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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke
EUR 47.72 For Business Accounts Only

Vital Signs: Actionable charts

Key Points:

• Biotechs continue to be leadership. We have highlighted a number of names in today's Vital Signs.

• Many retail related names have pulled back to logical support. See today's Vital Signs for many of these stocks.

• A number of Auto Component Suppliers and Homebuilders appear to be stabilizing. We did not highlight them in this report, but will continue to watch for reversals
Underlyings
Cabot Corporation

Cabot is a specialty chemicals and performance materials company. The company's principal products are rubber and specialty grade carbon blacks, specialty compounds, fumed metal oxides, activated carbons, inkjet colorants, and aerogel. The company's segments are: Reinforcement Materials, which combines the rubber blacks and elastomer composites product lines; Performance Chemicals, which combines its specialty grades of carbon black, fumed metal oxides and aerogel product lines in its Performance Additives business, and combines its specialty compounds and inkjet product lines in its Formulated Solutions business; and Purification Solutions, which represents the company's activated carbon business.

Career Education Corp.

Career Education's academic institutions provide education to students in a variety of disciplines through online, campus-based and blended learning programs. The company's reporting segments are: Colorado Technical University, which provides industry-relevant degree programs and academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, nursing, computer science, engineering, information systems and technology, cybersecurity and healthcare management; and American InterContinental University, which helps personnel get the degree and provides academic programs in the career-oriented disciplines of business studies, information technologies, education and criminal justice.

Charles River Laboratories International Inc.

Charles River Laboratories International is a contract research organization. The company has a laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services. The company's segments are: Research Models and Services, which supplies research models to the drug development industry; Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), which provides DSA services, including in vitro and in vivo studies, laboratory support services, and strategic non-clinical consulting and program management to support product development; and Manufacturing Support, which ensures the production and release of products manufactured by the company's clients.

Diodes Incorporated

Diodes is a manufacturer and supplier of application-specific standard products. The company's product line includes: discrete semiconductor products, which include performance Schottky rectifiers, performance Schottky diodes, Zener diodes and performance Zener diodes; analog products, which include power management devices; standard logic products including complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices and analog switches; multichip products and co-packaged discrete, analog and mixed-signal silicon in miniature packages; silicon and silicon epitaxial wafers used in manufacturing these products; and Frequency Control Products, which are electronic components that provide frequency references.

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.

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.

G-III Apparel Group Ltd.

G-III Apparel Group designs, sources and markets a range of apparel, including outerwear, dresses, sportswear, swimwear, women's suits and women's performance wear, women's handbags, footwear, small leather goods, cold weather accessories and luggage. The company has two segments: wholesale operations, which includes sales of products under brands licensed by the company from third parties and sales of products under its own brands and private label brands, and sales related to the Vilebrequin business; and retail operations, which consists of the company's Wilsons Leather, G.H. Bass and DKNY stores operated as outlet stores, and a limited number of Calvin Klein Performance and Karl Lagerfeld Paris stores.

Haemonetics Corporation

Haemonetics is a healthcare company. The company has three product categories: Plasma, which includes plasma collection devices and disposables, plasma donor management software, and anticoagulant and saline sold to plasma customers; Blood Center, which includes blood collection and processing devices and disposables for red cells, platelets and whole blood as well as related donor management software; and Hospital, which is comprised of Hemostasis Management and Cell Processing products, includes devices and methodologies for measuring coagulation characteristics of blood, surgical blood salvage systems, blood cell processing systems, disposables and blood transfusion management software.

Ingevity Corporation

Ingevity is a manufacturer of specialty chemicals and activated carbon materials. The company reports in two business segments: Performance Materials, which manufactures and sells hardwood-based, chemically activated carbon products, produced through a technical and specialized process primarily for use in gasoline vapor emission control systems in cars, trucks, motorcycles and boats; and Performance Chemicals, which is comprised of four application areas (pavement technologies, oilfield technologies, industrial specialties, and engineered polymers), develops, manufactures, and sells a range of specialty chemicals primarily derived from co-products of the kraft pulping process and caprolactone.

Inogen Inc.

Inogen is a medical technology company that primarily develops, manufactures and markets portable oxygen concentrators used to deliver supplemental long-term oxygen therapy to patients suffering from chronic respiratory conditions. The company's proprietary Inogen One? systems concentrate the air around the patient to provide a single source of supplemental oxygen the company markets its existing portable product offerings, the Inogen One G4 and the Inogen One G3, as single solutions for long-term oxygen therapy. The company's solutions can operate on a 24/7 basis for at least 60 months without a stationary concentrator, with minimal servicing of sieve beds, filters, and accessories.

