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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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AMAG Austria Metall AG

AMAG Austria Metall is a holding company, engaged in the production of primary aluminum, as well as cast and rolled aluminum products. The metal division is responsible for the risk management and steering of the metal flows. The casting division recycles aluminum scrap to produce foundry alloys. Its product portfolio covers aluminum materials tailored to customer requirements in the form of ingots, sows and liquid aluminum. The rolling division is responsible for the production and sale of rolled products, and precision cast and rolled plates. The service division include facility management, energy supplies, waste disposal, and purchasing and materials management.

AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. Class A

AMC Entertainment Holdings is a theatrical exhibition company. Through its direct and indirect subsidiaries, including American Multi-Cinema, Inc. and its subsidiaries, the company is principally involved in theatrical exhibition business and owns, operates or has interests in theatres primarily located in the U.S. and Europe. The company provides consumers a range of entertainment alternatives including film programming, independent and foreign films, performing arts, music and sports. The company also provides food and beverage alternatives such as made-to-order meals, customized coffee, snacks, beer, wine, cocktails and dine-in theatre options.

Antero Resources Corporation

Antero Resources is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and oil properties. The company focuses on unconventional reservoirs, which can generally be characterized as fractured shale formations. The company's drilling operations are focused in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin. The company's industry segments are: the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, NGLs, and oil; marketing of excess firm transportation capacity; and the gathering and processing of natural gas. All of the company's operations are conducted in the United States.

Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.

Big 5 Sporting Goods is a holding company. The company is a sporting goods retailer. The company's product mix includes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, as well as a range of outdoor and athletic equipment for team sports, fitness, camping, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, winter and summer recreation and roller sports. The company's stores carry a range of products from brand name manufacturers, including adidas, Coleman, Columbia, Everlast, New Balance, Nike, Rawlings, Skechers, Spalding, Under Armour and Wilson. The company also provides brand name merchandise produced for it, private label merchandise and items the company purchases through opportunistic buys of vendor over-stock and close-out merchandise.

Brinker International Inc.

Brinker International is engaged in owning, developing, operating and franchising the Chili's? Grill & Bar (Chili's) and Maggiano's Little Italy? (Maggiano's) restaurant brands. Chili's operates in the bar and grill category of casual dining. Chili's menu includes burgers, fajitas, baby back ribs and margaritas. Chili's To Go menu is available online, by calling the restaurant, or through its mobile app. Maggiano's is a casual restaurant brand providing Italian-American cuisine. Dishes are served in both a la carte and family style. The company provides a range of lunch and dinner options, complimented by a wine list and cocktails.

Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.

Carrizo Oil & Gas is an energy company which, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas from resource plays located in the U.S. The company's operations are principally focused in proven, producing oil and gas plays in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas and the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Cato Corporation Class A

Cato is a fashion retailer which operates under the names Cato, Cato Fashions, Cato Plus, It's Fashion, It's Fashion Metro and Versona. The Cato concept provides fashion apparel and accessories in junior/missy and plus sizes. The Cato concept's stores and e-commerce website feature an assortment of apparel and accessories, including dressy, career, and casual sportswear, dresses, coats, shoes, lingerie, costume jewelry and handbags. The It's Fashion and It's Fashion Metro concepts provide fashion with styles for the family. The Versona concept's stores and e-commerce website provide fashion apparel items, jewelry and accessories. The company also provides its own credit card and layaway plan.

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.

CyberOptics Corp.

CyberOptics is a developer and manufacturer of high precision 3D sensors and system products for inspection and metrology. The company also develops and manufactures its WaferSense? products, a family of wireless, wafer-shaped sensors that provide measurements of critical factors in the semiconductor fabrication process. In addition, the company manufactures 3D and 2D optical sensors for use in its own proprietary inspection system products and for sale to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and end customers in the surface mount technology and semiconductor markets.

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.

Express Scripts Holding Company

Express Scripts Holding is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company. The company has two reportable segments: PBM, which consists of clinical solutions, Express Scripts SafeGuardRx

Flowserve Corporation

Flowserve is a manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of flow control systems. The company develops and manufactures flow control equipment integral to the movement, control and protection of the flow of materials in its customers' processes. The company's segments are: Flowserve Pump Division, which are for custom, pumps, pre-configured industrial pumps, pump systems, mechanical seals, auxiliary systems and replacement parts and related services; and Flow Control Division, which are for engineered and industrial valves, control valves, actuators and controls and related services.

Foot Locker Inc.

Foot Locker is a retailer of athletically inspired shoes and apparel. The company's reportable segments are: North America and International. The company's North America operating segment includes the following banners operating in the U.S. and Canada: Foot Locker, Kids Foot Locker, Lady Foot Locker, Champs Sports, Footaction, and SIX:02, including each of their related e-commerce businesses, as well as its Eastbay business that includes internet, catalog, and team sales. The company's International operating segment includes the following banners operating in Europe, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand: Foot Locker, Runners Point, Sidestep, and Kids Foot Locker, including each of their related e-commerce businesses.

Halliburton Company

Halliburton assists its customers throughout the lifecycle of the reservoir, from locating hydrocarbons and managing geological data, to drilling and formation evaluation, well construction and completion and optimizing production throughout the life of the asset. The company's segments are: Completion and Production, which delivers cementing, stimulation, intervention, pressure control, specialty chemicals, artificial lift and completion products and services; and Drilling and Evaluation, which provides field and reservoir modeling, drilling, evaluation and wellbore placement solutions that enable customers to model, measure, drill and optimize their well construction activities.

