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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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AMERISAFE Inc.

Amerisafe is an insurance holding company. The company provides workers' compensation insurance focused on small to mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, principally construction, trucking, logging and lumber, manufacturing, and agriculture. The company provides coverage to employers under state and federal workers' compensation laws, which prescribe wage replacement and medical care benefits that employers are obligated to provide to their injured employees in the course and scope of their employment. The company's workers' compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees for, among other things, temporary or permanent disability, death and medical and hospital expenses.

Ardmore Shipping

AT&T Inc.

AT&T is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of telecommunications, media and technology services. The company's Communications segment provides wireless and wireline telecom, video and broadband services. The company's WarnerMedia segment includes media and entertainment businesses that principally develop, produce and distribute feature films, television content, and other content globally; and operate digital media properties. The company's Latin America segment provides entertainment services in Latin America and wireless services in Mexico. The company's XANDR segment relies on using data from its customer relationships, to develop digital and video advertising that is relevant to consumers.

Baxter International Inc.

Baxter International, through its subsidiaries, provides a portfolio of healthcare products, including acute and chronic dialysis therapies; sterile intravenous solutions; infusion systems and devices; parenteral nutrition therapies; inhaled anesthetics; generic injectable pharmaceuticals; and surgical hemostat and sealant products. These products are used by hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctors' offices and by patients at home under physician supervision. The company manages its business based on three geographic segments: Americas (North and South America), Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia-Pacific.

Campbell Soup Company

Campbell Soup is a manufacturer and marketer of food and beverage products. The company's reportable segments are: Meals and Beverages, which includes the retail and foodservice businesses in the United States and Canada, and the meals and shelf-stable beverages business in Latin America; Snacks, which consists of Pepperidge Farm cookies, crackers, fresh bakery and frozen products in United States retail, including Milano cookies and Goldfish crackers, and Snyder's of Hanover pretzels, Lance sandwich crackers, Cape Cod and Kettle Brand potato chips, Late July snacks, Snack Factory Pretzel Crisps, Pop Secret popcorn, Emerald nuts, and other snacking products in the United States and Canada.

Cogent Communications Holdings Inc

Cogent Communications Holdings is a facilities-based provider of Internet access, private network services, and data center colocation space. The company's network is designed and optimized to transmit packet switched data. The company provides on-net Internet access services through its own facilities, which run from its network to its customers' premises. The company's on-net service consists of Internet access and private network services offered at speeds ranging from 100 Megabits per second to 100 Gigabits per second. In addition to providing its on-net services, the company provides Internet access and private network services to customers that are not located in buildings directly connected to its network.

CoreCivic Inc.

CoreCivic is a real estate investment trust. The company is the owner of partnership correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities and prison operators. Through three segments, CoreCivic Safety, CoreCivic Community, and CoreCivic Properties, the company provides a range of solutions to government partners that serve the public good through corrections and detention management, a network of residential reentry centers to help address America's recidivism crisis, and government real estate solutions. In addition to providing fundamental residential services, the company's correctional, detention, and residential reentry facilities provide a variety of rehabilitation and educational programs.

Cousins Properties Incorporated

Cousins Properties is a real estate investment trust. The company conducts substantially all of its business through its subsidiary, Cousins Properties LP (CPLP). CPLP also owns Cousins TRS Services LLC, which owns and manages its own real estate portfolio and performs certain real estate related services for other parties. The company's segments are based on the property type and geographical area. The segments by property type are: Office and Mixed-Use. The segments by geographical region are: Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Phoenix, Tampa, Dallas, Orlando, and Other.

Everest Re Group Ltd.

Everest Re Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company underwrites reinsurance and insurance in the United States, Bermuda and international markets. The company's segments are: U.S. Reinsurance, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and specialty lines of business, including Marine, Aviation, Surety and Accident and Health business; International, which focuses on the international reinsurance markets; Bermuda, which writes property and casualty reinsurance and property and casualty reinsurance; and Insurance, which writes property and casualty insurance through agents, wholesale and retail brokers and surplus lines brokers in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Bermuda.

General Mills Inc.

General Mills manufactures and markets branded consumer foods. The company's segments are: North America Retail, which provides cereals, refrigerated yogurt, soup, meal kits, dessert and baking mixes, frozen pizza and pizza snacks, grain, fruit and savory snacks, and organic products, among others; Convenience Stores and Foodservice, which provides snacks, yogurt, frozen meals and frozen dough products, and baking mixes, among others; Europe and Australia, which includes retail and foodservice businesses in the Europe and Australia region; Asia and Latin America, which consists of retail and foodservice businesses in the Asia and South America regions; and Pets, which includes pet food products.

