company

Commercial Metals, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, recycles and markets steel and metal products, related materials and services. The company has four reportable segments: Americas Recycling, which processes scrap metals for use as a raw material by the company and other manufacturers of new metal products; Americas Mills, which operates electric arc furnace (EAF) mini mills, EAF micro mills, rerolling mill, scrap metal shredders, and scrap metal processing facilities; Americas Fabrication, which includes warehouses that sell or rent products for the installation of concrete; and International Mill, which consists of an EAF mini mill, recycling and fabrication operations located in Poland.

CONOCOPHILLIPS

ConocoPhillips is an exploration and production company engaged in exploring for, producing, transporting and marketing crude oil, bitumen, natural gas, liquefied natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's segments include: Alaska, which operates in Alaska; Lower 48, which operates in the United States and the Gulf of Mexico; Canada, which operates in Alberta and British Columbia; Europe and North Africa, which consists of operations and exploration activities in Norway, the United Kingdom and Libya; Asia Pacific and Middle East, which operates in China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia, Qatar, and Timor-Leste; and Other International, which operates in Colombia, Chile and Argentina.

Cornerstone Building Brands Inc

Cornerstone Building Brands is a manufacturer and marketer of metal products for the nonresidential construction industry. The company's segments include: Engineered Building Systems, which consists of engineered structural members and panels that are fabricated and roll-formed in a factory; Metal Components, which includes metal roof and wall systems, metal partitions, metal trim, doors and other related components; Insulated Metal Panels, which consists of rigid foam encased between two sheets of coated metal in a variety of modules, lengths and reveal combinations; and Metal Coil Coating, which consists of cleaning, treating and painting various flat-rolled metals, in coil form.

Eastman Chemical Company

Eastman Chemical is a global advanced materials and specialty additives company. The company's segments are: Additives and Functional Products, which manufactures chemicals for products in the transportation, consumables, building and construction, and other markets; Advanced Materials, which produces and markets polymers, films, and plastics in transportation, consumables, building and construction, durable goods, and health and wellness markets; Chemical Intermediates, which utilizes integration from the cellulose and acetyl, olefins, and alkylamines streams; and Fibers, which manufactures and sells Estron? acetate tow and Estrobond? triacetin plasticizers for use in filtration media.

Editas Medicine Inc.

Editas Medicine is a clinical stage genome editing company focused on developing genomic medicines to treat a range of serious diseases. The company has developed a proprietary genome editing platform based on clustered, regularly interspaced, short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. The company is developing both in vivo CRISPR medicines, in which the medicine is injected or infused into the patient to edit the cells inside their body, and engineered cell medicines, in which cells are edited with the company's technology and then administered to the patient. In ocular diseases, the company's program is designed to address a specific genetic form of retinal degeneration called Leber congenital amaurosis 10.

Energizer Holdings Inc.

Energizer Holdings is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of household and specialty batteries, portable lights, and automotive appearance, performance, refrigerants and freshener products. The company provides batteries using various technologies including lithium, alkaline, carbon zinc, nickel metal hydride, zinc air, and silver oxide. The company manufactures, distributes and markets lighting products including headlights, lanterns, children's lights and area lights. The company also provides auto care products in the appearance and fragrance categories including protectants, wipes, tire and wheel care products, glass cleaners, leather care products, air fresheners and washes.

EnerSys

EnerSys is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries. The company also manufactures, markets and distributes products such as battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories, and outdoor cabinet enclosures. The company's product lines are: reserve power products, which are used for backup power for the continuous operation of critical applications in telecommunications systems, uninterruptible power systems applications for computer and computer-controlled systems, and other specialty power applications; and motive power products, which are used to provide power for electric industrial forklifts used in manufacturing, warehousing and other material handling applications.

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.

Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a mining company. The company operates assets with proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum, and the company is a publicly traded copper producer. The company's portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, copper and gold deposits; and mining operations in North America and South America, including the Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru. The company has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions: North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines.

