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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
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.

Big 5 Sporting Goods Corp.

Big 5 Sporting Goods is a holding company. The company is a sporting goods retailer. The company's product mix includes athletic shoes, apparel and accessories, as well as a range of outdoor and athletic equipment for team sports, fitness, camping, hunting, fishing, tennis, golf, winter and summer recreation and roller sports. The company's stores carry a range of products from brand name manufacturers, including adidas, Coleman, Columbia, Everlast, New Balance, Nike, Rawlings, Skechers, Spalding, Under Armour and Wilson. The company also provides brand name merchandise produced for it, private label merchandise and items the company purchases through opportunistic buys of vendor over-stock and close-out merchandise.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc.

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that discovers oral, small-molecule medicines. The company focuses on oral treatments for rare diseases in which unmet medical needs exist and an enzyme plays the main role in the biological pathway of the disease. The company's drug/drug candidates include: Berotralstat (BCX7353), an oral serine protease inhibitor targeting kallikrein that is being developed as a once-daily oral therapy for the prevention of Hereditary Angioedema; BCX9930, an oral factor D inhibitor for the treatment of complement-mediated diseases; and BCX9250, an oral activin receptor-like kinase-2 inhibitors for the treatment of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressive.

Braemar Hotels & Resorts

Braemar Hotels & Resorts invests primarily in hotels and resorts. The company conducts its business and owns substantially all of its assets through its operating partnership, Braemar OP. The company operates in the direct hotel investment segment of the hotel lodging industry. The company owns interests in hotel properties in various states, the District of Columbia and St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The hotel properties in the company's portfolio are primarily located in U.S. urban and resort locations. The company is advised by Ashford LLC, a subsidiary of Ashford Inc., through an advisory agreement. All of the hotel properties in the company's portfolio are asset-managed by Ashford LLC.

Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc.

Carrizo Oil & Gas is an energy company which, together with its subsidiaries, is engaged in the exploration, development, and production of crude oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas from resource plays located in the U.S. The company's operations are principally focused in proven, producing oil and gas plays in the Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas and the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Clean Energy Fuels

Clean Energy Fuels is a provider of natural gas as an alternative fuel for vehicle fleets in the U.S. and Canada. The company is engaged in supplying renewable natural gas, compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles and providing operation and maintenance services for vehicle fleet customer stations. The company also, among others, designs, builds, operates and maintains fueling stations; sells and services natural gas fueling compressors and other equipment used in CNG stations and LNG stations; and provides assessment, design and modification solutions to provide operators with code-compliant service and maintenance facilities.

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.

Federated National Holding

Federated National Holding is an insurance holding company. The company controls substantially all steps in the insurance underwriting, distribution and claims processes through its subsidiaries and its contractual relationships with its independent agents and general agents. The company is authorized to underwrite, and/or place through its wholly owned subsidiaries, homeowners' multi-peril, commercial general liability, federal flood, personal auto and various other lines of insurance in Florida and various other states. The company markets and distributes its own and third-party insurers' products and its other services through a network of independent agents.

Gener8 Maritime

Genie Energy Ltd. Cl B

Genie Energy through its subsidiary, Genie Energy International Corporation (GEIC), which owns Genie Retail Energy (GRE), owns and operates retail energy providers (REP). Its REP businesses resell electricity and natural gas to residential and business customers primarily in the Eastern U.S. Internationally, GRE manages the company's interest in a joint venture that serves retail customers in the U.K. The company has three reportable business segments: GRE, which is comprised of REP and related businesses; Genie Energy Services, which is comprised of businesses that market and provide energy solutions; and Genie Oil and Gas, Inc., which owns an interest in a contracted drilling services operation.

Genworth Financial Inc. Class A

Genworth Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company facilitates homeownership in United States and internationally by providing mortgage insurance products that allow people to purchase homes with low down payments while protecting lenders against the risk of default. Through its homeownership education and assistance programs, the company also helps people keep their homes when they experience financial difficulties. The company provides long-term care insurance products as well as service life insurance and fixed annuity products. The company has four operating business segments: United States Mortgage Insurance, Australia Mortgage Insurance, United States Life Insurance, and Runoff.

GEO GROUP INC. (THE)

GEO Group is a real estate investment trust focusing on the ownership, leasing and management of secure facilities, processing centers and reentry facilities and the provision of community-based services and youth services. The company owns, leases and operates a range of secure facilities including maximum, medium and minimum security facilities, processing centers, as well as community-based reentry facilities. The company provides compliance technologies, monitoring services, and evidence-based supervision and treatment programs for community-based parolees, probationers and pretrial defendants. The company also provides transportation services for offender and detainee populations as contracted.

