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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 40.66 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:
• Energy has been a standout over the last several days. Recall we did upgrade Energy to market weight last week.

• Despite some weakness in some of the large cap Super-Regional banks, many mid-cap and small-cap banks were very strong on yesterday's tape. Many are breaking to new RS highs.

• Aluminum has broken to new highs. Many steel names have also reversed near-term downtrends and precious metals are also perking up.
Underlyings
American Express Company

American Express is a payments company. The company is engaged in providing credit and charge cards to consumers, small businesses, mid-sized companies and corporations. The company's reportable operating segments are: Global Consumer Services Group, which provides services to consumers, including travel and lifestyle services; Global Commercial Services, which provides payment and expense management services, as weel as commercial financing products; and Global Merchant and Network Services, which operates a global payments network that processes and settles card transactions, acquires merchants and provides multi-channel marketing programs and capabilities, and services and data analytics.

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.

Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc.

Boston Private Financial Holdings is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of banking and wealth management services through two segments: Private Banking and Wealth Management and Trust. The Private Banking segment is engaged in providing banking services as well as providing financing for affordable housing, first-time homebuyers, economic development, social services, community revitalization and small businesses. The Wealth Management and Trust segment provides planning-based financial strategies, wealth management, family office, financial planning, tax planning, and trust services to individuals, families, institutions, and nonprofit institutions.

Bristow Group Inc.

Bristow Group is an industrial aviation services provider. The company has transportation operations in the North Sea, Nigeria and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, and in most of the other major offshore energy producing regions of the world. The company provides private sector search and rescue (SAR) services in Australia, Canada, Norway, Russia, Trinidad and the U.S. The company provides public sector SAR services in the U.K. on behalf of the Maritime & Coastguard Agency. The company also provides regional fixed wing scheduled and charter services in the U.K., Nigeria and Australia through its consolidated affiliates, Eastern Airways International Limited and Capiteq Limited, operating under the name of Airnorth, respectively.

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.

Carter's Inc.

Carter's is a marketer of apparel for babies and young children. The company's Carter's and OshKosh product offerings include apparel and accessories for babies (sizes newborn to 24 months), toddlers (sizes 2T to 5T), and kids (sizes 4 o14). Under its Skip Hop brand, the company designs, sources, and markets products that are sold primarily to families with young children. The company's Skip Hop brand focuses on its diaper bags. The Skip Hop brand offering also includes products for playtime, travel, mealtime, kid's bags, bathtime, and homegear. The company's reportable segments are U.S. Retail, U.S. Wholesale, and International.

City Holding Company

City Holding is a financial holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, City National Bank of West Virginia (City National), the company provides banking, trust and investment management and other financial solutions through its network of bank branches and associates located in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and southeastern Ohio. City National's products and services include: Commercial Banking, which provides a range of commercial banking services to corporations and other business customers; and Consumer Banking, which provides banking services to consumers, including checking, savings and money market accounts as well as certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts.

Commerce Bancshares Inc.

Commerce Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through a second tier bank holding company, the company owns all of the outstanding capital stock of Commerce Bank (the Bank). The Bank engages in general banking business, providing a range of retail, mortgage banking, corporate, investment, trust, and asset management products and services to individuals and businesses. The company also owns various non-banking subsidiaries. Their activities include private equity investment, securities brokerage, insurance agency, and leasing activities. The company's two main markets include St. Louis and Kansas City, which serve as the central hubs for the company The company is managed in three segments: Consumer, Commercial, and Wealth.

Domino's Pizza Inc.

Domino's Pizza is a pizza company. The company is primarily engaged in the following business activities: retail sales of food through the company-owned Domino's Pizza stores; sales of food, equipment and supplies to the company-owned and franchised Domino's Pizza stores through the company-owned supply chain centers; receipt of royalties, advertising contributions and fees from United States Domino's Pizza franchisees; and receipt of royalties and fees from international Domino's Pizza franchisees. The company's menu features pizza products with varying sizes and crust types. The company's store also provides oven-baked sandwiches, pasta, boneless chicken and wings, bread side items, desserts and soft drink products.

E*TRADE Financial Corp.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

First Bancorp

First BanCorp is a financial holding company that provides financial services for retail, commercial and institutional clients. The company's segments are: Commercial and Corporate Banking, which provides commercial loans; Mortgage Banking, which provides residential mortgage loans; Consumer (Retail) Banking, which provides consumer lending, deposit-taking and insurance agency activities; Treasury and Investments, which provides treasury and investment management; United States Operations, which consists of banking activities in the United States mainland; Virgin Islands Operations, which consists of banking activities in the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.

