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  • Ross LaDuke
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Vermilion Short Shots: Technically Vulnerable Stocks

Short Shots is a collection of technically vulnerable charts culled from the Negative Inflecting and Toppy columns within our Weekly Compass report or from various technical screening processes. The charts contained in this report have developed concerning technical patterns that suggest further price deterioration is likely. For these reasons Short Shots can also be a great source of ideas for investors interested in short-selling candidates.
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Air Products and Chemicals Inc.

Air Products and Chemicals serves customers globally with a portfolio of products, services, and solutions that include atmospheric gases, process and other gases, equipment, and services. The company is a supplier of hydrogen and is engaged in helium and liquefied natural gas (LNG) process technology and equipment. The company also develops, engineers, builds, owns and operates industrial gas projects, including gasification projects that convert abundant natural resources into syngas for the production of power, fuels and chemicals. The company designs and manufactures equipment for air separation, hydrocarbon recovery and purification, LNG, and liquid helium and liquid hydrogen transport and storage.

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.

Automatic Data Processing Inc.

Automatic Data Processing is a provider of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions to employers, providing solutions to businesses of various sizes. The company's two reportable business segments are Employer Services, which provides a range of technology-based HCM solutions, including payroll services, benefits administration, talent management, HR management, workforce management, compliance services, insurance services and retirement services; and Professional Employer Organization, which provides clients with employment administration outsourcing solutions through a relationship in which employees who work for a client are co-employed by the company and the client.

Carrier Global Corp.

Carrier is a global provider of heating, ventilating, air conditioning (HVAC), refrigeration, fire and security solutions. The company also provides a broad array of related building services, including audit, design, installation, system integration, repair, maintenance and monitoring. The company is organized into three business segments: HVAC; Refrigeration; and Fire & Security.

CommVault Systems Inc.

CommVault Systems is a provider of data and information management software applications and related services. The company develops, markets and sells a suite of software applications and services, mainly in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia, that provides its customers with data protection solutions. The company also sells appliances that integrate the company's software with hardware. Company also provides its customers with a range of professional and customer support services.

Dream Finders Homes

ETORO GROUP LTD

Euronet Worldwide Inc.

Euronet Worldwide is an electronic payments provider. The company provides payment and transaction processing and distribution solutions to financial institutions, retailers, service providers and individual consumers. The company operates three segments: Electronic Financial Transaction Processing, which processes transactions for a network of automated teller machines and point-of-sale terminals; epay, which provides distribution and processing of prepaid mobile airtime and other electronic content and payment processing services for various prepaid products, cards and services; and Money Transfer, which provides consumer-to-consumer and global account-to-account money transfer services.

HighPeak Energy Inc (A)

HNI Corporation

HNI provides office furniture and hearth products. The company's Office Furniture segment designs, manufactures, and markets a range of workplace furnishings. The company's portfolio includes panel-based and freestanding furniture systems and complementary products such as seating, storage, tables, and architectural products. The company provides office panel system products, benching, freestanding tables, storage, and social collaborative products. The company's Hearth Products segment manufactures and markets prefabricated fireplaces, hearth stoves, and related products. The company's line of hearth products includes a range of gas, wood, electric, and pellet fueled fireplaces, inserts, stoves, facings, and accessories.

Hormel Foods Corporation

Hormel Foods is primarily engaged in the production of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally. The company's segments are: Grocery Products, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products; Refrigerated Foods, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded pork, beef, chicken, and turkey products; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of branded and unbranded turkey products; and International and Other, which includes Hormel Foods International Corporation that manufactures, markets, and sells the company's products internationally.

J & J Snack Foods Corp.

J&J Snack Foods manufactures snack foods and distributes frozen beverages which it markets nationally to the food service and retail supermarket industries. The company's business segments are: Food Service, which sells soft pretzels, frozen juice treats and desserts, churros, dough enrobed handheld products and baked goods; Retail Supermarkets, which sells soft pretzel products, frozen juice treats and desserts, frozen fruit bars and sorbet, and dough enrobed handheld products including burritos; and Frozen Beverages, which sells frozen beverages to the food service industry and also provides repair and maintenance service to customers for customers' owned equipment.

Kadant Inc.

Kadant is a supplier of equipment and components used in process industries worldwide. Through its Papermaking Systems segment, the company develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and products for the global papermaking, paper recycling, recycling and waste management, and other process industries. Through its Wood Processing Systems segment, the company develops, manufactures, and markets stranders and related equipment used in the production of oriented strand board. Through its Fiber-based Products business, the company manufactures and sells granules derived from papermaking by-products for use as carriers for agricultural, home lawn and garden, and lawn, turf and ornamental applications.

