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Solar is hot going forward. Im in several solar stocks including CSKH, JASO, SOL to name a few. CSKH is a little speculative but its got great upside IMO.
Indeed, solar will be huge, its gaining ground and will only be getting bigger, we will see swings in the industry but smaller companies like CSS with great potential will be where real money is made. AIMO
Find an undervalued Solar company and sit back and enjoy!!
This stock is having a hard time catching ground. I know they have a solid product and service, revenues should be good in 2010. Not letting my shares go this cheap. AIMO
Took an entry in HLXW down -49% and may be good for a bounce.
RAD may be hitting a bottom here $1.30, got on watch, picked up a starter
$5.10 HOD, not a bad day at all.
Came off the bottom of $1.36ish. Now $1.61 HOD. I had to add when it hit 1.36 and still think a push over $2.00 is achievable.
Chart looks good for a reversal. Just need revenue news and the big sellers to slow down.
Still Holding
JASO HOD $5.07, Took profits and riding some free shares. Solar will be good in 2010
Should be pretty good. With decent earnings we should see a move up. Currently $4.60
Newsletter looks sharp, any and all info I can get from the company is welcomed by me. Nice touch with recent news and other industry news.
Lets get the roll out of news with other projects and seeing the recent ones in action!! Lets see the revenue numbers. Accumulation continues.
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Stock responding well to news. up 17% today. High of .18 cents.
333k volume HOD .13, lets hope this crazy seller is gone and we can move up. Contracts and financing in place from PR
Good deal, looking forward to getting updates and hearing from the company.
Quit the accumulation taking place today. Not sure why anyone would dump that much stock but id say it held up pretty well considering.
Hopefully well see a better next week. Cheers!!!
JA Solar to Present at the Piper Jaffray 2010 Clean Technology and Renewables Conference Feb. 23
Iv picked up BQI at .80 and .77, I think we can see this back over $1.00 soon.
up-down can you help add a newsletter sign up in the ibox, you did such a great job on the current ibox, i dont want to mess it up. I have an HTML code. Thx
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What a red day. Blood bath for most solar stocks. I haven't seen Clear Skies traded in line with the big boys yet, buy this is ugly, .121 low for the day.
Buy the cheapies!!
RZ chart looks like its ready to move up, coupled with news should make for a nice little run.
United Solar To Provide Up to 25MW of UNI-SOLAR Laminates for Rooftop Installation in Italy
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. -- United Solar Ovonic (United Solar), a wholly owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices, Inc. (ECD) (Nasdaq: ENER), today confirmed that it will supply up to 25 MW of UNI-SOLAR® brand photovoltaic laminates to Enel Green Power for installation on a number of buildings owned by CIS-Interporto di Nola in Italy. Enel Green Power is the renewable energy operating company of the Enel Group, Italy's largest utility.
The UNI-SOLAR laminates will be fully integrated with the existing architecture and will be installed on the roofs of a number of commercial and logistic buildings, and are expected to begin producing power in 2010. Once operational, the facility will be capable of producing about 33 million kWh per year, enough to meet the consumption needs of approximately 13,000 households – more than a third of the inhabitants of Nola – while avoiding the atmospheric emission of more than 21 tons of CO2 per year.
UNI-SOLAR laminates were the obvious choice for this project because they were an ideal match to the demands of the application. The product fits perfectly with the characteristics of these buildings in terms of layout, rooftop load capacity, and waterproofing. Other climatic factors were also important, especially the ability to withstand high winds, as the buildings regularly experience gusts of up to 160 kilometers per hour. For resistance to wind uplift without roof penetrations, UNI-SOLAR laminates are unparalleled in the rooftop solar industry.
Mark Morelli, ECD's president and CEO, said, "This announcement of this significant purchase agreement with Enel Green Power is a good indication that the evolution of our business to target large scale, multi-rooftop projects is taking shape. We look forward to working with them on similar opportunities in other countries and expanding our relationship to include many more rooftop projects in the future."
About Enel Green Power
Enel Green Power, established in December 2008, is the Enel Group company devoted to the development and management of power generation from renewable resources at the international level, with a presence in Europe and the Americas. It is the European leader in its industry thanks to 17.2 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity generated from water, the sun, wind and the heat of the earth, enough to meet the consumption needs of some 6.5 million households each year and avoid 13 million tons of CO2 emissions. The company's installed capacity totals about 4,700 MW, produced by more than 500 plants in operation around the world, with a generation mix that includes wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and biomass.
Investing In Green Tech
Kerry A. Dolan, 02.02.10, 06:00 PM EST
Green tech stocks to buy in 2010.
