If you’ve been paying attention to market trends or even casually watching the news over the last couple of months, there’s a good chance you’ve seen or heard concerns that stocks are in the early stages of moving to a more bearish environment. With people weighing the implications of rising interest rates, political dynamics, and whether inverted yield curves for the two-year and five-year treasury bonds might signal a recession is on the horizon, it’s not a bad idea to think about defensive investing.

With that in mind, we put together a panel of three Motley Fool contributors and asked each one to profile a company that’s worth owning ahead of a potential market crash. Read on to see why they identified…

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