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The Motley Fool May 13, 2009 Toby Shute |
Solar Equipment Suppliers Go Splat Two solar equipment companies, Applied Materials and GT Solar report some rough financial results.  |
The Motley Fool November 13, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Not So Shiny In advance of earnings, analysts wonder if the semiconductor equipment maker will beat their earnings estimates yet again.  |
The Motley Fool March 8, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Applied Materials Sees the Light A deal with Moser Baer India signals future growth. It could also make Applied Materials -- which has a P/E ratio of 15.6 -- an interesting and fairly conservative way to invest in the booming solar market.  |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials' Familiar Tune In advance of earnings, analysts expect Applied Materials' profits to tumble.  |
The Motley Fool April 8, 2009 Toby Shute |
From Solar Contract to Solar Contraction Applied Materials' mystery solar customer comes up short.  |
The Motley Fool February 13, 2008 Rich Smith |
Applause for Applied Materials The slump is ending, and this semiconductor equipment maker has got the numbers to prove it.  |
The Motley Fool December 12, 2011 Travis Hoium |
3 Likely Multinational Solar Suitors Big companies may be looking to take advantage of cheap solar companies in 2012.  |
Fast Company November 2010 |
Solar Power's Best Bets The economic downturn and Applied Materials' failure in the thin-film solar business were a one-two punch to the thin-film solar industry. Here's how the big players look heading into 2011.  |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Veeco Wants Some CIGS Veeco Instruments stands to benefit from the solar industry's transition to CIGS-enhanced thin-film solar cells. This may be a company to keep an eye on.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Big Energy's Big Bets on Solar Saudi Arabia highlights big energy's latest investments in solar power.  |
The Motley Fool October 11, 2010 Travis Hoium |
First Solar Gets a Big Contract First Solar adds 380 MW of orders from European customers.  |
The Motley Fool August 17, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
Slimmer Solar Grows Up Investment in thin-film solar technology is beginning to take off. While the new thin-films are less efficient than silicon-based solar cells, they can be manufactured much more easily, and expected to be very cost-competitive.  |
The Motley Fool June 13, 2008 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar Weekly solar news: DuPont is cranking up its solar business... Hyundai enters the solar fray... Spire unveils a combined cell and module manufacturing line... First Solar gets its buy rating reiterated...  |
Fast Company November 2010 Jennifer Kho |
Applied Materials and the $1.5 Billion Solar-Power Flameout Applied Materials was supposed to revolutionize the thin-film solar business, just as it had spurred chip and display makers to new heights. Instead, it was out of the game in three years. What happened?  |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Jack Uldrich |
GE Catches Rays and Rides the Wind General Electric takes another step into the growing field of thin-film solar technology by acquiring a minority stake in PrimeStar Solar. It's more proof that renewable energy will continue to grow as a percentage of the company's overall business.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2007 Toby Shute |
A Sharp Elbow to Your Solar Stock Sharp Corporation, the world's leading solar cell maker, just broke ground on a gigantic manufacturing complex that will primarily produce large-screen LCD panels, and 1,000 megawatts of thin-film solar cells.  |
The Motley Fool April 26, 2011 Jordan DiPietro |
Rising Star Buy: Applied Materials Take advantage of the chip revolution by buying the largest and best.  |
The Motley Fool August 14, 2008 Rich Smith |
Applied Materials' Sunny Display Couch potatoes could help this company win the day, as Applied benefits from booming demand for flat-panel LCD TVs.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2007 Rich Smith |
Applied Materials Gets Greener As Applied Materials grows the solar side of its business, the company has mostly dodged the market's downdraft, despite reporting a weak fourth quarter.  |
The Motley Fool December 21, 2011 Travis Hoium |
3 Ways to Save First Solar The market has lost faith in First Solar, so I have provided three alternatives to save the company.  |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Oil and Solar Become Partners Chevron is testing concentrated solar energy to make its oil wells more efficient.  |
The Motley Fool October 23, 2006 Matthew Crews |
SunPower Goes Green Third quarter profitability is a positive sign for the company's future in the solar-panel industry.  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Toby Shute |
