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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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Axis Capital Holdings Limited

Bojangles' Inc.

Bojangles' is a restaurant operator and franchisor focused on serving customers with food made from its Southern recipes. The company's menu includes its buttermilk biscuits; its fried chicken; its fixin's; 500 Calorie or Under menu items such as salads, the company's grilled chicken sandwich, and fat-free green beans; its baked and delicious sweets menu; and its Legendary Iced Tea. As of Dec 31 2017, there was 325 Company-operated restaurants, 62 related party franchised restaurants, and 377 independent franchised restaurants operating under the Bojangles'

Brinker International Inc.

Brinker International is engaged in owning, developing, operating and franchising the Chili's? Grill & Bar (Chili's) and Maggiano's Little Italy? (Maggiano's) restaurant brands. Chili's operates in the bar and grill category of casual dining. Chili's menu includes burgers, fajitas, baby back ribs and margaritas. Chili's To Go menu is available online, by calling the restaurant, or through its mobile app. Maggiano's is a casual restaurant brand providing Italian-American cuisine. Dishes are served in both a la carte and family style. The company provides a range of lunch and dinner options, complimented by a wine list and cocktails.

Cardtronics plc Class A

Cheesecake Factory Incorporated

The Cheesecake Factory operates casual dining restaurants. The company operates Company-owned restaurants under: The Cheesecake Factory?, which provides menu including appetizers, pizza, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, small plates, pastas, salads, sandwiches and omelettes, and gluten-free items; Grand Lux Cafe?, which provides American dishes and international favorites, including appetizers, pasta, seafood, steaks, chicken, burgers, salads, and desserts; and RockSugar Southeast Asian Kitchen?, which showcases the cuisines of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and India. The company also produces desserts for its restaurants, international licensees and third-party bakery customers.

CyberOptics Corp.

CyberOptics is a developer and manufacturer of high precision 3D sensors and system products for inspection and metrology. The company also develops and manufactures its WaferSense? products, a family of wireless, wafer-shaped sensors that provide measurements of critical factors in the semiconductor fabrication process. In addition, the company manufactures 3D and 2D optical sensors for use in its own proprietary inspection system products and for sale to original equipment manufacturers, system integrators and end customers in the surface mount technology and semiconductor markets.

DEXCOM INC.

DexCom is a medical device company primarily focused on the design, development and commercialization of continuous glucose monitoring systems for use by people with diabetes and by healthcare providers. The company's products include: DecCom G6?, which allows the company's transmitter to run an algorithm to generate a glucose value and to communicate to a patient's mobile device; DexCom G4? PLATINUM, which is used to adjust therapy and to educate and motivate patients to modify their behavior after viewing the effects that specific foods, exercise, stress and medications have on their glucose levels; and DexCom Share?, which transmits glucose information to the mobile devices of designated recipients.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc.

Dick's Sporting Goods is an omni-channel sporting goods retailer offering sports equipment, apparel, footwear and accessories. The company also owns and operates Golf Galaxy, Field & Stream and other specialty concept stores, and Dick's Team Sports HQ, an all-in-one youth sports digital platform offering scheduling, communications and live scorekeeping through its GameChanger mobile apps, free league management services, custom uniforms and fan wear, and access to donations and sponsorships. The company provides products to its customers through its retail stores and online. The company is also involved in local communities, sponsoring teams in various sports.

Genesco Inc.

Genesco is a retailer and wholesaler of branded footwear, apparel and accessories. The company's segments include: Journeys Group, which includes Journeys, Journeys Kidz and Little Burgundy retail stores, e-commerce and catalog operations and sells footwear and accessories for young men, women and children; Schuh Group, which includes e-commerce operations and sells a range of branded casual and athletic footwear along with a private label offering; Johnston & Murphy Group, which includes retail stores, e-commerce and catalog operations and wholesale distribution; and Licensed Brands, which includes include the sale of footwear marketed under the Dockers? brand.

KEYW Holding Corporation

KeyW Holding is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides engineering and technology solutions to support the collection, processing, analysis, and dissemination of information. The company's primary capabilities include cyber operations and training; geospatial intelligence; cloud and data analytics; engineering; and analysis and operations. The company's other offerings include a suite of Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance solutions deployed from a sensor delivery platform, proprietary products-including electro-optical, hyperspectral, and synthetic aperture radar sensors-and other products that it manufactures and integrate with hardware and software.

