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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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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.

Associated Banc-Corp

Associated Banc is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking and nonbanking products and services. The company has three segments: Corporate and Commercial Specialty, which includes lending solutions, deposit and cash management solutions, and financial services; Community, Consumer, and Business, which includes lending solutions, deposit and transactional solutions, investable funds solutions, trust and investment management accounts, insurance and benefits-related products and services, and fiduciary services; and Risk Management and Shared Services, which includes corporate risk management, credit administration, finance, treasury, and operations and technology.

Bluegreen Vacations Corp

Bluegreen Vacations is a vacation ownership company that markets and sells vacation ownership interests (VOIs) and manages resorts in leisure and urban destinations. The company operates through two segments: sales of VOIs and financing, which includes its marketing and sales activities related to the VOIs that it owns, its sale of VOIs through fee-for-service arrangements with third-party developers, and its provision of consumer financing in connection with sales of VOIs that it owns; and resort operations and club management, which includes its provision of management services to its Bluegreen Vacation Club (Vacation Club) and to homeowners' associations of the resorts within its Vacation Club.

Carpenter Technology Corporation

Carpenter Technology is a producer and distributor of alloys, including titanium alloys, powder metals, stainless steels, alloy steels, and tool steels as well as drilling tools. The company's alloy-based materials and process solutions are used for applications in the aerospace, defense, transportation, energy, medical, industrial and consumer markets as well as additive manufacturing processes and soft magnetics applications. The company also produces metal powders and parts. The company has two business segments: Specialty Alloys Operations, which consists of the company's alloy and stainless steel manufacturing operations; and Performance Engineered Products, which consists of the company's differentiated operations.

Cato Corporation Class A

Cato is a fashion retailer which operates under the names Cato, Cato Fashions, Cato Plus, It's Fashion, It's Fashion Metro and Versona. The Cato concept provides fashion apparel and accessories in junior/missy and plus sizes. The Cato concept's stores and e-commerce website feature an assortment of apparel and accessories, including dressy, career, and casual sportswear, dresses, coats, shoes, lingerie, costume jewelry and handbags. The It's Fashion and It's Fashion Metro concepts provide fashion with styles for the family. The Versona concept's stores and e-commerce website provide fashion apparel items, jewelry and accessories. The company also provides its own credit card and layaway plan.

Children's Place Inc.

Children's Place is a children's apparel retailer in North America. The company sells apparel, accessories, footwear and other items for children. The company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells at retail and wholesale, and licenses to sell merchandise, the substantial majority of which is under the proprietary The Children's Place, Place and Baby Place brand names. The company has differentiated departments and serves the wardrobe needs of girls and boys, toddler girls and boys and baby. The company's merchandise is also available online at www.childrensplace.com. The company's segments are The Children's Place U.S. and The Children's Place International.

Clearwater Seafoods Inc.

Clearwater Seafoods is engaged in the ownership and operation of assets and property in connection with the harvesting, processing, distribution and marketing of seafood.

Concho Resources Inc.

Concho Resources is an independent oil and natural gas company engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration and production of oil and natural gas properties. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin of West Texas and Southeast New Mexico.

Deluxe Corporation

Deluxe is engaged in providing payment solutions. The company's marketing solutions and other services provides products and services designed to meet its customers' sales and marketing needs, as well as various other service offerings. The company's forms, accessories and other products provides printed business forms, including deposit tickets, billing forms, work orders, job proposals, purchase orders, invoices and personnel forms, as well as computer forms compatible with accounting software packages commonly used by small businesses. The company also provides other customized products, including envelopes, office supplies, ink stamps, labels, deposit tickets, check registers and checkbook covers.

Devon Energy Corporation

Devon Energy is an independent energy company engaged primarily in the exploration, development and production of oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids. The company's operations are concentrated in various onshore areas in United States. The company's areas of operation include Delaware Basin, Eagle Ford, Powder River Basin and the STACK development, located primarily in Oklahoma's Canadian, Kingfisher and Blaine counties.

Diamondback Energy Inc.

Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. The company's activities are primarily focused on horizontal development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations of the Midland Basin and the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations of the Delaware Basin, both of which are part of the larger Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico.

EOG Resources Inc.

EOG Resources, together with its subsidiaries, explores for, develops, produces and markets crude oil, natural gas liquids and natural gas primarily in main producing basins in the United States, The Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, The People's Republic of China, Canada and, from time to time, select other international areas.

