Sunpower (Nasdaq: SPWR), a solar photovoltaic engineering company based in California, stock shares plummeted by more than 2 percent following the company’s report of unexpected losses in its first quarter. Revenue dropped a staggering 22 percent to $213.8M from the previous quarter and recorded net loss totals $4.79M, or $0.06 per share. The company has scratched its expected income for 2009 and is now projecting…

In this rapidly accelerating renewable energy industry, growth stocks are becoming a savior of sorts for investors in the otherwise stagnant stock market. However, these growth stocks are somewhat unpredictable in the market; venture capitalists quickly invest lofty amounts of cash into these growing stocks, but any slight chance of slowdown will cause these investors to pull their cash and run. The most important research in determining which stocks are the most beneficial for long-term…