Volume Spike Investor

These are this morning’s top day trader and active trader alerts seen in early pre-market trading.  We have offered the moves, a news summary, and brief color on each for trading references where applicable. Zumiez, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZUMZ) shares are surging as a winner in cold weather themes after it said February same-store sales rose [...]

The market is selling off sharply today, but no one let the solar stocks know, which are rising sharply higher following positive earnings results and forecasts from SunTech (STP) and Trina Solar (TSL).  The rise comes despite oil dipping 2.25% below $80 as that trade has unraveled and solar stocks are actually starting to have [...]

Today’s downgrades took a toll on the solar sector.  We saw a serious rise in volume as prices tanked and many of these never showed any real recovery throughout the day as investors grow more and more concerned that the solar energy trade is just not a beneficial one even if oil continues its rise…. [...]

Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd (NYSE: STP) is seeing strange trading this morning. The solar player said net income fell to $10 million, or $0.06 EPS from $52 million or $0.31 EPS a year ago. Revenue fell over 30% to $321 million vs. $334.3 million expected from Thomson Reuters and the firm cut its projected [...]

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWRA) managed and upside surprise for the quarter and guided higher for the year. SPWRA has traded 833,000 shares after the close and is up almost 18% at $29.25 as of 5:26 PM EST.  The SPWRB shares are up almost 19% at $25.60, but on volume of 122,000 since the close.  SPWRA [...]

Solar energy stocks are mostly higher in premarket trading this morning, after UBS upgraded Sunpower Corporation (Nasdaq – SPWRA) to a Buy, calling it the best-positioned U.S. solar play. The positive sentiment is also spilling over to many other names in the group, as they all can potentially benefit from the same trends UBS says [...]

Suntech Power Holdings Co. Ltd. (NYSE: STP) is actually holding up a bit better than you might have thought.  The solar player priced a 20 million share secondary offering at $12.50 per share, a steep discount from a $13.47 close yesterday.  That is already after STP fell by over $2.30 on word of the offering [...]

SOLAR STOCKS ON FIRE……..  As of 1:25 PM EST First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR)  $155.38 (+$21.40) Day’s Range: $135.65 to $158.49; 52wk Range: $85.28 to $317.00 Volume:    5,305,547; Avg Vol: 4.1 million LDK Solar Co. (NYSE: LDK) $8.35  +$2.46; +41.77%) Day’s Range: $6.20 to $8.47; 52wk-Range: $3.75 to $52.40 Volume:    8,962,559 Avg Vol: 2.2 million [...]

SunPower Corporation (NASDAQ: SPWRA) is being hammered hard this morning after teh solar stock lowered its guidance.  The company said that the rise in the US Dollar is hurting earnings.  Outside of currencies, it maintained guidance. It sees Q4 revenues between $388 and $418 million and net income of at $0.58 to $0.65 on an [...]

Credit Suisse is out dimming some expectations for select solar company price targets this morning, and this has these solar stocks and other solar stocks giving back some of the profits seen this week.  JA Solar Holdings (NASDAQ: JASO), ReneSola Ltd. (NYSE: SOL), and Suntech Power Holdings (NYSE: STP) are all gapping down lower after [...]