First Horizon Corporation

First Horizon National is a bank holding company. The company provides financial services primarily through its principal subsidiary, First Horizon Bank. The company's business segments include: regional banking, which provides investments, wealth management, financial planning, trust services and asset management, mortgage banking, credit card, and cash management; fixed income, which consists of fixed income securities sales, trading, underwriting, and strategies for institutional clients in the United States and abroad, as well as loan sales, portfolio advisory services, and derivative sales; and non-strategic, which includes run-off consumer lending activities and pre-2009 mortgage banking elements.

Fluor Corporation

Fluor is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides engineering, procurement, construction, fabrication and modularization, operations, maintenance and asset integrity, as well as project management services. The company serves a set of industries including oil and gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, mining and metals, transportation, power, life sciences and manufacturing. The company is also a service provider to the U.S. federal government and governments abroad; and it performs operations, maintenance and asset integrity activities for industrial clients. The company has four segments: Energy & Chemicals; Mining, Industrial, Infrastructure & Power; Diversified Services; and Government.

Healthcare Services Group Inc.

Healthcare Services Group provides management, administrative and operating capability and services to the housekeeping, laundry, linen, facility maintenance and dietary service departments of the health care industry, including nursing homes, retirement complexes, rehabilitation centers and hospitals. The company's reportable segments are: housekeeping, laundry, linen and other services, which focuses on cleaning, disinfecting and sanitizing of resident rooms, as well as the laundering and processing of the bed linens, uniforms, resident personal clothing and other assorted linen items; and dietary department services, which focuses on food purchasing, meal preparation and dietitian services.

HealthStream Inc.

Healthstream provides workforce and provider solutions for healthcare organizations. The company's segments are: Workforce Solutions, which is comprised primarily of Software-as-a-Service and subscription-based products for clinical development, talent management, training, certification, competency assessment, performance appraisal, and additional needs; and Provider Solutions, which provides EchoCredentialing? and MSOW? platforms that manage medical staff credentialing and privileging processes for hospitals, EchoOneApp? platform for medical groups, and EchoAccess? platform to support hospital call centers with physician referral and provider directories functionalities.

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Helmerich & Payne provides drilling services and technologies for oil and gas exploration and production companies. The company's contract drilling business segments are: United States Land, which operates in Colorado, Louisiana, Ohio, Oklahoma, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming; Offshore, which operates in United States federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico; and International Land, which has rigs in Argentina, Bahrain, Colombia and United Arab Emirates. The company's drilling technology-based business segment, Helmerich & Payne Technologies, is focused on developing, promoting and commercializing technologies designed to improve the drilling operations.

Herbalife Nutrition Ltd.

Herbalife Nutrition is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a nutrition company. The company's products categories are: weight management, which provides meal replacement, protein shakes, drink mixes, weight loss solutions and healthy snacks; targeted nutrition, which provides beverages and dietary and nutritional supplements containing herbs, vitamins, minerals and other natural ingredients; energy, sports, and fitness, which provides products that support a healthy active lifestyle; outer nutrition, which provides facial skin care, body care, and hair care; and literature, promotional and other, which provides start-up kits, sales tools, and educational materials.

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings Inc Class A

Liberty TripAdvisor Holdings is a holding company. Through its ownership of an interests in its subsidiary, TripAdvisor, Inc. (TripAdvisor), the company is primarily engaged in the online travel industry. TripAdvisor, by and through its subsidiaries, owns and operates a portfolio of online travel brands. TripAdvisor provides users and travel partners platform about destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. TripAdvisor operates in the global travel industry, focusing on online travel and travel-related activity, and the online advertising market.

Marathon Oil Corporation

Marathon Oil is an independent exploration and production company focused on the United States resource plays. The company also has international operations in Equatorial Guinea (E.G.). The company's segments are: United States, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and natural gas in the United States; and International, which explores for, produces and markets crude oil and condensate, NGLs and natural gas outside of the United States as well as produces and markets products manufactured from natural gas, such as liquefied natural gas and methanol, in E.G.

MEREDITH CORP

Meredith is a media company. The company is engaged in providing consumers with content and delivering the messages of its advertising and marketing partners. The company operates two business segments: national media and local media. The company's national media segment includes national consumer media brands delivered via multiple media platforms including print magazines, digital and mobile media, brand licensing activities, database-related activities, affinity marketing, and business-to-business marketing products and services. The company's local media segment consists of television stations located across the United States in markets with related digital and mobile media assets.

Molson Coors Beverage Company Class B

Molson Coors Brewing is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a brewer and has a portfolio of brands, including Blue Moon, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Miller Lite, Staropramen, Carling, Molson Canadian and other brands, as well as craft and specialty beers such as Creemore Springs, Cobra, Doom Bar, Henry's Hard and Leinenkugel's. The company's segments include: MillerCoors LLC operating in the U.S.; Molson Coors Canada operating in Canada; Molson Coors Europe operating in Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Montenegro, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, the U.K. and various other European countries; and Molson Coors International operating in various other countries.

