Some Solar Stocks Offer Great Opportunity But Not Yingli

By Emerging Money: By Sean Geary Chinese solar outfit Yingli Solar (YGE) surged in Wednesday's trading after the company reported better-than-expected quarterly results.

By Alex Shadunsky: Solar stocks have been crushed over the past year and even the top name, First Solar (FSLR), hasn't been able to escape the carnage.

ZenPrime submits:With the President's call for a clean energy “Apollo Mission” in his latest State of the Union address, we decided to spend some time focusing on the solar industry to see which are the most attractive stocks out there for long-term investment. We decided to focus solely on the fundamentals of solar stocks, instead of trends in the industry or technologies the different companies use.

By Alex Shadunsky: Devon Energy (DVN) was the high flying energy stock in 2008, reaching over $120 a share.

By Alex Shadunsky: Philip Morris' (PM) stock has enjoyed a nice run over the last half a year, but investors may be getting ahead of themselves.

By Alex Shadunsky: Sprint Nextel's (S) investors haven't had an enjoyable ride over the past 5 years as the stock is down nearly 90% from its 5 year high of over $22 a share.

Ganaxi Small Cap Movers submits: Leading hedge fund and mutual fund managers that have a long-term track record of generating high market-beating returns are severely underweight the solar energy group by a factor of six. These high alpha or guru funds number less than 100 or less than one percent of all funds, and they control almost ten percent of the U.S. equity discretionary fund assets.

The U.S. Commerce Department announced tariffs on Chinese-made solar panels on Tuesday that it said had benefited from unfair subsidies by Beijing. The preliminary ruling came in response to a complaint from SolarWorld Industries America, a U.S. manufacturer that is a subsidiary of Germany's SolarWorld. The tariffs were lower than many analysts had predicted, however, boosting shares of Chinese solar-panel makers in Tuesday's trading. China's Yingli Green Energy closed up 12%, while Suntech Power was up 14% and Trina Solar finished up 8%. On the flip side, shares of U.S.