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FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ameresco Reports First Quarter 2026 Financial Results.

Although the revenue and EPS for Ameresco (AMRC) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended March 2026, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ameresco closes Neogenyx Fuels joint venture with HASI to accelerate advanced biofuels growth with $400 million commitment.

Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider, today announced that its Kūpono Project in Hawai’i has been named a winner in the 2026 Environment+Energy Leader Awards. The annual program recognizes companies delivering measurable progress in energy management, environmental performance, and sustainability.

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Ameresco's Kūpono Project Named Winner in 2026 Environment+Energy Leader Awards

Award-Winning Solar and Storage Innovation in Hawai’i

Honored in the Environmental Impact category for reducing emissions, strengthening grid resilience, and expanding access to reliable renewable energy for underserved communities on Oʻahu, the Kūpono Project was one of this year's standout entries across categories spanning product innovation, project implementation, startup advancement, and organizational leadership.

The project pairs a 42 MW solar array with a 42 MW/168 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system, delivering reliable power for approximately 10,000 homes. Structured as a 20-year public-private partnership with the U.S. Navy and Hawaiian Electric (HECO), Kūpono reduces more than 50,000 tons of CO₂ annually, equivalent to taking 12,000 cars off the road each year, and supports Hawaii's statutory goal of 100% renewable energy generation and carbon neutrality by 2045.

Beyond environmental performance, the project also demonstrates how large-scale infrastructure investment can deliver meaningful community benefits. Built with local labor and materials, the project supports Hawai’i’s growing renewable energy workforce and funds philanthropic investments in STEM education, youth sports, and community organizations across the island. Thoughtful land stewardship, including the safe relocation of 500,000 bees and ongoing vegetation management by a herd of 200 sheep, ensured minimal disruption to the surrounding environment throughout construction and ongoing operations.

A Testament to Excellence

Recognition from Environment+Energy Leader highlights the Kūpono Project as a standout example of innovation and performance in today's evolving energy and sustainability landscape. Judges highlighted the project's strong public-private partnership structure, innovative land stewardship, and its “excellent alignment with state and federal decarbonization targets.”

"As organizations navigate an increasingly dynamic and uncertain operating environment, the ability to improve efficiency, reduce emissions, and deliver measurable results has never been more critical," said Sarah Roberts, Co-President and Publisher of Environment+Energy Leader. "This year's winners demonstrate the innovation and leadership required to move forward with clarity and impact."

For Ameresco, the recognition reflects the power of collaboration and a long-standing commitment to building resilient energy infrastructure.

"The Kūpono Project reflects exactly what is possible when public, private, and community stakeholders come together around a shared purpose," said Nicole Bulgarino, Co-President of Ameresco. "This recognition reflects the strong collaboration with the U.S. Navy and Hawaiian Electric, the local teams who built this project, and the communities in Hawai’i who will benefit from reliable renewable energy for decades to come.”

About Ameresco, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. NYSE:AMRC is a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering energy infrastructure solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, data centers, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. Headquartered in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,500 employees providing local expertise in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.ameresco.com.

About the Environment + Energy Leader Awards
Now in its 14th year, the Environment+Energy Leader Awards program recognizes excellence across products, projects, startups and organizational initiatives that deliver meaningful advancements in environmental programs, sustainability, and energy management. Entries are evaluated by an independent panel of industry experts, with a focus on innovation, scalability, and measurable impact. Winners are recognized as leaders in advancing best practices and setting new standards across the global energy and environmental landscape.

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CARLSBAD, California, and BURLINGTON, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anaergia Inc. (“Anaergia” or the “Company”) (TSX: ANRG) (OTCQX: ANRGF), through its subsidiary Anaergia Technologies, has entered into a C$58 million contract with Neogenyx Fuels to deploy its proprietary anaerobic digestion technology at a large-scale agricultural facility in the United States. Neogenyx Fuels is a newly formed joint venture between Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE: AMRC) and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (“HASI”.

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Citywide infrastructure project targeted aging manholes with structural repairs, improving wastewater system reliability, long-term performance, and safety for the community

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & MESQUITE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider, today announced the successful completion of the first phase of a multi-year, citywide manhole rehabilitation initiative with the City of Mesquite, Texas, which maintains approximately 6,400 manholes across its wastewater system.

This proactive approach to rehabilitate aging assets not only prevents disruptions, it manages costs. Programs like the ones offered by Ameresco help the City provide consistent and affordable services to our citizens.

Share As part of the project, Ameresco rehabilitated more than 190 manholes throughout the city’s wastewater infrastructure that have shown signs of deterioration. The project is intended to help minimize the risk of inflow and infiltration of stormwater and address potential structural failures, ultimately reducing system inefficiencies and wastewater treatment costs associated with aging manholes.

“We’re proud of our continued partnership with the City of Mesquite and the successful completion of this important infrastructure investment,” said Louis Maltezos, Co-President of Ameresco. “Modernizing wastewater infrastructure strengthens system reliability and positions communities to meet future needs with confidence. This project supports the modernization of critical infrastructure to strengthen system reliability and long‑term performance.”

