- Yingli (YGE) is reiterating its full-year module shipment guidance of 3.2GW-3.3GW. Given Yingli's big YTD gains, as well as recent guidance hikes from other Chinese solar names, investors may have wanted more.
- Thanks to stabilizing module prices and cost cuts, Q3 gross margin was 13.7%. That figure exceeds guidance of 11%-13%, and is up from 11.8% in Q2 and -22.7% a year ago.
- Chinese sales made up 38% of revenue, up from 28% in Q2, shipments to high-margin Japan (rising for many Chinese solar names) rose 35% Q/Q, and U.S. sales eclipsed European sales. European demand declined due to the import quota agreement reached between China and the EU. Chinese + U.S. sales equaled over half of revenue for the first time.
- Solar system sales jumped 368% Q/Q. Chinese module vendors are increasingly joining their U.S. peers in expanding into solar project sales.
- Due to higher R&D and G&A spend, opex was $93M, +8% Q/Q and +34% Y/Y.
- Yingli's cash balance fell to $442.7M from $591M at the end of Q2. However, debt fell to $2.6B from $2.8B.
- Q3 results, PR
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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