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  • After Rapid Rise, Are These Solar Companies Setting the Stage for Disaster?

    By Mike Thiessen - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, SCTY, SPWR

    Over the past few weeks, Solar City (NASDAQ: SCTY), SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWR) and First Solar (NASDAQ: FSLR) have seen tremendous market capitalization jumps. All three of these firms have outperformed the broader market by several orders of magnitude, and they have shown few signs of slowing down their seemingly inexorable rise. However, little has changed in a fundamental sense: Solar firms are still losing money at a brisk pace more »

  • How Elon Musk Can Help You Find the Next Home Run Stock?

    By Jon Quast - May 23, 2013 | Tickers: SCTY, TSLA, BA

    PayPal co-founder Elon Musk is one of the most widely known and celebrated businessmen of the past decade. The South Africa native has a knack for delivering results in some very unlikely areas. I intend to share with you why I was simply gobsmacked after looking at his recent accomplishments.

    Space exploration, electric cars, and solar energy are the perfect recipe for failure. All three industries have mountainous obstacles to more »

  • Should You Go Long In These Speculative Stocks?

    By Jacob Wolinsky - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: MCP, SCTY, TSLA

    Some companiesjust can’t remain out of news or controversies depending on how one looks. Tesla  (NASDAQ: TSLA), SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), and Molycorp (NYSE: MCP) are perfect examples of this sort of companies. Sharp corrections, appreciations and crazy valuations, these stocks have it all. With some of these stocks advancing to record levels in the current rally, the debate about true worth of these companies has come to forefront. Here more »

  • This Stock Makes LinkedIn Look Cheap!

    By Brian Nichols - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: LNKD, SCTY

    LinkedIn is by no means a value investment. The company is considered by some to be a great short opportunity, with decelerating growth and a massive valuation compared to fundamentals. Yet despite these facts, LinkedIn does in fact appear to be a value investment, when compared to another high-flying speculative name.

    LinkedIn: Not Cheap By Any Means

    LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) is controversial, as investors debate whether or not upside could more »

  • Are Sunny Days Ahead for This Solar Play?

    By Leo Sun - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, GS, SCTY, SPWR, TSLA

    The past five years have been exceptionally cruel to the solar industry. Once considered the next hot growth industry, solar companies have been devastated by crises affecting its core markets - the global financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, the slowdown in China and spending cuts in America all dashed hopes of solar power becoming a viable alternative to traditional sources of energy. The Solyndra scandal also showed that green more »

  • Are These Top Post-IPO Performers Still a Buy?

    By Brian Nichols - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: AMBA, CHUY, SSTK, SCTY, TSRO

    Investors are no stranger to large IPO pops, but in the last year we have seen incredible post-IPO runs, indicating that these companies were priced too cheap. Thus I am looking at the top five to determine if more upside exists.

    #5 Ambarella (NASDAQ: AMBA)

    Since its IPO on Oct. 10, 2012, the technology company Ambarella has rallied 154.6%. Currently the stock is trending higher and is just $0 more »

  • Who Benefits the Most if the TVA is Privatized

    By Wes Patoka - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: DUK, SCTY, SO

    Currently the Obama Administration is mulling over privatizing America’s largest public utility, the government owned Tennessee Vally Authority. Originally this organization was charged with delivering cheap hydro power to the rural south. As the population grew the original need for this organization seems to have been met. Couple its achieved mission with the TVA’s current debt $24 billion vs. its statutory cap of $30 billion and this organization more »

  • Are Solar Stocks Flying Too High?

    By Jon Quast - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: RSOL, SCTY, SPWR

    Several unlikely candidates -- all from the solar industry -- are giving a big-time boost to investor's portfolios since the start of this year.

    SPWR data by YCharts

    Something huge is definitely going down in the solar sector that has investors buzzing. But with some of these stocks already tripling and quadrupling in such a short time, is it too late for potential investors? Or worse -- are these companies now overvalued more »

  • 4 Solar Companies Shining Brightly For Investors

    By Scott Levine - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: ENPH, FSLR, SCTY, SPWR

    Many investors are afraid of burning their portfolios by investing in solar. Although there are many valid arguments for avoiding this sector, one of the most popular concerns is that solar-affiliated companies are too reliant on government subsidies, and therefore, when the subsidies disappear so will the profits. This may be true for some companies, but not all of them. Be that as it may, in 2012, the U.S more »

  • In Musk We Trust?

    By Dana Blankenhorn - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: SCTY, TSLA

    This is the season when we celebrate great financiers like Warren Buffett.

    But you don't invest in the past. You invest in the future.

    Maybe we should be celebrating Elon Musk instead.

