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In this product we rank the most positive and negative domestic stocks, filter the symbols by market-cap and trading volume, and then divide the companies into sectors and groups. We then manually look through charts leadership/changes, bottoms-up/top-down ideas, short-term patterns that may have long-term significance, etc. We believe you will find this product valuable as significant price and relative moves begin in the daily charts.
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American Public Education

American Public Education is a provider of online and on-campus postsecondary education. The company provides online postsecondary education directed primarily at the needs of the military and public safety communities through American Public University System, Inc., an online university that includes American Military University and American Public University. The company provides on-campus nursing education to students in Ohio through National Education Seminars, Inc., which it refers to as Hondros College of Nursing (HCON). HCON provides nursing education to students in Ohio to serve the needs of the nursing and healthcare communities.

Amplify Energy

Amplify Energy is a holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Midstates Petroleum Company LLC, the company is an independent exploration and production company focused on the application of drilling, completion and production operations techniques in oil and liquids basins in the onshore U.S. The company's operations are focused on exploration and production activities in the Mississippian Lime. The company's Mississippian Lime assets are located in Oklahoma and target the Mississippian Lime formation.

Astronics Corporation

Astronics is a provider of technologies to the aerospace, defense and electronics industries. The company has two reportable segments, Aerospace and Test Systems. The company's Aerospace segment designs and manufactures products for the global aerospace industry. Product lines include lighting and safety systems, electrical power generation, distribution and motions systems, aircraft structures, avionics products, systems certification, and other products. The company's Test Systems segment designs, develops, manufactures and maintains automated test systems that support the aerospace, communications and weapons test systems as well as training and simulation devices for both commercial and military applications.

Ballard Power Systems Inc.

Ballard Power Systems is engaged in the design, development, manufacture, sale and service of proton exchange membrane fuel cell products for a variety of applications, focusing on the power product markets of Heavy-Duty Motive (consisting of bus, truck, rail and marine applications), Portable Power, Material Handling and Backup Power, as well as the delivery of Technology Solutions, including engineering services, technology transfer and the license and sale of Co.'s intellectual property portfolio and fundamental knowledge for a variety of fuel cell applications. A fuel cell is an electrochemical device that combines hydrogen fuel with oxygen (from the air) to produce electricity.

Bel Fuse Inc. Cl B

Bel Fuse designs, manufactures and markets products that power, protect and connect electronic circuits. These products are used in the networking, telecommunications, computing, military, aerospace, transportation and broadcasting industries as well as in the automotive, medical and consumer electronics markets. The company's North America, Asia and Europe segments sell, or participate in the sale of: Magnetic Solutions, which provides Integrated Connector Modules, power transformers, inductors and discrete components; Power Solutions and Protection, which includes module products and circuit protection products; and Connectivity Solutions, which provides connectors and cable assemblies.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

Check Point Software Technologies develops, markets and supports a range of products and services for IT security. Co. offers its customers a portfolio of network security, endpoint security, data security and management solutions. Co.'s solutions operate under a unified security architecture that enables end-to-end security with a single line of unified security gateways, and allow a single agent for all endpoint security that can be managed from a single unified management console. This unified management allows for ease of deployment and centralized control and is supported by, and reinforced with, real-time security updates.

Co-operative Bank of Kenya

CommVault Systems Inc.

CommVault Systems is a provider of data and information management software applications and related services. The company develops, markets and sells a suite of software applications and services, mainly in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, that provides its customers with data protection solutions. The company also sells appliances that integrate the company's software with hardware. Company also provides its customers with a range of professional and customer support services.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation

Curtiss-Wright is a manufacturing and service company that designs, manufactures, and overhauls components and provides engineered products and services. The company's segments are: Commercial/Industrial, which provides engineered products and services including industrial vehicle products, sensors, valves and surface technology services; Defense, which provides Commercial Off-the-Shelf embedded computing board-level modules, integrated subsystems, instrumentation and control systems, turret aiming and stabilization products, and weapons handling systems; and Power, which provides hardware, pumps, valves, fastening systems, containment doors, airlock hatches, and spent fuel management products.