Ameresco provided a full wastewater rehabilitation solution that included the supply and installation of a multi-layered polymeric lining system to restore structural integrity of the manholes and extend service life. Prior to coating installation, each manhole structure underwent a comprehensive cleaning process, with any identified holes or cracks grouted and plugged to create ideal surface conditions for maximum coating adhesion and long-term performance.

“The City of Mesquite is committed to providing quality water and wastewater services to our customers with limited disruptions,” said Cliff Keheley, City Manager. “This proactive approach to rehabilitate aging assets not only prevents disruptions, it manages costs. Programs like the ones offered by Ameresco help the City provide consistent and affordable services to our citizens.”

This project marks the latest initiative in a successful multi-year partnership with the City of Mesquite focused on modernizing critical water infrastructure. Previous collaboration efforts included the implementation of a comprehensive smart metering infrastructure project serving the city’s residential and commercial water utility customers.

To learn more about Ameresco’s advanced metering infrastructure solutions, visit: https://www.ameresco.com/advanced-metering-infrastucture/

About Ameresco, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC) is a leading energy infrastructure solutions provider dedicated to helping customers reduce costs, enhance resilience, and decarbonize to net zero in the global energy transition. Our comprehensive portfolio includes implementing smart energy efficiency solutions, upgrading aging infrastructure, and developing, constructing, and operating distributed energy resources. As a trusted full-service partner, Ameresco shows the way by reducing energy use and delivering energy infrastructure solutions to Federal, state and local governments, utilities, data centers, educational and healthcare institutions, housing authorities, and commercial and industrial customers. Headquartered in Framingham, MA, Ameresco has more than 1,500 employees providing local expertise in North America and Europe. For more information, visit www.ameresco.com.

The announcement of completion of a customer’s project contract is not necessarily indicative of the timing or amount of revenue from such contract, of Ameresco’s overall revenue for any particular period or of trends in Ameresco’s overall total project backlog. This project was included in Ameresco’s previously reported contracted backlog as of March 31, 2026.

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Tom Yeung here with your Sunday Digest.  

Last week here, we talked about how master trader Jonathan Rose and Wall Street veteran Marc Chaikin had combined their smart money indicators into a “Convergence Trigger” signal. 

They revealed their system’s top five picks in their Convergence Summit on Thursday night. I hope you tuned in. The pick I featured here in the Sunday Digest from that list – Ameresco Inc. (AMRC) – has already risen 10% since then, bringing its one-month return to 18%. In fact, the five companies Jonathan and Marc selected have now risen 38% since the start of May. 

Now, it’s tempting to think it’s too late to jump in. Jonathan and Marc’s five stocks are all a part of the AI Revolution, and many investors are rightly wondering how high things can keep going. After all, all “Big 3” dynamic RAM memory chip makers – Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix – are now worth $1 trillion each.  

Could they possibly be worth $2 trillion? $5 trillion? Or more? 

Fortunately, I’m quite certain that at least one of their “Convergence Trigger” companies still has further upside. I’ll tell you why in this update. 

In the meantime, be sure to tune into a replay of Jonathan and Marc’s Convergence Summit if you haven’t seen it yet. In it, they explain how their system works, and how you can use it to make sure the next investment boom doesn’t pass you by. (And don’t wait long… our publisher will be removing the video later this week.) 

Now, here’s more on that “Convergence Trigger” stock that I believe still has some juice in it… 

The Sunny Outlier  First Solar Inc. (FSLR) is a rather fantastic company. This Tempe, Arizona-based solar company doesn’t have just one moat around its business… but rather it has four. Let’s go through each. 

1. Product. First Solar is the only company in the world that can produce cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic cells at scale. Unlike crystalline silicon (c-Si) panels, CdTe versions are straightforward to build and highly resistant to heat and long-term degradation. That makes them superior in hot and humid environments like the U.S. South, India, and the Middle East. 

This moat is protected by numerous patents, $2 billion in cumulative research and development spending, and a proprietary manufacturing process that even General Electric (GE) couldn’t figure out. GE exited the CdTe business in 2013. 

2. Supply Chain. First Solar is also protected by a quirk of its technology. CdTe panels require no polysilicon, no silver paste, and no wafers. Instead, their panels are essentially glass, steel, and a thin layer of proprietary cadmium telluride compound.  

That’s particularly important because China controls roughly 80% of the global supply of c-Si panel components. Rivals like Canadian Solar Inc. (CSIQ) are low-margin businesses because they rely on Chinese suppliers that can dictate terms and prices. First Solar faces none of those challenges. 

In addition, First Solar is vertically integrated. It controls its own tellurium sourcing, module assembly, and even end-of-life-recycling to handle and reuse the cadmium in its panels. Each step is relatively difficult — for instance, telluride is geologically as rare as gold, and cadmium can be as dangerous as mercury. Assembling the whole chain under one roof makes this moat especially wide. 

