Another wild day and I’m busy watching the market and getting behind on green stocks updates! Lots of analyst rating changes today..
Wunderlich Securities upgraded MEMC Electronic Materials (WFR) from Hold to Buy. Shares of WFR of doing a decent job of holding all time lows despite being hammered after earnings and during yesterday’s market crash. Get a Free WFR trend analysis here.
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Craig-Hallum downgrades Fuel Systems Solutions (FSYS) Buy to Accumulate and slashed … Read the rest
Lots of analyst reaction to First Solar (FSLR) earnings last night. Here’s the run down with a hat tip to Street Insider for the analyst commentary.
Buy Ratings
Brigantine Advisors reiterates its Buy rating and raises the price target from $144 to $150.
“Investor sentiment in the solar sector has been weak for much of this year, and we think the strong report from First Solar will go a long way to allay most concerns. … Read the rest
2 upgrades to tell you about this morning – Citi upgraded VeraSun (VSE) from Sell to Hold but lowered the price target from 3 to 1.85, saying “The difficulties in 3Q08 are primarily related to the company’s corn hedging activities as VeraSun chose to lock in significant quantities of corn back in July when the corn market was reaching its peak. Consequently, as corn prices quickly reversed course VeraSun generated large losses on its corn … Read the rest