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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• We continue to believe the markets are in a consolidation similar to 1994. Please review our Compass dated May 29th, 2018

• Many Consumer Discretionary stocks continue to lead the market and suggests the economy is doing fine overall.

• A number of Semi and Semi-supplier names are breaking out too new price and RS highs.

• Banks and brokers are our major concern right now. A break down in these names would likely suggest a market top. If they can consolidate at their present levels that would be a positive.
Underlyings
Applied Optoelectronics Inc.

Applied Optoelectronics provides fiber-optic networking products, for four networking end-markets: internet data center, cable television, telecommunications, and fiber-to-the-home. The company designs and manufactures a range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies and modules to complete turn-key equipment. The company's components often incorporate one or more of its optical laser chips inside a precision housing that provides mechanical protection as well as standardized electrical contacts. Other optical components may also include optical filters or other optical elements by which optical signals are routed internally within the component.

Brooks Automation Inc.

Brooks Automation provides semiconductor manufacturing automation solutions and life science sample-based services and solutions worldwide. In the semiconductor manufacturing market, the company provides robotics, automation systems and services. In the life sciences market, the company provides sample-based services and products, including a line of cold chain management solutions for handling and storing biological and chemical compound samples used in areas such as drug development, clinical research and advanced cell therapies. The company is also a provider of gene sequencing and gene synthesis services. The company's reportable segments consist of Brooks Semiconductor Solutions Group and Brooks Life Sciences.

Cousins Properties Incorporated

Cousins Properties is a real estate investment trust. The company conducts substantially all of its business through its subsidiary, Cousins Properties LP (CPLP). CPLP also owns Cousins TRS Services LLC, which owns and manages its own real estate portfolio and performs certain real estate related services for other parties. The company's segments are based on the method of internal reporting which classifies operations by property type and geographical area. The segments by property type are: Office, Mixed-Use, and Other. The segments by geographical region are: Atlanta, Charlotte, Austin, Phoenix, Tampa, Orlando, Houston, and Other.

Deckers Outdoor Corporation

Deckers Outdoor is engaged in designing, marketing and distributing footwear, apparel and accessories. The company markets its products primarily under five brands. The UGG brand is comprised of a line of footwear, apparel and accessories for women, men and children. The HOKA brand is a line of footwear and apparel. The Teva brand's product line includes sandals, shoes, and boots. Sanuk brand is comprised of casual shoe and sandal categories. Other brands consist of Koolaburra by UGG brand, a casual footwear fashion using sheepskin and other plush materials. The company's retail stores are primarily UGG brand concept and UGG brand outlet stores.

EHealth Inc.

eHealth is a health insurance marketplace with a technology and service platform that provides consumer engagement, education and health insurance enrollment solutions. The company operates its business in two segments: Medicare, which markets a selection of Medicare-related health insurance plans, and to a lesser extent, ancillary products such as dental and vision insurance, to its Medicare-eligible customers; and Individual, Family and Small Business, which markets individual and family health insurance and small business health insurance plans through its ecommerce platforms (www.eHealth.com and www.eHealthInsurance.com).

Fossil Group Inc.

Fossil Group is a design, marketing and distribution company that focuses on consumer fashion accessories. The company's principal offerings include a line of men's and women's fashion watches and jewelry, handbags, small leather goods, belts and sunglasses. The company's products are distributed through various distribution channels, including wholesale in countries where the company has a physical presence, direct to the consumer through the company's retail stores and commercial websites and through third-party distributors in countries where the company does not maintain a physical presence. The company's reportable operating segments are comprised of Americas, Europe, and Asia.

General Motors Company

General Motors designs, builds and sells trucks, crossovers, cars and automobile parts. The company also provides automotive financing services through its subsidiary, General Motors Financial Company, Inc. (GM Financial). GM Financial provides retail loan and lease lending across the credit spectrum. GM Financial provides commercial lending products to dealers including new and used vehicle inventory floorplan financing and dealer loans, which are loans to finance improvements to dealership facilities, to provide working capital, and to purchase and/or finance dealership real estate. Other commercial lending products include financing for parts and accessories, dealer fleets and storage centers.

Hersha Hospitality Trust Class A

Hersha Hospitality Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company invests primarily in institutional grade hotels in primary urban gateway markets including New York, Washington, District of Columbia, Boston, Philadelphia, South Florida and select markets on the West Coast. The company owns its hotels and its investments in joint ventures through its operating partnership, Hersha Hospitality Limited Partnership, for which the company serves as the sole general partner. The majority of the company's wholly-owned hotels are managed by Hersha Hospitality Management, L.P., a management company owned by certain of its trustees and executive officers and other unaffiliated third party investors.

Iridium Communications Inc.

Iridium Communications is a provider of mobile voice and data communications services to businesses, the U.S. and foreign governments, non-governmental organizations and consumers. The company's Commercial Services include Postpaid Mobile Voice and Data Satellite Communications, Iridium push-to-talk, Broadband Data, and Internet of Things (IoT) Services. The company provides U.S. government customers bulk access to its services, including voice, netted voice, data, messaging and paging services. The company's products include Satellite Handsets, Iridium GO!, Voice and Data Modems, Broadband Data Devices, IoT Data Devices, and Device Development and Manufacturing.

Keysight Technologies Inc

Keysight Technologies is a technology company. The company's segments are: Communications Solutions Group, which provides electronic design and test software, instruments and systems and related services used in the simulation, design, validation, manufacturing, installation and optimization of electronic equipment; Electronic Industrial Solutions Group, which provides test and measurement solutions and related services across a set of electronic industrial end markets; and Ixia Solutions Group, which helps customers design, validate and support the performance and security of their networks and associated components and applications.

