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First Solar, Inc.: net income or loss

Net income or loss for First Solar, Inc. Inspect selected reporting periods, original units and SEC filing links; download the financial history.

All First Solar, Inc. financial histories

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Reported profit or loss for the period. Check the filing for attribution, exceptional items and discontinued operations before comparing companies.

Exact concept: us-gaap:NetIncomeLoss. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2006-12-31 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

Selected filing history

Net income or loss in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
2025-01-012025-12-311,528,229,000USD2026-02-2410-K · 0001274494-26-000021
2024-01-012024-12-311,292,044,000USD2026-02-2410-K · 0001274494-26-000021
2023-01-012023-12-31830,777,000USD2026-02-2410-K · 0001274494-26-000021
2022-01-012022-12-31-44,166,000USD2025-02-2510-K · 0001274494-25-000010
2021-01-012021-12-31468,693,000USD2024-02-2710-K · 0001274494-24-000004
2020-01-012020-12-31398,355,000USD2023-02-2810-K · 0001274494-23-000002
2019-01-012019-12-31-114,933,000USD2022-03-0110-K · 0001274494-22-000009
2018-01-012018-12-31144,326,000USD2021-02-2610-K · 0001628280-21-003343
2017-01-012017-12-31-165,615,000USD2020-02-2110-K · 0001274494-20-000011
2016-01-012016-12-31-416,112,000USD2019-02-2210-K · 0001274494-19-000004
2015-01-012015-12-31593,406,000USD2018-02-2310-K · 0001274494-18-000011
2014-01-012014-12-31395,964,000USD2017-02-2210-K · 0001274494-17-000006
2013-01-012013-12-31350,718,000USD2016-02-2410-K · 0001274494-16-000067
2012-01-012012-12-31-96,338,000USD2015-02-2510-K · 0001274494-15-000006
2011-01-012011-12-31-39,493,000USD2014-02-2610-K · 0001274494-14-000011
2009-12-272010-12-31664,201,000USD2013-02-2710-K · 0001274494-13-000006
2008-12-282009-12-26640,138,000USD2012-02-2910-K · 0001274494-12-000015
2007-12-302008-12-27348,330,000USD2011-02-2810-K · 0001274494-11-000007
2006-12-312007-12-29158,354,000USD2010-02-2210-K · 0001274494-10-000007

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Entity
First Solar, Inc. / CIK 0001274494
Captured
2026-09-20T07:47:56.708Z
SEC response SHA-256
ad72f6f8be95cf5544d37eb78b0af9753ee93e5cabd1bd3f49e85a57db0daa2f

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Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

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Read the published dataset with Python
import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0001274494.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))