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.

GM General Motors Co
F Ford Motor
T AT&T Inc
SO Southern Co Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
VZ Verizon Communications
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
OXY Occidental Petro
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
CAT Caterpillar Inc
MET Metlife Inc
ABBV AbbVie Inc
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
EXC Exelon Corp
DOW Dow Chemical
CSCO Cisco Systems
EMR Emerson Electric Co
QCOM Qualcomm Inc
MO Altria Grp
XOM Exxon Mobil

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.