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
SO Southern Company Inc
MO Altria Group
VZ Verizon Communications
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
PFE Pfizer Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
GM General Motors Company
COP ConocoPhillips
EXC Exelon Corp
INTC Intel Corp
LLY Lilly (Eli)
GE General Electric
LMT Lockheed Martin
PG Procter & Gamble
MCD McDonald's Corp
SPG Simon Property Group
ABBV AbbVie Inc
CSCO Cisco Systems

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.