GreenSky

GreenSky is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a technology company Powering Commerce at the Point of SaleSM. The company's platform is powered by a proprietary technology infrastructure that facilitates merchant sales, while reducing the friction, and improving the economics associated with a consumer making a purchase and a bank extending financing for that purchase. It supports the transaction lifecycle, including credit application, underwriting, real-time allocation to the company's Bank Partners, document distribution, funding, settlement and servicing.

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.

Hudson Pacific Properties Inc.

Hudson Pacific Properties is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust focused on acquiring, repositioning, developing and operating office and studio properties in submarkets throughout Northern and Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. The company owns its interests in all of its properties and conducts substantially all of its business through its operating partnership, Hudson Pacific Properties, L.P. The company has two segments: office properties, which are located in Northern and Southern California and the Pacific Northwest; and studio properties, which are located in Southern California.

Ingredion Incorporated

Ingredion provides ingredients solutions. The company turns corn, tapioca, potatoes, grains, fruits, and vegetables into ingredients and biomaterials for the food, beverage, brewing and other industries. The company's product lines include starches and sweeteners, animal feed products and edible corn oil. The company's starch-based products include both food-grade and industrial starches, and biomaterials. The company's sweetener products include glucose syrups, maltose syrups, fructose corn syrup, caramel color, dextrose, polyols, maltodextrins, and glucose and syrup solids. The company's products are derived from the processing of corn and other starch-based materials, such as tapioca, potato, and rice.

Kellogg Company

Kellogg is engaged in the manufacture and marketing of ready-to-eat cereal and convenience foods. The company's principal products are snacks, such as crackers, savory snacks, toaster pastries, cereal bars, granola bars and bites; and convenience foods, such as, ready-to-eat cereals, frozen waffles, veggie foods and noodles. The company's snacks brands are marketed under brands such as Kellogg's, Cheez-It, Pringles, Austin, Parati, and RXBAR. The company's cereals and cereal bars are generally marketed under the Kellogg's name, with some under the Kashi and Bear Naked brands. The company's frozen foods are marketed under the Eggo and Morningstar Farms brands.

L3Harris Technologies Inc

L3Harris Technologies is a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company's segments are: Integrated Mission Systems, including multi-mission intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance and communication systems; Space and Airborne Systems, including space payloads, sensors and full-mission solutions; Communication Systems, including tactical communications, broadband communications, integrated vision solutions, and public safety; and Aviation Systems, including defense aviation products, security, detection and other commercial aviation products, commercial and military pilot training, and mission networks for air traffic management.

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Lockheed Martin is a security and aerospace company. The company has four segments: Aeronautics, which is engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration, sustainment, support and upgrade of military aircraft; Missiles and Fire Control, which provides air and missile defense systems, logistics, fire control systems, and mission operations support; Rotary and Mission Systems, which provides design, manufacture, service and support for military and commercial helicopters, radar systems, and simulation and training services; Space, which researches, designs, develops, engineers and produces satellites, space transportation systems, and strategic, strike, and defensive systems.

Mack-Cali Realty Corporation

Mack-Cali Realty is a real estate investment trust. The company owns and operates a real estate portfolio comprised of Class A office and office/flex properties located primarily in the Northeast. The company performs various real estate leasing, management, acquisition and development on an in-house basis. The company's industry segments are: commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate and services. The company provides leasing, property management, acquisition, development, construction and tenant-related services for its commercial and other real estate and multi-family real estate portfolio. The company's multi-family services business also provides similar services for third parties.

Markel Corporation

Markel is a financial holding company. The company's business operations are: Underwriting, which comprised of risk-bearing insurance and reinsurance operations; Investing, which is primarily related to underwriting operations; Markel Ventures, Inc., includes controlling interests in a portfolio of businesses that operate outside of the specialty insurance marketplace; Insurance-linked securities, which include investment fund managers that provide investment products, including insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps and weather derivatives; and Program services, which serves as a fronting platform that provides access to property and casualty insurance market.

Nathan's Famous Inc.

Nathan's Famous is engaged in operating or franchising a chain of retail fast food restaurants featuring the Nathan's World Famous Beef Hot Dog, crinkle-cut French-fried potatoes and a variety of other menu offerings. The company also licenses the manufacture and sale of Nathan's Famous packaged hot dogs, crinkle-cut French fries and a number of other products to a variety of third parties for sale to supermarkets, club stores and grocery stores. The company is also the owner of the Arthur Treacher's brand. Arthur Treacher's main product is its Original Fish & Chips product consisting of fish fillets coated with a batter, deep-fried, and served with English-style chips and corn meal hush puppies.

NiSource Inc

NiSource is an energy holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a natural gas distribution company. The company's reportable segments are: Gas Distribution Operations and Electric Operations. For its gas distribution operations, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, NiSource Gas Distribution Group, Inc., the company owns distribution subsidiaries that provide natural gas to residential, commercial and industrial customers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland and Massachusetts. Through its electric operations, the company generates, transmits and distributes electricity through its subsidiary, Northern Indiana Public Service Company LLC, and engages in wholesale and transmission transactions.

