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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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Andersons Inc.

Andersons is a company rooted in agriculture. The company conducts business across North America in the grain, ethanol, plant nutrient and rail sectors. The company's operations are classified into four reportable business segments: Grain, which provides grain marketing, risk management and corn origination services to its customers and affiliated ethanol facilities; Ethanol, which purchases and sells ethanol, provides facility operations, risk management, and ethanol; Plant Nutrient, which provides warehousing, packaging and manufacturing services to nutrient producers and other distributors; and Rail, which leases, repairs, and sells various types of railcars, locomotives and barges.

APA Corp.

Apache is an independent energy company that explores for, develops, and produces natural gas, crude oil, and natural gas liquids. The company had exploration and production operations in United States, Egypt, and offshore United Kingdom in the North Sea. The company also has exploration interests in Suriname. The company markets its United States crude oil production to main oil companies, marketing, and transportation companies, and refiners based on a West Texas Intermediate price or other regional pricing indices. The company has two international regions: The Egypt includes onshore conventional assets in Egypt's Western Desert. The North Sea region includes offshore assets based in United Kingdom.

Apogee Enterprises Inc.

Apogee Enterprises is involved in the design and development of glass and metal products and services. The company has four segments: Architectural Framing Systems, which designs, engineers, fabricates and finishes the aluminum frames used in customized window, curtainwall, storefront and entrance systems comprising the outside skin of buildings; Architectural Glass, which fabricates coated glass used in customized window and wall systems; Architectural Services, which provides building glass and curtainwall installation services; and Large-Scale Optical Technologies, which manufactures coated glass and acrylic products for framing and display applications.

ATN International Inc.

ATN International is a holding company that, directly and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates telecommunications and renewable energy businesses in North America, India, Bermuda and the Caribbean. The company has three segments: U.S. Telecom, which provides wholesale wireless voice and data roaming services to national, regional, local and selected international wireless carriers in rural markets located mainly in the Southwest and Midwest U.S.; International Telecom, which includes voice and data services to retail customers in Bermuda, Guyana and the U.S. Virgin Islands; and Renewable Energy, which provides distributed generation solar power to corporate, utility and municipal customers.

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.

Boston Properties Inc.

Boston Properties is a real estate investment trust that develops, owns and manages primarily office properties. The company's properties are concentrated in five markets: Boston, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco and Washington, DC. The company is a real estate company, with in-house knowledge and resources in acquisitions, development, financing, capital markets, construction management, property management, marketing, leasing, accounting, risk management, tax and legal services. The company manages Boston Properties Limited Partnership, which is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its business and owns (either directly or through subsidiaries) substantially all of its assets.

Brixmor Property Group Inc.

Brixmor Property Group is a holding company and an internally-managed real estate investment trust. Brixmor Operating Partnership LP and subsidiaries (the Operating Partnership) is the entity through which the company conducts substantially all of its operations and owns substantially all of its assets. Through the Operating Partnership, the company is engaged in the ownership, management, leasing, acquisition, disposition and redevelopment of retail shopping centers. The company owns and operates open-air retail portfolios, comprised primarily of shopping centers located in the United States. The company's shopping centers are primarily anchored by retailers, as well as consumer-oriented service providers.

Cardtronics plc Class A

Clearfield Inc.

Clearfield designs, manufactures and distributes fiber protection, fiber management and fiber delivery solutions. The company's products include: FieldSmart?, which provides a design from the inside plant of the telco's central office or cable television's head-end, all the way through the outside plant to the access network to within the home or business; WaveSmart? optical components, which are integrated for signal coupling, splitting, termination, multiplexing, demultiplexing and attenuation for an integration within the company's fiber management platform; and ODC outdoor active cabinet product line, which features a line of cabinets equipped with specific active electronics configurations.

Clipper Realty

Clipper Realty is a self-administered and self-managed real estate company that acquires, owns, manages, operates and repositions multifamily residential and commercial properties in the New York metropolitan area, with a portfolio in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Coherus BioSciences Inc.

