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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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American Airlines Group Inc.

American Airlines Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company's business activity is the operation of a primary network carrier, providing scheduled air transportation for passengers and cargo. The company's regional carriers provide scheduled air transportation under American Eagle. The American Eagle carriers include the company's regional carriers Envoy Aviation Group Inc., PSA Airlines, Inc. and Piedmont Airlines, Inc., as well as third-party regional carriers including Republic Airline Inc., Mesa Airlines, Inc., SkyWest Airlines, Inc. and Compass Airlines, LLC. The company's cargo division provides freight and mail services, with facilities and interline connections available across the globe.

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

CACI International Inc Class A

CACI International is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of information solutions and services to the United States government. The company's information solutions and services support national security missions and government modernization/transformation for intelligence, defense, and federal civilian customers. The company provides its services and solutions to its domestic customers in the following market areas, among others: business systems, command and control, communications, cyber security, enterprise information technology (IT), health, and intelligence services. The company's international operations provide a mix of IT services and proprietary data and software products.

Cboe Global Markets Inc

Cboe Global Markets is an exchange holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides trading and investment solutions to investors. The company provides trading across a range of products in various asset classes and geographies, such as options, futures, United States and European equities, exchange-traded products, global foreign exchange and multi-asset volatility products based on the Cboe Volatility Index exchange-traded options and futures products. In addition to its exchanges providing a marketplace and listing venue for the trading of securities and derivatives the company calculates proprietary indices that are used as the basis for proprietary products or licensed for use by third parties.

Clearwater Seafoods Inc.

Clearwater Seafoods is engaged in the ownership and operation of assets and property in connection with the harvesting, processing, distribution and marketing of seafood.

Concho Resources Inc.

Concho Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.

Eneti Inc.

Scorpio Bulkers is an international shipping company based in Monaco. Co.'s vessels transport a range of major and minor bulk commodities, including ores, coal, grains, and fertilizers, along worldwide shipping routes, and are, or are expected to be, employed primarily in the spot market or in spot market-oriented pools of similarly sized vessels. As of Dec. 31, 2017, Co.'s operating fleet of 56 vessels consists of 55 wholly-owned or finance leased drybulk vessels and one chartered-in drybulk vessel. Co. also has contracts for the construction of 1 newbuilding drybulk vessel.

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation

First Commonwealth Financial is a financial holding company. Through its First Commonwealth Bank subsidiary, the company provides an array of consumer and commercial banking services. The company also provides trust and wealth management services and insurance products. The company's consumer services include internet, mobile and telephone banking, an automated teller machine network, and personal checking accounts, among others. The company's commercial banking services include commercial lending, business checking accounts, on-line account management services, automated clearing house origination, payroll direct deposit, commercial cash management services and repurchase agreements.

FIRST FINANCIAL BANCORP OHIO

First Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, First Financial Bank (the Bank), the company engages in the business of commercial banking and other banking and banking-related activities. The range of banking services provided by the company to individuals and businesses includes commercial lending, real estate lending and consumer financing. In addition, the company provides deposit products that include interest-bearing and noninterest-bearing accounts, time deposits and cash management services for commercial customers. A range of trust and wealth management services is also provided through the company's Wealth Management line of business. The company also provides lease and equipment financing.

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.

FULGENT GENETICS

Fulgent Genetics is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a technology company providing genetic testing and providing physicians with diagnostic information they can use to improve the quality of patient care. The company has developed a proprietary technology platform that allows it to provide test menu. The company performs full-gene sequencing with deletion/duplication analysis in single-gene tests; pre-established, multi-gene, disease-specific panels; and customized panels to meet customer needs. The company's test menu includes single-gene tests and panels that test for genetic conditions, including various cancers, cardiovascular diseases, neurological disorders and pediatric conditions.

Great Western Bancorp Inc.

