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.

MMM 3M Co
VZ Verizon Communications
DOW Dow Inc
WBA Walgreen Boots Alliance Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp

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