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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 46.63 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Consumer Cyclical names continue to develop positively. (ex. APTV, WGO, CROX, NKE, SKX, MAT, RRGB, BKE, MIK, SIG, and DKS)

• A few names in Consumer Staples are developing positively. (ex. INGR, MKC, and K)

• A few names in the Materials Sector are developing positively (ex. CMP, and CMC)
Underlyings
Anixter International Inc.

Anixter International is engaged in the distribution of network and security solutions, electrical and electronic solutions, and utility power solutions through Anixter Inc. and its subsidiaries. The Network and Security Solutions segment supplies products and customized supply chain solutions. The Electrical and Electronic Solutions segment supplies wire and cable, control, lighting and electrical bulk products and customized supply chain solutions. The Utility Power Solutions segment supplies electrical transmission and distribution products, power plant maintenance, repair and operations supplies and smart-grid products, and arranges materials management and procurement outsourcing.

Aptiv PLC

Becton Dickinson and Company

Becton, Dickinson and Company is a medical technology company engaged in the development, manufacture and sale of a range of medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment and diagnostic products. The company's segments are: BD Medical, which produces an array of medical technologies and devices that are used to help improve healthcare delivery in a range of settings; BD Life Sciences, which provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostics specimens, and instruments and reagent systems to detect a range of infectious diseases, healthcare-associated infections and cancers; and BD Interventional, which provides vascular, urology, oncology and surgical products.

Cirrus Logic Inc.

Cirrus Logic focuses on low-power integrated circuits (ICs) for audio, voice and other signal-processing applications. The company's product lines include: Portable Products, including codecs, which are chips that integrate analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) into a single IC, smart codecs, which are codecs with digital signal processing integrated, amplifiers, micro-electromechanical systems microphones, haptic drivers, standalone digital signal processors, and its SoundClear? technology, which includes a portfolio of tools, software and algorithms; and Non-Portable and Other Products, which include ICs, codecs, ADCs, DACs, digital interfaces and amplifiers.

Compass Minerals International Inc.

Compass Minerals International is a holding company. Through its wholly owned subsidiaries, the company is a provider of minerals, including salt, secondary nutrients and micronutrients, and specialty chemicals. The company has three reportable segments: Salt, which produces, markets and sells salt and magnesium chloride and sodium chloride; Plant Nutrition North America, which includes sales of sulfate of potash specialty fertilizer and specialty plant nutrients; and Plant Nutrition South America, which manufactures, distributes and markets an array of specialty plant nutrients and supplements developed and formulated from primary and secondary nutrients, specialty plant nutrients and biostimulants.

Crocs Inc.

Crocs is engaged in the design, development, marketing, distribution, and sale of casual lifestyle footwear and accessories for men, women, and children. The company provides a variety of footwear products including sandals, flips and slides, which the company collectively refer to as sandals, shoes, and boots. The majority of shoes within the company's collection contains Croslite? material. The company's wholesale channel includes domestic and international multi-brand retailers, e-tailers, and distributors; the company's retail channel consists of company-operated stores; and the company's e-commerce channel includes company-operated e-commerce sites and third-party marketplaces.

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.

EVERTEC Inc.

Evertec is a transaction processing business in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company manages a system of electronic payment networks that process transactions, and provides a suite of services for bank processing, cash processing and technology outsourcing. The company owns and operates the ATH network, a personal identification number debit network in Latin America. The company has four segments: Merchant Acquiring, which provides services to accept electronic methods of payment; Payment Services - Puerto Rico & Caribbean and Payment Services - Latin America, in which the company is a card processor and card network service provider; and Business Solutions, which provides business process management solutions.

Fiserv Inc.

Fiserv is a provider of financial services technology. The company provides account processing systems, electronic payments processing products and services, internet and mobile banking systems, and related services. The company's segments are: First Data, which provides merchant acquiring, e-commerce, mobile commerce, and other business solutions; Payments and Industry Products, which provides electronic bill payment and presentment services, internet and mobile banking software; and Financial Institution Services, which provides financial institutions with account processing services, item processing and source capture services, loan origination and servicing products, and cash management, among others.

IHS Markit Ltd.

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.

IStar Inc.

iStar finances, invests in and develops real estate and real estate related projects. The company also manages entities focused on ground lease (Ground Lease) and net lease investments. The company has four business segments: real estate finance, which is comprised of senior and mezzanine real estate loans; net lease, which portfolio includes net lease and Ground Lease investment strategies; operating properties, which is comprised of commercial and residential properties, that represent a pool of assets across a range of geographies and property types; and land and development, which is comprised of land entitled for master planned communities and waterfront and urban infill land parcels.

