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Is Tesla’s Valuation Justified When Applying the “Heroic” Assumptions from its Biggest Bulls? In this note, applying the public forecasts from some of Tesla’s most ardent bulls (i.e., Morgan Stanley), we attempt to address why…

The US Treasury Has Issued Guidance… and it Couldn’t Be Better News for the Residential Solar Space. While many thought President Trump’s Treasury department was going to kill the loophole that allowed residential solar companies…

For the First Time Since 2018, w/ the Fed’s QE Slush Fund (i.e., the “RRP”) Now Nearly Empty, Treasury Issuance Has to Come From Bank Reserves; Are Equity Bulls Overlooking This? Liquidity fell in 2022…

Solid Results/Outlook. FSLR’s reported solid Q2 results, with both revs and EPS ahead of expectations. And, while the company recorded negative net bookings in 1H25 (due to 1.1GW of cancellations in Q2), FSLR has since…

Is Sunrun Counting on the IRS to Be as Inept with Safe Harboring as It Has Been with the Recursive ITC? Earlier this week, we highlighted Sunrun’s own guidance that its inventory will balloon from…

All 20 members of Tesla’s Dojo team – including its leader, Peter Bannon – have left the company to join a startup called DensityAI (yes, the entire team). Last night, we learned that the lion’s…

So, Despite: Reporting 2Q25A Op. Cash Flow of -$293mn (Cons. -$142mn), 2Q25A Free-Cash-Flow of -$985mn (Cons. -$565mn), The Trump Administration’s Ongoing Attempts to Shut Down the U.S. Solar Industry, Seeing All its Peers Recently Go…

Is Cameco “Unfairly” Benefitting from the Explosion in Gas Turbine Order Books Resulting from Simmering AI CAPEX Spend? Last week, Cameco reported 2Q25A rev/non-GAAP EPS of C$877mn/C$0.74 vs. GLJe’s ests. of C$801/C$0.43 (Cons C$825/C$0.34), or…

Are Western American Depository Receipt (“ADR”) Investors Missing the Forest for the Trees? Despite a plethora of incremental global poly-Si news (today/yesterday), because the Invesco Solar TAN ETF is down today (where NEXTracker, or the…

Our Take on Tesla’s 2Q25A Results. While TSLA reported Q2 top-line sales and non-GAAP adj. EPS that missed Cons. ests. – i.e., Cons. ests. that were revised sharply lower through 2Q25, lowering the “bar” for…

We Finally Heard Back from the Head of Mid-West, Southern, and South-West Sales at the Largest Distributor of Solar Products in the U.S. In light of Enphase’s pending 2Q25E results after the close today, we…

Is Enphase a (Good) Short into Tonight’s Earnings Report? Betting against heavily shorted solar stocks (i.e., ENPH, with 26.469mn shares sold short at present, or 20.88% of the float, currently boasts its highest level of…

Tesla 2Q25E Earnings Preview. In this note, we adjust our 2Q25E TSLA model after our review of: (a) our expectation for an increase in gross profit/car sold QoQ as other cars sold saw price increases…

A Material Amount of Liquidity Appears Likely to be Drawn Out of U.S. Equity Markets Near-Term. As a reminder to our readers, during negotiations before the debt ceiling was raised with the One Big Beautiful…

So… What’s the Update on SunRun’s SUNRN 2025-2 Solar Lease/PPA ABS Bond? In our attempt to keep tabs on the state of affairs in the solar Asset-Backed-Security (“ABS”) space, below we provide visibility into what…