Canadian Solar Inc.
—- Market cap
- —
- Debt
- +$8.40B
- Cash
- −$1.39B
Compare price, profitability, solvency, and SEC-reported financials side by side—before deciding which assumptions deserve a closer look.
FY 2025 · View financials
Decision snapshot: CSIQ stock price vs MSI: inconclusive Relative valuation is incomplete for this pair. Review the available filing metrics before drawing a conclusion.
Quick read
Each company valued on the other's multiple, then compared with the market price.
Implied fair value · at MSI's multiple
Needs MSI P/S.
Implied fair value · at CSIQ's multiple
Needs CSIQ P/S.
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Metric by metric
Where each company leads, and how wide the gap is.
Growth lag
Pricing power
Operating leverage
Lower is better
Not comparable
Lower leverage
Statements
Core statements aligned to each company's latest fiscal year.
SEC periods: CSIQ FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025) · MSI FY 2025 (ended Dec 31, 2025).
Trendline
Five fiscal years of revenue, earnings, and margins before underwriting a re-rating.
Price framework
Market cap plus debt, less cash.
Price framework
Discounted free cash flow, then bridged to a per-share price. Same assumptions applied to both companies.
CANADIAN SOLAR INC. · implied price per share
Bear
-$46.60
Base
-$54.82
Bull
-$63.04
Motorola Solutions, Inc. · implied price per share
Bear
$123.76
Base
$145.61
Bull
$167.45
Balance sheet health
Financial health checks to separate durable balance sheets from potential value traps.
Financial strength on a 0–9 scale.
Bankruptcy-risk signal from balance sheet and earnings power.
Not enough data to score either balance sheet.
Debt / equity
Total debt against shareholders' equity
2.99x
3.80x
Net debt / EBITDA
Leverage against operating earnings
11.34x
2.06x
Cash and equivalents
Liquid reserves on the balance sheet
$1.39B
$1.18B
Total debt
Interest-bearing obligations outstanding
Comparable set
Where the pair sits against the wider comparable set.
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If you believe CSIQ can stabilize margins, return to revenue growth, and materially improve its distress-like quality metrics, then CSIQ could be a value rebound candidate because its current multiple is extremely compressed versus MSI and even below its DCF range; otherwise, the data favors treating the discount as justified rather than a mispricing.
CSIQ trades at 0.2x P/S versus MSI’s 6.0x and at 1.4x EV/Revenue versus 6.7x, showing a massive relative valuation discount. However, the market is also pricing in CSIQ’s much weaker earnings profile, with negative net income and a -5.8x P/E versus MSI’s 33.1x.
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