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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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Arlo Technologies

Arlo Technologies combines an intelligent cloud infrastructure and mobile app with a variety of smart connected devices. The company's cloud-based platform provides users with visibility, insight and a solution to help protect and connect in real-time with the people and things from any location with a Wi-Fi or a cellular connection. The company's smart connected devices include Arlo Security Camera, Arlo Q and Arlo Q Plus, Arlo Pro, Arlo Go, Arlo Baby, Arlo Pro 2, Arlo Audio Doorbell, Arlo Chime, Arlo Ultra, Arlo Pro 3 and Arlo Video Doorbell. The company's Arlo accessories include Arlo Charging Accessories, Arlo Mounts and Arlo Skins.

Armstrong Flooring Inc.

Armstrong Flooring is a producer of resilient flooring products for use primarily in the construction and renovation of commercial, residential and institutional buildings. The company designs, manufactures, sources and sells flooring products primarily in North America and the Pacific Rim.

Athene Holding Ltd. Class A

BankUnited Inc.

BankUnited is a bank holding company. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, BankUnited, National Association (the Bank), the company provides a range of banking and related services to individual and corporate customers. The Bank also provides certain commercial lending and deposit products through national platform. The company's lending and leasing products include commercial loans, commercial real estate loans, residential mortgages and other cosumer loans. The company's deposit products include consumer checking accounts, money market deposit accounts, savings accounts and certificates of deposit.

Bassett Furniture Industries Inc.

Bassett Furniture Industries is a retailer, manufacturer and marketer of branded home furnishings. The company's products are sold primarily through a network of the company-owned and licensee-owned branded stores under the Bassett Home Furnishings (BHF) name. The company's wholesale home furnishings segment is involved principally in the design, manufacture, sourcing, sale and distribution of furniture products to a network of BHF stores and independent furniture retailers. The company's Retail segment includes its store network of the company-owned stores and licensee-owned stores. The company's Logistical Services segment provides network line haul freight (middle mile) and warehousing, distribution and inventory management.

Booking Holdings Inc.

Booking Holdings provides travel and restaurant online reservation and related services. The company's brands include: Booking.com and Rentalcars.com, in which Booking.com provides booking online accommodation reservations, based on room nights booked, and Rentalcars.com provides online rental car reservation services; KAYAK, which provides an online price comparison service; Priceline, which provides consumers hotel, rental car and airline ticket reservation services, and vacation packages and cruises; Agoda, which is an online accommodation reservation service; and OpenTable, which provides online restaurant reservation services to consumers and reservation management services to restaurants.

Boot Barn Holdings

Boot Barn Holdings is a retail chain focused on western and work-related footwear, apparel and accessories. The company's stores, which are freestanding or located in strip centers, feature an assortment of brands and styles, coupled with store associates. The company's product offering is anchored by a selection of western and work boots and an assortment of coordinating apparel and accessories. The company also carries assortments of denim, western shirts, cowboy hats, belts and belt buckles, western-style jewelry and accessories. The company's work assortment includes footwear, outerwear, overalls, denim and shirts for the physically demanding jobs.

Canadian National Railway Company

Canadian National Railway, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries, is engaged in the rail and related transportation business. Co.'s network of approximately 20,000 route miles of track spans Canada and mid-America, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to the Gulf of Mexico. Co.'s network and connections to all Class I railroads provide access to all three North American Free Trade Agreement nations. Co. handles and carries cargo, serving exporters, importers, retailers, farmers and manufacturers. Co. is engaged in the movement of a portfolio of goods, including petroleum and chemicals, grain and fertilizers, coal, metals and minerals, forest products, intermodal and automotive.

Cars.com Inc.

Cars.com is a digital marketplace and solutions provider for the automotive industry that connects car shoppers with sellers and original equipment manufacturers. The company's portfolio of brands includes Cars.com, Dealer Inspire, DealerRater, Auto.com, NewCars.com and PickupTrucks.com. The CARS marketplace consists of a website that features a database of new and used vehicle listings, reviews, news and research section. Dealer Inspire is engaged in automotive technology that provides websites, technology solutions and advertising services to dealers across the United States and Canada. DealerRater is a source of user-generated reviews of both automobile dealers and dealership salespeople.