Monro Inc

Monro is engaged principally in providing automotive undercar repair and tire sales and services. The company provides a range of services on passenger cars, light trucks and vans for brakes; mufflers and exhaust systems; and steering, drive train, suspension and wheel alignment. The company also provides other products and services, including tires and routine maintenance services, including state inspections. The company focuses on the repair and replacement of parts which periodically replaced as they wear out. The company does not perform under-the-hood repair services except for oil change services, various flush and fill services and some minor tune-up services.

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.

NewMarket Corporation

NewMarket is a holding company and is the parent company of Afton Chemical Corporation (Afton), Ethyl Corporation (Ethyl), NewMarket Services Corporation (NewMarket Services), and NewMarket Development Corporation (NewMarket Development). Afton manufactures and sells petroleum additives, while Ethyl represents the sale of tetraethyl lead (antiknock compounds) in North America as well as certain contracted manufacturing and services. NewMarket Development manages the property that the company owns in Virginia. NewMarket Services provides various administrative services to the company, Afton, Ethyl, and NewMarket Development. The company's business is principally engaged in lubricant additives and fuel additives.

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.

NOV Inc.

National Oilwell Varco is an independent provider of equipment and technology to the upstream oil and gas industry. The company's segments include: Wellbore Technologies, which designs, manufactures, rents, and sells a variety of equipment and technologies used to perform drilling operations; Completion and Production Solutions, which designs, manufactures, and sells equipment and technologies for hydraulic fracture stimulation, well intervention, onshore production, and offshore production; and Rig Technologies, which designs, manufactures and sells land rigs, offshore drilling equipment packages, and drilling rig components that mechanize and automate the drilling process and rig functionality.

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.

Oceaneering International Inc.

Oceaneering International is a provider of engineered services and products, primarily to the offshore oil and gas industry. The company's segments are: Energy Services and Products; and Advanced Technologies. The company's business segments within the Energy Services and Products business are remotely operated vehicles, subsea products, subsea projects and asset integrity. The company's Advanced Technologies segment consists of government; and commercial business units: Government services and products include engineering and related manufacturing in defense and space exploration activities. The company's commercial business unit provides a turnkey solution that includes program management, and engineering design.

Oil States International Inc.

Oil States International, through its subsidiaries, is an oilfield products and services company serving the drilling, completion, subsea, production and infrastructure sectors of the oil and gas industry. The company is also a provider of completion services to the industry. The company operates through three segments: well site services, whose operations primarily include completion-focused equipment and services as well as land drilling services; downhole technologies, which provides oil and gas perforation systems and downhole tools; and offshore/manufactured products, which designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment utilized on floating production systems, among others.

PacWest Bancorp

PacWest Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Pacific Western Bank, the company is focused on relationship-based business banking to small, middle-market, and venture-backed businesses nationwide. The company's Community Banking group provides real estate loans, commercial loans, and deposit and treasury management services to small and medium-sized businesses. The company's National Lending group provides asset-based, equipment, and real estate loans and treasury management services to middle-market businesses. The company's Venture Banking group provides loans and financial services focused on entrepreneurial and venture-backed businesses and their venture capital and private equity investors.

Patterson-UTI Energy Inc.

Patterson-UTI Energy is an oilfield services company that primarily owns and operates fleets of land-based drilling rigs and a fleet of pressure pumping equipment. The company's business segments are: contract drilling services, which markets its contract drilling services to independent and other oil and natural gas operators; pressure pumping services, which provides pressure pumping services to oil and natural gas operators, primarily in Texas, the Mid-Continent region and the Appalachian region; and directional drilling services, which provides a suite of directional drilling services, including directional drilling and downhole performance motors in various onshore oil and natural gas basins.

PDC Energy Inc.

PDC Energy is an independent exploration and production company that acquires, explores and develops properties for the production of crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids with operations in the Wattenberg Field in Colorado and the Delaware Basin in Texas. The company's operations in the Wattenberg Field are focused in the horizontal Niobrara and Codell plays and its Delaware Basin operations are primarily focused in the Wolfcamp zones. The company is engaged in two operating segments: its oil and gas exploration and production segment and its gas marketing segment.

ProPetro Holding Corp.

ProPetro Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiary, the company is engaged as an oilfield services company providing hydraulic fracturing and other services to upstream oil and gas companies engaged in the exploration and production of North American unconventional oil and natural gas resources. The company's operations are primarily focused in the Permian Basin. In addition to its core hydraulic fracturing operations, the company provides complementary well completion and production services, including cementing, coiled tubing, flowback services and drilling. The company conducts its business through five segments: hydraulic fracturing (inclusive of acidizing), cementing, coil tubing, flowback and drilling.

