First Solar Inc (FSLR) Stock Price & News

Q2 2026 earnings • released • EPS beat +39.56% • Revenue miss -0.40%

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FSLR:NASDAQ

First Solar Inc

$211.03

+2.44%

(+5.02) 1D

$209.98

-0.50% (-1.05)

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Closed: Jul 31, 4:00:01 PM GMT-4 · USD

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	Symbol	Price	Change	% Change

Generating top insights for FSLR...

Open

$212.78

High

$217.13

Low

$206.39

Mkt. cap

22.68B

Avg. vol.

1.85M

Volume

3.43M

P/E ratio

13.63

52-wk high

$320.95

52-wk low

$176.47

EPS

$15.48

Beta

1.73

Shares outstanding

107.45M

No. of employees

Open

$212.78

High

$217.13

Low

$206.39

Mkt. cap

22.68B

Avg. vol.

1.85M

Volume

3.43M

P/E ratio

13.63

52-wk high

$320.95

52-wk low

$176.47

EPS

$15.48

Beta

1.73

Shares outstanding

107.45M

No. of employees

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FSLR Q2 Earnings Call Highlights Domestic Solar Push

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Profile

First Solar, Inc. is an American publicly traded manufacturer of solar panels. First Solar uses rigid thin-film modules for its solar panels, and produces CdTe panels using cadmium telluride as a semiconductor. The predecessor company, Solar Cells, Inc., was founded in 1990 by inventor Harold McMaster. In 1999, Solar Cells, Inc., was purchased by True North Partners, LLC, led by Michael Ahearn, and rebranded as First Solar, Inc. The company went public in 2006, trading on the NASDAQ as FSLR. It has been listed on the Photovoltaik Global 30 Index since the beginning of this stock index in 2009. Its current chief executive is Mark Widmar, who succeeded the previous CEO, James Hughes, on July 1, 2016. First Solar operates three manufacturing facilities in Ohio, one in Alabama, and one in Louisiana. As of March 2026, the company had approximately 14 GW of annual domestic nameplate capacity. Wikipedia

About First Solar Inc

CEOMark R Widmar

Employees7.9K

Founded1999

HeadquartersTempe, Arizona, United States

SectorSemiconductor

Websitefirstsolar.com

Analyst ratings

Based on 23 analysts giving stock ratings to FSLR in the past 3 months

Buy

Hold

Sell

12-month forecast

Based on 23 Wall Street analysts offering 12 month price targets for FSLR in the last 3 months.

Highest

Current $211.03

$330.00 (+56.38%)

Average

$270.70 (+28.28%)

Lowest

$150.00 (-28.92%)

Analyst	Recommendation	Action	Price target	Projected	Date
Jed Dorsheimer William Blair	Hold	Maintained	-	-	07/31/2026
Chris Dendrinos RBC Capital	Buy	Maintained	$236.00	+11.8%	07/31/2026
Brian K. Lee Goldman Sachs	Buy	Reiterated	$310.00	+46.9%	07/30/2026
Mark Strouse J.P. Morgan	Buy	Maintained	$256.00	+21.3%	07/31/2026
Ameet Thakkar BMO Capital	Hold	Maintained	$237.00	+12.3%	07/31/2026
Colin Rusch Oppenheimer	Hold	Maintained	-	-	07/31/2026
Sean Milligan Needham	Buy	Maintained	$303.00	+43.6%	07/31/2026
Christopher Souther Truist Financial	Hold	Reiterated	$229.00	+8.5%	07/31/2026
David Arcaro Morgan Stanley	Buy	Maintained	$245.00	+16.1%	07/31/2026
Philip Shen Roth MKM	Buy	Reiterated	$300.00	+42.2%	07/31/2026
Jon Windham UBS	Buy	Maintained	$330.00	+56.4%	07/31/2026
Praneeth Satish Wells Fargo	Buy	Maintained	$300.00	+42.2%	07/31/2026
Sophie Karp KeyBanc	Sell	Maintained	$150.00	-28.9%	07/31/2026
Jeff Osborne TD Cowen	Buy	Reiterated	$253.00	+19.9%	07/31/2026
Vikram Bagri Citi	Buy	Maintained	$294.00	+39.3%	07/23/2026
Christine Cho CFA Barclays	Buy	Maintained	$279.00	+32.2%	07/15/2026
Unknown Analyst Truist Financial	Hold	Initiated	$249.00	+18%	07/13/2026
Charles Minervino Susquehanna	Buy	Maintained	$270.00	+27.9%	07/10/2026
Corinne Blanchard Deutsche Bank	Buy	Upgraded	$272.00	+28.9%	07/07/2026
Sunaina Ocalan‏ Bernstein	Sell	Maintained	-	-	06/26/2026
Unknown Analyst Bernstein	Sell	Initiated	$217.00	+2.8%	06/16/2026
Maheep Mandloi Mizuho Securities	Buy	Maintained	$300.00	+42.2%	06/15/2026
Gordon Johnson GLJ Research	Buy	Upgraded	$315.00	+49.3%	05/27/2026
Unknown Analyst Argus Research	Buy	Maintained	$275.00	+30.3%	05/12/2026
Dmitriy Pozdnyakov Freedom Capital Markets	Buy	Upgraded	$260.00	+23.2%	05/05/2026
Nicholas Amicucci Evercore ISI	Hold	Maintained	$212.00	+0.5%	05/01/2026
Julien Dumoulin Smith Jefferies	Hold	Maintained	$187.00	-11.4%	04/07/2026
Joseph Osha Guggenheim	Buy	Maintained	$269.00	+27.5%	03/17/2026
Unknown Analyst Wells Fargo	Buy	Maintained	$255.00	+20.8%	02/26/2026
Daniel Yang HSBC	Hold	Downgraded	$211.00	-0%	02/25/2026
Ben Kallo Robert W. Baird	Hold	Downgraded	$205.00	-2.9%	02/25/2026

All values in USD	Sep 2025	Dec 2025	Mar 2026	Jun 2026
Revenue	1.59B	1.68B	1.04B	1.06B
Cost of goods sold	984.11M	1.02B	558.11M	-
Cost of revenue	984.11M	1.02B	558.11M	451.19M
Research and development expenses	60.59M	65.95M	66.94M	-
Total research and development expenses	-	-	-	-
Selling, general, and admin expenses	47.32M	50.68M	65.33M	-
Operating expense	144.65M	117.42M	140.83M	-
Total operating expenses	1.13B	1.13B	698.94M	605.81M
Operating income	466.10M	547.92M	345.30M	-
Other non operating income	-5.52M	-4.41M	-3.44M	-
EBT including unusual items	460.34M	551.34M	354.33M	-
EBT excluding unusual items	460.34M	551.35M	355.07M	-
Income tax expense	4.40M	30.46M	7.72M	36.81M
Effective tax rate	0.96%	5.52%	2.18%	-
Other operating expenses	-	-	-	-
Net income	455.94M	520.88M	346.62M	-
Net profit margin	28.59%	30.95%	33.19%	-
Earnings per share	4.24	4.84	3.22	3.92
Interest and investment income	23.31M	27.49M	28.86M	29.92M
Interest expense	-14.12M	-11.30M	-7.62M	-
Net interest expenses	9.19M	16.19M	21.25M	-
Depreciation and amortization charges	-	-	-	-
EBITDA	604.16M	688.55M	492.70M	598.23M
Gain or loss from assets sale	-	-	-	-

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