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
OXY Occidental Petro
T AT&T Inc
SO Southern Co Inc
VZ Verizon Communications
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
TGT Target Corp
QCOM Qualcomm Inc
GM General Motors Co
IBM Intl Business Machines Corp
MO Altria Grp
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
XOM Exxon Mobil
CVX Chevron Corporation
GE General Electric Co
PFE Pfizer Inc
CSCO Cisco Systems
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
ABBV AbbVie Inc
EXC Exelon Corp

Dave Mecklenburg is the Publishing of TigerSharkTrading.com.