Here's What You May Have Missed About First Solar(FSLR)

By Emilio Sanchez • Tuesday, December 12 12:05 • Permanent Link

First Solar shares slid -5.7% this afternoon. Here's what you need to know about the large-capSemiconductors company:

First Solar has logged a -7.0% 52 week change, compared to 15.0% for the S&P 500
FSLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -40.26% away from its mean target price of $230.63 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.43, which brings its trailing Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio to 31.1. The Technology sector's average P/E ratio is 35.0
The company's forward earnings per share (EPS) is $13.37 and its forward P/E ratio is 10.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.34 in contrast to the Technology sector's average P/B ratio is 7.92
The company's free cash flow for the last fiscal year was $-530398000 and the average free cash flow growth rate is 18.5%
First Solar's revenues have an average growth rate of 1.7% with operating expenses growing at -5.6%. The company's current operating margins stand at 16.1%

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