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 Grp
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
EXC Exelon Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc
GM General Motors Co
COP ConocoPhillips
GE General Electric
TGT Target Corp
MCD McDonald's Corp
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc
PG Procter & Gamble
CVX Chevron Corporation
LLY Lilly (Eli)
ABBV AbbVie Inc
LMT Lockheed Martin
KO Coca-Cola Co
MRK Merck & Co

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.