Coherus BioSciences is a commercial-stage biotherapeutics company focused on the biosimilar market. The company has received regulatory approval for the marketing of UDENYCA? (pegfilgrastim-cbqv), a biosimilar to Neulasta, a long-acting granulocyte-colony stimulating factor, from the European Commission and received regulatory approval for UDENYCA? from the United States Food and Drug Administration. The company's pre-commercial pipeline includes the following product candidates: CHS-0214 (its etanercept (Enbrel) biosimilar candidate); and CHS-131, its oral, small-molecule drug candidate, which is an oral drug candidate under development for non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and other metabolic conditions.

Corporate Office Properties Trust

Corporate Office Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust. Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (COPLP) and subsidiaries is the entity through which the company, the sole general partner of COPLP, conducts almost all of its operations and owns almost all of its assets. The company owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of the company's portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors that engaged in national security, defense and information technology related activities servicing. The company also owns office properties in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region.

DepoMed Inc.

Depomed is a pharmaceutical company focused on pain and other central nervous system conditions. The company's business includes the following products marketed in the U.S. for various pain states: Gralise

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

Diversified Healthcare Trust

Senior Housing Properties Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company owns properties located in several states and Washington, D.C. The company's segment includes: properties leased to medical providers, medical related businesses, clinics and biotech laboratory tenants; triple net leased senior living communities that provide short term and long term residential care and other services for residents; third party managed senior living communities that provide short term and long term residential care and other services for residents; and all of its other operations, including certain properties that provide wellness, fitness and spa services to members.

Dorman Products Inc.

Dorman Products is a supplier of replacement parts and fasteners for passenger cars, light trucks, and heavy duty trucks in the automotive aftermarket. The company's products are sold under its various brand names, under its customers' private label brands or in bulk. The company's brands include DORMAN? OE Solutions ?, DORMAN? HELP! ?, DORMAN? HD Solutions?, DORMAN? Premium Chassis, DORMAN? Premium?, DORMAN? Premium RD?, and MAS?. The company's products are sold primarily in the United States through automotive aftermarket retailers, national, regional and local warehouse distributors and specialty markets, and salvage yards. The company also distributes automotive replacement parts internationally.

Dril-Quip Inc.

Dril-Quip designs, manufactures, sells and services drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The company's products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors, diverters and safety valves. The company provides technical advisory assistance during installation of its products, as well as rework and reconditioning services. The company's customers may rent or purchase running tools from the company for use in the installation and retrieval of its products.

Express Transport S.A.

Frank's International NV

Hawkins Inc.

Hawkins distributes, blends and manufactures chemicals and ingredients for its customers. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides industrial chemicals, products and services to industries such as agriculture, chemical processing, and plating; Water Treatment, which provides chemicals, equipment and solutions for potable water, municipal and industrial wastewater, industrial process water and non-residential swimming pool water; and Health and Nutrition, which provides ingredient distribution, processing and formulation solutions to manufacturers of nutraceutical, functional food and beverage, personal care, dietary supplement and other nutritional food, health and wellness products.

Healthcare Realty Trust Incorporated

Healthcare Realty Trust is a self-managed and self-administered real estate investment trust that owns, leases, manages, acquires, finances, develops and redevelops real estate properties associated primarily with the delivery of outpatient healthcare services. The company has gross investments in real estate properties, construction in progress, a redevelopment in Memphis, TN, land held for development and corporate property. The company provides property management services for healthcare-related properties nationwide.

Healthcare Trust of America Inc. Class A

Healthcare Trust of America is a real estate investment trust. The company focuses on owning and operating medical office buildings that serve healthcare delivery and are located on health system campuses, near university medical centers, or in community core outpatient locations. The company's properties include health systems, such as Baylor Scott & White Health, Highmark-Allegheny Health Network, Hospital Corporation of America, Tenet Healthcare System and Community Health Systems.

