Stocks to Watch –Solar stocks, August 20, 2013

Crude oil prices have been surging recently, and there is little sign that the momentum will be slowing down. Every time crude oil reaches these types of elevated levels, it seems that interest in alternative forms of energy also rise. Solar is one type of alternative energy that gets particular attention, and should be on investors' radar going into 2013. 

Trina Solar beats by $0.10, beats on revenue

• Trina Solar (TSL): Q2 EPS of -$0.47 beats by $0.10.
• Revenue of $440.7M beats by $65.81M.

More on Trina Solar's Q2 results, shares +4% premarket

• Trina Solar's (TSL) Q2 net loss narrowed to $0.47/ADS from $1.30/ADS in the year-ago quarter, as it shipped 647 MW of PV modules vs. 393 MW shipped in Q1 and 419 MW shipped a year earlier.
• Gross margins rose to 11.6% from 1.7% in Q1 and 8.4% a year earlier, as panel prices stabilized and manufacturing costs declined.
• During Q3, TSL expects to ship 650-680 MW of panels, sees gross margins in the low double digits; for FY 2013, raises its previous PV module shipment guidance of 2.0-2.1 GW to 2.3-2.4 GW.
• Shares +4% premarket.

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Below these are the  Solar stocks  I am follow on 2013.

  
Solar Stocks List 
Solar Pure Plays:
•SunPower Corporation (Nasdaq: SPWR)
•First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR)
•Evergreen Solar (Nasdaq: ESLR)
•SunTech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP)
•Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL)
•Solarfun Power Holdings (Nasdaq: SOLF)
•Canadian Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: CSIQ)
•JA Solar Holdings (Nasdaq: JASO)
•China Sunergy (Nasdaq: CSUN)
•LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK)
•ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL)

Smaller companies with Solar exposure:
•Energy Conversion Device (Nasdaq: ENER)
•Hoku Scientific (Nasdaq: HOKU)
•Daystar Technologies (Nasdaq: DSTI)
•Spire Corporation (Nasdaq: SPIR)

Solar Energy ETFs:
•Market Vectors Solar Energy ETF (KWT)
•Claymore/MAC Global Solar Energy (TAN)

Bigger companies with Solar exposure:
•MEMC Electronics (NYSE: WFR)
•General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE)
•Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA)
•British Petroleum (NYSE: BP)
•Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS-B)
•Kyocera (NYSE: KYO)
•Applied Materials (Nasdaq: AMAT)

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