Cutera Inc.

Cutera designs, develops, manufactures, distributes and markets light and energy-based product platforms for use by physicians and other practitioners. The company provides products based on the following platforms: enlighten, excel HR, truSculpt, excel V, xeo, Juliet?, and Secret? radio frequency, each of which enables physicians and other practitioners to perform aesthetic procedures, including treatment for body contouring, skin resurfacing and revitalization, tattoo removal, removal of benign pigmented lesions, vascular conditions, hair removal, toenail fungus and women's health. In addition, the company provides other products such as GenesisPlus, CoolGlide, and distributes ZO's skincare products.

Cyclerion Therapeutics

Cyclerion Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company harnessing the power of sGC pharmacology to discover, develop and commercialize breakthrough treatments for serious and orphan diseases. The company's focus is enabling the full therapeutic potential of next-generation sGC stimulators. sGC stimulators are small molecules that act synergistically with nitric oxide on sGC to boost production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate, or cGMP. cGMP is a key second messenger that, when produced by sGC, regulates diverse and critical biological functions throughout the body including blood flow and vascular dynamics, inflammatory and fibrotic processes, metabolism and neuronal function.

Donnelley Financial Solutions Inc.

Donnelley Financial Solutions is a risk and compliance solutions company. The company provides regulatory filing and deal solutions via its software-as-a-service, print and distribution solutions to public and private companies, mutual funds and other regulated investment firms. For corporate clients within its capital markets offerings, the company provides filing solutions that allow U.S. public companies to comply with applicable U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations. The company operates in two business segments: U.S, which is comprised of capital markets, investment markets, and language solutions; and International, which includes operations in Asia, Europe, Canada, and Latin America.

Dow Inc.

Dow is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company delivers science-based products and solutions for its customers. The company's segments are: Packaging and Specialty Plastics, which focuses on polyolefin product portfolio to deliver plastics to customers; Industrial Intermediates and Infrastructure, which produces and markets ethylene oxide and propylene oxide derivatives that are aligned to market segments as appliances, coatings, infrastructure and oil and gas; and Performance Materials and Coatings, which utilizes the company's acrylics-, cellulosics- and silicone-based technology platforms to serve the needs of the architectural and industrial coatings, home care and personal care end-markets.

Elanco Animal Health Inc.

Elanco Animal Health is an animal health company. The company groups its products into four principal categories: Companion Animal (CA) Disease Prevention, which includes parasiticides and vaccine products for canines and felines; CA Therapeutics, which includes products for the treatment of pain, osteoarthritis, otitis, cardiovascular and dermatology indications in canines and felines; Food Animal (FA) Future Protein and Health, which includes vaccines, antibiotics, parasiticides and other products used in poultry and aquaculture production; and FA Ruminants and Swine, which includes vaccines, antibiotics, implants, parasiticides and other products used in ruminants and swine production.

EnPro Industries Inc.

EnPro Industries designs, develops, manufactures, and markets engineered industrial products that primarily include: sealing products; heavy-duty truck wheel-end component systems; self-lubricating, non-rolling bearing products; precision engineered components and lubrication systems; and heavy-duty, medium-speed diesel, natural gas and dual fuel reciprocating engines, including parts and services. The company has three segments: Sealing Products, which includes its Garlock, Technetics and Stemco divisions; Engineered Products, which includes two industrial products businesses, GGB and Compressor Products International; and Power Systems, which is composed of its Fairbanks Morse business.

EQT Corporation

EQT is a natural gas production company with operations focus in the Marcellus and Utica shales of the Appalachian Basin.

Equitrans Midstream Corp.

Equitrans Midstream, through its subsidiary EQM Midstream Partners, LP (EQM), is one of the natural gas gatherer in the United States. The company through its control of EQM, provides midstream services to its customers in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio via its three key assets: the gathering system, which delivers natural gas from wells and other receipt points to transmission pipelines; the transmission and storage system, which delivers natural gas to local demand users and long-haul interstate pipelines for access to demand markets; and the water service system, which consists of water pipelines, impoundment facilities, pumping stations, take point facilities and measurement facilities.

Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.

Ethan Allen Interiors, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ethan Allen Global, Inc., and Ethan Allen Global, Inc.'s subsidiaries, is an interior design company, manufacturer and retailer in the home furnishings marketplace. The company aligns its business into two reportable segments: Retail, which sells home furnishings and accents to consumers through a network of the company operated design centers; and Wholesale, which is principally involved in the development of the Ethan Allen brand and encompasses all aspects of design, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, sale, and distribution of the company's range of home furnishings and accents. The company's product line includes case goods, upholstery, and home accents.

Expedia Group Inc.

Expedia Group is an online travel company. The company's portfolio of brands includes: Expedia.com?, an online travel brand; Hotels.com?, a global lodging company operating websites with its Hotels.com? Rewards loyalty program; Vrbo?, a global online marketplace with a focus on providing lodging options for families; Egencia?, a corporate travel management company; Hotwire?, an online travel website providing spontaneous travel through its Hot Rate? deals; trivago?, an online hotel metasearch platform; and SilverRail Technologies, Inc., provider of a global rail retail and distribution platform connecting rail carriers and suppliers to both online and offline travel distributors.

Flotek Industries Inc.

Flotek Industries is a global, technology-driven company. The company's operating segment is Energy Chemistry Technologies, which designs, develops, manufactures, packages, distributes, delivers, and markets reservoir-centric fluid systems, including chemistries, for use in oil and gas well drilling, cementing, completion, remediation, and stimulation activities. This segment has a research laboratory and technical services laboratories that focus on design improvements, development and viability testing of new chemistry formulations, and continued improvement of existing products. The company's flagship patented chemistry technologies include Complex nano-Fluid?, Pressure reducing Fluids?, and MicroSolv?.

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.

Honeywell International Inc.

Honeywell International is a technology and manufacturing company. The company has four segments: Aerospace, which supplies products, software and services for aircrafts; Honeywell Building Technologies, which provides products, software, solutions and technologies including building control and optimization, energy management, access control, video surveillance, fire products, and remote patient monitoring systems; Performance Materials and Technologies, which develops and manufactures chemicals and materials, process technologies and automation solutions; and Safety and Productivity Solutions, which provides products and software that improve productivity, workplace safety and asset performance.

Hooker Furniture Corp.

Hooker Furniture is a designer, marketer and importer of casegoods (wooden and metal furniture), leather furniture and fabric-upholstered furniture. The company is organized into two segments: Hooker Branded, which includes Hooker Casegoods that covers a range of design categories and includes home entertainment, home office, accent, dining and bedroom furniture in the upper-medium price points sold under the Hooker Furniture brand; and Home Meridian, which includes Accentrics Home, home furnishings centered around a mix of pieces and materials that provide a take on home fashion, and Samuel Lawrence Furniture, focuses on offerings in bedroom, dining room, home office and youth furnishings.

Immersion Corp.

Immersion is a licensing company focused on the creation, design, development, and licensing of haptic technologies that allow people to use their sense of touch to engage with products in the digital world. The company provides software, intellectual property and haptic capability via offerings including technology licenses, patent licenses, and combined licenses that cover both software and patents. In most cases, the company's technology licenses include services, design tools and software development kits, as well as licenses to its patents to the extent necessary to implement the licensed software, with the specific rights and restrictions to the applicable patents described in the license agreements.

KAR Auction Services Inc.

KAR Auction Services is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides used vehicle auctions and related vehicle remarketing services in North America and Europe. The company facilitates a marketplace by providing auction services for sellers of used, or whole car, vehicles through its North American physical auction locations. The company's segments include: ADESA, Inc.'s Auctions, which provides whole car auctions and related services to the vehicle remarketing industry in North America through online auctions and auction facilities; and Automotive Finance Corporation, which provides floorplan financing to independent used vehicle dealers through branches throughout North America.

Kelly Services Inc. Class A

Kelly Services provides workforce solutions to customers in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions. The company's segments include: Americas Staffing, which delivers temporary staffing, as well as direct-hire placement services, in a number of staffing services such as office, education, marketing, and electronic assembly; International Staffing, which provides a similar range of staffing services as its Americas Staffing segment, including office, engineering, finance and accounting, information technology, and science; and Global Talent Solutions, which combines the delivery structure of its and consulting group and centrally delivered staffing business.

