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Founded in 2002 by Hunter Thompson and William Davis, Thompson Davis & Co. (TD & Co.) is an independent investment research firm and broker/dealer located in Richmond, Virginia with an additional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The firm is a member of FINRA and the SIPC. TD & Co. provides unbiased, original research and services to institutional and retail investors. They do not perform research on companies for investment banking opportunities. TD & Co. also offers a full-range of financial services ranging from financial planning and private money management to corporate and municipal bonds. TD & Co.'s research team employs a focused methodology. They seek to identified, under followed, undervalued growth companies. The firm uses computer screens that look for companies with sequential revenue and earnings growth and strong balance sheets that are selling at a discount to their growth rates. Specifically, TD& Co. looks for companies with several characteristics: (1) 20% + revenue and earnings growth (2) sequential revenue and earnings growth, i.e., quarter over quarter improvement in both the top and bottom line (3) top management is buying the company's stock in the open market with their own money (4) significant management ownership of the stock (5) strong balance sheets with little or no debt or manageable declining debt, strong cash position or debt reduction efforts (6) operating in a growing market sector (no deep cyclicals or natural resource sectors) (7) gross margin expansion and market share gains and (8) selling at a discount to the company growth rate, allowing for p/e expansion toward growth rate.

Founded in 1999 by Paul Edmunds and David White, Edmunds White Partners LLC is a registered investment advisor headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Their clients include high net-worth individuals, pension and profit sharing plans, charitable organizations and corporations.

Thompson Davis & Co., Inc. (Investment Management), do-business-as Thompson Davis Asset Management (TDAM), is the investment management division of Thompson Davis & Co., Inc., a broker/dealer firm headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. TDAM was founded in 2002 and provides discretionary investment supervisory and management services to individuals, corporations or other business entities, trusts, estates, charitable organizations, and retirement plans.