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.

Masimo Corporation

Masimo is a medical technology company that develops, manufactures, and markets a variety of noninvasive monitoring technologies. The company provides its products to hospitals, emergency medical service providers, long-term care facilities, physician offices, veterinarians and consumers. The company's main business is Measure-through Motion and Low Perfusion? pulse oximetry monitoring, known as Masimo Signal Extraction Technology? pulse oximetry. The company's products offerings also includes noninvasive monitoring of blood constituents with an optical signature, optical organ oximetry monitoring, electrical brain function monitoring, acoustic respiration monitoring and exhaled gas monitoring.

Mattel Inc.

Mattel is a global children's entertainment company that engages in the design and production of toys and consumer products. The company's portfolio of owned and licensed brands and products are organized into the following categories: Dolls, which include brands such as Barbie, American Girl, Enchantimals, and Polly Pocket; Infant, Toddler, and Preschool, which include brands such as Fisher-Price and Thomas & Friends, Power Wheels, Fireman Sam, and Shimmer and Shine (Nickelodeon); Vehicles, which include brands such as Hot Wheels, Matchbox, CARS (Disney Pixar), and Jurassic World (NBCUniversal); Action Figures, Building Sets, and Games, which include brands such as MEGA, UNO and WWE.

McCormick & Company Incorporated

McCormick & Co. manufactures, markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavor products to the food industry- retailers, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. The company also is partner in a number of joint ventures that are involved in the manufacture and sale of flavor products. The company's business segments comprised of: consumer, in which the company markets its products to customers and supplies private label items, known as store brands; and flavor solutions, which provides a range of flavor solutions including seasoning blends, spices and herbs, condiments, coating systems and compound flavors.

Michaels Companies Inc

Michaels Companies is an arts and crafts retailer in North America, providing materials, project ideas and education for creative activities. The company also operates a wholesale business under the Darice brand name and a custom framing business under the Artistree brand name. The Michaels store provides general crafts, home decor and seasonal, framing and papercrafting products. The company's Darice business provides a range of craft and hobby items. The company also has online platforms including Michaels.com, ConsumerCrafts.com, Darice.com, AaronBrothers.com (its online framing solution) and its Michaels app, which connects its store and online experiences.

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.

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.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc.

Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, together with its subsidiaries, primarily develops, operates, and franchises restaurants in North America and focuses on serving gourmet burgers. The company's menu features its product, a line of Gourmet Burgers. To complement its Gourmet Burgers Co. provides a line of Red's Tavern Double? burgers. In addition to burgers, the company serves an array of other items. These items include a variety of appetizers, salads, soups, seafood, and other entrees. The company also provides a range of single-serving and shareable desserts as well as its Finest milkshakes. The company's beverages include alcoholic and non-alcoholic specialty drinks, cocktails, wine, and a variety of national and craft beers.

RENAISSANCERE HOLDINGS LTD.

RenaissanceRe Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a global provider of reinsurance and insurance. The company's segments are: Property, which includes its catastrophe class of business, comprising excess of loss reinsurance and excess of loss retrocessional reinsurance to insure insurance and reinsurance companies against natural and man-made catastrophes, and its other property class of business, comprising proportional reinsurance, property per risk, property (re)insurance, binding facilities and regional United States multi-line reinsurance; and Casualty and Specialty, in which the company provides its casualty and specialty reinsurance products and excess of loss coverage.

Signet Jewelers Limited

Skechers U.S.A. Inc. Class A

Skechers USA designs and markets Skechers-branded lifestyle footwear for men, women and children, and performance footwear for men and women under the Skechers Performance brand name. The company also designs and markets men's and women's Skechers branded lifestyle apparel, and license the Skechers brand to others for accessories, leather goods, eyewear and scrub manufacturers, among others. The company's product offering is sold through department and specialty stores, athletic and independent retailers, boutiques and internet retailers. In addition to wholesale distribution, the company's footwear is available at its direct-to-consumer websites and its own retail stores.

Winnebago Industries Inc.

Winnebago Industries is a manufacturer with a portfolio of recreation vehicles and marine products used primarily in leisure travel and outdoor recreation activities. The company's reportable segments include: Towable, which is comprised of products which are not motorized and are generally towed by another vehicle as well as other related manufactured products and services; and Motorhome, which is comprised of products that include a motorized chassis as well as other related manufactured products and services. The company's subsidiary, Chris-Craft USA, Inc., manufactures and sells boats in the recreational powerboat industry through a network of independent authorized dealers.

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