Report
Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.72 For Business Accounts Only

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.
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.

Ammo Inc

Antero Resources Corporation

Antero Resources is an oil and natural gas company engaged in the exploration, development and production of natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), and oil properties. The company focuses on unconventional reservoirs, which can generally be characterized as fractured shale formations. The company's drilling operations are focused in the Marcellus Shale and Utica Shale of the Appalachian Basin. The company's industry segments are: the exploration, development, and production of natural gas, NGLs, and oil; marketing of excess firm transportation capacity; and the gathering and processing of natural gas. All of the company's operations are conducted in the United States.

Ascott Residence Trust

Ascott Residence Trust is a serviced residence real estate investment trust. Ascott Reit invests in real estate and real estate related assets, which are used or predominantly used, as serviced residences or rental housing properties in any country in the world. Co.'s geographical segments include Singapore, Australia, Belgium, China, France, Germany and Indonesia. As of Dec 31 2011, Co.'s international portfolio comprises 65 properties with 6,600 units in 65 properties within 23 cities across 12 countries in Asia Pacific and Europe.

ASGN Inc

ASGN provides information technology (IT) and other services in the technology, digital, creative, engineering and life sciences fields across commercial and government sectors. The company's segments are: Apex, which provides technical, digital, creative, scientific and engineering personnel for contract, contract-to-hire, and permanent placement positions to clients across the United States and Canada; Oxford, which provides staffing and permanent placement services in select skill and geographic markets in the United States and Europe; and ECS, which delivers solutions in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, machine learning, application and IT modernization, science and engineering.

Buckle Inc.

The Buckle is a retailer of casual apparel, footwear, and accessories for young men and women. The company markets a selection of mainly brand name casual apparel including denims, other casual bottoms, tops, sportswear, outerwear, accessories, and footwear. The company provides denims from brands such as Miss Me, Rock Revival, KanCan, Flying Monkey, and Levi's. The company also incorporates services such as hemming, gift wrapping, layaways, a guest loyalty program, the Buckle private label credit card, personalized stylist services, and an order system that allows stores to obtain specifically requested merchandise from other the company stores or from the company's online order fulfillment center.

Caledonia Mining Corporation

Caledonia Mining Corporation is engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties for the exploitation of base and precious metals focused on Southern Africa. Co.'s primary asset is a 49% interest in the Blanket Mine in Zimbabwe which produced over 50,351 ounces of gold in 2016. Its segments include Corporate, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The Corporate segment includes administrative functions within the group. The Zimbabwe segment comprise Caledonia Holdings Zimbabwe Ltd. and subsidiaries. The South Africa segment comprises a gold mine, that is on care and maintenance, as well as sales made by Caledonia Mining South Africa Proprietary Limited to the Blanket Mine.

CAPSTAR FINANCIAL HOLDINGS

CapStar Financial Holdings is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, CapStar Bank, the company is engaged as a bank that seeks to establish and maintain relationships with its clients by delivering banking solutions and client service. The company's products and services include commercial real estate loans, private banking and wealth management services for the owners and operators of its business clients and other individuals and correspondent banking services for Tennessee's smaller community banks. The company provides deposit products and services, including demand deposits, interest-bearing transaction accounts, time and savings deposits, certificates of deposit and CDARS? reciprocal products.

Ceridian HCM Holding Inc.

Ceridian HCM Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a human capital management (HCM) software company. Dayforce, the company's cloud HCM platform, provides human resources (HR), payroll, benefits, workforce management, and talent management functionality. In addition to Dayforce, the company sells Powerpay, a cloud HR and payroll solution for the Canadian small business market, through both direct sales and established partner channels. The company also continues to support customers using its Bureau solutions, which it generally stopped selling to new customers. The company invests in maintenance and necessary updates to support its Bureau customers and continues to migrate them to Dayforce.

CF Industries Holdings Inc.

CF Industries Holdings is a global fertilizer and chemical company. The company's principal nitrogen fertilizer products are anhydrous ammonia, granular urea, urea ammonium nitrate solution and ammonium nitrate. The company's other nitrogen products include diesel exhaust fluid, urea liquor, nitric acid and aqua ammonia, which are sold primarily to its industrial customers, and compound fertilizer products, which are solid granular fertilizer products for which the nutrient content is a combination of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. The company serves its customers in North America through its production, storage, transportation and distribution network.