Golden Entertainment

Golden Entertainment owns and operates an entertainment platform, consisting of a portfolio of gaming assets that focus on resort casino operations and distributed gaming (including gaming in its branded taverns). The company conducts its business through two reportable operating segments: Casinos, which owns and operates resort casino properties, comprising of The Strat; Arizona Charlie's casinos; Laughlin casinos; Pahrump casinos; and Rocky Gap. Distributed Gaming, which involves the installation, maintenance and operation of slots and amusement devices in non-casino locations such as restaurants, bars, taverns, convenience stores, liquor stores and grocery stores in Nevada and Montana.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

Goldman Sachs Group is a bank holding company and financial holding company. The company is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a range of financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. The company operates in four business segments: Investment Banking, which serves public and private sector clients and provides financial advisory services; Global Markets, which serves its clients who come to the company to buy and sell financial products, raise funding and manage risk; Asset Management, which provides investment services; and Consumer & Wealth Management, which provides a range of wealth advisory and banking services.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Goodyear Tire & Rubber develops, manufactures, distributes and sells tires and related products and services worldwide. The company manufactures and markets various lines of rubber tires for: automobiles, trucks, buses, aircraft, motorcycles, earthmoving and mining equipment, farm implements, industrial equipment, and various other applications. The company manufactures and sells tires under the Goodyear, Dunlop, Kelly, Debica, Sava and Fulda brands and various other Goodyear owned house brands, and the private-label brands of certain customers. The company operates its business through three operating segments representing its regional tire businesses: Americas; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia Pacific.

Halozyme Therapeutics Inc.

Halozyme Therapeutics is a biopharma technology platform company that provides solutions to improve patient experience and outcomes. The company's approved product and its collaborators' approved products and product candidates are based on rHuPH20, its patented recombinant human hyaluronidase enzyme. The company refers to the application of rHuPH20 to facilitate the delivery of other drugs or fluids as its ENHANZE? Drug Delivery Technology (ENHANZE). The company licenses the ENHANZE technology to form collaborations with biopharmaceutical companies that develop or market drugs requiring or benefiting from injection via the subcutaneous route of administration.

Hawaiian Holdings Inc.

Hawaiian Holdings is a holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Hawaiian Airlines, Inc., the company is engaged in the scheduled air transportation of passengers and cargo amongst the Hawaiian Islands, between the Hawaiian Islands and certain cities in the United States, and between the Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The company provides non-stop service to Hawai'i from various United States gateway cities and also provides daily flights between the Hawaiian Islands. In addition, the company operates various charter flights. The company's flight operations are based in Honolulu, HI. The company operates scheduled flights with various ad hoc charters.

Hecla Mining Company

Hecla Mining and its subsidiaries discover, acquire and develop mines and other mineral interests and produce and market concentrates, carbon material and dore containing silver, gold, lead and zinc. The company has five units: the Greens Creek, Lucky Friday, Casa Berardi, San Sebastian and Nevada Operations units. The company produces zinc, lead and bulk flotation concentrates at its Greens Creek unit and lead and zinc flotation concentrates at its Lucky Friday unit, each of which the company sells to custom smelters and metal traders on contract. The company also produces unrefined gold and silver bullion bars (dore), loaded carbon and precipitates at its Casa Berardi, San Sebastian and Nevada Operations units.

Heritage Commerce Corp.

Heritage Commerce is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Heritage Bank of Commerce, the company provides a range of commercial banking services to small and medium-sized businesses and their owners, managers and employees. The company's lending activities include commercial, real estate, construction and land development, consumer and Small Business Administration guaranteed loans. The company provides a range of deposit products for business banking and retail markets. The company provides a multitude of other products and services to complement its lending and deposit services. In addition, the company's subsidiary, Bay View Funding, provides factoring financing throughout the United States.

Heron Therapeutics Inc

Heron Therapeutics is a commercial-stage biotechnology company. The company is developing patient-focused solutions that apply its science and technologies to already approved pharmacological agents for patients suffering from cancer or pain. The company develops SUSTOL for the prevention of acute and delayed nausea and vomiting associated with initial and repeat courses of moderately emetogenic chemotherapy (MEC) or anthracycline and cyclophosphamide combination chemotherapy regimens. The company's second commercial product, CINVANTI, is indicated for the prevention of acute and delayed nausea and vomiting associated with of highly emetogenic cancer chemotherapy and nausea and vomiting associated with MEC.

