Is It Time to Buy the Dow Jones' 3 Worst-Performing Stocks of 2021?

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJINDICES: ^DJI) may be up a tidy 15% so far this year, but not all 30 of the Dow stocks have logged gains. In fact, a trio of its constituents are in the red since the end of 2020, and one more is hovering near the breakeven line.

There are of course two schools of thought regarding this laggardness. The glass-half-empty folks will presume these stocks have fallen for good reasons, and are best avoided. The glass-half-full crowd will already be sizing up these beaten-down blue chips as buying prospects.

In my view, the optimist cohort is right. The Dow's worst year-to-date performers are also now its top prospects.

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