Healthpeak Properties Inc.

HCP is a real estate investment trust which invests in real estate serving the healthcare industry. The company acquires, develops, leases, and manages and disposes of healthcare real estate. The company's segments are: senior housing triple-net and senior housing operating portfolio, which include independent living facilities, assisted living facilities, memory care facilities, and continuing care retirement communities; life science, which contains laboratory and office space for biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, scientific research institutions, government agencies and other organizations; and medical office, which contains physicians' offices and examination rooms.

Johnson Controls International plc

Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Kimberly-Clark is principally engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of a range of products primarily made from natural or synthetic fibers using technologies in fibers, nonwovens and absorbency. The company is organized into three operating segments: Personal Care, which provides solutions and products such as disposable diapers, training and youth pants, swimpants, baby wipes, feminine and incontinence care products, and other related products; Consumer Tissue, which provides facial and bathroom tissue, paper towels, napkins and related products; and K-C Professional, which provides a range of solutions and supporting products such as wipers, tissue, towels, apparel, soaps and sanitizers.

Kinder Morgan Inc Class P

Kinder Morgan is an energy infrastructure company. The company's segments are: Natural Gas Pipelines, which includes the ownership and operation of, among others, main interstate and intrastate natural gas pipeline and storage systems; Products Pipelines, which includes the refined petroleum products, crude oil and condensate pipelines; Terminals, which includes the ownership and/or operation of, among others, liquids and bulk terminal facilities; and carbon dioxide (CO2), which includes the production, transportation and marketing of CO2, ownership interests in and/or operation of oil fields and gasoline processing plants in West Texas.

Libbey Inc.

Libbey is engaged in the design, production and sale of tableware and other products. The company's products include glassware products, glass tableware, ceramicware, metalware and other tabletop products. Glass tableware products include products such as tumblers, stemware, mugs, bowls, vases, salt and pepper shakers, shot glasses, canisters, candleholders and other items. Other glass products include storageware, serveware, bakeware, handmade glass tableware and components such as blender jars and mixing bowls sold to original equipment manufacturers. The company also provides a range of ceramic dinnerware products. These include plates, bowls, platters, cups, saucers and other tabletop accessories.

Liquidity Services

Liquidity Services is engaged in operating a network of e-commerce marketplaces that enable buyers and sellers to transact in an automated environment. The company's reportable segments are: Retail Supply Chain Group, which consists of marketplaces that enable corporations to sell surplus and salvage consumer goods and retail capital assets; Capital Assets Group, which provides solutions to sellers and it consists of marketplaces that enable commercial businesses to sell surplus, salvage, and scrap assets; GovDeals, which provides self-directed service solutions; and Machinio, which operates an online platform for listing used equipment for sale in the construction, machine tool, among others.

Mercury Systems Inc.

Mercury Systems is a commercial provider of sensor and safety processing subsystems. The company delivers solutions for a range of aerospace, commercial aviation, defense and intelligence programs. The company's products and solutions have been deployed in various programs with different defense prime contractors. The company's technologies and capabilities include embedded processing modules and subsystems, mission computers, rack-mount servers, avionics, radio frequency components, multi-function assemblies and subsystems. The company delivers subsystem level engineering capability and ongoing systems integration services to the subsystem market within the defense embedded electronics market segment.

Nutrisystem Inc.

Nutrisystem provides weight management products and services, including nutritionally balanced weight loss programs, multi-day kits available at retail locations and digital tools to support weight loss. The company's program customers purchase monthly food packages containing a four-week meal plan consisting of breakfasts, lunches, dinners and snacks and flex meal plan recipes, which they supplement with fresh fruits, vegetables and dairy. The company provides its pre-selected favorites food pack or personalized plans where customers can hand pick their menu or customize plans to their dietary preference. The company's meal plans feature menu options at different price points including entrees, snacks and shakes.

NuVasive Inc.

