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 Grp
SO Southern Co Inc
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
EXC Exelon Corp
COP ConocoPhillips
PFE Pfizer Inc
GM General Motors Co
FCX Freeport-McMoRan Inc
TGT Target Corp
MCD McDonald's Corp
GE General Electric
CVX Chevron Corporation
LLY Lilly (Eli)
PG Procter & Gamble
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
CSCO Cisco Systems
LMT Lockheed Martin
ABBV AbbVie Inc

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