The solar installer filed for bankruptcy on Monday as the sector battles rising inventory levels and overall weakness in the solar market.
Shares of SunPower fell about 45% to 44 cents premarket on Tuesday after the company listed its assets and liabilities in the range of $1 billion to $10 billion, in a filing with the bankruptcy court in Delaware late on Monday. "Although technically this bankruptcy process is Chapter 11 (restructuring) rather than Chapter 7 (liquidation), in effect it is a liquidation of SunPower," said Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov.
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