Solar Stocks Performance 2007

Here is the performance of the leaders within the solar energy sector, for the first 6 months of 2007:
(as predicted, the small solar sector outperforms the rest of the market sectors)

FSLR - NASDAQ - First Solar Inc +183%
HOKU - NADSAQ - Hoku Scientific +151%
TSL - NYSE - Trina Solar +70%
SPWR - NASDAQ - SunPower Corp +60%
WFR - NYSE - MEMC Elect. Mat. +35%
DSTI -NASDAQ - Daystar Tech. +18%
ESLR -NASDAQ - Evergreen Solar +13%

STP and CSIQ are almost neutral since the start of the year, and the only loosing stock from this list is ENER at -19%

Adding up, this group of stocks is up 51,4 % on average.

For benchmark comparisons, the S&P500 is up 6,35% for the last six months.

Here is the top performer 6month chart, FSLR:

Labels: DSTI, ENER, ESLR, FSLR, HOKU, Solar Stocks, SPWR, STP, TSL, WFR

posted by IntoBlogs at 8:56 PM