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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
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.

Arch Resources Inc. Class A

Arch Coal is a coal producer. The company's main business is the production of thermal and metallurgical coal from surface and underground mines located throughout the United Staets, for sale to utility, industrial and steel producers both in the United States and around the world. The company's segments are based on two lines of business, metallurgical coal and thermal coal, and may include a number of mine complexes. The company's segments are: the Powder River Basin, containing primary thermal operations in Wyoming; the Metallurgical, containing metallurgical operations in West Virginia; and the Other Thermal, containing supplementary thermal operations in Colorado and Illinois.

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.

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.

CME Group Inc. Class A

CME Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company exchanges provides a range of global benchmark products across asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange (FX), agricultural, energy and metal commodities. The company provides futures and options on futures trading across asset classes through its subsidiary, Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (CME) Globex platform, cash and repo fixed income trading via BrokerTec, and cash and OTC FX trading via EBS. In addition, the company operates central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing, a division of CME. The company also provides optimization, reconciliation and processing services through TriOptima, Traiana and Reset.

CVR Energy Inc.

CVR Energy is a holding company. The company is engaged in the petroleum refining and nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing industries through its holdings in CVR Refining, LP (CVR Refining) and CVR Partners, LP (CVR Partners). CVR Refining is an independent petroleum refiner and marketer of transportation fuels. CVR Partners produces and markets nitrogen fertilizers in the form of urea ammonium nitrate and ammonia. The company's segments include: Petroleum, which includes refineries located in Coffeyville, KS and Wynnewood, OK and supporting logistics assets in the region; and Nitrogen Fertilizer, which includes nitrogen fertilizer manufacturing facilities located in Coffeyville, KS and East Dubuque, IL.

Diamond S Shipping

DTE Energy Company

DTE Energy is a holding company. The company is engaged in the generation, purchase, distribution and sale of electricity to customers in southeastern Michigan through its DTE Electric Company subsidiary, as well as in the purchase, storage, transportation, distribution and sale of natural gas throughout Michigan and the sale of storage and transportation capacity through its DTE Gas Company subsidiary. The company's non-utility operations are: gas storage and pipelines, which consists of natural gas pipeline, gathering, transportation, and storage businesses; power and industrial projects; and energy trading, which consists of energy marketing and trading operations.

Empire State Realty Trust Inc. Class A

Empire State Realty Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The company owns, manages, operates, acquires and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building. The company's operating partnership, Empire State Realty OP, L.P., conducts substantially all of the company's business. The company has two reportable segments: Real Estate and Observatory. The company's real estate segment includes all activities related to the ownership, management, operation, acquisition, repositioning and disposition of its real estate assets. The company's observatory segment operates the floor observatories at the Empire State Building.

Farmer Bros. Co.

Farmer Bros. is a coffee roaster, wholesaler and distributor of coffee, tea and culinary products. The company's products are manufactured under supply agreements, under its owned brands, as well as under private labels on behalf of certain customers. The company's product categories consist of the following: a line of roast and ground coffee, including organic, Direct Trade, Project D.I.R.E.C.T.? and other offerings; frozen liquid coffee; flavored and unflavored iced and hot teas; culinary products and coffee-related products; spices; and other beverages. The company's primary brands include Farmer Brothers?, Artisan Collection by Farmer Brothers?, Superior?, Metropolitan?, China Mist? and Boyds?.

FirstEnergy Corp.

FirstEnergy is a public utility holding company. The company and its subsidiaries are principally involved in the transmission, distribution and generation of electricity. The company's reportable operating segments are comprised of: Regulated Distribution, which distributes electricity through the company's utility operating companies and also controls regulated electric generation capacity located primarily in West Virginia, Virginia and New Jersey; and Regulated Transmission, which provides transmission infrastructure owned and operated by the transmission companies and certain of the company's utilities to transmit electricity from generation sources to distribution facilities.

Frank's International NV

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

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.

International Flavors & Fragrances Inc.

International Flavors & Fragrances is a creator and manufacturer of taste, scent and complementary adjacent products, including cosmetic active and natural health ingredients. The company's operating segments are Taste and Scent. The Taste segment develops a range of different flavors and taste offerings for its customers, most of which are tailor-made. The company's Taste business is comprised of various portfolios across flavor compounds, savory solutions, inclusions and nutrition and specialty ingredients. The Scent segment creates fragrance compounds and fragrance ingredients for the household and personal care products. The company also produces cosmetic active and functional ingredients for use in cosmetics.

Lamb Weston Holdings Inc.

Lamb Weston Holdings is a producer, distributor, and marketer of frozen potato products. French fries represent the majority of the company's frozen potato product portfolio. The company's segments include: Global, which includes branded and private label frozen potato products sold in North America and international markets; Foodservice, which includes branded and private label frozen potato products sold throughout the U.S. and Canada; Retail, which includes consumer facing retail branded and private label frozen potato products sold primarily to grocery, mass merchants, club, and specialty retailers; and Other, which includes the company's vegetable and dairy businesses.

Las Vegas Sands Corp.

Las Vegas Sands is a developer of destination properties (Integrated Resorts) that feature accommodations, gaming, entertainment and retail malls, convention and exhibition facilities, restaurants and other amenities. The company owns and operates Integrated Resorts in Asia and the United States. Through its ownership of Sands China Ltd., the company owns and operates properties including The Venetian Macao Resort Hotel, Sands Cotai Central, The Parisian Macao, The Plaza Macao and Four Seasons Hotel Macao, Cotai Strip, and the Sands Macao. In Singapore, the company owns and operates the Marina Bay Sands. The company's Las Vegas Operating Properties includes The Venetian Resort Las Vegas and the Sands Expo Center.

