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ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Canadian Solar

Posted by AGORACOM at 9:30 AM on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

As many of you know, we are very bullish on the long-term future of Chinese small cap and mid cap companies for two reasons:

1] The obvious reason – China is the fastest growing economy on the planet and nothing is going to slow down its ascent over the next 50 years and beyond. Investing in growth companies there just makes too much sense.

2] Great Results and Valuations – Many Small Cap Chinese Companies are listing in the US (OTCBB, NYSE Alternext and NASDAQ) with great financial results. Unlike many dubious US Small Cap Companies, Chinese Companies don’t seem to believe in losing money or failing to execute in a business plan. As such, 7-digit revenues and profits are very common.

From a valuation point of view, many Chinese companies became a victim of their own success in Q4 2008 and Q1 2009. Why? When the world needed to start liquidating, one of the first places they looked were China where most investors had significant gains to sell into. This resulted in the proverbial baby being thrown out with the bathwater and some great valuations.

TODAY’S FEATURED COMPANY

Canadian Solar (NASDAQ:CSIQ)

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Canadian Solar Inc. is one of the world’s largest solar companies. As a leading vertically integrated provider of ingot, wafer, solar cell, solar module and other solar applications, Canadian Solar designs, manufactures and delivers solar products and solar system solutions for on-grid and off-grid use to customers worldwide. With operations in North America, Europe and Asia, Canadian Solar provides premium quality, cost-effective and environmentally friendly solar solutions to support global, sustainable development.

On March 3rd, 2010, the Company announced its unaudited financial results for the fourth quarter and the year ended December 31, 2009.

Check out the full details below!

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • 4Q09 net revenues of $287.0 million, compared to 3Q09 net revenues of $213.1 million and 4Q08 revenues of $68.8 million.
  • 4Q09 shipments of 155.5 MW, compared to 3Q09 shipments of 102.6 MW and 4Q08 shipments of 19.6MW. 4Q09 gross margin of 15.4%, compared to 3Q09 gross margin of 16.3% and 4Q08 gross margin of negative 42.7%. 4Q09 net income per diluted share of $0.35 compared to 3Q09 net income per diluted share of $0.69 and 4Q08 net loss of $1.38 per diluted share.
  • Full year 2009 net revenues of $663.8 million, compared with full year 2008 net revenues of $705.0 million.

Full year 2009 shipments of 325.5 MW, a 94% increase over full year 2008 shipments of 167.5 MW.

YOUR RESEARCH STARTING POINTS FOR CHINESE SMALL CAP AND MID CAP COMPANIES

We’ve provided investors with two great starting points to research great Chinese small cap and mid cap companies.

1. ChinaSecurities.com – ChinaSecurities.com tracks 250 of the best small cap and mid cap companies trading on North American exchanges. It provides you with the best of the best in two ways. First, the front page lists the best news of the day coming out of the space. It does so by giving you a text view of the best press releases by industry and via Chinese Stocks TV, a 5-minute broadcast every morning just after the open. Chinese Stocks TV is archived, so you can catch up on shows you missed.

Second, if you want to research each of the 250 companies to find candidates for your portfolio, it has a very intuitive directory that lets you quickly review each company on the master list, or parse it out by industry and exchange if you have a particular sector of interest. Cool stuff.

2. Right here on AGORACOM, you can refer to our China category for other featured Chinese Small-Cap Companies. As always, we will disclose any IR relationship with any public company. Given the sheer number of great Chinese Small-Cap Companies out there, you can expect us NOT to have an IR relationship with most of these companies.

Regards,
George

2 Responses to “ChinaSecurities.com Small-Cap Company Feature: Canadian Solar”

  1. AGORACOM says:

    Hi, MH. I personally buy and hold my Chinese small caps for at least a few months. Day/quick trading is too hard on any market and requires some luck as well. I may not be making fast money but money all the same.

    Best,
    George

  2. m.h.par says:

    sounded good to me, I bought csiq,but it did not move as I was hopeing. actualy it went down from open to close.
    I am going to hang in,hope to cash in!