First Solar Soars On Tax Credit Compromise

Moz Farooque

Tue, May 13, 2025, 12:21 PM 1 min read

First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) jumps 19.2% successful aboriginal trading arsenic House Republicans opt to trim but sphere cardinal star and upwind taxation credits.

The House Ways and Means Committee's fund reconciliation measure keeps the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit untouched done 2028 earlier a gradual phase-down to 2032, a operation J.P. Morgan's Mark Strouse says aligns with oregon exceeds the much bullish extremity of capitalist expectations.

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First Solar led assemblage gains with a 22.2% advance, portion Array Technologies (NASDAQ:ARRY) rallied 22.1%, Maxeon Solar (NASDAQ:MAXN) climbed 16.3%, Shoals Technologies (NASDAQ:SHLS) gained 15.7% and Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN) jumped 15.9%, adjacent arsenic Enphase (NASDAQ:ENPH) and SolarEdge (NASDAQ:SEDG) slipped.

Strouse notes that limits connected products from foreign-influenced entities implicit the adjacent 2 years could beryllium a important affirmative for First Solar, fixed that astir 60% of its projected net done 2027 travel from 45% ITC-eligible projects.

He besides sees benefits for Nextracker (NASDAQ:NXT) and Array, a mild headwind for wind-blade supplier TPI Composites (NASDAQ:TPIC), and a humble antagonistic for GE Vernova's (NYSE:GEV) tiny modular reactor limb arsenic the 45u atomic recognition phases down, though GEV shares inactive roseate 3.2%.

Why should investors care? First Solar's aboriginal rally underscores however argumentation tweaks, not wholesale cuts, tin substance a clean-energy rebound and tilt competitory vantage toward home suppliers.

Investors volition ticker Senate enactment connected reconciliation and immoderate tweaks to the foreign-entity clause erstwhile the measure moves to the floor.

This nonfiction archetypal appeared connected GuruFocus.