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.

EXC Exelon Corp
LMT Lockheed Martin
T AT&T Inc
MO Altria Group
VZ Verizon Communications
COP ConocoPhillips
INTC Intel Corp
SO Southern Company Inc
DOW Dow Chemical
AEP Amer Electric Pwr
MRK Merck & Co
WMB Williams Companies
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB
RTN Raytheon Co
DD E.I. Dupont Denemours
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
LLY Lilly (Eli)
PFE Pfizer, Inc
MSFT Microsoft Corp

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