CHESAPEAKE ENERGY CORP

Chevron Corporation

Chevron is engaged in energy and chemicals operations. Upstream operations consist primarily of, among others, exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas; processing, liquefaction, transportation and regasification associated with liquefied natural gas, storage and marketing of natural gas; and a gas-to-liquids plant. Downstream operations consist primarily of, among others, refining crude oil into petroleum products; marketing of crude oil and refined products; and manufacturing and marketing of commodity petrochemicals, plastics for industrial uses and fuel and lubricant additives.

CNA Financial Corporation

CNA Financial is an insurance holding company. The company's property and casualty and remaining life and group insurance operations are primarily conducted by its subsidiaries. The company's insurance products primarily include commercial property and casualty coverages, including surety. The company's services include warranty, risk management information services and claims administration. The company's commercial property and casualty underwriting operations in the United States consists of field underwriting locations and centralized processing operations which handle policy processing, billing and collection activities and also act as call centers to support service.

Coeur Mining Inc.

Coeur Mining is a gold and silver producer, as well as a zinc and lead producer, with mines located in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and exploration projects in North America. The company operates the Palmarejo complex, and the Rochester, Kensington, Wharf and Silvertip mines. The company's dore, as well as the concentrate product produced by the Wharf mine, is refined into gold and silver bullion and then sells to multi-national banks, bullion trading houses, and refiners across the globe. The company's gold concentrate products from the Kensington mine and the zinc and lead concentrates from the Silvertip mine are sold under a variety of agreements with smelters and traders.

Comstock Resources Inc.

Comstock Resources is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and natural gas. The company's oil and gas operations are primarily concentrated in Louisiana, Texas and North Dakota. The company also has operations in other regions, primarily in New Mexico and the Mid-Continent region.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp.

Comtech Telecommunications is a provider of communications solutions for both commercial and government customers. The company's reportable operating segments include: Commercial Solutions, which provides satellite ground station technologies (such as modems and amplifiers) and public safety and location technologies (such as 911 call routing and mapping solutions); and Government Solutions, which provides technologies (such as tactical satellite-based networks and ongoing support for communication networks) and transmission technologies (such as troposcatter systems and solid-state amplifiers) to government end-users, international customers and domestic prime contractors.

FORTREA HOLDINGS INC.

Gap Inc.

The Gap is an apparel retail company. The company provides apparel, accessories, and personal care products for men, women, and children under the Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic, Athleta, Intermix, and Hill City brands. The company has stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France, Ireland, Japan, Italy, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mexico, and has franchise agreements with unaffiliated franchisees to operate Old Navy, Gap, and Banana Republic stores throughout Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa. Under these agreements, third parties operate stores that sell apparel and related products under the company's brand names.

Herman Miller Inc.

Herman Miller researches, designs, manufactures, and distributes interior furnishings for use in various environments including office, healthcare, educational, and residential settings and provides related services. The company's segments include: North America Contract, which designs, manufactures, and sells furniture and textile products for work-related settings throughout the U.S. and Canada; International Contract, which designs, manufactures and sells furniture products in the Europe, Middle East and Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific geographic regions; and Retail, which sells furnishings and accessories to third party retail distributors and direct to consumer sales.

Hibbett Sports Inc.

Hibbett Sports is an athletic-inspired fashion retailer primarily located in small and mid-sized communities across the country primarily in the South, Southwest, Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest regions. The company's merchandise assortment features a primary selection of brand name merchandise focusing on athletic footwear, athletic and fashion apparel, team sports equipment and related accessories. The company's Hibbett Sports stores includes free-standing stores, and stores in enclosed malls. The company's City Gear stores are located primarily in strip centers. The company's Sports Additions stores provides athletic footwear with the remainder consisting of headwear and apparel.

