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.

T AT&T Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
INTC Intel Corp
DD Dupont(E.I.)Denemours
MRK Merck & Co
HPQ Hewlett-Packard

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