Hyatt Hotels Corporation Class A

Hyatt Hotels is a hospitality company engaged in the development, ownership, operation, management, franchising, licensing or provision of services to a portfolio of properties, consisting of full service hotels, select service hotels, resorts, and other properties, including spas and fitness studios, timeshare, fractional, and other forms of residential and vacation properties. The company also manages, provides services to, or licenses its trademarks with respect to residential ownership units that are often adjacent to a Hyatt-branded hotel. Additionally, for condominium ownership units, the company provides services and/or manage the rental programs or homeowner associations associated with such units.

Immunomedics Inc.

Immunomedics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer. The company's product candidate is sacituzumab govitecan (IMMU-132), an antibody-drug conjugate for the treatment of patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer who previously received at least two prior therapies for metastatic disease. The company also has other product candidates, which target solid tumors and hematologic malignancies in various stages of clinical and preclinical development, such as labetuzumab govitecan that binds the CEACAM5 antigen expressed on CRC and other solid cancers, and IMMU-140 for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

INCYTE CORP

Incyte is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics. JAKAFI (ruxolitinib) has been approved for the treatment of patients with intermediate or high-risk myelofibrosis, for the treatment of patients with polycythemia vera, and for the treatment of steroid-refractory acute graft-versus-host disease in adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older. The company has also obtained a license to develop and commercialize ICLUSIG (ponatinib) in Europe and other select countries. In the European Union, ICLUSIG is approved for the treatment of adult patients with chronic phase, accelerated phase or blast phase chronic myeloid leukemia.

INDEPENDENT BANK GROUP INC

Independent Bank Group is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Independent Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to individual and corporate customers in the north, central and southeast Texas areas. The company is engaged in community banking activities, which include commercial and retail lending, deposit gathering, investment and liquidity management activities. The company's primary deposit products are demand deposits, money market accounts and certificates of deposit, and its primary lending products are commercial business and real estate, real estate mortgage and consumer loans.

Inogen Inc.

Inogen is a medical technology company that primarily develops, manufactures and markets portable oxygen concentrators used to deliver supplemental long-term oxygen therapy to patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions. The company's proprietary Inogen One? systems concentrate the air around the patient to provide a single source of supplemental oxygen the company markets its existing portable product offerings, the Inogen One G4 and the Inogen One G3, as single solutions for long-term oxygen therapy. The company's solutions can operate on a 24/7 basis for at least 60 months without a stationary concentrator, with minimal servicing of sieve beds, filters, and accessories.

International Game Technology PLC

International Paper Company

International Paper is a producer of renewable fiber-based packaging, pulp and paper products with manufacturing operations in North America, Latin America, Europe, North Africa, India and Russia. The company's segments are: Industrial Packaging, which manufactures containerboard, such as linerboard, medium, whitetop, recycled linerboard, recycled medium and saturating kraft; Global Cellulose Fibers, which produces fluff pulp for making absorbent hygiene products like baby diapers, feminine care, adult incontinence and other non-woven products; and Printing Papers, which produces printing and writing papers, such as uncoated papers for use in copiers, desktop and laser printers and digital imaging.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc. Class A

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals is a gastrointestinal (GI), healthcare company focusing on developing the treatment of GI diseases. The company's commercial product, LINZESS? (linaclotide), a guanylate cyclase type C agonists, is indicated for adult men and women suffering from irritable bowel syndrome with constipation, or chronic idiopathic constipation. In addition, the company is developing MD-7246, an oral, intestinal, non-opioid, pain-relieving agent for patients with abdominal pain associated with certain GI diseases. The company is also developing IW-3718, a gastric retentive formulation of a bile acid sequestrant for the potential treatment of refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease.

JELD-WEN Holding Inc.

