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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.
Underlyings
Armstrong World Industries Inc.

Armstrong World Industries is a producer of ceiling systems for use primarily in the construction and renovation of commercial and residential buildings. The company designs, manufactures and sells ceiling systems (primarily mineral fiber, fiberglass wool and metal). The company's segments are: Mineral Fiber, which produces suspended mineral fiber and soft fiber ceiling systems for use in commercial and residential settings and includes its joint venture, Worthington Armstrong Venture, that manufactures suspension system (grid) products and ceiling component products; and Architectural Specialties, which produces and sources ceilings and walls for use in commercial settings.

Barnes Group Inc.

Barnes Group provides engineered products, industrial technologies, and solutions. The company's products and services are used in applications including aerospace, transportation, manufacturing, automation, healthcare, and packaging. The company's segments are: Industrial, which provides precision components, products and systems for critical applications serving various customer base in end-markets such as transportation, industrial equipment, automation, personal care, packaging, electronics, and medical devices; and Aerospace, which manufactures fabricated and precision machined components and assemblies for turbine engines, nacelles and structures for both commercial and military aircraft.

CenterState Bank Corporation

CenterState Bank is a financial holding company. Through its national bank subsidiary, CenterState Bank, N.A. (the Bank), the company provides a range of consumer and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses and industries through its headquarters branch in Winter Haven, FL. The company also operates, through its Bank, a correspondent banking and capital markets service division for small and medium sized community banks throughout the United States. The company's loans are concentrated in three primary areas: real estate loans, commercial loans and consumer loans. The company's primary deposits include its regular savings, demand, negotiable order of withdrawal, and money market deposit accounts.

Comfort Systems USA Inc.

Comfort Systems USA provides mechanical contracting services, which include heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), plumbing, piping and controls, as well as off-site construction, electrical, monitoring and fire protection. The company provides construction, renovation, expansion, maintenance, repair and replacement services for mechanical and related systems in commercial, industrial and institutional properties. The company's installation business related to newly constructed facilities involves the design, engineering, integration, installation and start-up of mechanical and related systems. The company also provides remote monitoring of temperature, pressure, humidity and air flow for HVAC systems.

Dril-Quip Inc.

Dril-Quip designs, manufactures, sells and services drilling and production equipment for use in deepwater, harsh environment and severe service applications. The company's products consist of subsea and surface wellheads, subsea and surface production trees, subsea control systems and manifolds, mudline hanger systems, connectors and associated pipe, drilling and production riser systems, liner hangers, wellhead connectors, diverters and safety valves. The company provides technical advisory assistance during installation of its products, as well as rework and reconditioning services. The company's customers may rent or purchase running tools from the company for use in the installation and retrieval of its products.

First Commonwealth Financial Corporation

First Commonwealth Financial is a financial holding company. Through its First Commonwealth Bank subsidiary, the company provides an array of consumer and commercial banking services. The company also provides trust and wealth management services and insurance products. The company's consumer services include internet, mobile and telephone banking, an automated teller machine network, and personal checking accounts, among others. The company's commercial banking services include commercial lending, business checking accounts, on-line account management services, automated clearing house origination, payroll direct deposit, commercial cash management services and repurchase agreements.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.

Fulton Financial Corporation

Fulton Financial is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, Fulton Bank, N.A., the company provides a range of consumer and commercial banking products and services in its local market area. Personal banking services include various checking account and savings deposit products, certificates of deposit and individual retirement accounts. Secured consumer loan products include home equity loans and lines of credit, which are underwritten based on loan-to-value limits specified in the company's lending policy. The company also provides a variety of fixed, variable and adjustable rate products, including construction loans and jumbo residential mortgage loans.

Great Western Bancorp Inc.

Great Western Bancorp is a bank holding company focused on relationship-based business and agri-business banking. The company serves its customers through branches in Arizona, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. The company focuses on business banking, complemented by its agri-business banking, retail banking and wealth management services. The company's loan portfolio consists mainly of business loans, comprised of commercial real estate loans and commercial non-real estate loans. The company also provides a range of deposit and loan products to its retail customers. The company is engaged in private banking, financial planning, investment management and insurance operations.

