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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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Anavex Life Sciences

Anavex Life Sciences is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental diseases. The company's primary compound, ANAVEX?2-73, is being developed to treat Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and other central nervous system diseases, including rare diseases, such as Rett syndrome. The company's proprietary SIGMACEPTOR? Discovery Platform produced small molecule drug candidates with certain modes of action, based on its understanding of sigma receptors. Compounds that have been subjects of the company's research include the following: ANAVEX?3-71, ANAVEX?1-41, ANAVEX?1066, and ANAVEX?1037.

Anika Therapeutics Inc.

Anika Therapeutics is joint preservation and regenerative therapies company. The company's Joint Pain Management Therapies product family includes MONOVISC, ORTHOVISC, CINGAL, and HYVISC, hyaluronic acid (HA)-based intraarticular injectable products. The company's Orthopedic Joint Preservation and Restoration Care products include HYALOFAST, TACTOSET, Arthrosurface's catalogue of over 150 partial and total joint surface implants and preservation solutions for the knee, shoulder, hip, ankle, wrist and toe and Parcus Medical's line of surgical implant and instrumentation solutions. The company's Other product family consists of HA-based products that do not fit into one of its other primary product categories.

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BANK OF AMERICA CORP

Bank of America is a bank and a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer Banking, which provides credit, banking and investment products and services; Global Wealth & Investment Management, which provides investment management, brokerage, banking and retirement products; Global Banking, which provides lending-related products and services, integrated working capital management and treasury solutions, and underwriting and advisory services; and Global Markets, which provides sales and trading services and research services.

Bank OZK

Bank OZK provides a range of retail and commercial banking services. The company also provides, among other products and services, treasury management services for businesses, individuals and non-profit and governmental entities, including wholesale lock box services, remote deposit capture services, trust and wealth management services for businesses, individuals and non-profit and governmental entities, real estate appraisals, ATMs, telephone banking, online and mobile banking services, debit cards and safe deposit boxes. Through third party providers, the company provides credit cards for consumers and businesses and processing of merchant debit and credit card transactions.

BJ's Restaurants Inc.

BJ's Restaurants operates in the casual dining segment of the restaurant industry. The company's restaurants feature a number of menu offerings including: slow roasted entrees, such as, prime rib; EnLIGHTened Entrees? such as its Cherry Chipotle Glazed Salmon; its deep-dish pizza; the Pizookie? dessert; and its BJ's proprietary craft beers. The company owns and operates restaurants located in various states, and its proprietary craft beer is produced at various locations, its Temple, TX brewpub locations and by independent third party brewers using its proprietary recipes. The company also produces its proprietary non-alcoholic craft sodas including root beer, ginger beer, cream, orange and black cherry soda.

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.

Buckle Inc.

The Buckle is a retailer of casual apparel, footwear, and accessories for young men and women. The company markets a selection of mainly brand name casual apparel including denims, other casual bottoms, tops, sportswear, outerwear, accessories, and footwear. The company provides denims from brands such as Miss Me, Rock Revival, KanCan, Flying Monkey, and Levi's. The company also incorporates services such as hemming, gift wrapping, layaways, a guest loyalty program, the Buckle private label credit card, personalized stylist services, and an order system that allows stores to obtain specifically requested merchandise from other the company stores or from the company's online order fulfillment center.

Cass Information Systems Inc.

Cass Information Systems is a financial holding company. The company provides payment and information processing services to manufacturing, distribution and retail enterprises across the U.S. The company's services include freight invoice rating, payment processing, auditing, accounting and transportation information. The company also processes and pays energy invoices, which include electricity and gas as well as waste and telecommunications expenses, and is a provider of telecom expense management solutions. Additionally, the company provides a business-to-business payment platform for clients that require a financial technology partner. Through its bank subsidiary, the company also provides commercial banking services.

Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

The Cheesecake Factory operates casual dining restaurants. The company operates Company-owned restaurants under: The Cheesecake Factory?, which provides menu including appetizers, pizza, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, small plates, pastas, salads, sandwiches and omelettes, and gluten-free items; Grand Lux Cafe?, which provides American dishes and international favorites, including appetizers, pasta, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, and desserts; and RockSugar Southeast Asian Kitchen?, which showcases the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India. The company also produces desserts for its restaurants, international licensees and third-party bakery customers.

Choice Hotels International Inc.

Choice Hotels International is a hotel franchisor. The company franchises lodging properties under the following proprietary brand names: Comfort Inn?, Comfort Suites?, Quality?, Clarion?, Clarion Pointe?, Sleep Inn?, Econo Lodge?, Rodeway Inn?, MainStay Suites?, Suburban Extended Stay Hotel?, WoodSpring Suites?, Cambria? Hotels, and Ascend Hotel Collection?. The company's primary segment is the hotel franchising business. The company's domestic franchising operations are conducted through direct franchising relationships while its international franchise operations are conducted through a combination of direct franchising and master franchising relationships.

