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Rising concerns over global economic outlook coupled with excess production and strengthening U.S. dollar continue to weigh on crude oil prices. We have shortlisted 7 defensive U.S energy stocks which have equity beta less than 1.0, depicting low levels of volatility. Moreover, these stocks registered high ROE during their trailing twelve month period.

Shares of  Versar Inc (NYSE: VSR), engaged in providing solutions for environmental, engineering and construction services to government and commercial clients, registered over a 16.7% gain during each of the past two consecutive trading sessions with significant number of shares exchanging hands. VSR was the top performer in U.S consumer goods and services sector after climbing 16.7% and closed at $4.20 Tuesday, while recording significant trading volumes of 9.8 million shares.

Every week, SmallCapPower.com tracks the small cap stock universe to provide a list of the top five weekly gainers and losers among the Junior Diversified mining, Energy, Technology, Industrials, Healthcare and Financial stocks with market caps below $2 billion for both the U.S. and Canadian markets. This feature is a helpful tool for investing, as one can quickly see the small caps that are moving the most and therefore likely to become the best performers.