Stocks to Watch –Solar stocks, August 7, 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. 

First Solar EPS misses by $0.13, revenue misses, guidance lowered

• Solar (FSLR): Q2 EPS of $0.39 misses by $0.13.
• Revenue of $519.8M (-46% Y/Y) misses by $201.3M.
• Expects 2013 revenue of $3.6B-$3.8B, worse than prior guidance of $3.6B-$4B and consensus of $3.83B.
• Expects 2013 EPS of $3.50-$4.00, below consensus of $4.14.
• Shares -3.4% AH. CC at 4:30PM ET

 Solar stocks, many of which have seen enormous 2013 gains, finished AH trading down moderately after First Solar missed Q2 estimates (the company blamed solar project sale push-outs) and lowered its 2013 guidance. SPWR -2.6% AH. SCTY -2%. SUNE -1.2%. LDK -2.6%. CSIQ -2.4%. JKS -2.2%. STP -2.2%. JASO -2.8%. TSL -2.7%. YGE -3.4%. SOL -2.8%

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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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