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 Dow Jones Industrial Average index.

V Visa Inc
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
VZ Verizon Communications
DOW Dow Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
WBA Walgreen Boots Alliance Inc

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