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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

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Underlyings
Allogene Therapeutics

Allogene Therapeutics is a clinical stage immuno-oncology company focused on the development and commercialization of genetically engineered allogeneic T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer. Several of the company's key product candidates, including UCART19, ALLO-501 and ALLO-501A, are engineered allogeneic CAR T cell therapies that target CD19, a protein expressed on the cell surface of B cells and a validated target for B cell driven hematological malignancies. The company is developing an anti-CD52 monoclonal antibody, ALLO-647, which is designed to be used prior to infusing its other product candidates as part of the lymphodepletion regimen.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions Inc.

Allscripts Healthcare Solutions delivers information technology solutions and services. The company is engaged in providing electronic health records (EHRs), financial management, population health management, medicine and consumer solutions. The company's segments are: Clinical and Financial Solutions, which consists of the sale of integrated clinical software applications and financial and information solutions, including EHR-related software, connectivity and coordinated care solutions, financial and practice management software, related installation, and revenue cycle management; Population Health, which consists the sale of health management, financial management and patient engagement solutions.

ALTUS POWER INC

AMN Healthcare Services Inc.

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

BancFirst

BancFirst conducts a majority of its operating activities through its subsidiary, BancFirst (BancFirst). The company also conducts operating activities through its subsidiary, Pegasus Bank. BancFirst's main lending activity is the financing of business and industry in its market areas. Most forms of commercial lending are provided, including commercial mortgages, other forms of asset-based financing and working capital lines of credit. BancFirst's range of deposit services include checking accounts, negotiable order of withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, sweep accounts, club accounts, individual retirement accounts and certificates of deposit.

Beam Therapeutics

Beam Therapeutics operates as a biotechnology company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a research stage biotechnology company committed to creating a new class of precision genetic medicines, based on the company's proprietary base editing technology, with a vision of providing life-long cures to patients suffering from serious diseases.

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Cabral Gold Inc

Cigna Corporation

Cigna is a global health service organization. The company's segments are: Integrated Medical, which includes its employer-sponsored medical coverage and Medicare offerings for seniors and individual insurance offerings to non-seniors both on and off the public health insurance exchanges; Health Services, which consists of the pharmacy benefit management and certain health management services; International Markets, which provides a range of medical and supplemental health, life, and accident benefits to individuals and employers; and Group Disability and Other, which includes its commercial long- and short-term disability products, and its term life group insurance products.

Clearfield Inc.

Clearfield designs, manufactures and distributes fiber protection, fiber management and fiber delivery solutions. The company's products include: FieldSmart?, which provides a design from the inside plant of the telco's central office or cable television's head-end, all the way through the outside plant to the access network to within the home or business; WaveSmart? optical components, which are integrated for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing and attenuation for an integration within the company's fiber management platform; and ODC outdoor active cabinet product line, which features a line of cabinets equipped with specific active electronics configurations.

Cross Country Healthcare Inc.

Cross Country Healthcare provides healthcare staffing, recruiting and workforce solutions. The company's business consists of three business segments: Nurse and Allied Staffing, which provides staffing, recruiting, and workforce solutions including temporary and permanent placement of travel and local branch-based nurse and allied personnel; Physician Staffing, which provides physicians, certified registered nurse anesthetists, nurse practitioners and physician assistants under its Medical Doctor Associates brand; and Other Human Capital Management Services, which is comprised of retained and contingent search services for physicians, healthcare executives, and other healthcare personnel.

Dollar General Corporation

Dollar General is a discount retailer. The company's consumables products includes paper and cleaning products, packaged food, perishables, snacks, health and beauty, pet, and tobacco products. The company's seasonal products include decorations, toys, batteries, small electronics, greeting cards, stationery, prepaid phones and accessories, gardening supplies, hardware, automotive and home office supplies. The company's home products include kitchen supplies, cookware, small appliances, light bulbs, storage containers, frames, candles, craft supplies and kitchen, bed and bath soft goods. The company's apparel includes casual everyday apparel, as well as socks, underwear, disposable diapers, shoes and accessories.

ENVIVA PARTNERS LP

Essex Property Trust Inc.

