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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.
Underlyings
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.

AquaVenture Holdings

Archrock Inc.

Archrock is an energy infrastructure company with a pure-play focus on midstream natural gas compression. The company is the provider of natural gas compression services to customers in the oil and natural gas industry and a supplier of aftermarket services to customers that own compression equipment. The company has two primary business segments: Contract Operations, which provides contract operations services, including the personnel, equipment, tools, materials and supplies to meet its customers' natural gas compression needs; and Aftermarket Services, which sells parts and components and provides operation, maintenance, overhaul and reconfiguration services to customers who own compression equipment.

B&G Foods Inc.

B&G Foods is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company manufactures, sells and distributes branded shelf-stable and frozen foods and household products across the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. The company complements its branded product retail sales with institutional and food service sales and private label sales. The company's products include frozen and canned vegetables, hot cereals, fruit spreads, canned meats and beans, bagel chips, spices, seasonings, hot sauces, wine vinegar, maple syrup, molasses, salad dressings, pizza crusts, Mexican-style sauces, dry soups, taco shells and kits, salsas, pickles, peppers, tomato-based products, puffed corn and rice snacks, nut clusters and other products.

Black Hills Corporation

Black Hills is a utility holding company, which operates in four segments: Electric Utilities, which generates, transmits and distributes electricity to electric utility customers in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota and Wyoming; Gas Utilities, which serves natural gas utility customers in Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wyoming; Power Generation, which produces electric power from its wind, natural gas and coal-fired generating plants and sells the electric capacity and energy primarily to its utilities under long-term contracts; and Mining, which produces coal at its mine near Gillette, WY, and sells it under long-term contracts to mine-mouth electric generation facilities.

DDR Corp

DDR is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), engaged in the business of acquiring, owning, developing, redeveloping, expanding, leasing, financing and managing shopping centers. As of Dec 31 2017, the company's portfolio consisted of 273 shopping centers (including 137 shopping centers owned through joint ventures). These properties consist of 261 shopping centers owned in the United States and 12 in Puerto Rico. At Dec 31 2017, the company owned and managed approximately 92 million total square feet of gross leasable area through all its properties (wholly-owned and joint venture). The company also owns more than 250 acres of undeveloped land.

Dean Foods Company

Dean Foods is a food and beverage company and a processor and direct-to-store distributor of fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case products. The company manufactures, markets and distributes a branded and private label dairy and dairy case products, including fluid milk, ice cream, cultured dairy products, creamers, ice cream mix and other dairy products to retailers, educational institutions and governmental entities. The company's portfolio includes DairyPure?, and TruMoo? flavored milk brand, along with dairy brands such as Alta Dena ?, Berkeley Farms ?, Country Fresh ?, Dean's ?, Friendly's ?, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms ?, and more. The company also makes and distributes juices, teas and bottled water.

Duluth Holdings Inc. Class B

Duluth Holdings is a lifestyle brand of men's and women's casual wear, workwear and accessories sold through its own channels. The company provides a line of products, such as its Longtail T? shirts, Buck Naked? underwear and Fire Hose? work pants. The company's product assortment includes shirts, pants, underwear, outerwear, footwear, accessories and hard goods. The company has two operating segments: direct and retail. The company's direct channel segment reaches customers nationwide through its website and catalogs. The company's website, www.duluthtrading.com, serves as a storefront for its product assortment, and its website's homepage and category content include pricing, seasonal promotions and products.

El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc

El Pollo Loco Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, El Pollo Loco, Inc., the company develops, franchises, licenses and operates quick-service restaurants under the name El Pollo Loco ?. The restaurants, which are located principally in California but also in Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Utah and Louisiana, engaged in flame-grilled chicken in a variety of contemporary Mexican-influenced entrees, including chicken burritos, chicken quesadillas, chicken tortilla soup, variations on its Pollo Bowl? and Pollo Salads. The company serves individual and family-sized chicken meals, a variety of Mexican-inspired entrees, and sides, and, on a limited-time basis, additional proteins like shrimp.

