Energy
Short Sellers Still Target Solar Stocks (FSLR, SPWR, ESLR, CSIQ, AKNS, HOKU)
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These are not all of the solar stocks we cover on NASDAQ, but as you can see the short selling against these stocks has increased as of mid-June despite the high energy costs. Here we ran the short interest for our main names in solar power NASDAQ such as First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQL FSLR), SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR), Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR), Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ), Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS), and Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU).
We broke these down by the stock with the date and we showed a comparison of both the May 30 date and what the related changes were at that date as well.
First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 4,183,584 20.16%
05/30/2008 3,481,565 -1.03%
SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 16,804,676 6.46%
05/30/2008 15,784,486 3.63%
Evergreen Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: ESLR)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 29,219,334 20.92%
05/30/2008 24,164,046 9.23%
Canadian Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: CSIQ)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 4,634,187 8.23%
05/30/2008 4,281,924 -0.68%
Akeena Solar Inc. (NASDAQ: AKNS)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 3,718,884 10.32%
05/30/2008 3,371,093 2.77%
Hoku Scientific, Inc. (NASDAQ: HOKU)
AS OF DATE Short Int. Change
06/13/2008 3,031,978 10.80%
05/30/2008 2,736,325 -19.45%
Jon C. Ogg
June 25, 2008
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