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Dave Nicoski ...
  • Ross LaDuke

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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Edgewell Personal Care Co.

Edgewell Personal Care is a manufacturer and marketer of personal care products. The company's segments are: Wet Shave, which manufactures and distributes Schick and Wilkinson Sword razor systems, composed of razor handles and refillable blades, and disposable shave products for men and women; Sun and Skin Care, which markets sun care products under the Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic brands; Feminine Care, which provides tampons under the Playtex Gentle Glide? 360??, Playtex Sport?, Playtex and o.b. brands, and markets pads and liners under the Stayfree and Carefree brands; and All Other, which includes infant care, pet care and miscellaneous other products.

GTT Communications Inc.

GTT Communications provides cloud networking services including: wide area networking, which provides a variety of wide area networking solutions, including software-defined wide area networking, multiprotocol label switching, virtual private LAN service, and Ethernet; transport and infrastructure services, which provides a suite of transport and infrastructure services over its global network; internet, which provides clients internet connectivity and IP transit with availability and packet delivery; managed services, which provides managed network services, including managed equipment, security, managed hosting; and voice, which provides local voice service in various countries.

L Brands Inc.

L Brands is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a specialty retailer of women's intimate and other apparel, personal care, beauty and home fragrance products. The company sells its merchandise through company-owned specialty retail stores in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland and Greater China, and through its websites and other channels. The company's other international operations are primarily through franchise, license and wholesale partners. The company has three reportable segments: Victoria's Secret, Bath & Body Works and Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works International. The company operates the following retail brands: Victoria's Secret, PINK and Bath & Body Works.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company engages in business as a multi-channel retailer of hard-surface flooring, and hard-surface flooring improvements and accessories, operating as a single operating segment. The company provides exotic and domestic hardwood species, engineered hardwood, laminate, resilient vinyl, waterproof vinyl plank and porcelain tile flooring direct to the consumer. The company features the renewable flooring products, bamboo and cork, and provides a selection of flooring improvements and accessories, including moldings, noise-reducing underlayment, adhesives and flooring tools. The company also provides in-home delivery and installation services.

Ooma

OOMA's SaaS platform serves as a communications hub, which provides cloud-based communications solutions, security and other connected services. The company's platform provides communications, monitoring, security, automation, productivity and networking infrastructure applications. The company primarily provides its solutions in the U.S. and Canadian markets. The company operates in one industry segment, which is engaged in the sale of subscription plans for communications services and other connected services; and the sale of on-premise appliances and end-point devices to its end-customers through its website and through distributors, retailers and resellers.

Potbelly Corp.

Potbelly is a sandwich concept providing warm toasty sandwiches, salads, hand-dipped shakes and other menu items, customized just the way customers want them. The company's menu includes toasty warm sandwiches, salads, soups, chili, sides, desserts and, in its breakfast locations, breakfast sandwiches and steel cut oatmeal. The company's main sandwich offerings include Turkey Breast, Italian, Grilled Chicken and Cheddar, Smoked Ham, A Wreck, Chicken Salad, Meatball, Pizza Sandwich, Mediterranean, Roast Beef, Tuna Salad and the Turkey Club. Additionally, customers can choose side dishes of coleslaw, macaroni salad, potato salad, potato chips or a whole dill pickle.

RCI Hospitality Holdings

RCI Hospitality Holdings is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in the hospitality and related businesses. The company's reportable segments include: Nightclubs, which owns and/or operates adult nightclubs serving primarily businessmen and personnel, and also owns and operates a Studio 80 dance club; and Bombshells, which owns and operates restaurants and sports bars under the brand name Bombshells Restaurant & Bar. The company's subsidiaries own a media division, including the trade magazine serving the adult nightclubs industry and the adult retail products industry. The company also owns an industry trade show, an industry trade publication and various industry and social media websites.

Rite Aid Corporation

Rite Aid is a pharmacy retail healthcare company. The company's Retail Pharmacy segment sells brand and generic prescription drugs, as well as an assortment of front-end products including health and beauty aids, personal care products, seasonal merchandise, and a private brand product line. The company's Pharmacy Services segment provides pharmacy benefit management (PBM) options through its EnvisionRxOptions and MedTrak PBMs, respectively. EnvisionRxOptions also provides mail-order and specialty pharmacy services through EnvisionPharmacies; a claims adjudication software platform in Laker Software; and a national Medicare Part D prescription drug plan through its EnvisionRx Plus product offering.

Virtu Financial Inc. Class A

Virtu Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a financial firm. The company has two operating segments: Market Making, which principally consists of market making in the cash, futures, and options markets across global equities, options, fixed income, currencies and commodities; and Execution Services, which provides agency execution services and trading venues that provide transparent trading in global equities, ETFs, fixed income, currencies, and commodities to institutions, banks and broker dealers, as well as provides soft dollar and commission recapture programs.

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Dave Nicoski

Ross LaDuke

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