JELD-WEN Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a door and window manufacturer. The company designs, produces, and distributes a range of interior and exterior doors, wood, vinyl, and aluminum windows, and related products for use in the construction and repair and remodel of residential homes and, to a lesser extent, non-residential buildings. The company markets its products under the JELD-WEN brand, along with several brands such as Swedoor and DANA in Europe and Corinthian, Stegbar, and Trend in Australia. The company's customers include wholesale distributors and retailers as well as individual contractors and consumers. The company has three segments: North America, Europe, and Australasia.

Kimball Electronics

Kimball Electronics is a provider of contract electronic manufacturing services, including engineering and supply chain support, to customers in the automotive, medical, industrial, and public safety end markets. The company's services are sold on a contract basis and it produces products to its customers' specifications. The company's manufacturing services primarily include, among other: design services and support; supply chain services and support; rapid prototyping and new product introduction support; product design and process validation and qualification; industrialization and automation of manufacturing processes; and testing of products under a series of environmental conditions.

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. Class A

Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings is a truckload carrier and a provider of transportation solutions. The company provides multiple truckload transportation, intermodal, and logistics services using a nationwide network of business units and terminals in the United States and Mexico. In addition to its truckload services, the company contracts with third-party capacity providers to provide a range of truckload services to its customers. The company operates company tractors, independent contractor tractors, and trailers within its Knight Trucking, Swift Truckload, Swift Dedicated, and Swift Refrigerated segments. Additionally, the company operates tractors and intermodal containers within its Swift Intermodal segment.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands is a developer of destination properties (Integrated Resorts) that feature accommodations, gaming, entertainment and retail malls, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and other amenities. The company owns and operates Integrated Resorts in Asia and the United States. Through its ownership of Sands China Ltd., the company owns and operates properties including The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, and the Sands Macao. In Singapore, the company owns and operates the Marina Bay Sands. The company's Las Vegas Operating Properties includes The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and the Sands Expo Center.

Lazard Ltd Class A

MEDNAX Inc.

MEDNAX provides physician services including newborn, anesthesia, maternal-fetal, radiology and teleradiology, pediatric cardiology and other pediatric subspecialty care. The company's network comprised of physicians, including physicians who provide neonatal clinical care, primarily within hospital-based neonatal intensive care units, to babies born prematurely or with medical complications. The company also provides radiology services and teleradiology services. In addition to its national physician network, the company provides services to healthcare facilities and physicians, including the company's, through complementary businesses, consisting of a management services organization and a consulting services company.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of biologic therapies for the treatment of rare immune-mediated diseases. The company's programs include: M281, which is a fully-human anti-neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn), aglycosylated immunoglobulin G (IgG1), monoclonal antibody, designed to reduce circulating human immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies by completely blocking endogenous IgG recycling via FcRn; M230, which is a recombinant trivalent human IgG1 Fc multimer; and M254, which is a hyper-sialylated immunoglobulin designed as a high potency alternative to IVIg, a therapeutic drug product that contains pooled, IgG antibodies purified from blood plasma.

Nutanix Inc. Class A

Nutanix provides an enterprise cloud platform that consists of software solutions. The company's solution allows its customers to virtualize various clouds - private, public, distributed - into one cloud enabling enterprises to choose the right cloud for the right application. The company's enterprise cloud platform converges compute, virtualization, storage, networking, desktop, governance and security services in one integrated solution. Acropolis is the foundation of the company's enterprise cloud platform. Acropolis is comprised of four foundational components: Virtualization, Enterprise Storage Capabilities, Platform Services, and Networking Services.

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.

Penn National Gaming Inc.

Penn National Gaming is an owner and manager of gaming and racing facilities and video gaming terminal operations with a focus on slot machine entertainment. In addition, the company operates an interactive gaming division through its subsidiary, Penn Interactive Ventures, LLC. The company's segment's properties include Ameristar East Chicago, Hollywood Casino Bangor, 1st Jackpot Casino, Ameristar Vicksburg, Boomtown Biloxi, Boomtown Bossier City, Ameristar Black Hawk, Cactus Petes and Horseshu, Ameristar Council Bluffs, Argosy Casino Alton, Argosy Casino Riverside, Freehold Raceway, Retama Park Racetrack, Sam Houston Race Park and Valley Race Park, and Sanford-Orlando Kennel Club, among others.

