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Why Solar Energy Stocks Plunged This Morning [The Motley Fool]

Sunrun Inc. (RUN) 
NASDAQ:AMEX Investor Relations: investors.sunrun.com/investor-overview
Company Research Source: The Motley Fool
Why Solar Energy Stocks Plunged This Morning Solar stock prices are following oil prices down. Is there a buy in this bunch? It's looking like it will be another rough day for solar stocks . In 11:45 a.m. EDT trading, shares of residential solar power system installers Sunrun ( NASDAQ:RUN ) and Vivint Solar ( NYSE:VSLR ) are down 16.9% and 14.5%, respectively. Applied Materials ( NASDAQ:AMAT ) , which makes equipment needed for the production of solar panels, is down an only slightly less extreme 10.7%. Why are these stocks down so much? Oil futures dropped sharply in early trading Monday, and because solar energy is largely a technology that competes with energy produced from burning oil, solar power -- and solar power stocks -- naturally become less and less attractive the cheaper oil gets. And oil is now less than half what it cost as recently as January. Result: Dramatically cheaper oil stocks , but also pretty steep discounts on the solar stocks that compete with them, as we Show less Read more
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