Chuy's Holdings Inc.

Chuy's Holdings is a restaurant concept that provides Mexican and Tex Mex inspired food. The company provides the same menu during lunch and dinner, which includes enchiladas, fajitas, rellenos, tacos, burritos, combination platters and daily specials, complemented by a variety of appetizers, soups and salads. Each of the company's restaurants also provide a variety of sauces, including the Hatch Green Chile, Boom-Boom and Creamy Jalapeno sauces. The company also provides a bar in all of its restaurants providing its customers a variety of beverage offerings, featuring a selection of cocktails including its on-the-rocks margaritas made with lime juice and the King's Punch, a rum cocktail.

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Crocs Inc.

Crocs is engaged in the design, development, marketing, distribution, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. The company provides a variety of footwear products including sandals, flips and slides, which the company collectively refer to as sandals, shoes, and boots. The majority of shoes within the company's collection contains Croslite? material. The company's wholesale channel includes domestic and international multi-brand retailers, e-tailers, and distributors; the company's retail channel consists of company-operated stores; and the company's e-commerce channel includes company-operated e-commerce sites and third-party marketplaces.

Darden Restaurants Inc.

Darden Restaurants is a restaurant company. The company owns and operates restaurants through subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada under the Olive Garden?, LongHorn Steakhouse?, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen?, Yard House?, The Capital Grille?, Seasons 52?, Bahama Breeze?, and Eddie V's Prime Seafood? trademarks. The company has four reportable segments: Olive Garden; LongHorn Steakhouse; Fine Dining (which includes The Capital Grille and Eddie V's); and Other Business (which includes Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, Seasons 52, Bahama Breeze and results from its franchise operations).

Denali Therapeutics Inc

Denali Therapeutics is a biopharmaceutical company that discovers and develops therapeutics to defeat neurodegenerative diseases. The company's target indications include diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, as well as orphan indications, such as mucopolysaccharidosis type II, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. The company's Transport Vehicle technology enables several classes of biotherapeutics to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB), including enzymes, antibodies, proteins and oligonucleotides. This technology is designed to engage BBB transport receptors, which are expressed in brain capillaries and facilitate transport of proteins into the brain.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

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

First Bancorp (North Carolina)

First Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Bank, the company is engaged in a range of banking activities, with the acceptance of deposits and the making of loans being its basic activities. The company provides deposit products such as checking, savings, and money market accounts, as well as time deposits, including various types of certificates of deposits and individual retirement accounts. The company provides loans for a range of consumer and commercial purposes, including loans for business, real estate, personal uses, home improvement and automobiles. The company also provides credit cards, debit cards, letters of credit, safe deposit box rentals and electronic funds transfer services.

First Hawaiian Inc.

First Hawaiian is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Hawaiian Bank, the company operates a network of branches in Hawaii, Guam and Saipan. The company operates three operating segments: Retail Banking, which includes the financial products and services the company provides to consumers, businesses, small businesses and certain commercial customers; Commercial Banking, which includes the company's corporate banking, residential and commercial real estate loans, commercial lease financing, automobile loans and auto dealer financing; and Treasury and Other, which includes the company's treasury business consisting of corporate asset and liability management activities, including interest rate risk management.

Gap Inc.

The Gap is an apparel retail company. The company provides apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta, Intermix, and Hill City brands. The company has stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Japan, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mexico, and has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic stores throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Under these agreements, third parties operate stores that sell apparel and related products under the company's brand names.

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated

Huntington Bancshares is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides commercial, small business, consumer banking services, mortgage banking services, automobile financing, recreational vehicle and marine financing, equipment leasing, investment management, trust services, brokerage services, insurance programs, and other financial products and services. The company's segments include: Consumer and Business Banking, which provides financial products and services to consumer and small business customers; and Commercial Banking, which provides products and services to the middle market, large corporate, real estate and government public sector customers.

IMMUNITYBIO INC

ImmunoGen Inc.

ImmunoGen is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). An ADC with the company's proprietary technology comprises an antibody that binds to a target found on tumor cells and is conjugated to one of its anti-cancer agents as a payload to kill the tumor cell once the ADC has bound to its target. The company's main program is mirvetuximab soravtansine, an ADC targeting folate-receptor alpha, a cell-surface protein overexpressed in a number of epithelial tumors, including ovarian, endometrial, and non-small-cell lung cancers. The company is developing IMGN632 in clinical trials for patients with acute myeloid leukemia and blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm.

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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.

