Small Cap Stocks: Best Performers Thursday June 23 (EPM, LLEN, SKY, CVCO, QPSA)

Small cap stock indexes were stuck in the same rut that gripped the large
caps on Thursday: The release of a flood of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum
Reserves that crashed the crude price, a weak outlook from the Fed, wars,
unemployment and countless other woes.

Still, the Russell 2000 Index was off just 0.74 percent, with the S&P
Small Cap 600 Index was down 0.85 percent. Both were performing slightly
better than the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500
Index.

Today’s Top Performing Small Cap Stocks (Data provided by Yahoo
Finance)

Evolution Petroleum (AMEX: EPM): The explorer that goes
after oil left in inactive wells got a mention in a Forbes article about
“good times ahead under rocks,” which helped get it off to a strong
start.

L&L Energy (Nasdaq: LLEN): The stock of this
U.S.-headquartered miner with operations in China’s Yunnan and Guizhou
provinces is down 52 percent year-to-date, but could be rising on an
earlier announcement of that nation’s coal plans.

Skyline Corp. (NYSE: SKY): This maker of manufactured
housing and recreational vehicles could see more demand for its products
because of all the natural disasters that have struck the U.S. this year.
Shares peaked in December at twice the current price. It does pay a
dividend, with the June 30 payout yielding 4.3 percent.

Cavco Industries (Nasdaq: CVCO): Shares of another maker
of manufactured homes also was on the rise, and is up 13.4 percent in the
past 12 months.

Quepasa (AMEX: QPSA): The operator of a social site for
young Hispanics is joining the Russell 3000 on Friday.