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.

MO Altria Grp
VZ Verizon Communications
MMM 3M Co
KMI Kinder Morgan Inc
T AT&T Inc
PFE Pfizer Inc
PM Philip Morris Intl Inc
SPG Simon Ppty Grp
DOW Dow Inc
F Ford Motor
USB US Bancorp
BMY Bristol-Myers SQUIBB
DUK Duke Energy Corporation
KHC The Kraft Heinz Company
UPS United Parcel Service Inc
CVX Chevron Corporation
EXC Exelon Corp
GILD Gilead Sciences
SO Southern Co Inc
MS Morgan Stanley

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