Hoping to make money in the stock market by investing in green tech or alternative energy? It's not an easy sector to bet on, says Steve Milunovich, alternative energy analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "So many areas of alternative energy need government subsidies," he says, because the technology is still too expensive to compete with coal, oil and natural gas. "But if you can pick the winner, you can do really well."
Case in point: First Solar ( FSLR - news - people ). Anyone who bought shares of the solar panel maker soon after it went public in 2006, when shares traded around $20, has profited handsomely. First Solar shares now trade for around $113; the company has a market valuation of $9.6 billion.
Milunovich isn't particularly optimistic about investment returns in the solar sector as a whole these days. He has a neutral rating on First Solar and an underperform on SunPower ( SPWR - news - people ). "Solar has been a very poor performer for the last two years. Everyone's concerned about the German feed-in tariff reductions hurting the market," he explains. His recommendation for a solar investment now? Low-cost Chinese panel makers, including Suntech Power Holdings ( STP - news - people ), Trina Solar ( TSL - news - people ) and Yingli Green Energy Holding ( YGE - news - people ). (First Solar, SunPower, Trina Solar and Yingli Green Energy Holding are investment banking clients of Bank of America ( BAC - news - people ) Merrill Lynch.)
One energy sector where Milunovich sees growth this year is the smart grid. Utilities in California and elsewhere are installing two-way meters at residential customers' homes with the hope that people who have more information about their electricity use will ratchet down their consumption. A beneficiary of this trend is Itron ( ITRI - news - people ), a company that has been making electricity, gas and water meters for many years. Itron had revenue of $1.6 billion over the last four quarters and a market cap of $2.5 billion. Milunovich recommends the stock as a buy.
Another grid-related stock he likes: EnerNOC ( ENOC - news - people ), an intermediary between utilities and commercial and industrial customers. At times of peak demand, utilities can turn to EnerNOC and, for a fee, pay it to have large commercial users of energy cut back on their consumption. EnerNOC has installed software with its customers that can enable this to take place nearly automatically. Revenues are currently around $200 million but Milunovich says it could become a billion-dollar company. EnerNOC is the largest player in what's called the demand-response business.
In the lighting sector Milunovich recommends buying Cree ( CREE - news - people ), a maker of light emitting diodes. These lights use 70% less energy than traditional incandescent bulbs, but due to high costs they are still just a tiny sliver of the lighting market. Philips predicts LEDs could account for as much as 80% to 90% of the $100 billion general lighting market by 2020. Cree is already a pricey stock--it trades at 9 times its $650 million in revenues and 81 times its $67 million in net income. Milunovich advocates patience: "You look back at Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ). It grows into the valuation."
Looking ahead to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. earnings; MPWR, JASO, CSIQ, FSLR
Wednesday, 03 February 2010 22:47
Traders watch earnings filings keenly, as changes in a company’s ratios can be a good indication whether a company is on the right track, or headed the wrong way.
Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (MPWR) is scheduled to release its earnings results Thursday. The company currently has an earnings per share ratio (EPS trailing twelve months) of .50 and investors are hoping to see that number grow. Let’s take a look at the performance of the stock since its previous earnings release.
In the past three months, the stock has posted a 1.95% gain in terms of stock price. Over the same period, the Semiconductor - Specialized industry group has returned a combined 13.38% gain.
So the eyes of investors turn to this new round of earnings.
Now, good earnings don’t always lead to higher stock prices, but keeping up on earnings is still a vital part of your fundamental stock analysis. Also note that companies often change earnings dates, so you should double-check them often.
When looking at earnings, it’s very helpful to see how stocks compare to others in its industry group. And even though two stocks may not be direct competitors, many analysts and institutional investors still compare them and evaluate them relative to other stocks in their group.
MPWR is in the Semiconductor - Specialized industry group where it competes for investor dollars with companies like JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (JASO), which is set to release its earnings on 02/11 and last reported a 172.55% gain in quarter-over-quarter EPS.
Another industry peer, Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ) released its earnings on 11/17 and last reported a 123.13% gain in QOQ EPS.
First Solar, Inc. (FSLR) is the stock with the biggest market cap in the Semiconductor - Specialized industry at $10.13B. It closed yesterday at $119.07
Analysts Underestimate Solar Earnings Potential (SOLR, ENSL, JASO, SOLF, LDK, TSL, FSLR, STP, YGE)
The solar sector got off to a choppy start in 2010, but if GT Solar’s (SOLR) report is any indication, it could be another blowout earnings season.