2 More Reasons for Solar Investors to Sweat These tech titans are looking to take solar by storm.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar News from HelioSphera, SunPower, Solarfun Power and others in the solar industry  |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2009 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar The race to grid parity, one week at a time.  |
The Motley Fool December 15, 2006 Jack Uldrich |
A Rising Sun? Nanosolar, a privately funded solar energy company, could cause some big disruption in the publicly-traded solar market. After all, the sun has been known to burn people on occasion. There's no reason that it can't do the same to investors.  |
The Motley Fool May 18, 2009 Toby Shute |
Last Week in Solar News from the solar sector.  |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2008 Toby Shute |
A Fat Load of Thin Film The details are still murky, but it's now widely believed that Best Solar, a new company headed by the CEO of solar-wafer maker LDK Solar, is the mystery company behind Applied Materials' massive $1.9 billion thin-film equipment order.  |
The Motley Fool December 31, 2008 Toby Shute |
The Year in Solar The race to grid parity, one year at a time.  |
The Motley Fool August 10, 2007 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Applied Materials Leads the Way Semiconductor equipment maker Applied Materials is ready to report Q3 earnings next week. Here is what analysts will be looking for.  |
The Motley Fool October 2, 2009 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar Solar sector news: First Solar investment in SolarCity pays off nicely... ProLogis unveils renewable energy initiative... Suntech connects China's first utility-scale solar power plant into the grid... Trina Solar extends supply relationship with GCL...  |
The Motley Fool May 31, 2011 Travis Hoium |
Solar Power Has One Big Believer GE is predicting that solar power will compete head to head with fossil fuels within five years.  |
The Motley Fool August 29, 2008 Toby Shute |
A Strong Solar Showing Energy Conversion Devices rings up a rich quarter.  |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 |
IW 50 -- First Solar Puts Heat on Competitors Manufacturer of thin-film solar modules takes command of solar-panel supply chain.  |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2010 Siddharthan Meganathan |
Suntech Power Supplies Solar Panels to India's Azure India has enormous potential for the solar industry.  |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2011 Jordan DiPietro |
What Does This Acquisition Mean for the Semiconductor Industry? How Applied Material's latest purchase affects the rest of its sector.  |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2010 Travis Hoium |
5 Solar Predictions for 2011 Our best effort at predicting solar in 2011.  |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2009 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar Solar news: Energy Conversion Devices slashes its outlook... Canadian Solar announces it took charge in the fourth quarter... Another solar project pipeline consolidation... China Sunergy reports plunging revenue and inventory writedowns...  |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2010 Eric Jhonsa |
Are Solar Stocks Due for Another Fall? Overinvestment and Europe's economic problems could soon spell trouble for them.  |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Toby Shute |
Sour News on the Solar Front Two late-week developments are sending these stocks down.  |
Popular Mechanics February 26, 2009 Alex Hutchinson |
Solar Panel Drops to $1 per Watt: Is this a Milestone or the Bottom for Silicon-Based Panels? Here are the new challenges facing the solar industry and some suggestions to make a brighter future.  |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Applied Materials Will Run on Solar Power Now that chip giants from Intel to Texas Instruments and everyone in between are cutting back wafer production, Applied is quickly becoming a solar panel specialist.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar News from the solar sector: JA Solar developing high-efficiency solar cells... Solarfun Power reiterates shipment volumes... First Solar attracts more suitors... more...  |
The Motley Fool August 6, 2010 Michael Kanellos |
Suntech Abandons Thin Film, Wafer Experiments The crystalline silicon giant pays out cash. Why fight crystalline?  |
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 David Lee Smith |
Energy Conversion: Still Basking in the Sun Despite the market's rough treatment, Energy Conversion deserves your attention.  |
The Motley Fool October 3, 2008 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar The race to grid parity, one week at a time.  |
The Motley Fool July 13, 2011 Reza Handley-Namavar |
What's Up With Solar? How to profit from the recent drop in solar company prices.  |
The Motley Fool July 23, 2010 Toby Shute |
This Week in Solar The race to grid parity, one week at a time.  |
The Motley Fool March 3, 2009 Toby Shute |
First Solar Scores a Sweet Deal This acquisition is simply awesome.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Toby Shute |
First Solar: Should You Buy the Dip? Is this a buying opportunity in the best-of-breed solar module manufacturer?  |