--- title: "Weekly Recap | First Solar flat, most brokers rate it buy" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/298097799.md" description: "First Solar finished the week at $204.45, essentially flat versus the previous Friday’s close of $204.46, for a weekly move of 0%. The S&P 500 gained 0.09%, leaving First Solar about 0.09 percentage points behind. Looking at the daily bars, Monday (31 Aug) opened at $203.41 and slid to a low of $197.81 before closing at $201.90. Tuesday extended the dip near the weekly low, closing at $199.65. The stock then recovered from Wednesday onwards, closing Thursday at $207.42." datetime: "2026-09-05T06:51:43.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/298097799.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/298097799.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/298097799.md) generator: "portal-rs" --- # Weekly Recap | First Solar flat, most brokers rate it buy ## The Week First Solar finished the week at $204.45, essentially flat versus the previous Friday’s close of $204.46, for a weekly move of 0%. The S&P 500 gained 0.09%, leaving First Solar about 0.09 percentage points behind. Looking at the daily bars, Monday (31 Aug) opened at $203.41 and slid to a low of $197.81 before closing at $201.90. Tuesday extended the dip near the weekly low, closing at $199.65. The stock then recovered from Wednesday onwards, closing Thursday at $207.42. Friday opened higher and touched $209.68 early, but faded into the close at $204.45. The overall pattern was a dip-and-rebound, fade-into-the-close week with an intraweek range of about 5.84%. ## Key Events The news flow focused on institutional positioning and a split within the clean-energy complex. On Tuesday, the Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio disclosed a new position in First Solar. That same day, reports described a divergence in the US clean-energy space: utility-scale solar orders were rising while residential storage faced demand headwinds. As a utility-scale module supplier, First Solar sits on the stronger side of that divide. On Wednesday, CTO Markus Gloeckler sold 800 shares for about $160,000, a small insider sale with limited read-through for the week’s price action. There were no product announcements, earnings releases, or major regulatory filings from the company during the week. ## Analyst Ratings Coverage on First Solar totals 36 firms: 16 buy, 9 overweight, 8 hold, 1 underweight, 1 sell, and 1 no opinion. Adding the categories together, 25 firms rate it buy or overweight while 2 rate it underweight or sell. The consensus rating is buy, with a consensus target of $275.30, roughly 34.66% above the current price of $204.45. Targets range from $150 to $402, a wide spread that points to disagreement about the long-term growth path. Within the semiconductor maker peer group, First Solar ranks around 10th out of 77 names on ratings. ## The Week Ahead Next week brings a run of US economic data. Tuesday (8 Sep) sees the NFIB small business optimism index, previously 99.8. Thursday (10 Sep) is the busy day: initial jobless claims, several PPI readings, and wholesale sales. Core PPI is expected at 4.6% year-over-year from 4.2%, and final demand PPI at 5.3% from 4.7%. There is also a 10-year Treasury auction, existing home sales, and the EIA natural gas storage change. First Solar itself has no earnings or company-specific event on the calendar, so the macro releases will be the main input for sector sentiment. ## In Short The week’s signals are mixed. The stock was flat, yet the sell-side consensus remains buy with a target about 34.66% above spot, suggesting brokers still lean favourable on the long-term story. At the same time, the latest single-day money flow shows both large and small orders on the exit side, with the large-lot flow relatively negative, suggesting limited short-term participation. Technically, the close at $204.45 sits below the 20-day average of $214.83 and the 60-day average of $225.85, so the intermediate trend has not repaired. 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