First Solar Inc (FSLR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $174.11, with 4.23 million shares of worth about $736.58 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -21.93% during that period and on January 23, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.29%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 107.06M shares, out of which, 99.72M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -6.80% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -1.01%. Year-to-date (YTD), FSLR shares are showing a performance of -1.21% which increased to 16.14% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $135.88 but also hit the highest price of $306.77 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for First Solar Inc shares is 2.67 million. The stock is currently trading -6.00% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -8.22% for SMA50 and it goes to -18.34% lower than SMA200.
First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) currently have 107.06M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 87.92% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $18.64B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.46. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 15.00, while it has posted earnings per share of $11.61 in the same period. Its PEG reads 0.48 and has Quick Ratio of 1.44 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.09. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for FSLR, volatility over the week remained 5.07% while standing at 3.79% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that First Solar Inc (FSLR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 4.77 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 4.12 and it is 20.81 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 4.17 which is 5.25 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 3.25 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 70.36% while it is estimated to increase by 57.61% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 31.00% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 41.58% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Seaport Research Partners on January 16, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $274 to it. On October 29, 2024, Janney Upgrade their recommendations, while on October 22, 2024, Citigroup Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $254. Stock get a Buy rating from Truist on September 26, 2024.