Hanover Insurance Group Inc.

The Hanover Insurance Group is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company business operations are property and casualty insurance products and services. The company markets its products and services through independent agents and brokers. The company conducts three operating segments: Commercial Lines, which includes commercial multiple peril, commercial automobile, workers' compensation, and other commercial coverages; Personal Lines, which includes personal automobile, homeowners, and other personal coverages; and Other, which provides investment advisory services to affiliates and also manages assets for unaffiliated institutions such as insurance companies, retirement plans and foundations.

Howmet Aerospace, Inc.

Invesco Ltd.

John Bean Technologies Corporation

John Bean Technologies is a technology solutions provider to the food and beverage industry with focus on proteins, liquid foods and automated system solutions. The company also sells critical equipment and services to domestic and international air transportation customers. The products offerings of the company's FoodTech businesses include food processing systems to protein customers, liquid foods portfolio such as fruit and juice solutions, and robotic automated guided vehicle systems. The product offerings of the company's AeroTech businesses include mobile air transportation equipment, gate equipment for passenger boarding, and airport services such as maintenance of airport equipment, systems and facilities.

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

Jones Lang LaSalle is a professional services firm that engages in real estate and investment management. The company delivers an array of services across four business segments. The company manage its Real Estate Services offerings across three geographic business segments: the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific, and the company manages its investment management business globally as LaSalle Investment Management. In its Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific operating segments, the company provides a range of leasing, capital markets, integrated property and facility management, project management, advisory, consulting, valuations and digital solutions services.

M&T BANK CORPORATION

M&T Bank is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides individuals, corporations and other businesses, and institutions with commercial and retail banking services, including loans and deposits, trust, mortgage banking, asset management, insurance and other financial services. Banking activities are primarily focused on consumers residing in New York State, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Connecticut, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia and on small and medium-size businesses based in those areas. Certain subsidiaries also conduct activities in other areas.

Matson Inc.

Matson is a holding company engaged in the provision of ocean transportation and logistics services. The company's Ocean transportation segment business is conducted through Matson Navigation Company, Inc., which provides a lifeline of ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska and Guam, and to other island economies in Micronesia and operates an expedited service from China to Long Beach, CA, and provides services to Okinawa, Japan and various islands in the South Pacific. The company's Logistics business is conducted through Matson Logistics, Inc., an asset-light business that provides a variety of logistics services to its customers.

Matthews International Corporation Class A

Matthews International is a provider of brand solutions, memorialization products and industrial technologies. The company's reporting segments are: SGK Brand Solutions, which includes brand development, deployment and delivery; Memorialization, which includes a line of memorialization products used primarily in cemeteries, funeral homes and crematories; and Industrial Technologies, which designs, manufactures and distributes a range of marking and coding equipment and consumables, industrial automation solutions, and warehouse automation systems, as well as manufactures and markets products and systems that employ different marking technologies, including laser and ink-jet printing.

Meta Financial Group Inc.

Meta Financial Group is a unitary savings and loan holding company. Through its subsidiary, MetaBank (the Bank), the company accepts deposits and invests those funds in its National Lending and Community Banking loan and lease portfolios. The Bank occasionally contracts to sell loans to third party buyers. The Bank also sells and purchases loan participations from time to time to and from other financial institutions, as well as mortgage-backed securities and other investments permissible under applicable regulations. The Bank's divisions issue prepaid cards, design consumer credit products, sponsor automated teller machines, and provide tax refund-transfer services and other products and services.

Pearson PLC ADS

Portland General Electric Company

Portland General Electric is an electric utility engaged in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electricity in the state of Oregon. The company also participates in the wholesale market by purchasing and selling electricity and natural gas. The company's generating facilities consist of thermal plants (natural gas- and coal-fired), wind farms, and hydroelectric. The company owns or has contractual rights associated with transmission lines that deliver electricity from its generation facilities to its distribution system in its service territory and also to the Western Interconnection.

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.

