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First Solar Could See Another 20% Upside Over The Near Term
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 2:31pm | 238First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) sahres are up more than 13 percent following a big first quarter earnings beat Tuesday. Senior analyst Gordon Johnson of Axiom Capital believes First Solar’s first quarter beat was due to a large project sale of the company’s Moapa project and not due to...
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First Solar Is The One To Own In A Challenging Environment
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 12:23pm | 337Shares of First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) tumbled more than 7 percent on Wednesday after the company's earnings report suggested the solar energy company and the overall solar market will see further gloom ahead as evidenced by its poor guidance. In a research report following First Solar's...
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First Solar Guidance Looks Bad, But Investor Sentiment May Have Already Bottomed
Thursday, November 17, 2016 - 1:37pm | 304First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) announced will slash around 27 percent of its global workforce and now expects its 2017 sales to fall well short of Wall Street's estimates. The stock hit a 52-week low of $28.60, but recovered more than $3 per share as investors felt the initial selloff of...
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First Solar Could Be Profitable By Next Year, But That May Not Satisfy Investors
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 2:00pm | 330Shares of First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) plummeted more than 17 percent to a new 52-week low of $32.90 on Thursday after the company reported third quarter earnings results. Joseph Osha of JMP Securities maintained a Market Underperform rating on First Solar's stock with an unchanged $32...
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8Point3 Energy Partners' Stock Unaffected By Latest Acquisition Announcement
Friday, April 1, 2016 - 2:01pm | 2258Point3 Energy Partners LP (NASDAQ: CAFD) announced on Friday it has entered into an agreement to acquire an interest in the 50 megawatt Hooper Project from SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) and the 40 MW Kingbird Project from First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR). 8Point3 Energy is the joint venture...
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SunEdison Leads Short Interest Trend In Solar Stocks
Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 11:58pm | 629Short interest in many of the leading solar stocks shrank in the most recent period. Two solar companies in particular led that trend in late January. Analysts on average recommend buying shares of both of them. While short sellers shied away from many of the leading solar stocks between the...
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Needham Reshuffles First Solar's Revenue And EPS Estimates Because Of This
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 1:32pm | 231First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)'s revenue and EPS estimates were reshuffled by investment research firm Needham on Monday. Needham has a Hold stock rating on the stock; of note, the firm downgraded First Solar to a Hold rating from Buy on December 10. Due to significant rebound of First...
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Why Short Interest Surged In These 3 Solar Stocks
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 - 10:32am | 960Short interest in many leading solar stocks grew in the most recent period. Sunedison Inc (NYSE: SUNE), TerraForm Power Inc (NASDAQ: TERP) and Sunrun Inc (NASDAQ: RUN) saw sharp increases in short interest in late November. Short sellers lost interest in just a few solar stocks late in the month...
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Pros At Odds Over First Solar
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 11:20am | 530First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is scheduled to report its second-quarter results after Tuesday's market close. The Estimize community (based on 16 estimates) is expecting the company to earn $0.42 per share on revenue of $765.40 million. The Wall Street consensus estimate is also looking...
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Short Interest In Solar Stocks Continues To Dwindle
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 10:24am | 987Again between the April 15 and April 30 settlement dates, short interest in the leading U.S. solar-related stocks continued to shrink. The retreat by short sellers was especially notable in First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), Solaredge Technologies Inc (NASDAQ: SEDG) and Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE:...
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Have Short Sellers Given Up On Solar Stocks?
Saturday, April 11, 2015 - 7:43pm | 937Short sellers shied away again from many of the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the March 13 and March 31 settlement dates. The most significant downswings in short interest in the period happened to First Solar, Inc. (NYSE: FSLR), Real Goods Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: RGSE) and SunPower...
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First Solar, Vivint Solar Lead Short Interest Trend
Thursday, March 12, 2015 - 1:07pm | 910By and large, short sellers loaded up on the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the February 13 and February 27 settlement dates. Leading that short interest trend were First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR), TerraForm Power Inc (NASDAQ: TERP) and Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE: VSLR). Below is a quick...
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Vivint Solar Short Interest Is Increasing Significantly
Friday, February 13, 2015 - 9:27am | 882While short sellers shied away from most of the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the January 15 and January 30 settlement dates, short interest in Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE: VSLR) instead surged by almost a third. The decline in the number of shares short in other solar companies was...
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First Solar, SunEdison Buck Trend In Solar Short Interest
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 8:30am | 967First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and Sunedison Inc (NYSE: SUNE) bucked the short interest trend among the leading U.S. solar-related stocks between the December 31 and January 15 settlement dates. Real Goods Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: RGSE), on the other hand, led that trend as the new year kicked off...
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3 Solar Stocks With Short Interest Worth Watching
Monday, December 29, 2014 - 2:05pm | 926The short interest in Vivint Solar Inc (NYSE: VSLR) rose by a double-digit percentage between the November 28 and December 15 settlement dates. Among the other leading U.S. solar-related stocks, First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) and SolarCity Corp (NASDAQ: SCTY) also saw a bump in the number of...