Great Western Bancorp is a bank holding company focused on relationship-based business and agri-business banking. The company serves its customers through branches in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company focuses on business banking, complemented by its agri-business banking, retail banking and wealth management services. The company's loan portfolio consists mainly of business loans, comprised of commercial real estate loans and commercial non-real estate loans. The company also provides a range of deposit and loan products to its retail customers. The company is engaged in private banking, financial planning, investment management and insurance operations.

Hanmi Financial Corporation

Hanmi Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Hanmi Bank (the Bank), the company is a community bank conducting general business banking, with its primary market encompassing the Korean-American community as well as other ethnic communities across California, Colorado, Georgia, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington. Lending activities include real estate loans (commercial property, construction and residential property), commercial and industrial loans (commercial term, commercial lines of credit and international), equipment lease financing, consumer loans and Small Business Administration loans.

Hanover Insurance Group Inc.

The Hanover Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company business operations are property and casualty insurance products and services. The company markets its products and services through independent agents and brokers. The company conducts three operating segments: Commercial Lines, which includes commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, workers' compensation, and other commercial coverages; Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverages; and Other, which provides investment advisory services to affiliates and also manages assets for unaffiliated institutions such as insurance companies, retirement plans and foundations.

Health Catalyst

Health Catalyst is a provider of data and analytics technology and services to healthcare organizations. The company designs, develops, and delivers healthcare software solutons for hospitals to manage operational, financial, clinical, and research data. The company serves customers in the State of Utah.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. Class A

Healthcare Trust of America is a real estate investment trust. The company focuses on owning and operating medical office buildings that serve healthcare delivery and are located on health system campuses, near university medical centers, or in community core outpatient locations. The company's properties include health systems, such as Baylor Scott & White Health, Highmark-Allegheny Health Network, Hospital Corporation of America, Tenet Healthcare System and Community Health Systems.

Heartland Financial USA Inc.

Heartland Financial USA is a multi-bank holding company. The company conducts a community banking business through community banks (collectively, the Banks). The principal business of the company's Banks consists of making loans to and accepting deposits from businesses and individuals. The company's Banks provide commercial and retail banking in their communities. The company's lending and investment activities are funded primarily by core deposits. Deposit products include checking and other demand deposit accounts, Negotiable Order of Withdrawal accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement accounts, health savings accounts and other time deposits.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

Heritage Financial Corporation

Heritage Financial is a bank holding company. The company is primarily engaged in the business of planning, directing, and coordinating the business activities of its wholly owned subsidiary, Heritage Bank (the Bank). The company's business consists primarily of commercial lending and deposit relationships with small and medium sized businesses and their owners in its market areas, and accepting deposits from the general public. The company also makes real estate construction and land development loans and consumer loans. The Bank also originates for sale or investment purposes one-to-four family residential loans on residential properties located primarily in the company's market.

HollyFrontier Corporation

HollyFrontier is a petroleum refiner that produces products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, jet fuel, other lubricant products, and specialty and modified asphalt. The company's segments are: Refining, which involves the purchase and refining of crude oil and wholesale and marketing of refined products; Lubricants and Specialty Products, which includes the production of lubricant products such as base oils, white oils, other products and finished lubricants; and the company's subsidiary, Holly Energy Partners, L.P., which owns and operates logistics and refinery assets consisting of petroleum product and crude oil pipelines, terminals, tankage, loading rack facilities and processing units.

Hope Bancorp Inc.

Hope Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Bank of Hope, the company provides a range of commercial and retail banking loan and deposit products. The company accepts deposits and originates a variety of loans, including commercial business loans, real estate loans, trade finance loans, Small Business Administration loans, auto loans, single-family mortgages, warehouse lines of credit, personal loans, and credit cards. The company provides cash management services, which include remote deposit capture, lock box and automated clearing house origination services. The company also provides a mobile banking application for smart devices that extends access to banking services.

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.