DIAMOND OFFSHORE DRILLING INC.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc.

Donnelley Financial Solutions is a risk and compliance solutions company. The company provides regulatory filing and deal solutions via its software-as-a-service, print and distribution solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms. For corporate clients within its capital markets offerings, the company provides filing solutions that allow U.S. public companies to comply with applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. The company operates in two business segments: U.S, which is comprised of capital markets, investment markets, and language solutions; and International, which includes operations in Asia, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

Dycom Industries Inc.

Dycom Industries is a provider of specialty contracting services. The company supplies telecommunications providers with a portfolio of specialty services, including program management; planning; engineering and design; aerial, underground, and wireless construction; maintenance; and fulfillment services for telecommunications providers. Additionally, the company provides underground facility locating services for various utilities, including telecommunications providers, and other construction and maintenance services for electric and gas utilities. The company supplies the labor, tools, and equipment necessary to provide these services to its customers.

EnerSys

EnerSys is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of industrial batteries. The company also manufactures, markets and distributes products such as battery chargers, power equipment, battery accessories, and outdoor cabinet enclosures. The company's product lines are: reserve power products, which are used for backup power for the continuous operation of critical applications in telecommunications systems, uninterruptible power systems applications for computer and computer-controlled systems, and other specialty power applications; and motive power products, which are used to provide power for electric industrial forklifts used in manufacturing, warehousing and other material handling applications.

Enova International Inc

Enova International is a technology and analytics company focused on providing online financial services. The company provided or arranged loans to consumers under the names CashNetUSA and NetCredit in 33 states in the U.S., under the names QuickQuid, Pounds to Pocket and On Stride Financial in the U.K., and under the name Simplic in Brazil. The company also provided financing to small businesses in all 50 states and Washington D.C. in the U.S. under the names Headway Capital and The Business Backer. The company originates, arranges, guarantees or purchases short-term consumer loans, line of credit accounts, installment loans and receivables purchase agreements.

Evolent Health Inc Class A

Evolent Health is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a managed care services firm that supports health systems and physician organizations in their migration toward care and population health management. The company's Services segment provides its customers, who it refers to as partners, with a population health management platform, integrated data and analytics capabilities, claims processing services, including pharmacy benefit management, specialty care management services and health plan administration services. The company's subsidiary, True Health New Mexico, Inc. is a physician-led health plan in New Mexico available via the commercial market for employer-sponsored health coverage.

Gencor Industries Inc.

Gencor Industries is a manufacturer of heavy machinery used in the production of highway construction materials and environmental control equipment. The company's products are: asphalt plants, which manufactures and produces hot-mix asphalt plants used in the production of asphalt paving materials; combustion systems and industrial incinerators, which manufactures combustion systems, soil remediation machinery, as well as combustion systems for rotary dryers, kilns, fume and liquid incinerators and fuel heaters; and fluid heat transfer systems, which manufactures the Hy-Way heat and Beverley lines of thermal fluid heat transfer systems and storage tanks for a range of industry uses.

Goosehead Insurance

Goosehead Insurance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent personal lines insurance agency. The company provides consumers with insurance coverage. The company's insurance product offerings primarily consist of homeowner's insurance; auto insurance; other personal lines products, including flood, wind and earthquake insurance; excess liability or umbrella insurance; other lines insurance (motorcycle, recreational vehicle and other insurance); commercial lines insurance (general liability, property and auto insurance for small businesses); and life insurance.

Hovnanian Enterprises Inc. Class A

Hovnanian Enterprises, through its subsidiaries, designs, constructs, markets, and sells single-family detached homes, attached townhomes and condominiums, urban infill, and active lifestyle homes in planned residential developments and is a builder of residential homes. The company has two operations: homebuilding and financial services. The company's financial services operations provide mortgage loans and title services to the customers of its homebuilding operations. The company markets and builds homes for first-time buyers, first-time and second-time move-up buyers, luxury buyers, active lifestyle buyers and empty nesters.

Huron Consulting Group Inc.