LivaNova Plc

LivaNova is a medical device company focused on the development and delivery of therapeutic solutions. Co. has three product franchises: Neuromodulation, which engaged in the design, development and marketing of neuromodulation therapy for the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy and treatment resistant depression; Cardiac Surgery, which engaged in the development, production and sale of cardiovascular surgery products; and Cardiac Rhythm Management, which engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of products for the diagnosis, treatment, and management of heart rhythm disorders and heart failure.

Murphy Oil Corporation

Murphy Oil is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. The company explores for and produces crude oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids worldwide. The company's principal exploration and production activities are conducted in United States by wholly owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - USA and its subsidiaries, in Canada by wholly-owned Murphy Oil Company Ltd. and its subsidiaries, and in Australia, Brazil, Brunei, Mexico and Vietnam by wholly-owned Murphy Exploration & Production Company - International and its subsidiaries. The company's hydrocarbon production is in United States, Canada and Brunei.

National Fuel Gas Company

National Fuel Gas is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged principally in the production, gathering, transportation, distribution and marketing of natural gas. The company's segments are: Exploration and Production, which is engaged in the exploration for, and the development and production of, natural gas and oil reserves in California and in the Appalachian region; Pipeline and Storage, which provides interstate natural gas transportation and storage services, as well as transports and stores natural gas; Gathering, which builds, owns and operates natural gas processing and pipeline gathering facilities; and Utility, which provides natural gas utility services.

Newpark Resources Inc.

Newpark Resources is engaged in providing products, rentals, and services primarily to the oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry. The company has two reportable segments: Fluids Systems, which provides customized drilling, completion, and stimulation fluids solutions to E&P customers; and Mats and Integrated Services, which provides composite mat rentals utilized for temporary worksite access, along with related site construction services to customers in various markets including E&P, electrical transmission & distribution, pipeline, solar, petrochemical, and construction industries across North America and Europe. The company also sells composite mats to customers around the world.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions Inc.

NexTier Oilfield Solutions is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as a land oilfield focused service company, with a set of well completion and production services across active basins. The company provides its services through its operating subsidiaries to exploration and production customers. Also, the company provides its services in several active basins in the United States, including the Permian, the Marcellus Shale/Utica, the Eagle Ford and the Bakken/Rockies. The company is organized into two segments: Completion Services, which includes Hydraulic Fracturing and Wireline Technologies; and Well Construction and Intervention Services, which includes Cementing and Coiled Tubing.

PBF Energy Inc. Class A

PBF Energy is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged as an independent petroleum refiner and supplier of unbranded transportation fuels, heating oil, petrochemical feedstocks, lubricants and other petroleum products in the U.S. The company operates in two business segments: refining, which the company produces a variety of products at each of its refineries such as gasoline, ultra-low-sulfur diesel, heating oil, jet fuel, lubricants, petrochemicals and asphalt; and logistics, which through its PBF Logistics LP subsidiary, the company owns or leases, operates, develops and acquires crude oil and refined petroleum products terminals, pipelines, storage facilities and similar logistics assets.

Peabody Energy Corporation

Peabody Energy is a coal company, engaged in the mining of thermal coal for sale primarily to electric utilities and metallurgical coal for sale to industrial customers. The company owns interests in several coal mining operations located in the U.S. and Australia. The company has a majority interest in several of those mining operations and an equity interest in Middlemount Coal Pty Ltd. (Middlemount), which owns the Middlemount Mine in Queensland, Australia. In addition to its mining operations, the company markets and brokers coal from other coal producers, both as principal and agent, and trade coal and freight-related contracts through trading and business offices in the U.S., Australia, China, and the U.K.

Planet Fitness Inc. Class A

Planet Fitness is a holding company. Through its subsidiries, the company is engaged as a franchisor and operator of fitness centers. The company's stores include co-branded cardio equipment, free weights, strength machines, a workout area, a small retail area and a drink cooler. The company operates and manages its business in three business segments: Franchise, which includes operations related to its franchising business in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, the Dominican Republic and Panama; Corporate-owned stores, which includes operations with respect to all corporate-owned stores throughout the U.S. and Canada; and Equipment, which includes the sale of equipment to franchisee-owned stores in the U.S.

Scorpio Tankers Inc.

SFL Corporation Limited

South Jersey Industries Inc.

South Jersey Industries is a holding company. The company provides a variety of energy-related products and services through its subsidiaries. The company's subsidiary, SJI Utilities, Inc. owns South Jersey Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in the southernmost counties of New Jersey; Elizabethtown Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in northern and central New Jersey; and Elkton Gas Company, a regulated natural gas utility which distributes natural gas in northern Maryland. The company also operates through its other subsidiaries, among other, South Jersey Energy Company, which acquires and markets electricity to retail end users.

X4 Pharmaceuticals Inc

X4 Pharmaceuticals is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on applying monoclonal antibody (mAb) immunotherapies to address serious infectious diseases. The company's Programs: ASN100 is a combination of two fully human mAbs that are co-administered intravenously to neutralize the six cytotoxins critical to S. aureus pneumonia pathogenesis; ASN500 is a mAb targeting respiratory syncytial virus, a virus that can cause serious respiratory tract infections in young children and elderly and immunocompromised patients; and the company's preclinical stage Gram-negative mAb programs, ASN300 for Klebsiella pneumoniae and ASN200 for Escherichia coli, were outlicensed to the company's subsidiary.

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