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.

T AT&T Inc
MO Altria Group
SO Southern Company Inc
EXC Exelon Corp
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
AEP Amer Electric Pwr
COP ConocoPhillips
LLY Lilly (Eli)
LMT Lockheed Martin
MRK Merck & Co
INTC Intel Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc
MCD McDonald's Corp
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
CVX Chevron Corporation
GE General Electric
SPG Simon Property Group
CSCO Cisco Systems
ABBV AbbVie Inc

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.