Solar energy stocks as a group have been through a number of ups and downs over the past decade, and few of them individually have been winners for investors. Yet since 2009, annual solar installations have risen about 10-fold. In 2019, it's expected that 115 gigawatts (GW) of solar power systems will be installed globally, enough to power 22 million U.S. homes. And that's just this year.
As we look ahead to 2020, there are four solar industry stocks that I think are set up to be winners for long-term investors. And as the sector matures to its next phase of growth, established players with scale should have big advantages over the upstarts that made business difficult for them over the past decade.
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