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
F Ford Motor
GM General Motors Co
VZ Verizon Communications
ABBV AbbVie Inc
SO Southern Co Inc
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
OXY Occidental Petro
EXC Exelon Corp
EMR Emerson Electric Co
PFE Pfizer Inc
MO Altria Grp
CAT Caterpillar Inc
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
XOM Exxon Mobil
TGT Target Corp
DOW Dow Chemical

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.