Endo International Plc

Gulfport Energy Corporation

Gulfport Energy is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company focused on the exploration, exploitation, acquisition and production of natural gas, crude oil and natural gas liquids. The company's principal properties are located in the Utica Shale primarily in Eastern Ohio and the SCOOP Woodford and SCOOP Springer plays in Oklahoma. In addition, among other interests, the company holds an acreage position along the Louisiana Gulf Coast in the West Cote Blanche Bay and Hackberry fields, an acreage position in the Alberta oil sands in Canada through its interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC and an equity interest in Mammoth Energy Services, Inc., an oil field services company.

Hanesbrands Inc.

Hanesbrands is a marketer of basic innerwear and activewear apparel in the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia/Pacific under some apparel brands, including Hanes, Champion, Bonds, DIM, Maidenform, Bali, Playtex, Lovable, Bras N Things, Nur Die/Nur Der, Alternative, L'eggs, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra, and Gear for Sports. The company's segments are: Innerwear, which includes apparel products, such as men's underwear, women's panties, children's underwear, socks and intimate apparel; Activewear, which includes T-shirts, fleece, performance apparel, sport shirts and thermals; and International, which includes innerwear, activewear, hosiery and home goods products, sold outside of the United States.

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.

Kimco Realty Corporation

Kimco Realty is a self-administered real estate investment trust. The company and its subsidiaries are engaged principally in the ownership, management, development and operation of open-air shopping centers, which are anchored generally by grocery stores, off-price retailers, discounters or service-oriented tenants. Additionally, the company provides complementary services on its retail real estate capabilities. The company's ownership interests in real estate consist of its consolidated portfolio and portfolios where the company owns an economic interest, such as properties in the company's investment real estate management programs, where the company partners with institutional investors and also retains management.

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.

Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.

Mid-America Apartment Communities is a multifamily-focused, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns, operates, acquires and develops apartment communities located in the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The company maintains full or partial ownership of apartment communities and commercial properties across 16 states and the District of Columbia. The company's business is conducted principally through Mid-America Apartments, L.P., in which the company is the sole general partner.

National Retail Properties Inc.

National Retail Properties is a real estate investment trust. The company's assets are primarily real estate assets. The company acquires, owns, invests in and develops properties that are leased primarily to retail tenants under long-term net leases and are primarily held for investment.

NetScout Systems Inc.

NetScout Systems provides service assurance and security solutions that are used by customers to assure their digital business services against disruption. Using its Adaptive Service Intelligence technology, the company's solutions convert network traffic data, often referred to as wire data, into metadata, or smart data, the company's offerings can help customers identify and troubleshoot network and application performance issues, defend their networks from distributed denial of service attacks, and find and isolate network threats. The company's products are categorized as service assurance solutions for network and application performance, and business intelligence analytics and cybersecurity solutions.

Northfield Bancorp Inc.

Northfield Bancorp is a savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, Northfield Bank (the Bank), the company's business includes originating multifamily and other commercial real estate loans, purchasing investment securities, including mortgage-backed securities and corporate bonds, and, to a lesser extent, depositing funds in other financial institutions. The Bank also provides construction and land loans, commercial and industrial loans, and home equity loans and lines of credit, and purchases loan participations and pools of loans. The Bank provides a range of deposit accounts, including certificates of deposit, passbook, statement, and money market savings accounts, among others.

Orion Group Holdings

Orion Group Holdings is a construction company in the building, industrial, and infrastructure sectors in the continental U.S., Alaska, Canada, and the Caribbean Basin. The company operates in two segments: marine, which operates under the Orion Marine Group brand and logo; and concrete, which operates under the TAS Commercial Concrete brand and logo. The company's marine construction services include construction, restoration, dredging, maintenance and repair of marine transportation facilities, marine pipelines, bridges and causeways, and marine environmental structures. The concrete segment provides its services in the following areas: light commercial, structural, and other services.

