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
VZ Verizon Communications
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
CVX Chevron Corporation
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
OXY Occidental Petro
EXC Exelon Corp
CAT Caterpillar Inc
MO Altria Grp
MET Metlife Inc
ABBV AbbVie Inc
EMR Emerson Electric Co
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc
XOM Exxon Mobil
TGT Target Corp
DOW Dow Chemical

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.