UPDATE: Credit Suisse Initiates SolarCity at Outperform on Attractive Margins and Pricing

Credit Suisse initiated coverage on SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY) with an Outperform rating and a $22 price target.

Credit Suisse commented, "SolarCity is a rapidly growing energy service provider in the distributed solar generation market. Lower panel prices, rising retail electricity prices, low interest rates, and stable federal incentives have enabled a relatively new class of companies such as SCTY to become viable. … Even excluding ~$0.60/Watt in post-contract value, we estimate SCTY to create an attractive ~$1.09/Watt of NPV on new bookings in 2013-15. SCTY's cumulative NPV created should exceed its current market capitalization as early as late 2014."

SolarCity closed at $14.40 on Friday.

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