S&T Bancorp Inc.

S&T Bancorp is a bank holding company and a financial holding company. Through S&T Bank and its non-bank subsidiaries, the company provides consumer, commercial and small business banking services, which include accepting time and demand deposits and originating commercial and consumer loans, brokerage services and trust services including serving as executor and trustee under wills and deeds and as guardian and custodian of employee benefits. The company also manages private investment accounts for individuals and institutions through its registered investment advisor.

Safe Bulkers Inc.

Safe Bulkers is an international provider of marine drybulk transportation services, transporting bulk cargoes, particularly coal, grain and iron ore, along worldwide shipping routes for consumers of marine drybulk transportation services. As of Feb. 9, 2018, Co. had a fleet of 39 drybulk vessels, with an aggregate carrying capacity of 3,513,800 dwt and an average age of 7.6 years. Co. deploys its vessels on both period time charters and spot time charters. The vessels on period time charters provide Co. with relatively stable cash flow and utilization rates, while the vessels in the spot market allow Co. to maintain its flexibility in low charter market conditions.

Spok Holdings

Spok Holdings provides a suite of unified clinical communication and collaboration solutions that include call center operations, clinical alerting and notifications, one-way and two-way wireless messaging services, mobile communications and public safety solutions. The company also develops, sells and supports enterprise-wide systems for hospitals and other organizations needing to automate, centralize and standardize mission clinical communications. These solutions are used for contact centers, clinical alerting and notification, mobile communications and messaging and for public safety notifications.

SunCoke Energy Inc.

SunCoke Energy is an independent producer of coke. The company owns and operates a logistics business that provides handling and/or mixing services to steel, coke (including some of its domestic cokemaking facilities), electric utility, coal producing and other manufacturing based customers. The company's segments are: Domestic Coke, which consists of Jewell, Indiana Harbor, Haverhill, Granite City, and Middletown facilities; Brazil Coke, which operates the ArcelorMittal Brasil S.A. cokemaking facility; and Logistics, which consists of Convent Marine Terminal, Kanawha River Terminal, SunCoke Lake Terminal, and Dismal River Terminal.

Tactile Systems Technology Inc.

Tactile Systems Technology is a medical technology company that develops and provides medical devices for the treatment of chronic diseases. The company is the manufacturer and distributor of the Flexitouch and Entre systems, medical devices that help control symptoms of lymphedema, a chronic and progressive medical condition, the Actitouch system, a medical device used to treat venous leg ulcers and chronic venous insufficiency, and the Airwear wrap, a medical device used for the management of venous insufficiency, venous hypertension, venous ulcerations and lymphedema. The company provides its products for use in the home and sells them through vascular, wound and lymphedema clinics.

Tidewater Inc

Tidewater provides offshore marine support and transportation services to the global offshore energy industry through the operation of a fleet of marine service vessels. The company's vessels and associated vessel services provide support of several phases of offshore oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production. These services include towing of, and anchor handling for, mobile offshore drilling units; transporting supplies and personnel necessary to sustain drilling, workover and production activities; offshore construction and seismic and subsea support; and a variety of services such as pipe and cable laying.

Transocean Ltd.

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.

Triumph Group Inc.

Triumph Group designs, engineers, manufactures, repairs, and overhauls a portfolio of aerospace and defense systems, components, and structures. The company provides its products and services through three segments: Triumph Integrated Systems, which is engaged in the design, development and support of proprietary components, subsystems and systems, as well as production of assemblies using external designs; Triumph Aerospace Structures, whose companies supply commercial, business, regional and military manufacturers with metallic and composite structures and produce close-tolerance parts; and Triumph Product Support, whose companies provide solutions for commercial, regional and military aircraft.

Wells Fargo & Company

Wells Fargo & Company is a financial and a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance. The company provides consumer financial products and services including checking and savings accounts, credit and debit cards, and automobile, student, mortgage and home equity and small business lending, as well as financial planning, private banking, investment management, and fiduciary services. The company also provides financial solutions including commercial loans and lines of credit, letters of credit, asset-based lending, trade financing, treasury management, and investment banking services.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. Class A

World Wrestling Entertainment is a media and entertainment company. The company is engaged in the production and distribution of content through various channels, including its over-the-top subscription network (WWE Network), content rights agreements, pay-per-view event programming, filmed entertainment, live events, licensing of WWE themed products, and the sale of consumer products. The company's operations are organized around the following activities: Media, which reflects the production and monetization of media content across various platforms; Live events, which provides ongoing content for its media platforms; and Consumer Products, which engages in the merchandising of WWE branded products.

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