First Solar Inc (FSLR) Stock Price & News

Q3 2026 earnings • released • EPS beat +13.45% • Revenue miss -4.47%

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FSLR:NASDAQ

First Solar Inc

$182.05

+4.39%

(+7.65) 1D

$183.21

+0.64% (+1.16)

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Closed: Nov 2, 4:00:01 PM GMT-5 · USD

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	Symbol	Price	Change	% Change

Generating top insights for FSLR...

Open

$179.00

High

$186.24

Low

$176.92

Mkt. cap

19.57B

Avg. vol.

2.26M

Volume

3.32M

P/E ratio

10.53

52-wk high

$320.95

52-wk low

$165.90

EPS

$17.28

Beta

1.80

Shares outstanding

107.48M

No. of employees

Open

$179.00

High

$186.24

Low

$176.92

Mkt. cap

19.57B

Avg. vol.

2.26M

Volume

3.32M

P/E ratio

10.53

52-wk high

$320.95

52-wk low

$165.90

EPS

$17.28

Beta

1.80

Shares outstanding

107.48M

No. of employees

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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 25 analysts giving stock ratings to FSLR in the past 3 months

Strong buy

Buy

Hold

Sell

12-month forecast

Based on 25 Wall Street analysts offering 12 month price targets for FSLR in the last 3 months.

Highest

Current $182.05

$330.00 (+81.27%)

Average

$258.04 (+41.74%)

Lowest

$161.00 (-11.56%)

Analyst	Recommendation	Action	Price target	Projected	Date
Maheep Mandloi Mizuho Securities	Buy	Maintained	$328.00	+80.2%	11/02/2026
Vikram Bagri Citi	Buy	Maintained	$283.00	+55.5%	11/02/2026
Christine Cho CFA Barclays	Buy	Maintained	$230.00	+26.3%	11/02/2026
Dmitriy Pozdnyakov Freedom Capital Markets	Buy	Maintained	$248.00	+36.2%	10/30/2026
Mark Strouse J.P. Morgan	Buy	Maintained	$233.00	+28%	10/30/2026
Philip Shen Roth MKM	Buy	Reiterated	$300.00	+64.8%	10/30/2026
Gordon Johnson GLJ Research	Hold	Downgraded	$161.00	-11.6%	10/30/2026
Chris Dendrinos RBC Capital	Buy	Maintained	$232.00	+27.4%	10/30/2026
David Arcaro Morgan Stanley	Buy	Maintained	$307.00	+68.6%	10/30/2026
Nicholas Amicucci Evercore ISI	Hold	Maintained	$189.00	+3.8%	10/30/2026
Jon Windham UBS	Buy	Maintained	$330.00	+81.3%	10/29/2026
Ben Kallo Robert W. Baird	Buy	Maintained	$266.00	+46.1%	10/30/2026
Sean Milligan Needham	Buy	Maintained	$236.00	+29.6%	10/30/2026
Praneeth Satish Wells Fargo	Buy	Maintained	$260.00	+42.8%	10/29/2026
Sophie Karp KeyBanc	Hold	Maintained	-	-	10/30/2026
Ameet Thakkar BMO Capital	Buy	Reiterated	$255.00	+40.1%	10/30/2026
Joseph Osha Guggenheim	Buy	Maintained	$297.00	+63.1%	10/30/2026
Christopher Souther Truist Financial	Buy	Reiterated	$270.00	+48.3%	10/20/2026
Brian K. Lee Goldman Sachs	Buy	Maintained	$272.00	+49.4%	10/08/2026
Dimple Gosai Piper Sandler	Buy	Reiterated	$251.00	+37.9%	09/30/2026
Aristotelis Moutopoulos DZ BANK AG	Sell	Maintained	$185.00	+1.6%	09/09/2026
Unknown Analyst Argus Research	Buy	Maintained	$275.00	+51.1%	08/25/2026
Corinne Blanchard Deutsche Bank	Buy	Maintained	$299.00	+64.2%	08/26/2026
Daniel Yang HSBC	Buy	Upgraded	-	-	08/07/2026
Julien Dumoulin Smith Jefferies	Hold	Maintained	$228.00	+25.2%	08/07/2026
Jed Dorsheimer William Blair	Hold	Maintained	-	-	07/31/2026
Colin Rusch Oppenheimer	Hold	Maintained	-	-	07/31/2026
Jeff Osborne TD Cowen	Buy	Reiterated	$253.00	+39%	07/31/2026
Unknown Analyst Truist Financial	Hold	Initiated	$249.00	+36.8%	07/13/2026
Charles Minervino Susquehanna	Buy	Maintained	$270.00	+48.3%	07/10/2026
Sunaina Ocalan‏ Bernstein	Sell	Maintained	-	-	06/26/2026
Unknown Analyst Bernstein	Sell	Initiated	$217.00	+19.2%	06/16/2026
Unknown Analyst Wells Fargo	Buy	Maintained	$255.00	+40.1%	02/26/2026

All values in USD	Dec 2025	Mar 2026	Jun 2026	Sep 2026
Revenue	1.68B	1.04B	1.06B	1.23B
Cost of goods sold	1.02B	558.11M	451.19M	517.88M
Cost of revenue	1.02B	558.11M	451.19M	517.88M
Research and development expenses	65.95M	66.94M	76.24M	67.22M
Total research and development expenses	-	-	-	-
Selling, general, and admin expenses	50.68M	65.33M	51.95M	65.33M
Operating expense	117.42M	140.83M	154.62M	166.95M
Total operating expenses	1.13B	698.94M	605.81M	684.83M
Operating income	547.92M	345.30M	450.39M	546.11M
Other non operating income	-4.41M	-3.44M	-1.38M	1.31M
EBT including unusual items	551.34M	354.33M	459.38M	566.03M
EBT excluding unusual items	551.35M	355.07M	459.38M	566.03M
Income tax expense	30.46M	7.72M	36.81M	-5.03M
Effective tax rate	5.52%	2.18%	8.01%	-0.89%
Other operating expenses	-	-	-	-
Net income	520.88M	346.62M	422.57M	571.06M
Net profit margin	30.95%	33.19%	40.01%	46.39%
Earnings per share	4.84	3.22	3.92	5.30
Interest and investment income	27.49M	28.86M	29.92M	24.15M
Interest expense	-11.30M	-7.62M	-5.56M	-2.39M
Net interest expenses	16.19M	21.25M	24.36M	21.76M
Depreciation and amortization charges	-	-	-	-
EBITDA	688.55M	492.70M	598.23M	694.14M
Gain or loss from assets sale	-	-	-	-

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