Lands' End Inc.

Lands' End is a retailer of casual clothing, accessories and footwear, as well as home products. The company provides products through catalogs, online at www.landsend.com, on international websites, third-party online marketplaces, and through retail locations. The company's segments consist of U.S eCommerce, Retail, Outfitters (Outfitters), Europe eCommerce and Japan eCommerce. The company's product channels are eCommerce, Retail and Outfitters. eCommerce provides products through its eCommerce websites, third party online marketplaces and direct mail catalogs. Retail sells products and services through Company Operated stores and through Lands' End Shops at Sears. Outfitters sells products to end consumers.

Markel Corporation

Markel is a financial holding company. The company's business operations are: Underwriting, which comprised of risk-bearing insurance and reinsurance operations; Investing, which is primarily related to underwriting operations; Markel Ventures, Inc., includes controlling interests in a portfolio of businesses that operate outside of the specialty insurance marketplace; Insurance-linked securities, which include investment fund managers that provide investment products, including insurance-linked securities, catastrophe bonds, insurance swaps and weather derivatives; and Program services, which serves as a fronting platform that provides access to property and casualty insurance market.

Modine Manufacturing Company

Modine Manufacturing is engaged in providing thermal management solutions. The company is a provider of engineered heat transfer systems and heat transfer components for use in on- and off-highway original equipment manufacturer vehicular applications. In addition, the company is involved in thermal management technology and solutions for sale into a range of commercial, industrial, and building heating, ventilating, air conditioning, and refrigeration markets. The company's primary product groups include powertrain cooling and engine cooling; coils, coolers, and coatings; and heating, ventilation and air conditioning.

Mosaic Company

Mosaic is a producer and marketer of concentrated phosphate and potash crop nutrients. The company is organized into three reportable business segments: Phosphates, which owns and operates mines and production facilities in Florida that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients and phosphate-based animal feed ingredients, and processing plants in Louisiana that produce concentrated phosphate crop nutrients; Potash, which mines and processes potash in Canada and the United States and sells potash in North America and internationally; and Mosaic Fertilizantes, which produces and sells concentrated phosphates crop nutrients, phosphate-based animal feed ingredients and potash fertilizer.

Neuronetics

Neuronetics is a commercial stage medical technology company focused on designing, developing and marketing products that improve the quality of life for patients who suffer from psychiatric disorders. The company's commercial product, NeuroStar Advanced Therapy System, a non-invasive and non-systemic office-based treatment that uses transcranial magnetic stimulation to create a pulsed, MRI-strength magnetic field that induces electrical currents designed to stimulate specific areas of the brain associated with mood. The system is used to treat adult patients with major depressive disorder who have failed to achieve improvement from prior antidepressant medication in the current episode.

Republic Services Inc.

Republic Services is a provider of non-hazardous solid waste collection, transfer, disposal, recycling, and environmental services in the United States. The company operates through collection operations, transfer stations, active landfills, recycling processing centers, treatment, recovery and disposal facilities, salt water disposal wells, and deep injection wells. In addition, the company is engaged in landfill gas-to-energy and renewable energy projects and had post-closure responsibility for closed landfills. The company's operations primarily consist of providing collection, transfer and disposal of non-hazardous solid waste, recovering and recycling of certain materials, and environmental services.

Shake Shack Inc. Class A

Shake Shack is a roadside burger stand serving an American menu of burgers, hot dogs, crispy chicken, frozen custard, crinkle cut fries, shakes, beer, wine and others. The company operates and licenses Shake Shack restaurants. The company's menu include: Burgers & Chicken, which includes the SmokeShack?, 'Shroom Burger? (Co.'s vegetarian burger), Shack Stack? and Hamburger, as well as Chick'n Shack?; Crinkle Cut Fries, which are made from Yukon potatoes; Hot Dogs, which includes beef hot dogs and chicken dogs; Frozen Custard, which is made from vanilla and chocolate recipes and milk; Beer, Wine and Beverages, which provides local craft beers; and Dogs Are Welcome Too, which provides dog biscuits.