Precision Biosciences

Precision Biosciences is a life sciences company. The company utilizes ARCUS in the development of its product candidates, which are designed to treat human diseases and create food and agricultural solutions. The company is developing product candidates in three areas: allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cell immunotherapy, in vivo gene correction, and food. The company's program, PBCAR0191, is an allogeneic CAR T cell therapy candidate targeting the tumor target CD19 and is being developed for the treatment of adult patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia.

Preformed Line Products Co.

Preformed Line Products is a designer and manufacturer of products and systems employed in the construction and maintenance of overhead and underground networks for the energy, telecommunication, cable operators, and information industries. The company's products include: energy products, which support, protect, terminate and secure power conductor and communication cables and control cable dynamics; communications products, which protect fixed line communication networks from moisture, environmental hazards and other potential contaminants; and special industries products, which are used by energy, renewable energy, communications, cable and special industries for various applications.

Rayonier Inc.

Rayonier is a timberland real estate investment trust with assets located in the softwood timber growing regions in the United States and New Zealand. The company operates in five reportable business segments: Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber, New Zealand Timber, Real Estate and Trading. The Southern Timber, Pacific Northwest Timber and New Zealand Timber segments include all activities related to the harvesting of timber in addition to lease and license activities, other non-timber activities and carbon credit sales. The company's Real Estate segment reflects all of its land or leasehold sales. The Trading segment reflects the log trading activities conducted by its New Zealand subsidiary.

Revance Therapeutics Inc.

Revance Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development, manufacturing and commercialization of neuromodulators for multiple aesthetic and therapeutic indications. The company focuses on developing daxibotulinumtoxinA, its purified botulinum toxin Type A, for a spectrum of aesthetic and therapeutic indications, including facial wrinkles, muscle disorders, and chronic migraine. The company's main drug candidate is DaxibotulinumtoxinA for Injection. The company also is developing a topically applied neuromodulator for aesthetic and therapeutic indications, DaxibotulinumtoxinA Topical, and have a collaboration and license agreement to develop and commercialize a biosimilar to BOTOX?.

Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc.

Ruth's Hospitality Group develops and operates restaurants under the trade name Ruth's Chris Steak House. The Ruth's Chris menu also includes lamb chops, fish, shrimp, crab, chicken and lobster. The company's Ruth's Chris restaurants serves various appetizer items, including New Orleans-style barbequed shrimp, mushrooms stuffed with crabmeat, spicy shrimp, chilled seafood tower and osso bucco ravioli, as well as various different salads. They also provide a variety of potatoes and vegetables as side dishes. For dessert, creme brulee, white chocolate bread pudding, chocolate duo, cheesecake, fresh seasonal berries with sweet cream and other selections are available.

Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida

Seacoast Banking is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Seacoast National Bank (Seacoast Bank), the company provides financial services including commercial and retail banking, wealth management, and mortgage services through banking solutions and Seacoast Bank's network of various branches and various commercial banking centers. Seacoast Bank also provides brokerage and annuity services. Seacoast Bank personnel managing the sale of these services are dual employees with LPL Financial, the company through which Seacoast Bank conducts brokerage and annuity services. The company's subsidiary, Seacoast Insurance Services, Inc., provides customers with access to a range of insurance products.

Southern Copper Corporation

Southern Copper is a copper producer. The company's mining, smelting and refining facilities are located in Peru and Mexico and the company conducts exploration activities in those countries and in Argentina, Chile and Ecuador. The company's Peruvian copper operations involve mining, milling and flotation of copper ore to produce copper concentrates and molybdenum concentrates, the smelting of copper concentrates to produce blister and anode copper, and the refining of anode copper to produce copper cathodes. The company's Mexican operations are conducted through its subsidiary, Minera Mexico, S.A. de C.V., which engages primarily in the mining and processing of copper, molybdenum, zinc, silver, gold and lead.

Spectrum Brands Holdings Inc.

