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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
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Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Property & Casualty Insurance names are staging price and RS reversal and/or breakouts.

• A number of industrial manufacturing names are stabilizing and staging possible price and RS reversals.

• Railroads related names are breaking out. A few truckers are also making positive inflections. A number of transports are highlighted in today's vital signs.
Underlyings
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.

Blackbaud Inc.

Blackbaud is a cloud software company. The company is engaged in providing software solutions in cloud and hosted environments, providing payment and transaction services, providing software maintenance and support services, and providing services, including implementation, consulting, training, analytic and other services. The company's portfolio provides fundraising and relationship management, marketing and engagement, financial management, grant and award management, organizational and program management (such as education management, church management and ticketing), social responsibility, payment services and analytics.

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.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.

Charles River Laboratories International is a contract research organization. The company has a laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services. The company's segments are: Research Models and Services, which supplies research models to the drug development industry; Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), which provides DSA services, including in vitro and in vivo studies, laboratory support services, and strategic non-clinical consulting and program management to support product development; and Manufacturing Support, which ensures the production and release of products manufactured by the company's clients.

Community Bank System Inc.

Community Bank System is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiary, Community Bank, N.A., the company operates as a financial services enterprise providing banking and other financial services to retail, commercial and municipal customers. The company has three reportable segments: Banking, which is focused on serving the financial needs of customers in local communities; Employee Benefit Services, which provides employee benefit trust, collective investment fund, retirement plan administration and fund administration; and All Other, which includes Wealth Management, which provides investment alternatives and Insurance Agency, which provides personal and commercial lines of insurance.

Ebix Inc.

Ebix is a supplier of infrastructure exchanges to the insurance, financial, and healthcare industries. The company focuses on: expansion of connectivity between all entities through its Exchange family of products in the financial, travel, life, health, workers compensation, risk management, annuity and property and casualty (P&C) sectors namely the EbixCash and EbixExchange family of products; sales and support of P&C back-end insurance and broker management systems; sale, customization, development, implementation and support of its P&C back-end insurance carrier system platforms; risk compliance solution services; and e-governance/e-learning solutions in emerging world markets.

First Financial Bankshares Inc

First Financial Bankshares is a financial holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company conducts commercial banking business. The company's banking centers are located primarily in Central, North Central, Southeast and West Texas. Each of the company's bank regions provides general commercial banking services, which include accepting and holding checking, savings and time deposits, making loans, automated teller machines, drive-in and night deposit services, safe deposit facilities, remote deposit capture, internet banking, mobile banking, payroll cards, transmitting funds, and performing other customary commercial banking services.

Genuine Parts Company

Genuine Parts is engaged in the distribution of automotive replacement parts, industrial parts, and business products. The company's reportable business segments are: Automotive, which distributes automotive parts and accessory items and provides inventory, cataloging, marketing, training and other programs to the automotive aftermarket; Industrial, which distributes industrial replacement parts and related supplies such as bearings, mechanical and electrical power transmission products, industrial automation, and hose, among others; and Business Products, which is engaged in the wholesale distribution of a line of office and other business-related products through a customer base of resellers.

Glacier Bancorp Inc.

Glacier Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides commercial banking services from 164 locations in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada. The company provides a range of banking products and services, including: retail banking; business banking; real estate, commercial, agriculture and consumer loans; and mortgage origination services. The treasury division includes the Bank's investment portfolio and wholesale borrowings, the information technology division includes the Bank's internal data processing, and the centralized mortgage division includes mortgage loan servicing and secondary market sales.

Greenbrier Companies Inc.

Greenbrier Companies is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company designs, manufactures and markets railroad freight car equipment in North America, Europe, the Gulf Cooperation Council and South America. The company has three segments: Manufacturing, which produces conventional railcars, tank cars, intermodal railcars, automotive and is involved in marine vessel fabrication; Wheels, Repair and Parts, which includes reconditioning of wheels and axles in addition to new axle machining and finishing and downsizing; and Leasing and Services, which includes railcar maintenance management, railcar accounting services, total fleet management, administration and railcar remarketing.

Heartland Express Inc.

Heartland Express is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a short-to-medium haul truckload carrier. The company primarily provides asset-based dry van truckload service for shippers from Washington to Florida and New England to California. The company also provides temperature-controlled truckload services, which are not significant to its operations. The company operates terminal facilities throughout the contiguous United States in addition to its terminal and corporate headquarters in North Liberty, IA.

Helix Energy Solutions Group Inc.

Helix Energy Solutions Group is an international offshore energy services company that provides specialty services to the offshore energy industry. The company has three business segments: well intervention, which includes vessels and equipment used to perform well intervention services primarily in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, the North Sea and West Africa; robotics, which includes remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), trenchers and ROVDrills designed to complement offshore construction and well intervention services; and production facilities, which includes the Helix Producer I, a floating production vessel, the Helix Fast Response System, and its ownership interest in Independence Hub, LLC.

Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company. The company has four segments: Aerospace, which supplies products, software and services for aircrafts; Honeywell Building Technologies, which provides products, software, solutions and technologies including building control and optimization, energy management, access control, video surveillance, fire products, and remote patient monitoring systems; Performance Materials and Technologies, which develops and manufactures chemicals and materials, process technologies and automation solutions; and Safety and Productivity Solutions, which provides products and software that improve productivity, workplace safety and asset performance.

Insteel Industries Inc.

Insteel Industries is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a manufacturer of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications. The company manufactures and markets prestressed concrete strand and welded wire reinforcement, including engineered structural mesh, concrete pipe reinforcement and standard welded wire reinforcement. The company's products are sold primarily to manufacturers of concrete products that are used in nonresidential construction. The company's operations are focused on the manufacture and marketing of steel wire reinforcing products for concrete construction applications.

Inter Parfums Inc.

Inter Parfums operates in the fragrance business, and manufactures, markets and distributes a range of fragrance and fragrance related products. The company manages its business in two segments, European based operations, which produces and distributes its fragrance products primarily under license agreements with brand owners, and fragrance product sales, as well as built a portfolio of brands, which include Boucheron, Coach, Jimmy Choo, Karl Lagerfeld, Lanvin, Montblanc, Paul Smith, and Repetto; and U.S. based operations, which brand fragrance products are sold under trademarks owned by the company or pursuant to license or other agreements with the owners of brands, which include Abercrombie & Fitch.

James River Group Holdings Ltd

Norfolk Southern Corporation

Norfolk Southern is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the rail transportation of raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods primarily in the Southeast, East, and Midwest and, via interchange with rail carriers, to and from the rest of the United States. The company also transports overseas freight through several Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports. The company provides intermodal network in the eastern half of the United States. The company's railroad operates in several states and the District of Columbia. The company's system reaches manufacturing plants, electric generating facilities, mines, distribution centers, transload facilities, and other businesses in its service area.

Old National Bancorp

Old National Bancorp is a financial holding company that operates primarily in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Through its wholly owned banking subsidiary, Old National Bank, the company provides a range of services, including commercial and consumer loan and depository services, private banking, brokerage, trust, investment advisory, and other banking services. In addition to the community banking services of lending and providing deposit services, the company provides wealth management, investment, and foreign currency services. For businesses, the company provides treasury management, merchant, health savings, and capital markets services, among others.

Primerica Inc.

Primerica, through its subsidiaries, provides financial products to middle-income households in the United States and Canada with licensed sales representatives. The company's segments are: Term Life Insurance, which provides a guaranteed death benefit if the insured dies during the fixed coverage period of an in-force policy; Investment and Savings Products, which distributes and sells to its clients a variety of mutual funds, managed investments, variable, index-linked, and fixed annuities, fixed indexed annuities and segregated funds; and Other Distributed Product, which distributes prepaid legal services, auto and homeowners' insurance referrals, and home automation solutions.

RLI Corp.

RLI is an insurance holding company. Through its subsidiaries collectively known as RLI Insurance Group, the company is engaged in underwriting selected property and casualty insurance. The company has three segments: casualty, which includes commercial excess and personal umbrella, general liability, commercial transportation, professional services, small commercial, executive products, and other casualty; property, which includes commercial property, specialty personal and other property coverages; and surety, which includes miscellaneous surety coverage, commercial surety bonds, and bonds for small to medium-sized contractors.

Ruth's Hospitality Group Inc.

Ruth's Hospitality Group develops and operates restaurants under the trade name Ruth's Chris Steak House. The Ruth's Chris menu also includes lamb chops, fish, shrimp, crab, chicken and lobster. The company's Ruth's Chris restaurants serves various appetizer items, including New Orleans-style barbequed shrimp, mushrooms stuffed with crabmeat, spicy shrimp, chilled seafood tower and osso bucco ravioli, as well as various different salads. They also provide a variety of potatoes and vegetables as side dishes. For dessert, creme brulee, white chocolate bread pudding, chocolate duo, cheesecake, fresh seasonal berries with sweet cream and other selections are available.

Trinity Industries Inc.

Trinity Industries is a provider of railcar products and services in North America. The company has the following reportable segments: Railcar Leasing and Management Services Group, which provides operating leases for freight and tank railcars, as well as originates and manages railcar leases for third-party investors and provides fleet maintenance and management services to industrial shippers; Rail Products Group, which manufactures freight and tank railcars in North America used for transporting a variety of liquids, gases, and dry cargo, and also provides a range of maintenance services and solutions; and All Other, which includes the company's highway products business.

World Acceptance Corporation

World Acceptance is a small-loan consumer finance company, providing short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance and ancillary products and services to individuals. The company serves individuals with limited access to other sources of consumer credit such as banks, credit unions, other consumer finance businesses and credit card lenders. The company also provides income tax return preparation services to its loan customers and other individuals. Using the proprietary data processing software package developed by its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, the company automates all of its loan account processing and collection reporting.

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Ross LaDuke

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