Kirkland's Inc.

Kirkland's is a retailer of home decor in the U.S., operating in stores as well as an e-commerce enabled website, www.kirklands.com. The company's stores present a selection of merchandise, including holiday decor, furniture, art, fragrance and accessories, ornamental wall decor, decorative accessories, mirrors, lamps, textiles, artificial floral products, gifts, housewares, outdoor living items, frames and clocks. The company's stores provides assortment of holiday merchandise during seasonal periods as well as items carried throughout the year suitable for gift-giving. The company provides its customers an engaging shopping experience characterized by merchandise selection reflecting existing styles.

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.

Luminex Corp

Luminex develops, manufactures and sells biological testing technologies and products with applications in the life sciences industries, including diagnostics, pharmaceutical and research. The company delivers its products to various market segments, including multiplexing, reduction of labor and ability to test for proteins and nucleic acids. The company's products include: instruments, which include Luminex? 100/200?, FLEXMAP? 3D, MAGPIX?, ARIES?, and ARIES? M1; consumables, which include MicroPlex? Microspheres, MagPlex? Microspheres, and xTAG? Microspheres; software, which includes xPONENT?, TDAS?, SYNCT?, and IDEAS?; and clinical diagnostic assay product families, which include ARIES? Cassettes.

Maiden Holdings Ltd.

MSCI Inc. Class A

MSCI is a provider of decision support tools and services for the global investment community. The company's segments are: Index, in which Clients use the company's indexes in various areas of the investment process, including index-linked product creation; Analytics, which provides risk management, performance attribution and portfolio management content, applications and services; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), which helps institutional investors understand how ESG considerations can impact the long-term risk and reward of their portfolio and individual security-level investments; and Real Estate, which includes research, reporting, market data and benchmarking offerings.

NextGen Healthcare Inc

Quality Systems, primarily through its NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, LLC subsidiary, provides technology-based solutions and services to the ambulatory care market in the U.S. The company develops and markets software and services that automate certain aspects of practice management and electronic health records for ambulatory care practices. In addition, the company's software and services facilitate interoperability. The company's software can be licensed and delivered on-premise or in the cloud as software-as-a-service. The company's services include maintenance and support, other services, and complementary services such as managed cloud services, revenue cycle management and electronic data interchange.

Onto Innovation Inc.

Nanometrics is a provider of process control metrology and inspection systems used primarily in the fabrication of semiconductors and other solid-state devices as well as industrial and scientific applications. The company's automated and integrated metrology systems measure dimensions, device structures, topography and various thin film properties, including three-dimensional features and film thickness, as well as optical, electrical and material properties. The company's process control solutions are deployed throughout the semiconductor fabrication process, from front-end-of-line substrate manufacturing, to high-volume production of semiconductors and other devices.

Perry Ellis International Inc.

Ellis (Perry) International designs, manufactures, markets and distributes apparel and accessories. The company sells its products under its owned global brands, licensed brands and private retailer labels. The company's segments are: Men's Sportswear and Swim, Women's Sportswear, Direct-to-Consumer and Licensing. The Men's Sportswear and Swim and Women's Sportswear segments design, import and distribute apparel to department stores and other retail outlets. The Direct-to-Consumer segment sells the company's branded and licensed products through the company's retail stores and e-commerce platform. The Licensing segment receives royalties associated from the use of the company's brand names, including Perry Ellis.

Semtech Corporation

Semtech is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products. The company operates in one reportable segment through three product lines: signal integrity, which includes optical data communications and video transport products used in a variety of enterprise computing, communications, and industrial applications; protection, which are referred to as transient voltage suppressors that provides protection for electronic systems where voltage spikes; and wireless and sensing, which includes LoRa? devices and wireless radio frequency technology, and smart proximity sensing and user interface solutions for its mobile and consumer products.

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.

Superior Industries International Inc.

Superior Industries International is engaged in the design and manufacture of aluminum wheels for sale to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) in North America and Europe and aftermarket distributors in Europe. The company's OEM aluminum wheels are primarily sold for factory installation on vehicle models manufactured by BMW (including Mini), Daimler AG Company (Mercedes-Benz, AMG, Smart), FCA, Ford, GM, Honda, Jaguar-Land Rover, Mazda, Nissan, PSA, Renault, Subaru, Suzuki, Toyota, VW Group (Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT, Skoda, Porsche, Bentley) and Volvo. The company also sells aluminum wheels to the European aftermarket under the brands ATS, RIAL, ALUTEC and ANZIO.

Transocean Ltd.

TripAdvisor Inc.

TripAdvisor is an online travel company. The company operates a travel platform that connects the travelers with travel partners through content, price comparison tools, and online reservation and related services for destinations, accommodations, travel activities and experiences, and restaurants. The company manages its business in the following segments: Hotels, Media and Platform, which provides services such as click-based advertising on Tripadvisor-branded websites, subscription-based and display-based advertising, and other services; Experiences and Dining, which provides information and services for consumers to research and book activities, attractions, and restaurants in travel destinations.

Uniti Group Inc.

Uniti Group is a real estate investment trust engaged in the acquisition and construction of infrastructure in the communications industry. The company's four lines of business are: Uniti Fiber, which is a provider of infrastructure solutions, including cell site backhaul and small cell for wireless operators and ethernet; Uniti Towers, which constructs and leases space on communications towers to wireless service providers and other tenants; Uniti Leasing, which is engaged in acquiring communications assets, such as fiber, data centers, consumer broadband, coaxial and upgradeable copper; and Talk America Services, LLC, which provides local telephone, high-speed internet and long distance service.

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