Spectrum Brands Holdings manufactures, markets and/or distributes its products globally in the North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific regions through retailers, wholesalers and distributors, original equipment manufacturers and construction companies. The company's segments are: Hardware and Home Improvement, which includes security, plumbing and accessories, and builders' hardware product categories; Home and Personal Care, which includes home appliances and personal care product categories; Global Pet Care, which includes companion animal and aquatics product categories; and Home and Garden, which includes household and controls product categories.

Steel Dynamics Inc.

Steel Dynamics is a steel producer and metal recycler. The company manufactures and sells steel products, processes and sells recycled ferrous and nonferrous metals, and fabricates and sells steel joists and deck products. The company's segments are: Steel, which produces steel from ferrous scrap and scrap substitutes, utilizing casting, automated rolling mills and several downstream steel coating and bar processing lines, and Iron Dynamics; metals recycling, which involves the purchase, processing, and resale of ferrous and nonferrous scrap metals into reusable forms and grades; and steel fabrication, which produces steel building components, including steel joists, girders, trusses, and steel deck.

Texas Roadhouse Inc.

Texas Roadhouse is a restaurant company operating predominately in the casual dining segment. The company operates Texas Roadhouse restaurants and Bubba's 33 restaurants. In addition, the company operates restaurants outside of the casual dining segment. The Texas Roadhouse restaurants provide an assortment of steaks hand-cut on the premises and cooked to order over open grills. In addition to steaks, the company also provides its guests a selection of ribs, seafood, chicken, pork chops, pulled pork and vegetable plates, hamburgers, salads and sandwiches. Bubba's 33 is a sports restaurant. The company's menu features burgers, pizza and wings as well as a variety of appetizers, sandwiches and dinner entrees.

Univar Solutions Inc.

Univar Solutions is a chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of services. The company purchases chemicals and ingredients from chemical producers worldwide to warehouse, repackage, blend, dilute, transport and sell those chemicals to various customer locations across various countries. The company's business is organized and managed in four geographical segments: Univar Solutions USA, Univar Solutions Canada, Univar Solutions Europe and the Middle East and Africa, and Univar Solutions Latin America, which includes developing businesses in Latin America (including Brazil and Mexico) and the Asia-Pacific region.

Verrica Pharmaceuticals

Verrica Pharmaceuticals is a dermatology therapeutics company focused on the development and commercialization of treatments for people living with skin diseases. The company's primary product candidate, VP-102, is a proprietary drug-device combination of its topical solution of cantharidin, a naturally sourced agent to treat topical dermatological conditions, administered through its single-use precision applicator. The company is initially developing VP-102 for the treatment of molluscum contagiosum, or molluscum, a highly contagious and primarily pediatric viral skin disease, and common warts. In addition, the company is also developing VP-102 for the treatment of external genital warts.

VERSO CORPORATIN

Verso is a producer of coated papers, which are used in commercial print, magazines, catalogs, advertising brochures and annual reports, among other media and marketing publications. The company produces products, ranging from coated freesheet and coated groundwood, to specialty papers, packaging papers, inkjet and digital papers, supercalendered papers and uncoated freesheet. The company also produces and sells market kraft pulp, which is used to manufacture printing and writing paper grades and tissue products. The company manufactures paper and board products that serve the graphic papers, specialty papers and packaging papers markets. The company also manufactures pulp for both internal use and external sales.

Westlake Chemical Corporation

Westlake Chemical operates as a manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and building products. The company operates in two operating segments: Olefins, which manufactures and markets polyethylene, styrene monomer and various ethylene co-products; and Vinyls, which manufactures and markets polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer, ethylene dichloride, chlor-alkali (chlorine and caustic soda), chlorinated derivative products and ethylene, as well as manufactures and sells building products fabricated from PVC, including residential siding, trim and mouldings, pipe and fittings for various water, sewer and industrial applications, and profiles for windows and doors.

Zions Bancorporation N.A.

Zions is a commercial bank. The company provides a range of banking and related services, primarily in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The company provides community banking services through its main business lines of small and medium-sized business and corporate banking; commercial and residential development, construction and term lending; retail banking; treasury cash management and related products and services; residential mortgage servicing and lending; trust and wealth management; capital markets activities, including municipal finance advisory and underwriting; and investment activities.

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