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.

F Ford Motor
T AT&T Inc
SO Southern Co Inc
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
OXY Occidental Petro
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
GM General Motors Co
ABBV AbbVie Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
EXC Exelon Corp
PFE Pfizer Inc
MO Altria Grp
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
EMR Emerson Electric Co
XOM Exxon Mobil
CSCO Cisco Systems
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
DOW Dow Chemical
KO Coca-Cola Co

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.