Nuvasive is a medical device company focused on developing minimally disruptive surgical products and procedurally integrated solutions for spine surgery. The company's principal product offering includes a minimally disruptive surgical platform, Maximum Access Surgery. The platform includes the company's proprietary software-driven nerve detection and avoidance systems, and Intraoperative Monitoring services and support; MaXcess, an integrated split-blade retractor system; and implants and biologics. The company's spine surgery product line offerings, which include products for the thoracolumbar and the cervical spine, are used to enable surgeon access to the spine to perform restorative and fusion procedures.

PENSKE AUTOMOTIVE GROUP INC

Penske Automotive Group is a transportation services company that operates automotive and commercial truck dealerships and distributes commercial vehicles, diesel engines, gas engines, power systems and related parts and services. The company has four segments: Retail Automotive, consisting of its retail automotive dealership operations; Retail Commercial Truck, consisting of its retail commercial truck dealership operations in the United States and Canada; Other, consisting of its commercial vehicle and power systems distribution operations and other non-automotive consolidated operations; and Non-Automotive Investments, consisting of its equity method investments in non-automotive operations.

Physicians Realty Trust

Physicians Realty Trust is a self-managed healthcare real estate company. The company acquires, selectively develops, owns and manages healthcare properties that are leased to physicians, hospitals, and healthcare delivery systems. The company invests in real estate that is integral to providing healthcare services. The company's properties are located on a campus with a hospital or other healthcare facilities or strategically affiliated with a hospital or other healthcare system. The company's principal investments include medical office buildings, outpatient treatment facilities, and other real estate integral to health care providers.

Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Plains All American Pipeline is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company owns and operates midstream energy infrastructure and provides logistics services for crude oil, natural gas liquids (NGL) and natural gas. The company has three operating segments: Transportation, which provides activities associated with transporting crude oil and NGL on pipelines, gathering systems, trucks and barges; Facilities, which provides storage, terminalling and throughput services for crude oil, NGL and natural gas, as well as NGL fractionation and isomerization services and natural gas and condensate processing services; and Supply and Logistics, which provides merchant-related activities.

Sprint Corp.

Sprint is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a communications company providing wireless and wireline communications products and services to consumers, businesses, government subscribers, and resellers. The company has two segments: Wireless, which provides wireless services on a postpaid and prepaid payment basis to retail subscribers and also on a wholesale basis, including the sale of wireless services that utilize the company's network but are sold under the wholesaler's brand; and Wireline, which provides a suite of wireline communication services to other communications companies and targeted business customers, as well as voice, data and internet protocol communication services.

Stratasys Ltd.

Superior Industries International Inc.

Superior Industries International is engaged in the design and manufacture of aluminum wheels for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America and Europe and aftermarket distributors in Europe. The company's OEM aluminum wheels are primarily sold for factory installation on vehicle models manufactured by BMW (including Mini), Daimler AG Company (Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Smart), FCA, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mazda, Nissan, PSA, Renault, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, VW Group (Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley) and Volvo. The company also sells aluminum wheels to the European aftermarket under the brands ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO.

Theravance Biopharma Inc

VEREIT Inc.

VEREIT is a real estate operating company which owns and manages portfolios of single-tenant commercial properties in the U.S. Substantially all of the company's real estate operations are conducted through its Operating Partnership, VEREIT Operating Partnership, L.P. The company is the sole general partner of the Operating Partnership.

Vitamin Shoppe

Vitamin Shoppe is a retailer and contract manufacturer of vitamins, minerals, herbs, specialty supplements, sports nutrition and other health and wellness products. The company's product categories are: Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs and Homeopathy, which includes multi-vitamins such as Vitamins A, C, D, E, and B-complex, along with calcium, magnesium, chromium and zinc; Sports Nutrition, which include protein and weight gain powders, meal replacements, weight management, and pre and post-workout supplements; Specialty Supplements, which include organic greens, psyllium fiber and soy proteins; and Other, which include items such as on the go bars, drinks and snacks, natural beauty and personal care.

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