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.

Interactive Brokers Group Inc. Class A

Interactive Brokers Group is a holding company. The company together with its subsidiary, IBG LLC, is an automated global electronic broker engaged in executing and clearing trades in securities, futures, foreign exchange instruments, bonds and mutual funds on various electronic exchanges and market centers and providing custody, prime brokerage, securities and margin lending services to customers. The company's principal business segment is electronic brokerage. The company conducts its electronic brokerage business through certain Interactive Brokers subsidiaries. As an electronic broker, the company executes, clears and settles trades globally for both institutional and individual customers.

Loews Corporation

Loews is a holding company and has five reportable segments comprised of four individual operating subsidiaries: CNA Financial Corporation, which provides commercial property and casualty coverages; Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., which provides contract drilling services to the energy industry; Boardwalk Pipeline Partners, LP, which is engaged in the business of natural gas and natural gas liquids and hydrocarbons transportation and storage; Loews Hotels Holding Corporation, which operates a chain of hotels; and the Corporate segment, which includes the operations of Altium Packaging LLC, which is a packaging solutions provider and manufacturer in North America.

Nasdaq Inc.

Nasdaq is a holding company. Nasdaq is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manages, operates and provides its products and services in business segments: Market Services, which includes equity derivative trading and clearing, cash equity trading, fixed income and commodities trading and clearing and trade management services businesses; Corporate Services, which includes listing services and corporate solutions businesses; Information Services, which includes market data, index, and investment data and analytics; and Market Technology, which provides and delivers solutions across the trade lifecycle via the Nasdaq Financial Framework.

Northern Trust Corporation

Northern Trust is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, including The Northern Trust Company, the company provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management and banking solutions. The company focuses on managing and servicing client assets through two segments: Corporate and Institutional Services, which provides asset servicing and related services to corporate and public retirement funds, foundations, endowments, fund managers, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, and other institutional investors; and Wealth Management, which focuses on individuals and families, business owners, executives, retirees, and privately-held businesses in its target markets.

OFG Bancorp

OFG Bancorp is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking and financial services to its clients through a range of banking and financial solutions. The company's business segments include: Banking, which provides deposits and commercial, consumer and mortgage loans, and mortgage banking activities; Wealth Management, which include financial planning, money management, investment banking, brokerage services, insurance sales activity, corporate and individual trust, and retirement services, as well as retirement plan administration services; and Treasury, which encompasses all of the company's asset/liability management activities.

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.

State Street Corporation

State Street is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial products and services to institutional investors. The company's clients include mutual funds, collective investment funds and other investment pools, corporate and public retirement plans, insurance companies, foundations, endowments and investment managers. The company's Investment Servicing line of business performs custody and related functions, such as providing institutional investors with clearing, settlement and payment services. The company's Investment Management line of business, through State Street Global Advisors, provides a range of investment management strategies and products for its clients.

Texas Capital Bancshares Inc.

Texas Capital Bancshares is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Texas Capital Bank, National Association, the company serves commercial businesses and professionals and entrepreneurs located in Texas as well as operates several lines of business serving a regional or national clientele of commercial borrowers. The company is a lender, with most of its loans held for investment, excluding mortgage finance loans and other national lines of business, being made to businesses headquartered or with operations in Texas. The company's business deposit products include commercial checking accounts, lockbox accounts, cash concentration accounts and other treasury management services, including online banking.

Transocean Ltd.

Umpqua Holdings Corporation

Umpqua Holdings is a financial holding company. The company's principal operating subsidiaries are Umpqua Bank (the Bank) and Umpqua Investments, Inc. (Umpqua Investments). The Bank provides a range of banking, wealth management, mortgage and other financial services to corporate, institutional, and individual customers. Umpqua Investments provides a range of investment products and services including: stocks, fixed income securities (municipal, corporate, and government bonds, CDs, and money market instruments), mutual funds, annuities, options, retirement planning, advisory account services, goals based planning and insurance.

Webster Financial Corporation

Webster Financial is a bank holding company and financial holding company. The company, through its subsidiary, Webster Bank, National Association, delivers banking, investment, and financial services. The company provides mortgage lending, financial planning, trust, and investment services through banking centers, ATMs, a customer care center, and a range of web and mobile-based banking services. The company also provides equipment financing, commercial real estate lending, asset-based lending, and treasury and payment solutions primarily in the eastern United States. The company provides health savings accounts, while also delivers health reimbursement arrangements, and commuter benefit account administration services.

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