Kontoor Brands

Kontoor Brands is engaged in the design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, and distribution of apparel under the Wrangler and Lee brands in the United States and internationally. The company sells its products through mass and mid-tier retailers, specialty stores, department stores, and retailer-owned and third-party e-commerce sites, as well as sell its products through direct-to-consumer channels, including full-price stores, outlet stores, and its Websites. The company operates 13 manufacturing-related facilities and nine distribution centers around the world.

Mayville Engineering

Mayville Engineering is a contract manufacturer that serves the heavy and medium duty commercial vehicle, construction, powersports, agriculture, military and other end markets. The company provides a broad range of prototyping and tooling, production fabrication, coating, assembly and aftermarket components. The company operates 21 facilities located in Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wisconsin. The vast majority of the company's sales are to OEM's located throughout the United States.

Mercury General Corporation

Mercury General is an insurance holding company. Through its insurance subsidiaries, the company writes personal automobile insurance. The company also writes homeowners, commercial automobile, commercial property, mechanical protection, and umbrella insurance. The company provides the following types of automobile coverage: collision, property damage, bodily injury, comprehensive, personal injury protection, underinsured and uninsured motorist, and other hazards. The company provides the following types of homeowners coverage: dwelling, liability, personal property, fire, and other hazards. The company sells its policies through a network of independent agents, its insurance agencies, and directly through internet sales portals.

ModivCare Inc

Movado Group Inc.

Movado Group designs, sources, markets and distributes watches. The company's portfolio of watch brands comprised of owned brands MOVADO?, MVMT?, OLIVIA BURTON?, EBEL? and CONCORD? as well as licensed brands COACH?, TOMMY HILFIGER?, HUGO BOSS?, LACOSTE?, SCUDERIA FERRARI?, REBECCA MINKOFF? and URI MINKOFF?. The company conducts its business primarily in two operating segments: Watch and Accessory Brands, which includes the designing, manufacturing and distribution of watches of quality owned brands and licensed brands; and Company Stores, which includes retail outlet locations in the U.S. and Canada. The company divides its business into two primary geographic locations: U.S. and International.

New Fortress Energy

NIKE Inc. Class B

NIKE is engaged in the design, development and marketing and selling of athletic footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories and services. The company focuses its NIKE Brand product offerings in Running, NIKE Basketball, the Jordan Brand, Football (Soccer), Training and Sportswear categories. The company markets products designed for kids, as well as for other athletic and recreational uses such as American football, baseball, cricket, golf, lacrosse, tennis, walking, and other outdoor activities. The company has license agreements that permit unaffiliated parties to manufacture and sell, using the company-owned trademarks, certain apparel, digital devices and applications and other equipment designed for sports activities.

NV5 Global Inc.

NV5 Global is a provider of technical engineering and consulting services, providing solutions to public and private sector clients in the energy, transportation, water, government, hospitality, education, healthcare, commercial and residential markets. The company's operations are organized into two reportable segments: Infrastructure, which includes its engineering, civil program management, and construction quality assurance, testing, and inspection practices; and Building, Technology and Sciences, which includes its energy, environmental, and building program management practices.

ProAssurance Corporation

ProAssurance is a holding company for property and casualty insurance companies. The company has five segments: Specialty Property and Casualty, which includes its professional liability business and medical technology liability business; Workers' Compensation, which includes its workers' compensation business provided to employers with 1,000 or fewer employees; Segregated Portfolio Cell Reinsurance, which includes the company's Cayman Islands segregated portfolio cell operations; Lloyd's Syndicate, which includes the company's participation in Lloyd's of London Syndicates 1729 and 6131; and Corporate, which includes the company's investment operations, which are managed at the corporate level.

Prudential Financial Inc.

Prudential Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, the company provides a range of financial products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related products and services, mutual funds and investment management. The company provides these products and services to individual and institutional customers. The company's principal operations are comprised of PGIM (its global investment management business), its United States Businesses (consisting of its United States Workplace Solutions, United States Individual Solutions, and Assurance IQ divisions), its International Businesses, the Closed Block division and its Corporate and Other operations.

Safety Insurance Group Inc.