    The Fool's Jason Hall calls what is happening with Musk's stock “a bubble,”  and on an absolute valuation basis, he's right. But if you got in on Google when it started, you're more more »

  • Short Squeeze Hits Solar Sector

    By RyanGlosier - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, KWT, SCTY, SPWR

    When investing or trading in stocks, there are a plethora of different metrics that should be examined and factored into decisions. While some investors focus primarily on valuation and fundamentals such as earnings and revenue growth, others prefer to take into account a host of technical factors. These may include relative strength, trendlines, and support and resistance levels among many others.

    One metric that is sometimes overlooked, but can be more »

  • Are These Stocks a Buy After Earnings?

    By Brian Nichols - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: CPA, IOC, SCTY

    As most of the big-name companies have already reported earnings, investors don’t seem quite as preoccupied with current and upcoming reports. Yet despite the volume of companies reporting being lowered, there are still many market-moving reports. With that said, I am looking at three companies that reported on Tuesday to determine if any are a buy.

    An Expensive Stock With Future Upside Priced Into its Valuation

    The most watched more »

  • What To Buy as These 3 Companies Surge

    By Chris Lau - May 17, 2013 | Tickers: SODA, SCTY, TSLA

    When a stock surges to impossible heights in a short amount of time, investors get excited, and rightfully so. What investor would not want to hold stocks that doubled, the way Netflix did went it rose 223% in a one year period? Three companies that rose sharply in May are SodaStream, Tesla, and SolarCity. Their recent rise is illustrated in the chart below:

    SODA data by YCharts

    Home-made soft drinks more »

  • The New Bubble: Elon Musk?

    By Jason Hall - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, SCTY, TSLA | Editor's Choice

    I've done very well by Elon Musk, at least in the past few months. But is it coming to an end, and all the recent profits are just the product of a short squeeze?

    Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Solar City (NASDAQ: SCTY) both have prominent places in my portfolio, and unless you've been living under a rock this month, you know how that's worked out for me more »

  • Corporate America has a Flare for Solar Industry Investment

    By Lauren Guite - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: HMC, SCTY

    Environment Blog/flickr

    Originally written for EDF Voices by Brad Copithorne, director of financial innovation for Environmental Defense Fund's energy group.

    A few weeks ago, American Honda announced an innovative financing partnership with Solar City, a major solar installer. (Full disclosure: My wife works for Solar City).  Under the terms of the deal, the car maker will use $65 million its own money to pay for its customers and more »

  • A Hidden Solar Small Cap Gem is up 300% from its recent low

    By Sneha Shah - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: ENPH, FSLR, GE, GTAT, LDK, PWER, SI, SCTY, SPWR, STP

    US Solar Stocks are on a bull run

    Solar stocks have been rising rapidly in the recent months along with the general stock market and improving industry fundamentals. The buyout of Power-One (NASDAQ: PWER) for a substantial premium by European giant ABB has improved the sentiment as well. While the Chinese solar stocks are still under pressure due to the bon defaults by Suntech (NYSE: STP) and LDK Solar (NYSE: LDKmore »)

  • Top 3 Picks In Solar Energy - Sunpower, Yingli Green Energy And Renesola

    By Sneha Shah - May 9, 2013 | Tickers: FSLR, SOL, SCTY, SPWR, YGE

    The Solar Industry has been caught in a vicious downturn since the first quarter of 2011 as subsidies have been slashed, oversupply has exacerbated, prices have crashed and major economic powers have initiated solar trade wars with each other. Thousands of solar companies have gone bankrupt during this period as the capital has dried up. Despite this, the global solar demand has kept increasing and has reached 100 GW in more »

  • Buy These Companies As Clean Energy Spending Slows

    By Reuben Brewer - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: AT, SCTY, XEL

    Spending on clean energy fell 22% percent in the first quarter, according to Bloomberg. That's the lowest level in four years. Here are a couple of companies to look at that already have clean energy assets built, and a company to be wary of.

    Government Support

    Clean energy has been helped along by government subsidies. Although most would agree that the idea of renewable and environmentally friendly power sources more »

  • The Grid and the Green Energy Threat

    By Wes Patoka - April 30, 2013 | Tickers: ED, DUK, MGEE, SCTY

    Utility companies have traditionally been the only way for a consumer to join the 21st century and use electricity in their homes. As time marches forward, consumers have more choices surrounding how to get electricity for their homes.

    There's an argument to be made that the solar systems of companies like SolarCity’s (NASDAQ: SCTY) and consumer-purchased windmills will be the way of the future. Will we be more »

  • Four Ways to Play With Gas, One Way to Play With Fire

    By Jason Hall - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: CLNE, CMI, SCTY, UPL, WPRT

    As a kid, I'm sure you heard someone tell you not to play with fire, and heaven forbid, playing with gas (especially) if it involved fire was enough to get a kid in a lot of trouble!  But since we are all responsible adults now, we can finally play with gas and fire, and even do it at the same time and not get burned.  The key is by more »

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