Merrimack, New Hampshire-based GT Solar International beat expectations with $36.8 million of fiscal third-quarter net income, or 25 cents in earnings per share. Revenue fell by -15% year-over-year to $173.6 million. GT president and CEO, Tom Gutierrez said, “We have seen an increase in business activity over the last four months from our key customers in Asia.” Guiterrez noted that the company received approximately $59 million of new orders during the period.
GT Solar expects full-year EPS to be in the 52- to 60-cent range in 2010 and between 30 and 60 cents in fiscal year 2011. Shares traded higher by as much as 10% in the pre-market.
As a whole, the Solar Stocks Index has lagged the S&P 500 by -15% over the last month after Germany announced plans to cut solar incentives starting April 1. Some weight was lifted from the sector when the cuts were pushed back by a month, but stocks remain well off their early-January highs. According to Reuters, Germany accounts for about half of the world’s photovoltaic (PV) production.
Entech Solar (ENSL), JA Solar (JASO), and Solarfun Power Holdings (SOLF) have all surged by more than 7% in the five sessions leading to Tuesday’s close. However, stalled plans for subsidy cuts couldn’t save LDK Solar (LDK), which has slipped by -5% for the period.
Components of the Chinese Solar Stocks Index reported blockbuster shipments during the third quarter, sending the sector on an impressive earnings rally. Investors will be paying close attention when JA Solar reports its Q4 numbers next Thursday. Chinese giant Trina Solar (TSL) will report on February 24, as will California-based First Solar (FSLR).
Suntech Power Holdings (STP) and Yingli Green Energy (YGE) report earnings in March, as will other Chinese players.
As of this writing, the Solar Stocks Index is one of the five worst performing tickerspy Indexes over the last month, down by -15.5%.
SQNM - Sequenom Announces Launch of SensiGene Fetal RHD Genotyping Test
Closed down a hair. I still believe. We will have our day.
Sounds very good and nice to see things moving along. Completion of its Restructuring!!
Up 8% for today.
JASO continues move higher. $5.05 HOD today
Lets see CSKH do the same please!!
Nice buys at .0003 on CYBL
CYBL .0002's falling, could up tick any minute. Looking good.
CSKH, real company with real projects now has real financing from a large investment company.
Clear Skies Signs $800,000 Solar Project in New Jersey
Project financing supplied by G&S Investors Group
CSKH had news yesterday, any sell on news selling is mostly gone IMO. Time to move up. AIMO
Clear Skies Signs $800,000 Solar Project in New Jersey
Project financing supplied by G&S Investors Group
This explains a lot. Im sure the funds are being used to fund the company and opporation at least a portion of them. But that 1/4 the volume in the time frame given.
I understand more news is to follow and it only gets better moving forward.
The thing to remember is during this time someone has been buying up that stock and keeping it above .13ish. Lets just hope there are brighter sides to the story here.
I agree with you, this is a real company with real projects and its been stated financing is in place with this new partnership. Time to move up from here. GLTY
AIMO
Financing should be around the corner. Undervalued Solar company imo. Solar industry is will be hot in 2010, Solar was hit like the rest and should things are already shaping up.
I do own stock in CSKH and AIMO
Solar doing pretty well today. Up .25 today 5%
Still no update from the company?? Whats the hold up, can it get any worse for shareholders. Lets see a PR or something.
CSKH huge news, Clear Skies Signs $800,000 Solar Project in New Jersey
With a major real estate investor company
http://www.gsinvestors.com/index.php
G&S Investors
http://www.gsinvestors.com/index.php
G&S Investors develops, leases and manages income-producing properties in the tri-state area. Founded in 1982, G&S is known in the industry for its creativity in solving development problems, particularly in sites deemed unworkable due to physical, economic and political complexities and for achieving the highest possible return on its investment.
The company’s success is based upon identifying opportunities and applying solid economic forecasting, with sensitivity to political realities and retail trends. G&S has successfully executed every project it has initiated. This record has been achieved by fostering close and flexible relationships with financial institutions, local government and community groups involved in every project. National tenants such as Costco, Target, Circuit City, Borders Books, Bed Bath & Beyond, DSW, Marshalls, Loews Theaters, Super Stop & Shop, Home Depot and many others have turned to G&S to develop sites that are simply too complicated and difficult to attempt on their own.
February 2, 2010
Dear Ener1 Stakeholders:
I am pleased to report that EnerDel has completed the process that allows us to begin drawing funds under the $118.5 million federal grant awarded last August by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). This is a seminal event for Ener1 shareholders that underscores our strong competitive position going forward.
That 8k looks really good. Nice