Selective Insurance Group Inc.

Selective Insurance Group has four segments: Standard Commercial Lines, which is comprised of property and casualty insurance products and services provided in the standard marketplace to commercial enterprises; Standard Personal Lines, which is comprised of property and casualty insurance products and services provided to individuals acquiring coverage in the standard marketplace; Excess and Surplus Lines, which is comprised of insurance products and services provided to customers who are unable to obtain coverage in the standard marketplace; and Investments, which invests the premiums collected by the company's insurance operations and amounts generated through its capital management strategies.

South State Corporation

South State is a bank holding company. Through its wholly-owned bank subsidiary, South State Bank (the Bank), the company provides a range of banking services and products. The company's Bank provides a range of retail and commercial banking services, mortgage lending services, trust and wealth management, and consumer loans through financial centers. The company's loan portfolio includes commercial real estate loans, residential real estate loans, commercial and industrial loans and consumer loans. The company also provides checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, other deposit accounts and treasury and merchant services. The company provides wealth management and other fiduciary and private banking services.

Standard Motor Products Inc.

Standard Motor Products is a manufacturer and distributor of replacement parts for the engine management and temperature control systems of motor vehicles in the automotive aftermarket industry with a complementary focus on heavy duty, industrial equipment and the original equipment market. The company's segment are: Engine Management, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the ignition, electrical, emissions, fuel and safety-related systems of motor vehicles; and Temperature Control, which manufactures and distributes a line of components for the temperature control systems, engine cooling systems, power window accessories and windshield washer systems of motor vehicles.

TriMas Corporation

TriMas is an industrial manufacturer of products for customers in the consumer products, aerospace, industrial, petrochemical, refinery and oil and gas end markets. The company's brands include Rieke?, TriMas Aerospace?, Lamons? and Norris Cylinder? and Arrow? Engine Company. The company operates businesses in three reportable segments: Packaging, which is a designer and manufacturer of closure and dispensing systems for a range of end markets; Aerospace segment, which is comprised of TriMas Aerospace, which includes the Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Allfast Fastening Systems and Martinic Engineering brands; Specialty Products segment, which is comprised of Norris Cylinder, Lamons and Arrow Engine Company.

U.S. Bancorp

U.S. Bancorp is a multi-state financial services holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides a range of financial services, including lending and depository services, cash management, capital markets, and trust and investment management services. The company also engages in credit card services, merchant and ATM processing, mortgage banking, insurance, brokerage and leasing. The company's subsidiary, U.S. Bank National Association, is engaged in the general banking business, principally in domestic markets. The company's bank and trust subsidiaries provide a range of asset management and fiduciary services for individuals, estates, foundations, business corporations and charitable organizations.

United Community Banks Inc.

United Community Banks is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides an array of commercial and consumer banking services, including checking, savings and time deposit accounts, secured and unsecured loans, mortgage loans, payment services, wire transfers, brokerage, investment advisory services and other related financial services to its customers. The company also provides its customers a variety of deposit products, including checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and other deposit accounts, through multiple channels, including its network of branches and its online, mobile and telephone banking platforms.

Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

Washington Trust Bancorp Inc.

Washington Trust Bancorp is a bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, The Washington Trust Company, of Westerly, the company provides a range of banking and financial services to individuals and businesses, including commercial, residential and consumer lending, retail and commercial deposit products, and wealth management and trust services. The company's deposit accounts consist of noninterest-bearing demand deposits, interest-bearing demand deposits, NOW accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts and time deposits.

Watts Water Technologies Inc. Class A

Watts Water Technologies is a supplier of products, solutions and systems that manage and conserve the flow of fluids and energy into, through and out of buildings in the commercial and residential markets. The company's product lines are: residential and commercial flow control products, which includes backflow preventers, water pressure regulators, and temperature; heating, ventilation, and air conditioning and gas products, which includes boilers, water heaters and heating solutions; drainage and water re-use products, which includes drainage products and rain water harvesting solutions; and water quality products, which includes water filtration, conditioning and scale prevention systems.

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.

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