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Northrop Grumman is a security company. The company's segments include: Aerospace Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of manned aircraft, autonomous systems, spacecraft, high-energy laser systems, microelectronics and other systems and subsystems; Innovation Systems, which is engaged in the design, development, integration and production of flight, armament and space systems; Mission Systems, which is engaged in end-to-end mission solutions and multifunction systems; and Technology Services, which is engaged in delivering solutions and services in support of mission-critical networks and systems.

Norwest Minerals

Norwest Minerals Ltd is an Australia-based gold and base metals exploration company. It is focused on exploring its portfolio of gold and base-metal projects, which are all located in Western Australia. Its projects include Bali Project, Warriedar Project, Arunta West Project, Marymia Project, Bulgera Gold Project and the Marriotts Project. The Bali Project is a copper and base metals exploration license, located approximately 250 kilometers (km) west of Newman in the Ashburton region of Western Australia. Warriedar Project is a gold project located approximately 420 km northeast of Perth. Arunta West Project is an iron oxide copper-gold project located 600 km west of Alice Springs. Marymia Project is a gold and copper project located approximately 900 km north of Perth and targets orogenic-gold and volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) copper/base metal mineralization. Its Marriotts Project is a nickel project located approximately 70 km south of Leinster and 80 km north of Leonora.

Phibro Animal Health Corporation Class A

Phibro Animal Health is an animal health and mineral nutrition company. The company develops, manufactures and markets products for a range of food animals including poultry, swine, beef and dairy cattle and aquaculture. The company's products include animal health products such as antibacterials, anticoccidials, nutritional products and vaccines. The company's Animal Health segment also includes antibacterials and other processing aids in the ethanol fermentation industry. The company's mineral nutrition products fortify the animal's diet and help maintain optimal health. The company also manufactures and markets ingredients for use in the personal care, industrial chemical and chemical catalyst industries.

Preferred Apartment Communities Inc.

Preferred Apartment Communities is a real estate investment trust that conducts its business through its Operating Partnership. The company operates in five segments: multifamily communities, which consists of the company's portfolio of owned residential multifamily communities; student housing properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of owned student housing properties, financing, which consists of the company's portfolio of real estate loans, bridge loans, and other instruments deployed by the company; new market properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of grocery-anchored shopping centers; and preferred office properties, which consists of the company's portfolio of office buildings.

Procter & Gamble Company

Procter & Gamble provides consumer packaged goods. The company's products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, e-commerce, grocery stores, membership club stores, drug stores, department stores, distributors, wholesalers, baby stores, beauty stores, other stores and pharmacies. The company has five reportable segments: Beauty, which includes hair care, and skin and personal care products; Grooming, which includes shave care products; Health Care, which includes oral care and personal health care products; Fabric and Home Care, which includes fabric care and home care products; and Baby, Feminine and Family Care, which includes baby care, feminine care and family care products.

Sempra Energy

Sempra Energy is an energy-services holding company. The company's segments are: San Diego Gas & Electric Company, which provides electric services and natural gas services in Southern California; Southern California Gas Company, which owns and operates a natural gas distribution, transmission and storage system that supplies natural gas in Southern California and portions of central California; Sempra Texas Utilities, which includes Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC that provides electricity to consumers; Sempra Mexico, which develops, owns and operates, or holds interests in, energy infrastructure in Mexico; and Sempra LNG, which develops projects for the export of liquefied natural gas.

State Auto Financial Corp.

State Auto Financial is a property and casualty insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in writing personal and business insurance. The company's reportable insurance segments are personal insurance and commercial insurance. In its personal insurance segment, the company writes standard insurance covering personal exposures to individuals. The primary coverages provided are personal auto, homeowners, and other personal. In its commercial insurance segment, the company writes standard insurance covering small to medium sized commercial exposures. The company provides coverages including commercial auto, small commercial package, farm and ranch, workers' compensation and other commercial.

Telephone and Data Systems Inc.

Telephone and Data Systems provides communications services to customers with wireless connections and wireline and cable connections. The company conducts its wireless operations through its majority-owned subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular). The company has three business segments comprised of: U.S. Cellular, which provides service to postpaid and prepaid customers from a variety of demographic segments; and TDS Telecommunications LLC's Wireline and Cable, which provides a range of communications services to both residential and commercial customers.

United Insurance Holdings Corp.

United Insurance Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the residential personal and commercial property and casualty insurance business in the United States. The company's insurance subsidiaries provide personal residential and commercial property and casualty insurance products that protect its policyholders against losses due to damages to structures and their contents. Some of the company's insurance subsidiaries sell policies that protect against liability for accidents as well as property damage. The company's non-insurance subsidiaries support its insurance and investment operations. The company writes in Florida, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, and other various states.

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