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Renesola - Poorer visibility for the next six months

January 2009

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  • Epic Code:
  • SOLA
  • Price:
  • 157.5p
The very volatile share price swings continue. As recently as 3 November, Renesola confirmed its own guidance that Q3 08 output was expected to be in the range of 100MW-103MW, up from an earlier guidance of 90-95MW.As it was, the results when these emerged on 18 November showed production of 102.1MW, up from 82.5MW in Q2 08. Together with the higher volumes, higher average selling prices also meant that revenues for Q3 emerged at US$215.8m, up 26% on Q2. Margins dipped slightly from 22.4% to 22.2% due to a modest write down on raw material inventories offset by improved processes, which reduced consumption of silicon per mega watt. As a result of increasing bad debt provisions, operating margins reduced from 17.8% to 17.1%. Pretax ...

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