This week was full of fireworks in the solar industry. SunPower (NASDAQ: SPWR ) released 2013 guidance, SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY ) got a big financing deal, and LDK Solar (NYSE: LDK ) finally released 2012 earnings.
Best of all for investors, most solar stocks moved significantly higher this week.
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Here are the highlights from this week in solar.
SunPower looks into its crystal ball
During an analyst day on Wednesday, SunPower released second quarter and full-year 2013 guidance, as promised (the full presentation can be found here). Here's what management sees going forward. �
Top Heal Care Stocks To Invest In 2014: Amerco (UHAL)
AMERCO, through its subsidiary U-Haul International, Inc., a do-it-yourself moving and storage operator that supplies products and services to help people move and store their household and commercial goods in the United States and Canada. The company engages in the rental of trucks, trailers, specialty rental items, and self-storage spaces primarily to the household mover as well as sales of moving supplies, towing accessories and propane. It also offers eMove, an online marketplace, which connects consumers to independent moving help service providers and independent self-storage affiliates, as well as manages self-storage properties. In addition, the company provides loss adjusting and claims handling services, as well as underwrites moving and storage protection packages, including Safemove and Safetow that provide moving and towing customers with a damage waiver, cargo protection, and medical and life insurance coverage; Safestor, which protects storage customers from loss on their goods in storage; and Super Safemove that offer rental customer with a layer of primary liability protection. Further, it provides life and health insurance products primarily to the senior market through the direct writing or reinsuring of life insurance, medicare supplement, and annuity policies. The company rents its orange and white U-Haul trucks and trailers, as well as offers self-storage rooms through a network of approximately 1,400 company operated retail moving centers and approximately 15,000 independent U-Haul dealers. Its rental fleet consists of approximately 101,000 trucks, 82,000 trailers, and 33,000 towing devices, as well as operates approximately 1,115 self-storage locations in North America, with approximately 411,000 rentable rooms. The company was founded in 1945 and is based in Reno, Nevada.
Top Heal Care Stocks To Invest In 2014: Lavendon Group(LVD.L)
Lavendon Group plc, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the rental of powered access equipment. The company offers boom lifts, scissor lifts, van mounts, and truck mounts, as well as telehandlers and fork-lift trucks. Its powered access equipment provide temporary aerial access for people in a range of applications, including industrial repair and maintenance, construction, telecommunications, outside broadcasting, sign erection, and highway maintenance. The company operates an equipment fleet of approximately 21,000 units through a network of 100 depots. It has operations in the United Kingdom, Germany, Belgium, France, Spain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, and Qatar. The company is headquartered in Lutterworth, the United Kingdom.
Best Small Cap Companies To Own In Right Now: Marin Software Inc (MRIN.N)
Marin Software Incorporated, incorporated on March 16, 2006, provides cloud-based digital advertising management platform to advertisers and agencies. The Company�� Revenue Acquisition Management platform is a software-as-a-service (SaaS), analytics, workflow, and optimization solution for marketing professionals, enabling them to manage their digital advertising spend across search, display, social and mobile advertising channels. Its platform integrates with publishers, such as Baidu, Bing, Facebook, Google, Yahoo! and Yahoo! Japan, as well as Web analytics and ad-serving solutions, and key enterprise applications to enable marketers to measure the return on investment of their marketing programs.
The Company�� software platform serves as a system-of-record for advertising performance, revenue and conversion data and allows advertisers to correlate advertising spend to subsequent revenue outcomes or business events. It enables its customers to simulta neously run large-scale digital advertising campaigns across multiple publishers and channels, making it easy for marketers to create, publish, modify and optimize campaigns in real time.
Top Heal Care Stocks To Invest In 2014: Omega Protein Corporation(OME)
Omega Protein Corporation, a nutritional ingredient company, engages in the processing, marketing, and distribution of fish meal, oil, and soluble products. The company produces and sells various protein and oil products derived from menhaden, a herring-like species of fish found in the U.S. coastal waters of the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico. Its fish meal products include the Special Select, a premium grade fish meal that is targeted for monogastrics, including baby pigs, pets, shrimps, and fish; SeaLac, a premium grade fish meal that is targeted for the ruminant industry; and Fair Average Quality Meal, a commodity grade fish meal that is used in protein blends for catfish, pets, and other animals. Omega Protein Corporation?s fish oil products comprise crude unrefined fish oil, refined fish oil, and food grade oils. Its oil products are used in food production, feed production, certain industrial applications, and dietary supplements. The company?s fish solubles in clude Neptune fish concentrate that is used as the attractant in commercial baits, as well as in shrimp and finfish diets; OmegaGrow, a liquid soil or foliar-applied fertilizer for plant nutrition; and OmegaGrow Plus, a liquid foliar-applied fertilizer for plant nutrition that also helps to control insect and fungus problems. The company sells its products in the United States Mexico, Europe, Canada, Asia, and South and Central America. Omega Protein Corporation was founded in 1998 and is based in Houston, Texas.
Top Heal Care Stocks To Invest In 2014: Anite Group(AIE.L)
Anite plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides information technology (IT) solutions, software, systems integration, and managed services to the wireless and travel markets. The company operates in three segments: Handset Testing, Network Testing, and Travel. The Handset Testing segment offers various wireless test solutions, including long term evolution, development, conformance, and interoperability testing solutions, which enable chipset and mobile device manufacturers to test the viability, improve the quality, and to market their products. It also offers professional services to create, amend, and manage test strategies and platforms. The Network Testing segment provides various solutions comprising optimization, benchmarking, autonomous testing, and analysis and reporting solutions. This segment primarily offers Nemo product portfolio for mobile network operators and network equipment manufacturers to measure the coverage and quality of mobile phone networks. T he Travel segment offers TravelERP solutions and services to operators in the tour, cruise, ferry, and scenic rail sectors. This segment provides reservation, check-in, ticketing, accounting, marketing, and administration capabilities, as well as offers infrastructure, application management, business continuity, application hosting, and consultancy services. The company is also involved in the property holding activities. It operates primarily in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East. Anite plc was founded in 1973 and is based in Slough, the United Kingdom.
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