Glaukos Corp

Glaukos is an ophthalmic medical technology and pharmaceutical company focused on surgical devices and sustained pharmaceutical therapies designed to treat glaucoma. The company developed Micro-Invasive Glaucoma Surgery (MIGS) to serve as an alternative to the glaucoma treatment and management paradigm. MIGS procedures involve the insertion of a micro-scale device or drug delivery system from within the eye's anterior chamber through a small corneal incision. The company's MIGS devices are designed to reduce intraocular pressure by restoring the natural outflow pathways for aqueous humor. The company's products include iStent trabecular micro-bypass stent, and iStent Inject trabecular micro-bypass stent.

Green Plains Inc.

Green Plains is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an ethanol producer. The company has four operating segments: ethanol production, which includes the production of ethanol, distillers grains and corn oil; agribusiness and energy services, which includes grain handling and storage, commodity marketing and merchant trading for company-produced and third-party ethanol, distillers grains, corn oil, natural gas and other commodities; food and ingredients, which includes cattle feeding and food-grade corn oil operations; and partnership, which includes fuel storage and transportation services.

Innophos Holdings Inc.

Innophos Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a producer of specialty ingredient solutions for the food, health, nutrition and industrial markets. The company has three principal product lines within its segments: Specialty Ingredients, which consists of specialty phosphate products, specialty phosphoric acids, including polyphosphoric acid, and a range of other mineral, enzyme and botanical based specialty ingredients; Core Ingredients, which includes food grade purified phosphoric acid (PPA), technical grade PPA, sodium tripolyphosphate, and detergent grade PPA; and Co-Products and Other, which includes granular triple super phosphate and merchant green phosphoric acid.

Laureate Education Inc. Class A

Laureate Education is engaged in providing higher education programs and services to students through an international network of licensed universities and higher education institutions (institutions). The company's programs are provided through institutions that are campus-based and internet-based, or through electronically distributed educational programs. The company has five reportable segments: Brazil; Mexico; Andean; Rest of World; and Online and Partnerships. The company's Online and Partnerships segment principally consists of Walden University.

Maiden Holdings Ltd.

MINERVA NEUROSCIENCES

Minerva Neurosciences is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of a portfolio of products candidates to treat patients suffering from central nervous system diseases. The company's product portfolio and potential indications include: roluperidone (also known as MIN-101) for the treatment of negative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia; seltorexant (also known as MIN-202 or JNJ-42847922), which the company is co-developing with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, for the treatment of insomnia disorder and adjunctive treatment of Major Depressive Disorder (aMDD); MIN-117 for the treatment of MDD; and MIN-301 for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

National Healthcare Corp.

National HealthCare is engaged in the operation of skilled nursing facilities, assisted living facilities, independent living facilities and homecare programs. The company's business activities include providing sub-acute and post-acute skilled nursing care, intermediate nursing care, rehabilitative care, memory and Alzheimer's care, senior living services, and home health care services. The company has a non-controlling ownership interest in a hospice care business that services the company-owned health care centers and others. In addition, the company provides management services, accounting and financial services, as well as insurance services to third party operators of health care facilities.

Shiloh Industries Inc.

Shiloh Industries is a solutions provider focusing on lightweighting technologies. The company's multi-component, multi-material solutions are comprised of a variety of alloys in aluminum, magnesium and steel grades, along with its proprietary line of noise and vibration reducing ShilohCore? acoustic laminate products. The company delivers these solutions in body structure, chassis and propulsion systems to original equipment manufacturers and Tier 1 suppliers in the automotive and commercial vehicle markets. The company produces electric vehicles structural products such as charger boxes, control boxes, motor housings, battery covers, battery box trays and battery box rails.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the identification, acquisition, development, and commercialization of products for the treatment of genetic diseases. The company's product categories are: biologics, which include Crysvita? (burosumab) for the treatment of X-linked hypophosphatemia and Mepsevii? (vestronidase alfa) for the treatment of Mucopolysaccharidosis VII; small molecules, which includes UX007 for the treatment of long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders; and gene therapy, which includes DTX301 for the treatment of patients with ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency and DTX401 for the treatment of patients with glycogen storage disease type Ia.

UMH Properties Inc.

UMH Properties is a self-administered and self-managed qualified real estate investment trust (REIT). The company's primary business is the ownership and operation of manufactured home communities, which includes leasing manufactured home spaces on an annual or month-to-month basis to residential manufactured home owners. The company also leases homes to residents, and through its wholly-owned REIT subsidiary, UMH Sales and Finance, Inc., sells and finances homes to residents and prospective residents of its communities. The company also owns a portfolio of REIT securities. The company owns and operates home communities located in New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Indiana, Michigan and Maryland.

Village Super Market Inc. Cl A

Village Super Market is engaged in the retail sale of food and nonfood products. The company operates a chain of ShopRite supermarkets in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York City. The company is a member of Wakefern Food Corporation, a retailer-owned food cooperative and owner of the ShopRite and Gourmet Garage names. This relationship provides the company with purchasing, distribution, private label products, retail technology, marketing and advertising. Certain of the company's stores include a Village Food Garden, featuring a restaurant style kitchen and a variety of store prepared foods for both take-home and in-store dining. The company's products include: groceries, dairy and frozen, bakery, liquor, and other.

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