Huron Consulting Group is a consulting firm. The company partners with clients to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change its clients need. The company's segments are: Healthcare, which provides care transformation, financial and operational, technology and analytics, and leadership development; Business Advisory, which provides services to large and middle market organizations, not-for-profit organizations, lending institutions, law firms, investment banks and private equity firms; and Education, which provides consulting and technology solutions to higher education institutions and academic medical centers.

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling Inc. Class A

Hyster-Yale Materials Handling designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and services a line of lift trucks, attachments and aftermarket parts marketed primarily under the Hyster? and Yale? brand names, to independent Hyster? and Yale? retail dealerships. The company's subsidiary, Zhejiang Maximal Forklift Co., Ltd., is a manufacturer of utility and standard lift trucks and specialized material handling equipment involved in the design, manufacture, service and distribution of Class 1 electric and Class 5 internal combustion engine counterbalance utility and standard platforms, and Class 2 and Class 3 electric warehouse products for both the local China and global markets under the Maximal brand.

Lennox International Inc.

Lennox International provides climate control solutions. The company designs, manufactures and markets products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. The company's segments are: Residential Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and markets furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, packaged heating and cooling systems, equipment and accessories, comfort control products, and replacement parts and supplies; Commercial Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and sells unitary heating and cooling equipment; and Refrigeration, which manufactures and markets equipment for the global commercial refrigeration markets under the Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration name.

LEONARDO DRS INC.

Liberty Broadband Corp. Class A

Lincoln Educational Services

Lincoln Educational Services provides post-secondary education to high school graduates and working adults. The company provides programs in automotive technology, skilled trades, which include heating, ventilating and air conditioning, welding and computerized numerical control and electronic systems technology, among other programs; healthcare services, which include nursing, dental assistant, medical administrative assistant, among other programs; hospitality services, which include culinary, therapeutic massage, cosmetology and aesthetics; and information technology, which consists of information technology programs.

Mueller Water Products Inc. Class A

Mueller Water Products is a manufacturer and marketer of products and services used in the transmission, distribution and measurement of water in North America. The company's products and services are used by municipalities and the residential and non-residential construction industries. The company's segments include: Infrastructure, which manufactures valves for water and gas systems, including iron gate, butterfly, tapping, automatic control and ball valves, as well as dry-barrel and wet-barrel fire hydrants and a line of pipe repair products; and Technologies, which provides residential and commercial water metering, water leak detection and pipe condition assessment products, systems and services.

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage Inc

Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company operates natural and organic grocery and dietary supplement stores. The products in the company's stores include grocery such as produce, bulk food, natural grocers brand products, dry, frozen and canned groceries, meats and seafood, dairy products, dairy substitutes and eggs, prepared foods, bread and baked goods, beverages, and beer, wine and hard cider, as well as dietary supplements including name-brand supplements and a line of private label dietary supplements. Other products in the company's stores include body care, pet care, household and general merchandise, and books and handouts.

ORGANON & CO

Packaging Corporation of America

Packaging Corporation of America is a producer of containerboard products and a producer of uncoated freesheet paper. The company's segments include: Packaging, which produces a variety of corrugated packaging products, including shipping containers, multi-color boxes and displays, and honeycomb protective packaging, as well as produces packaging for meat, fresh fruit and vegetables, processed food, beverages, and other industrial and consumer products; Paper, which manufactures and sells papers, including both commodity and specialty papers; and Corporate and Other, which includes transportation assets, such as rail cars and trucks, to transport the company's products to and from its manufacturing sites.

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.

Strategic Education Inc.

Strategic Education is an education services company. The company provides campus-based and online post-secondary education offerings through two subsidiaries, Strayer University and Capella University. Strayer University provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health services administration, nursing, public administration, and criminal justice at physical campuses, primarily located in the eastern U.S., and online. Capella University is an online post-secondary education company that provides a variety of bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs primarily delivered to working adults.