International Bancshares Corporation

International Bancshares is a multibank financial holding company. Through its bank subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the business of accepting checking and savings deposits and the making of commercial, real estate, personal, home improvement, automobile and other installment and term loans. The company's international banking business includes providing letters of credit, making commercial and industrial loans and providing foreign exchange services. The company's bank subsidiaries also provide other related services, such as credit cards, safety deposit boxes, collections, notary public, escrow services, drive up and walk up facilities and other customary banking services.

Invacare Corporation

Invacare is a manufacturer and distributor in its markets for medical equipment used in non-acute care settings. The company has three product categories: Mobility and Seating, which designs, manufactures, markets and distributes a range of power wheelchairs, custom manual wheelchairs and seating and positioning products; Lifestyle Products, which manufactures and distributes pressure relieving sleep surfaces, safe resident handling, beds, manual wheelchairs, as well as personal care; and Respiratory Therapy Products, which designs and manufactures products that concentrate oxygen for consumers who need supplemental oxygen for breathing.

Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.

NVE Corp.

NVE develops and sells devices that use spintronics, a nanotechnology that relies on electron spin to acquire, store and transmit information. The company manufactures spintronic products including sensors and couplers that are used to acquire and transmit data. The company has also licensed its spintronic magnetoresistive random access memory technology (MRAM). The company's products include: Sensor products, which detect the strength or gradient of magnetic fields and are used to determine position or speed; Coupler, which electrically isolates the coupled systems; and MRAM, which is used to store data in the spin of the electrons in thin metal alloy films, and read with spin-dependent tunnel junctions.

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.

PBF Energy Inc. Class A

PBF Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as an independent petroleum refiner and supplier of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the U.S. The company operates in two business segments: refining, which the company produces a variety of products at each of its refineries such as gasoline, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, lubricants, petrochemicals and asphalt; and logistics, which through its PBF Logistics LP subsidiary, the company owns or leases, operates, develops and acquires crude oil and refined petroleum products terminals, pipelines, storage facilities and similar logistics assets.

Phillips 66

Phillips 66 is an energy manufacturing and logistics company with midstream, chemicals, refining, and marketing and specialties businesses. The company's segments include: Midstream, which provides crude oil and refined petroleum product transportation, terminaling and processing services, as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids transportation, storage, processing and marketing services; Chemicals, which manufactures and markets petrochemicals and plastics on a worldwide basis; Refining, which refines crude oil and other feedstocks into petroleum products; and Marketing and Specialties, which purchases for resale and markets refined petroleum products, mainly in the United States and Europe.

Pilgrim's Pride Corporation

Pilgrims Pride is primarily engaged in the production, processing, marketing and distribution of fresh, frozen chicken products to retailers, distributors and foodservice operators. The company's primary product types are fresh chicken products, prepared chicken products and export chicken products. The company's fresh chicken products consist of refrigerated (nonfrozen) whole or cut-up chicken, either pre-marinated or non-marinated and prepackaged case-ready chicken. The company's case-ready chicken includes various combinations of freshly refrigerated, whole chickens and chicken parts in trays, bags or other consumer packs labeled and priced ready for the retail grocer's fresh meat counter.

Premier Financial Corp.

Regency Centers Corporation

Regency Centers is a real estate company and self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Regency Centers L.P. is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. The company's business consists of acquiring, developing, owning and operating income-producing retail real estate principally located in various markets in the United States.

Regis Corp.

Regis franchises, owns and operates hairstyling and hair care salons. The main services supplied by the company's salons are haircutting and styling (including shampooing and conditioning), hair coloring and other services. Salons also sell a variety of hair care and other beauty products. The company's operating segments are Franchise and the company-owned salons. The company's Franchise salon operations are comprised of franchised salons operating in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Puerto Rico. The company's the company-owned salon operations are comprised of salons operating in the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico. Salons operate primarily under the trade names of SmartStyle, Supercuts and Cost Cutters.

Scorpio Tankers Inc.

Simon Property Group Inc.