Macy's Inc

Macy's is an omnichannel retail organization operating stores, websites and mobile applications under three brands (Macy's, Bloomingdale's and bluemercury) that sell merchandise, including apparel and accessories (men's, women's and children's), cosmetics, home furnishings and other consumer goods. The company's wholly-owned bank subsidiary, FDS Bank, provides certain collections, customer service and credit marketing services in respect of all credit card accounts that are owned either by Department Stores National Bank, a subsidiary of Citibank, N.A., or FDS Bank and that constitute a part of the credit programs of the company's retail operations.

Pacific Premier Bancorp Inc.

Pacific Premier Bancorp is a bank holding company. The company operates through its subsidiary, Pacific Premier Bank. Through its branches and its Internet website at www.ppbi.com, the company provides an array of deposit products and services, including checking, money market and savings accounts, cash management services, electronic banking services, and on-line bill payment. The company also provides an array of loan products, such as commercial business loans, lines of credit, Small Business Administration loans, commercial real estate loans, agribusiness loans, home equity lines of credit, construction loans, farmland and consumer loans.

ProPetro Holding Corp.

ProPetro Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged as an oilfield services company providing hydraulic fracturing and other services to upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin. In addition to its core hydraulic fracturing operations, the company provides complementary well completion and production services, including cementing, coiled tubing, flowback services and drilling. The company conducts its business through five segments: hydraulic fracturing (inclusive of acidizing), cementing, coil tubing, flowback and drilling.

Renasant Corporation

Renasant is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial, wealth management, fiduciary and insurance services. The company's segments include: Community Banks, which provides business and personal loans, interim construction loans, commercial lending, treasury management services and checking and savings accounts, as well as safe deposit boxes and night depository facilities; Wealth Management, which provides a variety of fiduciary services and administer retirement plans, profit sharing and other employee benefit plans, personal trusts and estates; and Insurance, which provides various lines of commercial and personal insurance through primary carriers.

TEMPUR SEALY INTERNATIONAL INC

Tempur Sealy International develops, manufactures, and markets bedding products. The company's portfolio of product brands includes Tempur?, Tempur-Pedic?, Sealy? featuring Posturepedic? Technology, Stearns & Foster? and Comfort Revolution?. The company operates in two segments: North America and International. The company's North America segment consists of Tempur and Sealy manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries and licensees located in United States and Canada. The company's International segment consists of Tempur and Sealy manufacturing and distribution subsidiaries, joint ventures and licensees located in Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

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Tillys

Tilly's is a retailer of casual apparel, footwear and accessories for young men, young women, boys and girls. The company's stores are located in malls, lifestyle centers, power centers, community centers, outlet centers and street-front locations. Customers may also shop online, where the company features the same assortment of product as is carried in its stores, supplemented by additional online-only styles. The company provides a mix of merchandise for young men, young women, boys and girls across the apparel, footwear and accessories categories. The company's apparel merchandise includes branded, fashion, and core styles for tops, outerwear, bottoms, and dresses.

TJX Companies Inc

TJX Companies is an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer. The company's segments comprised of: Marmaxx, which sells family apparel (including footwear and accessories), home fashions (including home basics, decorative accessories and giftware) and other merchandise; HomeGoods, which provides a range of home fashions, including home fashions, including furniture, rugs, lighting, soft home, decorative accessories, tabletop and cookware as well as pet, kids and gourmet food departments; TJX Canada, which operates the Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls chains in Canada; and TJX International, which operates the T.K. Maxx and HomeSense chains in Europe and the T.K. Maxx chain in Australia.

Urban Outfitters Inc.

Urban Outfitters is engaged in the operation of a general consumer product retail and wholesale business selling to customers through various channels including retail locations, websites, catalogs and mobile applications. The company has two segments: Retail, which consists of its Anthropologie, Bhldn, Free People, Terrain and Urban Outfitters brands and its Food and Beverage division; and Wholesale, which designs, develops and markets young women's contemporary casual apparel, intimates, FP Movement activewear and shoes under the Free People brand, home goods, including gifts, tabletop and textiles, under the Anthropologie brand and the BDG apparel collection under the Urban Outfitters brand.

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Wendy's Company

The Wendy's is a holding company. The company's subsidiary, Wendy's Restaurants, LLC, is the parent company of Wendy's International, LLC (Wendy's), which is the owner and franchisor of the Wendy's? restaurant system in the U.S. Wendy's is a quick-service restaurant company in the hamburger sandwich segment. Each Wendy's restaurant provides a menu featuring hamburger sandwiches and filet of chicken breast sandwiches. Wendy's menu also includes chicken nuggets, chili, french fries, baked potatoes, salads, soft drinks, Frosty? desserts and kids' meals. In addition, the restaurants sell a variety of promotional products.Wendy's also provides breakfast in some restaurants in the U.S.

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