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Promising Solar Stocks Worth Watching - October 17th

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Key Points

  • MarketBeat highlights three solar stocks to watch: First Solar, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, and Enphase Energy, all of which have shown high trading volumes recently.
  • First Solar focuses on manufacturing photovoltaic solar modules using innovations that offer a lower-carbon alternative to traditional solar technology.
  • Enphase Energy specializes in home energy solutions with semiconductor-based microinverters that enhance energy management at the module level.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of First Solar.

First Solar, Solaris Energy Infrastructure, and Enphase Energy are the three Solar stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. "Solar stocks" are shares of publicly traded companies whose primary business is related to solar energy, including manufacturers of solar panels and inverters, installers and project developers, component suppliers, and firms that own or operate solar power plants. Investors use the term to group equities exposed to the solar industry's growth drivers—such as policy incentives, technological improvements, and electricity demand—while bearing industry-specific risks like supply-chain constraints, commodity prices, and changing government subsidies. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Solar stocks within the last several days.

First Solar (FSLR)

First Solar, Inc., a solar technology company, provides photovoltaic (PV) solar energy solutions in the United States, France, Japan, Chile, and internationally. The company manufactures and sells PV solar modules with a thin film semiconductor technology that provides a lower-carbon alternative to conventional crystalline silicon PV solar modules.

Read Our Latest Research Report on FSLR

Solaris Energy Infrastructure (SEI)

Solaris Energy Infrastructure, Inc. is a holding company, which engages in the manufacture of patented mobile proppant management systems that unload, store, and deliver proppant to oil and natural gas well sites. Its products include Mobile Proppant and Mobile Chemical Management Systems, and Inventory Management Software.

Read Our Latest Research Report on SEI

Enphase Energy (ENPH)

Enphase Energy, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and sells home energy solutions for the solar photovoltaic industry in the United States and internationally. The company offers semiconductor-based microinverter, which converts energy at the individual solar module level and combines with its proprietary networking and software technologies to provide energy monitoring and control.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ENPH

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