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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.63 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• A number of Financial Sector names are at or near bullish price and RS inflections. (ex. WFC, ABCB, SNV, STL, NFBK, FII, and COF)

• Many Healthcare Sector names are showing leadership characteristics. (ZBH, CUTR, UHS, HCA, CHE, AMED, WST, and NEOG)

• Many IT service related names remain bullish. (ex. FISV, EBOV, GPN, TSS, and EXLS)
Underlyings
Alphabet Inc. Class C

Amedisys Inc.

Amedisys is a healthcare services company focused on providing care in the home. The company's operations involve servicing patients across the United States through its operating divisions: home health, hospice and personal care. The company's Home Health segment provides healthcare to help its patients recover from surgery or illness, live with chronic diseases, and prevent avoidable hospital readmissions. Hospice care is designed to provide comfort and support for those who are dealing with a terminal illness such as heart disease, pulmonary disease, Alzheimer's or cancer. Personal care provides assistance with the activities of daily living.

Ameris Bancorp

Ameris Bancorp is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Ameris Bank, the company provides a range of banking services to its retail and commercial customers in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and South Carolina. The company provides agricultural loans, commercial business loans, commercial and residential real estate construction and mortgage loans, consumer loans, revolving lines of credit and letters of credit. The company also provides a range of deposit accounts and services to both retail and commercial customers, which include commercial and retail checking accounts, regular interest-bearing savings accounts, money market accounts, individual retirement accounts and certificates of deposit.

Capital One Financial Corporation

Capital One Financial is a financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of financial products and services. The company's segments are: Credit Card, which consists of the company's domestic consumer and small business card lending, and international card businesses in Canada and the United Kingdom.; Consumer Banking, which consists of the company's deposit gathering and lending activities for consumers and small businesses, and national auto lending; and Commercial Banking, which consists of the company's lending, deposit gathering, capital markets and treasury management services to commercial real estate and commercial and industrial customers.

Chemed Corporation

Chemed purchases, operates and divests subsidiaries engaged in business activities. The company conducts its business operations in two segments: the VITAS segment (VITAS) and the Roto-Rooter segment (Roto-Rooter). The VITAS segment provides hospice and palliative care services to its patients through a network of physicians, registered nurses, home health aides, social workers, clergy and volunteers. The Roto-Rooter segment provides plumbing, drain cleaning, water restoration and other related services to residential and commercial customers.

Cutera Inc.

Cutera designs, develops, manufactures, distributes and markets light and energy-based product platforms for use by physicians and other practitioners. The company provides products based on the following platforms: enlighten, excel HR, truSculpt, excel V, xeo, Juliet?, and Secret? radio frequency, each of which enables physicians and other practitioners to perform aesthetic procedures, including treatment for body contouring, skin resurfacing and revitalization, tattoo removal, removal of benign pigmented lesions, vascular conditions, hair removal, toenail fungus and women's health. In addition, the company provides other products such as GenesisPlus, CoolGlide, and distributes ZO's skincare products.

Dril-Quip Inc.

Dril-Quip designs, manufactures, sells and services drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The company's products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors, diverters and safety valves. The company provides technical advisory assistance during installation of its products, as well as rework and reconditioning services. The company's customers may rent or purchase running tools from the company for use in the installation and retrieval of its products.

ExlService Holdings Inc.

ExlService Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an operations management and analytics company. The company's operations management services involve the transfer to the company's business operations of a client such as claims processing, clinical operations, or financial transaction processing, after which the company administers and manages those operations for its client on an ongoing basis, or in case of consulting, consulting services related to transformation services, including digital transformation services. The company's Analytics services focus on driving business outcomes for its customers by generating data-driven insights across various parts of its customers' business.

Federated Hermes Inc. Class B

Federated Hermes is a provider of investment management products and related financial services. The company sponsors, markets and provides investment-related services to various investment products, including sponsored investment companies and other funds (Federated Funds) and Separate Accounts. The company markets these funds to banks, broker/dealers and other financial intermediaries who use them to meet the needs of customers and/or clients, including retail investors, corporations and retirement plans. The company also provides a range of services to support the operation and administration of the Federated Funds. These services include administrative services and shareholder servicing.

Fiserv Inc.

Fiserv is a provider of financial services technology. The company provides account processing systems, electronic payments processing products and services, internet and mobile banking systems, and related services. The company's segments are: First Data, which provides merchant acquiring, e-commerce, mobile commerce, and other business solutions; Payments and Industry Products, which provides electronic bill payment and presentment services, internet and mobile banking software; and Financial Institution Services, which provides financial institutions with account processing services, item processing and source capture services, loan origination and servicing products, and cash management, among others.

Global Payments Inc.

Global Payments is a pure play payment technology company providing payments and software solutions to merchants and financial institutions. The company has three segments: Merchant Solutions, which includes authorization services, chargeback resolution, and payment security services; Issuer Solutions, which provides solutions that enable financial institutions and other financial service providers to manage their card portfolios and reduces technical difficulty and overhead on a single platform; and Business and Consumer Solutions, which provides general purpose reloadable prepaid debit and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions through its Netspend? brand.

