Jon OggThese are some of this Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. ARM Holdings PLC (NASDAQ: ARMH) Started as Overweight at Piper Jaffray. AvalonBay Communities, Inc.…
The solar sector took a severe beating in 2011 as module prices fell by more than 40%. The bleeding has stopped for now, and most of the solar makers have worked through…
Two of the three major US equities indexes opened higher this morning with the Nasdaq composite being the laggard. The gains are modest due to any news from Europe on the Greek…
Shares in First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) are up sharply this morning following a report that the company has won a permit from the local government agency to proceed with its 230-megawatt…
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) may be proving that not all solar stocks are losers every single day, even if the sales figures were light. The solar player is one of the top…
The Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE: TAN) has been a total dud due to the fact that solar shares are only liked now by short sellers and the White House. These stocks have…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is trading as though investors are worried that it too could fall the way of Energy Conversion Devices, even though the comparison seems very much too premature…
Shares in solar panel makers are getting a thrashing this morning on the expectation that cuts to Germany’s feed-in tariff will be more severe than previously expected. First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR),…
All three major US stock indexes opened lower this morning and the day was mostly a gentle slide for the rest of the trading session. The failed Greek debt deal weighed on…
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) is being pounded on news that Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is delaying a $1.36 billion purchase of a California solar farm from First Solar. For a sector…
Thin-film solar panel maker First Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) has been unable to shake loose a payment from the US Department of Energy on the company’s $646 million loan guarantee for the…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street brokerage and research firms this Friday morning. Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) Cut to Underperform as Bear of the…
Solar stocks are on fire. Still, they are so far down from a year ago that celebrating the move it difficult to do. To show just how powerful this move up and down…
Reports of a third quarter IPO from solar PV installer SolarCity could propel Tesla Motors Inc. CEO Elon Musk into the ranks of US billionaires. Musk, a cousin of SolarCity’s founders, is…
Solar systems installer SolarCity is reported to be preparing an IPO in the third quarter of this year. A Reuters report notes that Goldman Sachs will be the lead underwriter for the…
