Solar Upgrades and Downgrades

Australian firm Macquarie has made several changes to stocks in the Solar sector this morning:

upgrades Yingli Green Energy (NYSE: YGE) from Neutral to Outperform. Shares of Yingli are up 2.6% to $13.06 in the pre-market trading session.

upgrades Sunpower (Nasdaq: SPWRA) from Underperform to Neutral. The stock is up 1.3% to $32.

downgrades First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR) from Outperform to Neutral. First Solar shares are down slightly to $147.41.

downgrades Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) from Neutral to Underperform. Shares of Suntech are down 0.13% to $14.87.

The Claymore/MAC Global Solar Index ETF (NYSE: TAN), or commonly referred to as just "the TAN", is up about 0.21% today.

Labels: First Solar Inc, FSLR, solar ETF, SPWRA, STP, SunPower Corp, TAN, Yingli Green Energy Hold

posted by Ertai at 9:59 AM