Essex Property Trust operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns all of its interest in its real estate and other investments directly or indirectly through Essex Portfolio, L.P. (the Operating Partnership). The company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership. The company is engaged primarily in the ownership, operation, management, acquisition, development and redevelopment of primarily apartment communities, located along the West Coast. The company owns or has an interest in various operating apartment communities, consisting of apartment homes, operating commercial building and a development pipeline.

Guardant Health

Guardant Health is a precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood-based tests, data sets and analytics. The company is engaged in the clinical liquid biopsy market with its Guardant360 and GuardantOMNI tests. The company's Guardant360 test is a molecular diagnostic test measuring a number of cancer-related genes and its GuardantOMNI test has a 500-gene panel, both of which analyze circulating tumor DNA in blood. In addition, the company is developing tests from its LUNAR-1 program for minimal residual disease and recurrence detection in cancer survivors, and its LUNAR-2 program for early detection of cancer.

Harley-Davidson Inc.

Harley-Davidson is the parent company of Harley-Davidson Motor Company (HDMC) and Harley-Davidson Financial Services (HDFS). The company's segments are: Motorcycles and Related Products, which consists of HDMC that designs, manufactures and sells Harley-Davidson motorcycles as well as motorcycle parts, accessories, general merchandise and services; and Financial Services, which consists of HDFS that is engaged in the business of financing and servicing wholesale inventory receivables and retail consumer loans, primarily for the purchase of Harley-Davidson motorcycles. HDFS also provides motorcycle insurance and protection products to motorcycle owners.

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.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

Jones Lang LaSalle is a professional services firm that engages in real estate and investment management. The company delivers an array of services across four business segments. The company manage its Real Estate Services offerings across three geographic business segments: the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific, and the company manages its investment management business globally as LaSalle Investment Management. In its Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific operating segments, the company provides a range of leasing, capital markets, integrated property and facility management, project management, advisory, consulting, valuations and digital solutions services.

Kohl's Corporation

Kohl's operates department stores, a website (www.Kohls.com), FILA outlets, and Off-Aisle clearance centers. The company's Kohl's stores and website sell proprietary and national brand apparel, footwear, accessories, beauty and home products. The company's website includes merchandise that is available in its stores, as well as merchandise that is available only online. The company's portfolio includes private brands such as Apt. 9, Croft & Barrow, Jumping Beans, SO and Sonoma Goods for Life and exclusive brands that are developed and marketed through agreements with brands such as Food Network, LC Lauren Conrad, Elle and Simply Vera Vera Wang.

L3Harris Technologies Inc

L3Harris Technologies is a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company's segments are: Integrated Mission Systems, including multi-mission intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and communication systems; Space and Airborne Systems, including space payloads, sensors and full-mission solutions; Communication Systems, including tactical communications, broadband communications, integrated vision solutions, and public safety; and Aviation Systems, including defense aviation products, security, detection and other commercial aviation products, commercial and military pilot training, and mission networks for air traffic management.

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Medifast Inc.

Medifast is engaged in the development of nutritional weight-management products and programs. The company's product lines include weight loss, weight management, and healthy living meal replacements, snacks, hydration products, and vitamins. The company sells a variety of weight loss, weight management and healthy living products all based on its proprietary formulas under the Medifast?, OPTAVIA?, Thrive by Medifast, Optimal Health by OPTAVIA, Flavors of Home?, and Essential 1 brands. The Thrive by Medifast and Optimal Health by OPTAVIA lines include a variety of formulated bars, shakes, and smoothies for those who are maintaining their weight for long-term healthy living.

Medtronic Plc

Nutrien Ltd.

Nutrien Ltd is Canada-based crop nutrient producer and distributer of potash, nitrogen and phosphate products for agricultural, industrial and feed customers worldwide. The Company is focused on retail, potash, nitrogen and phosphate mining and processing operations. The Company's retail operations serve growers in a number of countries across the United States, Canada, South Africa, Australia and South America. The Company operates six potash mines in Saskatchewan and has a mine in New Brunswick in care-and-maintenance mode. The Company operates integrated phosphate mining and processing facilities, as well as a number of smaller upgrading plants in the United States.

