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.

COP ConocoPhillips
KMI Kinder Morgan Inc
T AT&T Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
GM General Motors Co
SO Southern Co Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
F Ford Motor
OXY Occidental Petro
MO Altria Grp
CAT Caterpillar Inc
EXC Exelon Corp
EMR Emerson Electric Co
XOM Exxon Mobil
DOW Dow Chemical
PG Procter & Gamble
GE General Electric
MCD McDonald's Corp
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.