First Solar - FSLR Stock Forecast, Price & News

20 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for First Solar in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 12 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" FSLR shares.
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20 Wall Street analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for First Solar's stock. Their FSLR share price forecasts range from $65.00 to $175.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $124.53 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 7.7%.
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First Solar's stock was trading at $87.16 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, FSLR stock has increased by 54.8% and is now trading at $134.96.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, November 3rd 2022.
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First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ:FSLR) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July, 28th. The solar cell manufacturer reported $0.52 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $0.30 by $0.22. The solar cell manufacturer earned $621 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $606.45 million. First Solar had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 3.21% and a net margin of 7.63%. The firm's quarterly revenue was down 1.3% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $0.77 earnings per share.

First Solar issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 4th. The company provided EPS guidance of -$0.25-$0.25 for the period, compared to the consensus estimate of -$0.04. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.55 billion-$2.80 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.46 billion.

182 employees have rated First Solar Chief Executive Officer Mark Widmar on Glassdoor.com. Mark Widmar has an approval rating of 96% among the company's employees. This puts Mark Widmar in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 75.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at First Solar to a friend.

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First Solar trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "FSLR."

First Solar's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Symmetry Partners LLC (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include Alexander R Bradley, Byron Michael Jeffers, George A Hambro, Georges Antoun, Jason E Dymbort, Kuntal Kumar Verma, Lukas T Walton, Mark R Widmar, Markus Gloeckler, Michael Koralewski, Michael T Sweeney, Patrick James Buehler, Philip Dejong, R Craig Kennedy and Raffi Garabedian.
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One share of FSLR stock can currently be purchased for approximately $134.96.

First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) has a market capitalization of $14.39 billion and generates $2.92 billion in revenue each year. The solar cell manufacturer earns $468.69 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.76 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 4,800 workers across the globe.

First Solar's mailing address is 350 WEST WASHINGTON STREET SUITE 600, TEMPE AZ, 85281. The official website for the company is www.firstsolar.com. The solar cell manufacturer can be reached via phone at (602) 662-6899, via email at investor@firstsolar.com, or via fax at 602-414-9400.