PROCEPT BIOROBOTICS CORP

REGENXBIO Inc.

REGENXBIO is a clinical-stage biotechnology company. The company's product candidates include: RGX-314, which is being developed as a gene therapy for the treatment of wet age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and other additional chronic retinal conditions which cause total or partial vision loss for patients in the U.S., Europe and Japan; RGX-121, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type II; RGX-111, which is for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis Type I; and RGX-181, which is for the treatment of late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type II disease; and RGX-501, which is for the treatment of homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia.

Silk Road Medical

Silk Road Medical is a medical device company focused on reducing the risk of stroke and its devastating impact. The company offers ENROUTE Transcarotid Neuroprotection System that is used to directly access the common carotid artery and initiate temporary blood flow reversal; ENROUTE Transcarotid Stent System, a self-expanding, self-tapering stent with clinical data regarding lasting safety outcomes; ENHANCE Transcarotid Peripheral Access Kit for use in gaining initial access to the common carotid artery; and ENROUTE 0.014 Guidewire for navigating and crossing the target lesion for delivery of interventional devices.

STERLING CHECK CORP

SYNDAX PHARMACEUTICALS

Syndax Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of cancer therapies. The company's primary product candidate, entinostat is a once-weekly, oral, small molecule, Class I HDAC inhibitor, which is being evaluated in the Phase 3 E2112 registrational clinical trial in combination with exemestane for hormone receptor positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 negative, breast cancer, an indication for which entinostat has been granted therapy designation from the United States Food and Drug Administration. SNDX-5613, the company's clinical-stage product candidate, is a small molecule inhibitor of the interaction of menin with the mixed lineage leukemia protein.

TechTarget Inc.

TechTarget is a provider of online content for buyers of enterprise information technology (IT) products and services, and a provider of purchase-intent marketing and sales services for enterprise technology vendors. The company's service offerings enable technology vendors to identify, reach and influence corporate IT decision makers actively researching specific IT purchases. The company categorizes its content offerings across a portfolio of market categories including: security; networking; storage; data center and virtualization technologies; Chief Information Officer /IT strategy; business applications and analytics; application architecture and development; and channel.

Tyson Foods Inc. Class A

Tyson Foods is a food company. The company's operations consist of breeding stock, contract farmers, feed production, processing, further-processing, marketing and transportation of chicken and related allied products, including animal and pet food ingredients. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Cobb-Vantress, Inc., the company is engaged as poultry breeding stock supplier. The company also processes live fed cattle and hogs and fabricates dressed beef and pork carcasses into primal and sub-primal meat cuts, case-ready beef and pork and fully-cooked meats. The company produces a range of fresh, frozen and refrigerated food products. The company operates in Beef, Pork, Chicken and Prepared Foods segments.

Vermilion Energy Inc.

Vermilion Energy, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in the business of oil and natural gas exploitation, development, acquisition and production in Canada, France, the Netherlands, Australia and Ireland.

VERVE THERAPEUTICS INC

Walker & Dunlop Inc.

Walker & Dunlop is a holding company and conducts the majority of its operations through Walker & Dunlop, LLC, its operating company. The company originates, sells, and services a range of multifamily and other commercial real estate financing products, provides multifamily property sales brokerage services, and engages in commercial real estate investment management activities. The company's commercial real estate finance products include first mortgage, second trust, supplemental, construction, small-balance, and bridge/interim loans. The company provides property sales services to owners and developers of multifamily properties and commercial real estate investment management services for various investors.

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

West Fraser Timber is an integrated wood products company producing lumber, newprint, wood chips, plywood, panels and pulp and paper products.

WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION

Whirlpool is a home appliance company. The company manufactures and markets a line of home appliances and related products. The company's principal products are laundry appliances, refrigerators and freezers, cooking appliances, dishwashers, mixers and other small domestic appliances. The company manufactures and markets products under brand names such as Whirlpool, KitchenAid, Maytag, Consul, Brastemp, Amana, Bauknecht, JennAir, Indesit and Hotpoint. The company's operating and reportable segments consist of North America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia.

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