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 Co Inc
MO Altria Group
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
EXC Exelon Corp
TGT Target Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc
LMT Lockheed Martin
GE General Electric
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Copper&Gold B
CVX Chevron Corporation
PG Procter & Gamble
MCD McDonald's Corp
COP ConocoPhillips
GM General Motors Co
LLY Lilly (Eli)
SPG Simon Property Group
CSCO Cisco Systems
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.