Synchrony Financial

Synchrony Financial is a savings and loan holding company and financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company delivers a range of financing programs, as well as consumer banking products, across key industries including digital, retail, home, auto, travel, health and pet. The company provides a range of credit products through its financing programs which it has established with a group of national and regional retailers, local merchants, manufacturers, buying groups, industry associations and healthcare service providers, which it refers to as its partners. Through its partners, the company provides their customers a variety of credit products to finance the purchase of goods and services.

TransUnion

TransUnion is an information and insights company. The company provides consumer reports, actionable insights and analytics such as credit and other scores, and decisioning capabilities to businesses. The company has the following reportable segments: United States Markets, which provides consumer reports, actionable insights and analytics such as credit and other scores, and decisioning capabilities to businesses; International, which provides services similar to its United States Markets segment to businesses in select regions outside the United States; and Consumer Interactive, which provides solutions that help consumers manage their personal finances and take precautions against identity theft.

Tri Pointe Homes Inc.

TRI Pointe Group is engaged in the design, construction and sale of single-family attached and detached homes through its portfolio of six brands across 10 states, including Maracay in Arizona, Pardee Homes in California and Nevada, Quadrant Homes in Washington, Trendmaker Homes in Texas, TRI Pointe Homes in California, Colorado and the Carolinas and Winchester Homes in Maryland and Virginia. The company has two businesses: homebuilding, in which the company acquires and develops land and constructs and sells single-family detached and attached homes; and financial services, which consists of mortgage financing, title and escrow services, and property and casualty insurance agency operations.

TTM Technologies Inc.

TTM Technologies is a printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturer. The company provides a range of PCB products, radio-frequency (RF) components, and electro-mechanical solutions, including conventional PCBs, RF and microwave circuits, high density interconnect PCBs, substrate-like PCBs, flexible PCBs, rigid-flex PCBs, custom assemblies and system integration, integrated circuits substrates, passive RF components, advanced ceramic RF components, hi-reliability multi-chip modules, and beamforming and switching networks. The company also provides certain services, which includes design-for-manufacturability, PCB layout design, simulation and testing services, and quick turnaround production.

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.

UFP Technologies

UFP Technologies is a designer and custom manufacturer of components, subassemblies, products and packaging utilizing foams, films, and plastics primarily for the medical market. The company's single-use and single-patient devices and components are used in a range of medical devices, disposable wound care products, infection prevention, minimally invasive surgery, wearables, orthopedic soft goods, and orthopedic implant packaging. The company also provides engineered products and components to customers in the automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer, electronics and industrial markets such as military uniform and gear components, automotive interior trim, and protective packaging, among other.

United Natural Foods Inc.

United Natural Foods is a distributor of natural, organic, specialty, produce, and grocery and non-food products, and provider of support services in the United States and Canada. The company's selection of products includes nationally advertised brand name and private-label products, including grocery, general merchandise, home, health and beauty care, and pharmacy, which are sold through its Wholesale segment to wholesale customers and through its subsidiary, SUPERVALU INC.'s-operated retail stores to shoppers. The company provides marketing services for its customers and suppliers, including consumer and trade marketing programs, as well as programs to support suppliers in understanding its markets.

Valhi Inc.

Valmont Industries Inc.

Valmont Industries is a global producer of fabricated metal products. The company's segments are: Engineered Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures steel, aluminum, and composite poles and structures to which lighting and traffic control fixtures are attached for a range of outdoor lighting applications; Utility Support Structures, which engineers and manufactures tapered steel, pre-stressed concrete and hybrid structures, and steel lattice structures; Coatings, which provides the following services, including hot-dipped galvanizing, anodizing, powder coating, and e-coating; and Irrigation, which manufactures and distributes mechanical irrigation equipment and related service parts.

Vector Group Ltd.

Vector Group is a holding company. The company is engaged principally in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the U.S. through its Liggett Group LLC (Liggett) and Vector Tobacco Inc. subsidiaries; and the real estate business through its New Valley LLC (New Valley) subsidiary. The company's business segments were Tobacco, and Real Estate. The Tobacco segment consists of the manufacture and sale of conventional cigarettes. The Real Estate segment includes the company's investment in New Valley, which includes Douglas Elliman, Escena, Sagaponack and investments in real estate ventures.

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