Lennox International Inc.

Lennox International provides climate control solutions. The company designs, manufactures and markets products for the heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration markets. The company's segments are: Residential Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and markets furnaces, air conditioners, heat pumps, packaged heating and cooling systems, equipment and accessories, comfort control products, and replacement parts and supplies; Commercial Heating and Cooling, which manufactures and sells unitary heating and cooling equipment; and Refrigeration, which manufactures and markets equipment for the global commercial refrigeration markets under the Heatcraft Worldwide Refrigeration name.

LEONARDO DRS INC.

LINDE PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY

Louisiana-Pacific Corporation

Louisiana-Pacific is a provider of building solutions serving the new home construction, repair and remodeling and outdoor structures markets. The company has four segments: siding, which includes LP SmartSide? Strand and Fiber trim and siding, as well as LP Outdoor Building Solutions? products for outdoor buildings; oriented strand board (OSB), which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel products; engineered wood products, which include LP SolidStart? I-Joist, Laminated Veneer Lumber, and other related products; and South America, which manufactures and distributes OSB structural panel and siding products in South America and certain export markets.

Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. Class A

Magnolia Oil & Gas is engaged in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of oil and natural gas properties located in the U.S. The company's oil and natural gas properties are located primarily in Karnes County and the Giddings Field in South Texas, where it primarily targets the Eagle Ford Shale and the Austin Chalk formation.

Matador Resources Company

Matador Resources is an independent energy company engaged in the exploration, development, production and acquisition of oil and natural gas resources in the United States, with a focus on oil and natural gas shale and other unconventional plays. The company's operations are focused on the oil and liquids-rich portion of the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring plays in the Delaware Basin in Southeast New Mexico and West Texas. The company also operates in the Eagle Ford shale play in South Texas and the Haynesville shale and Cotton Valley plays in Northwest Louisiana. Also, the company conducts midstream operations, through its midstream joint venture, San Mateo Midstream, LLC together with San Mateo Midstream II, LLC.

Mondelez International Inc. Class A

Mondelez International sells food and beverage products. The company makes and sells primarily snacks, including biscuits (cookies, crackers and salted snacks), chocolate, gum and candy, as well as various cheese and grocery and powdered beverage products. The company's portfolio includes snack brands such as Cadbury, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Halls candy; Trident gum and Tang powdered beverages. The company's operations and management structure are organized into four operating segments: Latin America; Asia, Middle East and Africa; Europe; and North America. The company sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, value stores and other retail food outlets.

Netflix Inc.

Netflix is engaged in subscription streaming entertainment service including TV series, documentaries and feature films across a variety of genres and languages. Members can watch as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, on any internet-connected screen. Members can play, pause and resume watching, without commercials. Additionally, several members in the United States subscribe to the company's DVD-by-mail service. The company improves its streaming content with a focus on a programming mix of content. The company's members can download a selection of titles for offline viewing. The company operates its business as a global operating segment.

Shift4 Payments

SM Energy Company

SM Energy is an independent energy company engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development, and production of oil, gas, and natural gas liquids in the state of Texas. The company's operations are concentrated in the Midland Basin and South Texas.

SPORTRADAR GROUP AG

SPOTIFY TECHNOLOGY SA

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.

Tecnoglass Inc.

Trex Company Inc.

Trex Company is a manufacturer of composite decking and railing products, which are marketed under the brand name Trex?. In addition, the company is a national provider of custom-engineered railing and staging, systems for the commercial and multi-family market, including sports stadiums and performing arts venues. The company operates in two reportable segments: Trex Residential Products, which provides a set of product offerings in the decking, railing, fencing, steel deck framing, and outdoor lighting categories; and Trex Commercial Products, which designs and engineers custom railing solutions, which are used in collegiate sports facilities, standardized architectural and aluminum railing systems.

Watsco Inc.

Watsco is a distributor of air conditioning, heating and refrigeration equipment and related parts and supplies in North America. The products the company distributes consist of: equipment, including residential ducted and ductless air conditioners, gas, electric, and oil furnaces, commercial air conditioning and heating equipment systems, and other equipment; parts, including replacement compressors, evaporator coils, motors, and other component parts; supplies, including thermostats, insulation material, refrigerants, ductwork, grills, registers, sheet metal, tools, copper tubing, concrete pads, tape, adhesives, and other ancillary supplies; and plumbing and bathroom remodeling supplies.

West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd.

West Fraser Timber is an integrated wood products company producing lumber, newprint, wood chips, plywood, panels and pulp and paper products.

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