Safety Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of private passenger, commercial automobile and homeowners insurance in Massachusetts. The company's product lines include: Private Passenger Automobile, which provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage to others, no-fault personal injury coverage for the insured/insured's car occupants, and physical damage coverage for an insured's own vehicle for collision or other perils; Commercial Automobile, which provides insurance for commercial vehicles used for business purposes; and Inland Marine, which provides inland marine coverage as an endorsement for all homeowners and business owner policies.

SandRidge Energy Inc.

SandRidge Energy is an oil and natural gas company focusing on exploration and production activities in the U.S. Mid-Continent and North Park Basin of Colorado. The company holds interests in leasehold acres located primarily in Oklahoma and Kansas. The company also has working interest in the North Park Basin which is located in north central Colorado.

SEMLER SCIENTIFC

Southwestern Energy Company

Southwestern Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an independent energy company engaged in exploration, development and production activities, including the related marketing of natural gas, oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) produced in its operations. The company's primary business is the exploration for, and production of, natural gas, oil and NGLs. The company's operations in northeast Pennsylvania are primarily focused on the unconventional natural gas reservoir known as the Marcellus Shale, and its operations in West Virginia and southwest Pennsylvania are focused on the Marcellus Shale, the Utica and the Upper Devonian unconventional natural gas, oil and NGL reservoirs.

Tillys

Tilly's is a retailer of casual apparel, footwear and accessories for young men, young women, boys and girls. The company's stores are located in malls, lifestyle centers, power centers, community centers, outlet centers and street-front locations. Customers may also shop online, where the company features the same assortment of product as is carried in its stores, supplemented by additional online-only styles. The company provides a mix of merchandise for young men, young women, boys and girls across the apparel, footwear and accessories categories. The company's apparel merchandise includes branded, fashion, and core styles for tops, outerwear, bottoms, and dresses.

United Therapeutics Corporation

United Therapeutics is a biotechnology company. The company markets and sells four commercial therapies to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): Remodulin? (treprostinil) Injection; Tyvaso? (treprostinil) Inhalation Solution; Orenitram? (treprostinil) Extended-Release Tablets; and Adcirca? (tadalafil) Tablets. The company also markets and sells an oncology product, Unituxin? (dinutuximab) Injection for treatment of high-risk neuroblastoma. The company also engages in research and development of new indications and formulations and delivery devices for its existing products, as well as new products to treat PAH and other conditions. The company also engages in organ transplantation-related technologies.

W. R. Berkley Corporation

W. R. Berkley is an insurance holding company. The company operates in two segments of the property casualty insurance business: Insurance, which includes commercial insurance business, including excess and surplus lines, admitted lines and specialty personal lines throughout the United States, as well as insurance business in the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, South America, Canada, Mexico, Scandinavia, Asia and Australia; and Reinsurance, which provides reinsurance business on a facultative and treaty basis, primarily in the United States, the United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Australia, the Asia-Pacific region and South Africa.

Western Union Company

Western Union is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in money movement and payment services, providing people and businesses with ways to send money and make payments around the world. The company's segments are: Consumer-to-Consumer, which is focused on individual money transfers from one consumer to another; and Business Solutions, in which the company facilitates payment and foreign exchange solutions, primarily cross-border, cross-currency transactions, for small and medium size enterprises and other organizations and individuals. The company's remaining businesses and services include its electronic-based and cash-based bill payment services.

Provider
Vermilion Research
Vermilion Research

Vermilion Research delivers timely, actionable, and unique research inputs to professional investors. Our research strategists highlight securities which we believe are at major inflection points, based on our various proprietary technical indicators, and offer asymmetric risk/return profiles. We believe our research methodology, which is not limited by industry sector or market capitalization, enables us to deliver superior investment recommendations.

Our process begins by organizing all actively traded stocks into coherent sectors, then into logical industry groups. We then apply our proprietary relative strength tools to identify developing price trends. Once attractive trends are identified within a selected sectors or groups, we screen for individual stocks which we believe offer the best risk/reward profile. Vermilion offers U.S. and global equity market research products. Vermilion’s research team, which has received numerous awards and accolades, has a combined 70 year of experience in the analysis of investment securities.

Analysts
Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

Other Reports on these Companies
Other Reports from Vermilion Research

ResearchPool Subscriptions

Get the most out of your insights

Get in touch