HCA Healthcare Inc

HCA Healthcare is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, the company owns and operates hospitals and related health care entities. Most of the company's general, acute care hospitals provide medical and surgical services, including inpatient care, intensive care, cardiac care, diagnostic services and emergency services. The general, acute care hospitals also provide outpatient services such as outpatient surgery, laboratory, radiology, respiratory therapy, cardiology and physical therapy. The company's psychiatric hospitals provide therapeutic programs including child, adolescent and adult psychiatric care, adolescent and adult alcohol and drug abuse treatment and counseling.

Hershey Company

Hershey is engaged in the production of chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery. The company's segments are: North America, which is responsible for the company's chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery market position, and its grocery and snacks market positions, in the United States and Canada; and International and Other, in which the company has operations and manufactures product in China, Mexico, Brazil, India and Malaysia, and also distributes and sells confectionery products in export markets of Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Europe, Africa and other regions. The company's product offerings include chocolate and non-chocolate confectionery products, gum and mint refreshment products, snack and pantry items.

M/I Homes Inc.

M/I Homes is engaged in the construction and sale of single-family residential homes. The company designs, sells and builds single-family homes on developed lots, which it develops or purchases ready for home construction. The company also purchases undeveloped land to develop into developed lots for future construction of single-family homes and, on a limited basis, for sale to others. The company has two operations: homebuilding and financial services. The company's homebuilding operations have two reporting segments: the Northern and Southern regions. The company's financial services operations support its homebuilding operations by providing mortgage loans and title services to the customers of its homebuilding operations.

Manhattan Associates Inc.

Manhattan Associates is a developer and provider of supply chain commerce solutions. The company's solutions consist of software, services, and hardware, which coordinate people, workflows, assets, events, and tasks across the functions linked in a supply chain from planning through execution. These solutions also coordinate the actions, data exchange, and communication of participants in supply chain ecosystems, such as manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, trading partners, transportation providers, channels (such as catalogers, store retailers, and Web outlets), and consumers. The company develops commerce solutions in three areas of customers' business: Supply Chain, Omnichannel and Inventory.

MGM Resorts International

MGM Resorts International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates casino, hotel, and entertainment resorts across the United States and in Macau. The company's segments include: Las Vegas Strip Resorts, which consists of casino resorts such as Bellagio, MGM Grand Las Vegas, Mandalay Bay, The Mirage, Luxor, New York-New York, Excalibur, and Park MGM; Regional Operations, which consists of casino resorts such as MGM Grand Detroit, Beau Rivage, Gold Strike Tunica, Borgata, MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield, Empire City, and MGM Northfield Park; and MGM China, which owns and operates casino resorts and the related gaming subconcession and land concessions.

Neogen Corporation

Neogen develops, manufactures, and markets a line of products for food and animal safety. The company's segments are: Food Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of diagnostic test kits and related products used by food producers and processors to detect harmful natural toxins, foodborne bacteria, allergens and levels of general sanitation; and Animal Safety, which is engaged in the development, production and marketing of products dedicated to animal safety, including a range of consumable products marketed to veterinarians and animal health product distributors, and provides genomic identification and related interpretive bioinformatic services.

Power Integrations Inc.

Power Integrations designs, develops and markets analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits and other electronic components and circuitry used in high-voltage power conversion. The company's products are used in power converters that convert electricity from a high-voltage source to the type of power required for a specified downstream use. In most cases, this conversion entails, among other functions, converting alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) or vice versa, reducing or increasing the voltage, and regulating the output voltage and/or current according to the customer's specifications. The company's products are AC-DC power conversion, High-voltage gate drivers, and Motor-driver products.

Reinsurance Group of America Incorporated

Reinsurance Group of America is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of life and health reinsurance and financial solutions. The company is engaged in providing reinsurance, which includes individual and group life and health, disability, and critical illness reinsurance. The company also provides financial solutions, which includes longevity reinsurance, asset-intensive products, primarily annuities, financial reinsurance, capital solutions and stable value products. The company has five geographic-based and business-based operational segments: United States and Latin America, Canada, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, and Corporate and Other.

Safety Insurance Group Inc.

Safety Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of private passenger, commercial automobile and homeowners insurance in Massachusetts. The company's product lines include: Private Passenger Automobile, which provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage to others, no-fault personal injury coverage for the insured/insured's car occupants, and physical damage coverage for an insured's own vehicle for collision or other perils; Commercial Automobile, which provides insurance for commercial vehicles used for business purposes; and Inland Marine, which provides inland marine coverage as an endorsement for all homeowners and business owner policies.

SPS Commerce Inc.

SPS Commerce is a provider of cloud-based supply chain management services for retailers, suppliers, grocers, distributors and logistics firms to orchestrate the management of item data, order fulfillment, inventory control and sales analytics across various channels. The services provided by the company eliminates the need for on-premise software and support staff by taking on that capability on the customer's behalf. The following services are enabled through the SPS Commerce cloud services Platform: Trading Partner Community, Trading Partner Fulfillment, Trading Partner Assortment, Trading Partner Analytics, Trading Partner Sourcing, and Other Trading Partner Solutions.