Tawasol Group Holding

Telephone and Data Systems Inc.

Telephone and Data Systems provides communications services to customers with wireless connections and wireline and cable connections. The company conducts its wireless operations through its majority-owned subsidiary, United States Cellular Corporation (U.S. Cellular). The company has three business segments comprised of: U.S. Cellular, which provides service to postpaid and prepaid customers from a variety of demographic segments; and TDS Telecommunications LLC's Wireline and Cable, which provides a range of communications services to both residential and commercial customers.

Teradata Corporation

Teradata is a hybrid cloud analytics software provider. The company's solution, Teradata Vantage?, is its data warehouse and analytics platform that allows companies to utilize their data across an enterprise, whether on premises, in public or private clouds, or in a hybrid environment. The company's solutions are comprised of software, hardware, and related business consulting and support services. The company's business consulting services include a range of offerings, including consulting to help organizations establish an analytic vision, identify and operationalize analytical opportunities, enable an analytical ecosystem architecture, and ensure their analytical infrastructure delivers value.

Titan International Inc.

Titan International is a wheel, tire, and undercarriage industrial manufacturer and supplier servicing customers across the globe. The company has three segments: agricultural, which provides agricultural rims, wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components are manufactured for use on various agricultural equipment, including tractors, combines, skidders, plows, and planters; earthmoving/construction, which manufactures rims, wheels, tires, and undercarriage systems and components for various types of off-the-road earthmoving, mining, military, construction and forestry equipment; and consumer, which manufactures bias truck tires in Latin America and light truck tires in Russia.

United States Cellular Corp

United States Cellular provides wireless telecommunications services. The company's customers are able to choose from a variety of national plans with voice, messaging and data usage options and pricing. The company's fourth generation Long-Term Evolution network features smartphone messaging, data and internet services that allow customers to access the internet; text, picture and video message; utilize GPS navigation; and browse and download applications to customize their wireless devices to fit their lifestyles. The company also provides wireless solutions to consumers and business and government customers, including a suite of connected machine-to-machine solutions and software applications.

Vail Resorts Inc.

Vail Resorts is a holding company and operates through various subsidiaries. The company's business segments include: Mountain, which operates various mountain resort properties and three urban ski areas, as well as ancillary services; Lodging, which provides a range of services to guests, including owned and managed lodging properties, managed condominium units, National Park Service concessionaire properties, a resort ground transportation company, and the company-owned mountain resort golf courses; and Real Estate, which includes the sale of land parcels to third-party developers and planning for future real estate development projects, including zoning and acquisition of applicable permits.

Westlake Chemical Corporation

Westlake Chemical operates as a manufacturer and marketer of basic chemicals, vinyls, polymers and building products. The company operates in two operating segments: Olefins, which manufactures and markets polyethylene, styrene monomer and various ethylene co-products; and Vinyls, which manufactures and markets polyvinyl chloride (PVC), vinyl chloride monomer, ethylene dichloride, chlor-alkali (chlorine and caustic soda), chlorinated derivative products and ethylene, as well as manufactures and sells building products fabricated from PVC, including residential siding, trim and mouldings, pipe and fittings for various water, sewer and industrial applications, and profiles for windows and doors.

World Acceptance Corporation

World Acceptance is a small-loan consumer finance company, providing short-term small installment loans, medium-term larger installment loans, related credit insurance and ancillary products and services to individuals. The company serves individuals with limited access to other sources of consumer credit such as banks, credit unions, other consumer finance businesses and credit card lenders. The company also provides income tax return preparation services to its loan customers and other individuals. Using the proprietary data processing software package developed by its subsidiary, ParaData Financial Systems, the company automates all of its loan account processing and collection reporting.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts Inc.

Wyndham Hotels & Resorts is a hotel franchisor, licensing its hotel brands to hotel owners around the world. The company operates in the following segments: Hotel franchising, which licenses the company's lodging brands and provides related services to third-party hotel owners and others; and Hotel management, which provides hotel management services for full-service and limited-service hotels as well as several hotels that are owned by the company

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