First Solar, Inc. (FSLR): Price and Financial Metrics

FSLR POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where FSLR ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 53.46% of US stocks.
• FSLR's strongest trending metric is Momentum; it's been moving down over the last 179 days.
• FSLR's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 16.85% of US stocks).

FSLR Stock Summary

• FSLR has a market capitalization of $8,994,773,097 -- more than approximately 79.99% of US stocks.
• The price/operating cash flow metric for First Solar Inc is higher than 85.95% of stocks in our set with a positive cash flow.
• FSLR's equity multiplier -- a measure of assets relative to shareholders'equity -- is greater than that of only 14.95% of US stocks.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to FSLR, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are ONTO, MDRX, EBS, NATI, and RNWK.
• Visit FSLR's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.firstsolar.com.

FSLR Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Technology stock, FSLR's price/earnings ratio is 54.36% lower, now standing at 17.8.
• Over the past 180 months, FSLR's price/sales ratio has gone down 14.5.
• FSLR's price/sales ratio has moved down 14.5 over the prior 180 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for FSLR.

FSLR Growth Metrics

Its 3 year revenue growth rate is now at -44.2%.
• Its 3 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at -5.78%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at -22.61%.

FSLR's revenue has moved down $1,034,893,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows FSLR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	2,923.377	237.559	468.693
2021-09-30	2,625.29	389.41	453.026
2021-06-30	2,969.351	291.986	562.86
2021-03-31	2,982.582	262.506	517.322
2020-12-31	2,711.332	37.12	398.355
2020-09-30	3,501.477	632.495	223.244

FSLR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• FSLR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 66.61% of graded US stocks.
• FSLR's asset turnover comes in at 0.417 -- ranking 156th of 208 Electronic Equipment stocks.
• APH, BELFA, and JCS are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with FSLR.

The table below shows FSLR's key quality metrics over time.