Sterling Bancorp

Sterling Bancorp is a bank holding company and financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Sterling National Bank (the Bank), the company provides commercial, business, and consumer banking products and services. The Bank's principal business is accepting deposits and, together with funds generated from operations and borrowings, investing in various types of loans and securities. The Bank also operates its commercial finance businesses, which include asset-based lending, payroll financing, factoring, warehouse lending, equipment financing, and public sector financing. The company's commercial banking teams focus on the origination of commercial and industria loans and commercial mortgage loans.

Synovus Financial Corp.

Synovus Financial is a financial services company and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary bank, Synovus Bank, the company provides commercial banking services and retail banking services. The company's commercial banking services include treasury management, asset management, capital markets services, institutional trust services and commercial, financial and real estate loans. The company's retail banking services include accepting customary types of demand and savings deposits accounts; mortgage, installment and other consumer loans; investment and brokerage services; safe deposit services; automated banking services; automated fund transfers; and Internet-based banking services.

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.

Total System Services Inc.

Total System Services is a payment solutions provider that provides payment processing services, merchant services and related payment services to financial and nonfinancial institutions. In addition, the company provides general purpose reloadable prepaid and payroll cards, demand deposit accounts and other financial service solutions to the underbanked and other consumers and businesses. The services the company provides are divided into three operating segments: Issuer Solutions, whereby the company is a third party processor for credit card issuers in North America and Europe; Merchant Solutions, whereby the company operates as a merchant acquirer; and Consumer Solutions, whereby the company is a prepaid program manager.

UFP Industries Inc.

Universal Forest Products is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, manufactures and markets wood and wood-alternative products for national home centers and other retailers, structural lumber and other products for the manufactured housing industry, engineered wood components for residential and commercial construction, specialty wood packaging, components and packing materials for various industries, and customized interior fixtures used in a variety of retail and commercial structures. In addition, the company provides outdoor living products. The company also sells engineered wood components to this market, which include roof trusses, wall panels and engineered floor systems.

Universal Health Services Inc. Class B

Universal Health Services owns and operates, through its subsidiaries, acute care hospitals and outpatient facilities and behavioral health care facilities. The company owns and/or operates inpatient facilities and outpatient and other facilities located in several states including, Washington, D.C., the United Kingdom, and Puerto Rico. Services provided by the company's hospitals include general and specialty surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics, emergency room care, radiology, oncology, diagnostic care, coronary care, pediatric services, pharmacy services and/or behavioral health services. The company's reportable operating segments consist of acute care hospital services and behavioral health care services.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

West Pharmaceutical Services Inc.

West Pharmaceutical Services is a manufacturer in the design and production of containment and delivery systems for injectable drugs and healthcare products. The company's products include packaging, containment solutions, reconstitution and transfer systems, and drug delivery systems, as well as contract manufacturing, analytical lab services and integrated solutions. The company's segments are: Proprietary Products, which provides packaging, containment and drug delivery products, analytical lab services and integrated solutions; and Contract-Manufactured Products, which is focused on the design, manufacture, and automated assembly of devices, for pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and medical device customers.

World Fuel Services Corporation

World Fuel Services is a global fuel services company. The company's segments are: aviation, which provides global aviation fuel supply and service solutions to main commercial airlines, second and third-tier airlines, cargo carriers, regional and low-cost carriers, airports, fixed based operators, corporate fleets, fractional operators and private aircraft; land, which provides fuel, heating oil, propane, natural gas, lubricants and related products, advisory and fulfillment solutions, transaction management services, and transportation logistics for its product deliveries; and marine, which markets fuel, lubricants and related products and services to a base of marine customers.

XPO Logistics Inc.

XPO Logistics is a global provider of supply chain solutions to various companies. The company has two reporting segments: Transportation and Logistics. The company's Transportation segment facilitates the movement of raw materials, parts and finished goods. The company's transportation services include truck brokerage, expedite, intermodal, drayage, last mile, less-than-truckload, full truckload, global forwarding and managed transportation. The company's Logistics segment services include warehousing, distribution and inventory management, omnichannel and e-commerce fulfillment, reverse logistics, cold chain solutions, packaging and labeling, factory support, aftermarket support and order personalization services.

ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS INC.

Zimmer Biomet Holdings is engaged in musculoskeletal healthcare. The company's products are: Knees, which includes knee replacement surgeries; Hips, which includes hip replacement surgeries; S.E.T., which includes surgical, sports medicine, biologics, foot and ankle, extremities and trauma products; Spine and Craniomaxillofacial and Thoracic, which designs, manufactures and distributes medical devices and surgical instruments, as well as provides face and skull reconstruction products; Dental, which manufactures and/or distributes dental reconstructive implants, dental prosthetic products and dental regenerative products; and Other, which includes bone cement and office based technology products.

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Ross LaDuke

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