Monro Inc

Monro is engaged principally in providing automotive undercar repair and tire sales and services. The company provides a range of services on passenger cars, light trucks and vans for brakes; mufflers and exhaust systems; and steering, drive train, suspension and wheel alignment. The company also provides other products and services, including tires and routine maintenance services, including state inspections. The company focuses on the repair and replacement of parts which periodically replaced as they wear out. The company does not perform under-the-hood repair services except for oil change services, various flush and fill services and some minor tune-up services.

Myriad Genetics Inc.

Myriad Genetics is a precision medicine company acting as a trusted advisor to transform patient lives through molecular diagnostics. The company's molecular diagnostic tests include: myRisk? Hereditary Cancer for assessing the risks for hereditary cancers; BRACAnalysis? for assessing the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer; riskScore? that improves the company's myRisk Hereditary Cancer test; GeneSight? to support psychotropic drug selection for depressed patients; Vectra?DA for assessing the disease activity of rheumatoid arthritis; and Prolaris? for assessing the aggressiveness of prostate cancer. The company also provides pharmaceutical and clinical services.

Orion Group Holdings

Orion Group Holdings is a construction company in the building, industrial, and infrastructure sectors in the continental U.S., Alaska, Canada, and the Caribbean Basin. The company operates in two segments: marine, which operates under the Orion Marine Group brand and logo; and concrete, which operates under the TAS Commercial Concrete brand and logo. The company's marine construction services include construction, restoration, dredging, maintenance and repair of marine transportation facilities, marine pipelines, bridges and causeways, and marine environmental structures. The concrete segment provides its services in the following areas: light commercial, structural, and other services.

Qualys Inc.

Qualys provides cloud-based platform delivering information technology (IT), security and compliance solutions. The company's cloud platform consists of IT security, compliance monitoring, web application security, global IT asset management and cloud and container security solutions, which it refers to as the Qualys Cloud Apps, that utilizes its shared and extensible primary services and its multi-tenant cloud infrastructure. The company also provides open application program interfaces and other developer tools that allow third parties to embed its technology into their solutions and build applications on its cloud platform. The company's cloud platform utilizes physical and virtual sensors, and cloud agents.

Ralph Lauren Corporation Class A

Ralph Lauren designs, markets, and distributes lifestyle products, including apparel, accessories, home furnishings, and other licensed product categories. The company's brand names include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, and Club Monaco, among others. The company sells directly to customers via its retail stores, concession-based shop-within-shops, and through its own digital commerce sites; while its international licensing partners operated Ralph Lauren stores, Ralph Lauren concession shops, and Club Monaco stores and shops. The company has three segments: North America ; Europe; and Asia.

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.

Sherwin-Williams Company

Sherwin-Williams is engaged in the development, manufacture, distribution and sale of paint, coatings and related products to industrial, commercial and retail customers. The company's segments are: The Americas Group, which markets and sells Sherwin-Williams? and other controlled brand architectural paint and coatings, protective and marine products, OEM product finishes and related products; Consumer Brands Group, which supplies architectural paints, stains, varnishes, and industrial products, among others; and Performance Coatings Group, which develops and sells industrial coatings, automotive refinish, protective and marine coatings, coil coatings, packaging coatings and resins and colorants.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is a biopharma company. The company's product portfolio consists of in-development drug products for the treatment of cancer patients. The company has three drugs in development: ROLONTIS, which is a long-acting granulocyte colony-stimulating for chemotherapy-induced neutropenia; Poziotinib, which is an irreversible tyrosine kinase inhibitor under investigation for non-small cell lung cancer tumors with various mutations; and Anti-CD20-IFNa, an antibody-interferon fusion molecule directed against CD20 that is in development for treating relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients (including diffuse large B-cell lymphoma).

SUPERVALU INC.

Supervalu is a distributer of grocery and other products and provision of logistics and professional service solutions to retailers across the U.S. The company's business is classified into two reportable segments: Wholesale, which provides wholesale customers a variety of food and non-food products, including national and regional brands, and the company owns lines of private label products, as well as providing an array of professional services that provide wholesale customers with solutions; and Retail, which provides grocery offering and, depending on size, a variety of additional products, including general merchandise, home, health and beauty care, and pharmacy.

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