PCM
PCM

PCM is a provider of technology solutions, including hardware products, software and services. The company serves its customers by providing products and services from vendors such as Adobe, Apple, Cisco, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc., Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle, Symantec and VMware. The company has four segments: Commercial, which sells technology solutions to commercial businesses in the U.S.; Public Sector, which consists of sales made primarily to federal, state and local governments, and educational institutions; Canada, which consists of sales made to customers in the Canadian market; and U.K., which consists of results of its U.K. subsidiary, PCM UK, and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.

Ra Pharmaceuticals

Ra Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company using its proprietary peptide chemistry platform to develop therapeutics for the treatment of diseases that are caused by excessive or uncontrolled activation of the complement system, a primary component of the immune system. The company is developing its primary product candidate, zilucoplan, a synthetic, macrocyclic peptide C5 inhibitor, formulated for self-administered, subcutaneous injection, which is an injection into the tissue under the skin, for the treatment of various complement-mediated diseases, including generalized myasthenia gravis, paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, and other complement-mediated disorders.

Salem Media Group Inc. Class A

Salem Media Group is a domestic multimedia company focusing on Christian and conservative content, with media properties comprising radio broadcasting, digital media, and publishing. The company's operating segments are: Broadcasting, which includes the operating results of its radio stations, broadcast networks, and its national sales agencies including its new digital agency Salem Surround; Digital Media, which provides Christian, conservative, investing and health-themed content, e-commerce, audio and video streaming, and other resources digitally through the web; and Publishing, which include Regnery Publishing, Salem Author Services; and Singing News? magazine.

Signet Jewelers Limited

SPARTANNASH CO

SpartanNash is a grocery distributor and grocery retailer. The company operates three segments: Food Distribution, which provides grocery products and perishable food products to independent retailers, the company's corporate owned retail stores, food service distributors and various other customers; Military, which contracts with manufacturers to distribute a range of grocery products, including dry groceries, beverages, meat, and frozen foods, primarily to military commissaries and exchanges; and Retail, which operated corporate owned retail stores in the Midwest region primarily under banners including Family Fare Supermarkets, D&W Fresh Markets, VG's Grocery, Dan's Supermarket and Family Fresh Market.

SUPERVALU INC.

Supervalu is a distributer of grocery and other products and provision of logistics and professional service solutions to retailers across the U.S. The company's business is classified into two reportable segments: Wholesale, which provides wholesale customers a variety of food and non-food products, including national and regional brands, and the company owns lines of private label products, as well as providing an array of professional services that provide wholesale customers with solutions; and Retail, which provides grocery offering and, depending on size, a variety of additional products, including general merchandise, home, health and beauty care, and pharmacy.

TFS Financial

TFS Financial is a stock holding company. The company's primary business activity consists of the ownership of Third Federal Savings and Loan Association of Cleveland (the Association). The Association's principal business consists of originating and servicing residential real estate mortgage loans and accepting retail savings deposits. The Association also provides savings products and first mortgage refinance loans and home equity lines of credit. The Association's principal lending activity is the origination of fixed-rate and adjustable-rate, first mortgage loans to purchase or refinance residential real estate.

TreeHouse Foods Inc.

TreeHouse Foods is a consumer packaged food and beverage manufacturer operating across the United States, Canada, and Italy. The company's reportable segments are: Baked Goods, which sells bars, candy, cookies, crackers; in-store bakery products, pita chips, pretzels, refrigerated dough, and retail griddle waffles, pancakes, and French toast; Beverages, which sells broths, liquid non-dairy creamer, non-dairy powdered creamers, powdered drinks, ready-to-drink coffee, single serve hot beverages, teas, and sweeteners; and Meal Solutions, which sells aseptic cheese and pudding products, baking and mix powders, hot cereals, pasta, and skillet dinners, among others.

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Ross LaDuke

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