Hess Corporation

Hess is a global exploration and production company engaged in exploration, development, production, transportation, purchase and sale of crude oil, natural gas liquid (NGL), and natural gas with production operations located primarily in the United States, Guyana, the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, Malaysia and Denmark. The company's Midstream operating segment provides fee-based services, including gathering, compressing and processing natural gas and fractionating NGL; gathering, terminaling, loading and transporting crude oil and NGL; storing and terminaling propane, and water handling services primarily in the Bakken shale play in the Williston Basin area of North Dakota.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods is primarily engaged in the production of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. The company's segments are: Grocery Products, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products; Refrigerated Foods, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, chicken, and turkey products; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded turkey products; and International and Other, which includes Hormel Foods International Corporation that manufactures, markets, and sells the company's products internationally.

J.M. Smucker Company

Smucker (J.M.) manufactures and markets food and beverage products. The company's principal products are coffee, dog food, pet snacks, cat food, peanut butter, fruit spreads, frozen handheld products, shortening and oils, portion control products, juices and beverages, and flour and baking ingredients. The company has four reportable segments: U.S. Retail Coffee, U.S. Retail Consumer Foods, and U.S. Retail Pet Foods, and International and Away From Home. The U.S. retail market segments represent the sales of food and beverage products to consumers through retail outlets in North America. The International and Away From Home segment represents sales outside of the U.S. retail market segments.

Marathon Oil Corporation

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

Noble Energy Inc.

Noble Energy is an independent energy company, engaged in crude oil and natural gas exploration and production. The company's operating areas include: U.S. onshore, primarily the DJ Basin, Delaware Basin and Eagle Ford Shale; U.S. offshore Gulf of Mexico; Eastern Mediterranean; and West Africa. The company's Midstream segment develops, owns, operates and acquires domestic midstream infrastructure assets, or invests in other midstream entities, with existing focus areas being the DJ and Delaware Basins. The company's activities include geophysical and geological evaluation; analysis of commercial, regulatory and political risks; and exploratory and development drilling leading to production, where appropriate.

NOV Inc.

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

Occidental Petroleum Corporation

Occidental Petroleum has three reporting segments: oil and gas, which explores for, develops and produces oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas; chemical, which mainly manufactures and markets basic chemicals (chlorine, caustic soda, chlorinated organics, potassium chemicals, ethylene dichloride, chlorinated isocyanurates, sodium silicates and calcium chloride) and vinyls (vinyl chloride monomer, polyvinyl chloride and ethylene); and marketing and midstream, which purchases, markets, gathers, processes, transports and stores oil, condensate, NGL, natural gas, carbon dioxide and power.

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.

Overseas Shipholding Group

Overseas Shipholding Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates a fleet of oceangoing vessels engaged in the transportation of crude oil and petroleum products in the U.S. Flag trades. The company has one reportable business segment. The company's U.S. Flag Fleet consists of various owned and chartered-in Jones Act Handysize Product Carriers and Articulated Tug Barges and non-Jones Act U.S. Flag Handysize Product Carriers that participate in the U.S. Maritime Security Program. Under the Jones Act, shipping between U.S. ports, including the movement of Alaskan crude oil to U.S. ports, is reserved for U.S. Flag vessels.

Pioneer Natural Resources Company

Pioneer Natural Resources is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in oil and gas exploration and production. The company explores for, develops and produces oil, Natural Gas Liquids and gas within the United States, with operations in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The company's portfolio of resources are located in the Spraberry/Wolfcamp oil field.

Precigen Inc

Intrexon is engaged in the field of synthetic biology, focusing on programming biological systems to alleviate disease, remediate environmental challenges, and provide sustainable food and industrial chemicals. Using its suite of technologies, the company designs, builds and regulates gene programs, which are DNA sequences that consist of primary genetic components. A single gene program or a complex, multi-genic program is fabricated and stored within a DNA vector. Vectors are segments of DNA used as a vehicle to transmit genetic information. The company's primary domestic operations are in California, Florida, Maryland, and Virginia, and its primary international operations are in Hungary.

QEP Resources Inc.

QEP Resources is an independent crude oil and natural gas exploration and production company with operations in two regions of the United States: the Southern Region (primarily in Texas) and the Northern Region (primarily in North Dakota). The company has an inventory of developed and identified undeveloped drilling locations in the Permian Basin in western Texas and the Williston Basin in North Dakota. The company sells oil and condensate and natural gas liquids volumes to refiners, marketers, midstream service providers and other companies. In addition, the company sells gas volumes to wholesale marketers, industrial users, local distribution companies, midstream service providers and utility companies.

Viatris Inc.

Village Super Market Inc. Cl A

Village Super Market is engaged in the retail sale of food and nonfood products. The company operates a chain of ShopRite supermarkets in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York City. The company is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation, a retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite and Gourmet Garage names. This relationship provides the company with purchasing, distribution, private label products, retail technology, marketing and advertising. Certain of the company's stores include a Village Food Garden, featuring a restaurant style kitchen and a variety of store prepared foods for both take-home and in-store dining. The company's products include: groceries, dairy and frozen, bakery, liquor, and other.

Whiting Petroleum Corporation

Whiting Petroleum is an independent oil and gas company engaged in development, production, acquisition, and exploration activities primarily in the Rocky Mountains region of the U.S. The company's existing operations and capital programs are focused on organic drilling activities and on the development of previously acquired properties, while selectively pursuing acquisitions that complement its existing properties. The company principally sells its oil and gas production to end users, marketers and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline or rail takeaway. In areas with no access to gathering pipelines, oil is trucked or transported to terminals, market hubs, refineries or storage facilities.

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