{"id":40896,"date":"2025-06-21T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/why-first-solar-stock-remains-a-raging-buy-despite-trumps-spending-bill\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T11:35:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T11:35:20","slug":"why-first-solar-stock-remains-a-raging-buy-despite-trumps-spending-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/21\/why-first-solar-stock-remains-a-raging-buy-despite-trumps-spending-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Why First Solar stock remains a raging buy despite Trump\u2019s spending bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p>Investors have bailed on First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) in recent sessions after the <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2025\/06\/17\/whats-next-for-us-solar-stocks-after-senate-nods-on-cuts-to-renewable-energy-incentives\/\">US Senate backed removal of subsidies<\/a> for solar companies that President Trump proposed last month in his \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Still, RBC analysts led by Christopher Dendrinos remain convinced that FSLR may actually prove a bright spot in an industry that\u2019s otherwise \u201ctoast\u201d after the upper chamber\u2019s recent nod on cutting incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Following a massive decline over the past month, First Solar stock is down more than 25% versus its year-to-date high.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why is First Solar stock insulated from Trump\u2019s spending bill?<\/h2>\n<p>Dendrinos is confident that FSLR shares will prove resilient and more insulated than other renewable energy stocks from the potential impact of the Senate\u2019s recent decision on the solar industry, primarily because it\u2019s a utility-scale operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe utility solar will be more resilient [since] these projects are not limited by the leasing restrictions,\u201d he told clients in a research note on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>First Solar drives most of its business from large-cap companies like Amazon and Meta Platforms, instead of households.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, these names rely rather aggressively on solar farms to power their artificial intelligence data centres. So, the demand outlook for FSLR remains strong as ever since subsidies and discounts don\u2019t matter much for its multi-billion-dollar customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you [build] a data center, energy power is like 7% of the cost. If 7% of the cost [becomes] 9% of the cost, do you think they will stop this project? I do not think so,\u201d argued Per Lekander, the founder of Clean Energy Transition, in a recent interview with CNBC. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s actually part of the reason why First Solar shares, despite the recent crash, are still up more than 20% versus their year-to-date low in early April.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is it worth buying FSLR shares at current levels?<\/h2>\n<p>Lekander sees the recent pullback in FSLR stock as a raging \u201cbuying opportunity\u201d as there aren\u2019t any practical alternatives for the Tempe headquartered manufacturer of solar panels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you were to go and try to do a gas turbine, you\u2019d probably get it delivered in 2033. If you want to build a nuclear plant, it\u2019s 2040. A solar plant, you can do it one year,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/video\/2025\/06\/18\/rooftop-solar-industry-is-atoasta-clean-energy-transition-ceo-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he told CNBC this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lekander sees the company\u2019s utility-scale operations as such a massive advantage that he\u2019s convinced First Solar stock could as much as double from current levels. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s also worth mentioning here is that solar power, even without tax credits, arguably retains its value proposition compared to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s partly why the rest of Wall Street hasn\u2019t thrown in the towel on First Solar stock either. The consensus rating on FSLR shares remains at \u201coverweight\u201d with the mean target of $202, indicating potential upside of nearly 40% from current levels.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/news\/2025\/06\/20\/why-first-solar-stock-remains-a-raging-buy-despite-trumps-spending-bill\/\">Why First Solar stock remains a raging buy despite Trump&#8217;s spending bill<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/invezz.com\/\">Invezz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investors have bailed on First Solar Inc (NASDAQ: FSLR) in recent sessions after the US Senate backed removal of subsidies for solar companies that President Trump proposed last month in his \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill Act\u201d. Still, RBC analysts led by Christopher Dendrinos remain convinced that FSLR may actually prove a bright spot in an <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-investing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}