Large, mature companies with lagging stock prices often see prices that outperform the overall index over three-month and one-year periods. This strategy is usually implemented as a basket trade of the weak stocks to lower risk. The following are the weakest components of the S&P 100 index.

T AT&T Inc
GM General Motors Co
SO Southern Co Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
F Ford Motor
DUK Duke Energy Corp
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
CVX Chevron Corp
QCOM Qualcomm Inc
CAT Caterpillar Inc
OXY Occidental Petro
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
ABBV AbbVie Inc
CSCO Cisco Systems
PFE Pfizer Inc
MO Altria Grp
EXC Exelon Corp
MET Metlife Inc
EMR Emerson Electric Co
DOW Dow Chemical

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.