Simon Property Group operates as a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Simon Property Group, L.P. is the company's majority-owned Delaware partnership subsidiary that owns all of its real estate properties and other assets. The company owns, develops and manages shopping, dining, entertainment and mixed-use destinations, which consist primarily of malls, Premium Outlets?, and The Mills? in United States as well as internationally including Puerto Rico, Asia, Europe and Canada. The company also owned equity stake in Klepierre SA, a Paris-based real estate company, which owns, or has an interest in, shopping centers in Europe.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing products for the treatment of central nervous system diseases. The company has launched Oxtellar XR and Trokendi XR, its two treatments for epilepsy. In addition, the company has launched Trokendi XR for the prophylaxis of migraine headache in adults and adolescents. The company's product candidates for the treatment of psychiatric disorders include: SPN-810 to treat impulsive aggression in children and adolescents who have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); SPN-812, a non-stimulant candidate to treat patients who have ADHD; SPN-809 for the treatment of depression; and SPN-604 for the treatment of bipolar.

Teradata Corporation

Teradata is a hybrid cloud analytics software provider. The company's solution, Teradata Vantage?, is its data warehouse and analytics platform that allows companies to utilize their data across an enterprise, whether on premises, in public or private clouds, or in a hybrid environment. The company's solutions are comprised of software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services. The company's business consulting services include a range of offerings, including consulting to help organizations establish an analytic vision, identify and operationalize analytical opportunities, enable an analytical ecosystem architecture, and ensure their analytical infrastructure delivers value.

Transmedics Group

TransMedics is a commercial-stage medical technology company transforming organ transplant therapy for end-stage organ failure patients across multiple disease states. The company developed the Organ Care System ("OCS") to replace a decades-old standard of care. The OCS represents a paradigm shift that transforms organ preservation for transplantation from a static state to a dynamic environment that enables new capabilities, including organ optimization and assessment. The company's OCS technology replicates many aspects of the organ's natural living and functioning environment outside of the human body.

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.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Vanda Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company. The company's commercial portfolio is comprised of two products, HETLIOZ? for the treatment of Non-24 Sleep-Wake Disorder (Non-24) and Fanapt? for the treatment of schizophrenia. The company has a number of drugs in development, including: HETLIOZ? (tasimelteon), which is for the treatment of jet lag disorder, Smith-Magenis Syndrome, pediatric Non-24 and delayed sleep phase disorder; Tradipitant (VLY-686), which is a small molecule neurokinin-1 receptor antagonist, for the treatment of atopic dermatitis, gastroparesis and motion sickness; and VTR-297, which is a small molecule histone deacetylase inhibitor for the treatment of hematologic malignancies.

Vir Biotechnology

Vir Biotechnology is a clinical-stage immunology company focused on combining immunologic insights with cutting-edge technologies to treat and prevent serious infectious diseases. The company develops and commercializes therapeutics and medicines for the treatments and preventions for viral and bacterial diseases. The company serves customers in the State of California.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

Wynn Resorts Limited

Wynn Resorts is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a designer, developer, and operator of resorts featuring hotel rooms, retail space, an array of dining and entertainment options, meeting and convention facilities, and gaming. Through its subsidiary, Wynn Macau, Limited, the company operates two integrated resorts in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Wynn Palace and Wynn Macau. In Las Vegas, NV, the company also operates and, with the exception of certain retail space, own Wynn Las Vegas and Encore Boston Harbor, an integrated resort in Everett, MA, adjacent to Boston.

X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc

X4 Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying monoclonal antibody (mAb) immunotherapies to address serious infectious diseases. The company's Programs: ASN100 is a combination of two fully human mAbs that are co-administered intravenously to neutralize the six cytotoxins critical to S. aureus pneumonia pathogenesis; ASN500 is a mAb targeting respiratory syncytial virus, a virus that can cause serious respiratory tract infections in young children and elderly and immunocompromised patients; and the company's preclinical stage Gram-negative mAb programs, ASN300 for Klebsiella pneumoniae and ASN200 for Escherichia coli, were outlicensed to the company's subsidiary.

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