New York Community Bancorp Inc.

New York Community Bancorp is a multi-bank holding company. Through its subsidiary, New York Community Bank, the company operates through eight local divisions: Queens County Savings Bank, Roslyn Savings Bank, Richmond County Savings Bank, Roosevelt Savings Bank, and Atlantic Bank in New York; Garden State Community Bank in New Jersey; Ohio Savings Bank in Ohio: and AmTrust Bank in Florida and Arizona. The company is also a producer of multi-family loans in New York City, with a focus on non-luxury residential apartment buildings with rent-regulated units that feature below-market rents.

Progenics Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Progenics Pharmaceuticals is an oncology company focused on the development and commercialization of medicines and artificial intelligence to find, fight and follow cancer. The company's product candidates include: AZEDRA, which is a radiotherapeutic for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with iobenguane scan positive or metastatic pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma who require systemic anticancer therapy; and PyL?, which is a fluorinated prostate-specific membrane antigen-targeted PET imaging agent that enables visualization of both bone and soft tissue metastases to determine the presence or absence of recurrent and/or metastatic prostate cancer.

Renewable Energy Group Inc.

Renewable Energy Group is a biofuels producer with a nationwide distribution and logistics system. The company participates in each aspect of biomass-based diesel production, from acquiring feedstock, managing construction and operating biomass-based diesel production facilities, to marketing, selling and distributing biomass-based diesel and its co-products. To do this, the company utilizes this nationwide production, distribution and logistics system to focus on converting natural fats, oils and greases into biofuels. The company owns and operates a network of biorefineries, which are located in the United States and Germany.

Sabre Corp.

Sabre is a technology solutions provider to the travel and tourism industry. The company operates through three business segments: Travel Network, which consists primarily of its global distribution system (GDS) and a range of solutions that integrate with its GDS; Airline Solutions, which provides a portfolio of software technology products and solutions, through software-as-a-service (SaaS) and hosted delivery model, to airlines and other travel suppliers and provides software solutions; and Hospitality Solutions, which provides software and solutions, through SaaS and hosted delivery model, to hoteliers around the world.

Tractor Supply Company

Tractor Supply is a rural lifestyle retailer. The company is focused on supplying the needs of recreational farmers, ranchers and all those who enjoy living the rural lifestyle, as well as tradesmen and small businesses. The company operates retail stores under the names Tractor Supply Company, Del's Feed & Farm Supply, and Petsense and operates websites under the names TractorSupply.com and Petsense.com. The company's selection of merchandise is comprised of the following main product categories: equine, livestock, pet, and small animal products; hardware, truck, towing, and tool products; seasonal products; work/recreational clothing and footwear; and maintenance products for agricultural and rural use.

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.

Veritiv Corp

Veritiv is a business-to-business distributor of packaging, facility solutions, print and publishing products and services. Co has the following reportable segments: Packaging, which provides standard as well as custom packaging solutions; Facility Solutions, which sources and sells cleaning, break-room and other supplies such as towels, tissues, wipers and dispensers, can liners, commercial cleaning chemicals, soaps and sanitizers; Print, which sells and distributes commercial printing, writing, copying, digital, specialty products, graphics consumables and graphics equipment; and Publishing and Print Management, which sells and distributes coated and uncoated commercial printing papers.

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.

Wesco Aircraft Holdings Inc

Wesco Aircraft Holdings is a distributor and provider of supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry. The company's services range from distribution to the management of supplier relationships, quality assurance, kitting, just-in-time (JIT) delivery, chemical management services, third-party logistics or fourth-party logistics programs and point-of-use inventory management. The company supplies active stock-keeping units, including C-class hardware, chemicals, electronic components, bearings, tools and machined parts. In addition to the central stocking facilities, the company uses a network of forward-stocking locations to service its customers in a JIT and or ad hoc manner.

Whiting Petroleum Corporation

Whiting Petroleum is an independent oil and gas company engaged in development, production, acquisition, and exploration activities primarily in the Rocky Mountains region of the U.S. The company's existing operations and capital programs are focused on organic drilling activities and on the development of previously acquired properties, while selectively pursuing acquisitions that complement its existing properties. The company principally sells its oil and gas production to end users, marketers and other purchasers that have access to nearby pipeline or rail takeaway. In areas with no access to gathering pipelines, oil is trucked or transported to terminals, market hubs, refineries or storage facilities.

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