Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion: SES Solar Speculative Buy Rating In Updated Initial Coverage By Dutton Associates
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EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Dutton Associates updates its coverage of SES Solar (OTCBB:SESI) maintaining a Speculative Buy rating and a $2.10 price target. The 28-page report by Dutton senior analyst Sally H. Wallick, CFA is available at www.jmdutton.com as well as from First Call, Bloomberg, Zacks, Reuters, Knobias, and other leading financial portals.
SES Solar researches, develops, produces, and installs solar energy (photovoltaic or PV) products, including PV modules and roof tiles, with a special emphasis on high-quality products that can be architecturally integrated into new or existing structures. We believe that SES will be well positioned to benefit from soaring demand for solar energy in Europe and worldwide when it consolidates production in a new plant in Geneva Canton, Switzerland. This facility, which is under construction and expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2008, will be fully automated and incorporate innovative manufacturing techniques, resulting in lower labor costs, greater operating efficiencies and higher production volumes. Currently, the Company assembles products made by third parties in a facility in Harkingen, Solothurn, Switzerland. Until the new plant is fully operational, we project that SES's revenue will be modest. After that, we expect a relatively rapid ramp-up in production volumes and revenue. During 2007, we believe that profit and loss statement trends are likely to be less relevant to investors evaluating the Company's progress than achievement of certain operational and strategic milestones, including completion of the Geneva facility early in 2008 and successful testing of new automated equipment at the Harkingen plant during the second half of 2007. In addition, the shares' performance could be affected by external events that influence investor perceptions of the solar industry, such as changes in energy prices and government incentives.
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