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.

AEP Amer Electric Pwr
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB
COP ConocoPhillips
DD Dupont(E.I.)Denemours
DOW Dow Chemical
EXC Exelon Corp
HNZ Heinz (H.J.)
HPQ Hewlett-Packard
INTC Intel Corp
LLY Lilly (Eli)
LMT Lockheed Martin
MCD McDonald's Corp
MO Altria Group
MRK Merck & Co
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
RTN Raytheon Co
SO Southern Company Inc
T AT&T Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
WMB Williams Companies

Dave Mecklenburg is the Editor-in-Chief of TigerSharkTrading.com.