3. Government Subsidies. The U.S. solar industry is currently protected by two pieces of legislation that the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill confirmed: 

Section 45X. This series of production-based tax credits overwhelmingly benefits First Solar because credits for cell production and assembly are stacked. In fact, the company generated so many of these credits that it sold $1.3 billion worth of them in 2025, making up a quarter of total revenues.   FEOC Restrictions. This consumer-based tax credit requires buyers avoid Foreign Entity of Concern (FEOC) panel makers to claim their own credits. First Solar clears this hurdle easily given its domestic CdTe supply chain. These rules last through 2027 for project-level credits and until 2032 for manufacturing credits.  I expect both to get extended in some fashion. In April 2026, a group of Republican congressmen from Pennsylvania, New York, and Ohio proposed legislation to preserve commercial solar tax credits to protect firms like First Solar, which has a large presence in the region. Meanwhile, FEOC rules were strengthened under the current administration, and any trade war with China will likely trigger an expansion. Even though the White House has publicly criticized the solar industry, its actions have moved in the other direction. 

4. Financial Strength. I ordinarily don’t award a “moat” for financial strength, since anyone with a large enough pocketbook can step in. But I’ll make an exception for the solar industry because everyone else is in such terrible shape. Canadian Solar, JinkoSolar Holding Co. (JKS), and Sunrun Inc. (RUN) all have debt-to-equity ratios of over 250% and struggle to afford payments on interest. China’s LONGi Green Energy Technology Co. Ltd. has lost money since 2024 and will likely keep doing so until at least 2027. The c-Si panel industry is a cutthroat business. 

Meanwhile, First Solar has maintained a fortress balance sheet, thanks to its 30% profit margins from its differentiated product. The company has $2 billion of net cash on its books, almost no debt, and is expected to generate $1.8 billion of free cash flows next fiscal year, up from $1.2 billion in 2025. 

This financial strength has allowed First Solar to continue investing in research and development ($270 million this year) and spending on production capacity ($884 million). It outspends its rivals by almost 3-to-1 on R&D and could be the company to bring next-generation technologies like perovskites to market. (These calcium/titanium/oxygen crystals would be a major step forward if they can get scaled up.) 

Dawning Demand  These moats suggest that First Solar still has room to run. Shares have risen just 11% this year, even as electricity demand from AI data centers has continued to rise. 

Consider the math. The latest Blackwell chips from Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) draw roughly four times the power of what the prior generation needed and produce far more heat. Multiply that across thousands of racks, and you start to understand why data center operators are scrambling for power-generation capacity for chips and cooling. 

So, where will that juice come from?  

Increasingly, data center operators are turning to the sun. The solar production curve roughly matches demand for data center cooling, solar farms are quick to build, and solar power pairs well with electricity from natural gas and batteries. The U.S. Energy Information Administration estimates that 51% of planned grid capacity additions in 2026 will be solar. 

First Solar also easily passes Jonathan and Marc’s smart money screens. Shares have recently flipped to “Very Bullish” in Marc’s system on strong smart money buying. As you can see from the graph below, his system has consistently found the best times to buy. 

Marc Chaikin’s First Solar Inc. (FSLR) Rating

I also believe there’s more room for First Solar to grow. Only 17% of installed panels in the U.S. are currently CdTe, and barely 2% of global capacity uses the technology. That gives the company a long runway for growth. In the most recent quarter, First Solar announced record sales in India, and said that its backlog now sits at 47.9 gigawatts, or more than 2.5 years of revenues. 

Rays of Caution  Obviously, there are longer-term risks for a company like First Solar: 

Regulatory. First Solar faces an earnings cliff in 2027 when subsidies start to expire. Without any changes, one of its widest moats could dry up by 2032, taking as much as a third of revenues along with it.   Tariffs. Import taxes on Southeast Asian c-Si imports could be reduced, eroding the company’s pricing power   Future Products. First Solar’s success in perovskites is not guaranteed. Though these crystals have shown efficiency ratings as high as 34% (compared to 26% for c-Si), this has only been proven at tiny scales. Lossmaking LONGi Green Energy is also pursuing this technology  Nevertheless, markets have more than priced these fears in. First Solar’s shares trade at just 11X forward earnings, or roughly a third of comparable companies in the AI power buildout. If regulations move the way I expect, shares have at least a 50% upside from here. 

The Swiss Cheese Model Part 2  As I wrote here last week, markets have a lot of pressure building up beneath the surface. Many retail investors are now chasing returns of the hottest stocks, and analysts at Morningstar (and many others) are warning that companies like Micron Technology Inc. (MU) should “expect the wave to crash longer-term.” Morningstar analysts give Micron a fair value of $455, a 50% downside. 

Fortunately, Jonathan and Marc’s “Convergence Trigger” system helps investors avoid these pitfalls by forcing investment ideas through multiple screens. Even if smart money is giving bullish signals for Micron’s stock, options traders might have an entirely different outlook. 

And so, be sure to watch their Convergence Summit, where Jonathan and Marc will explain where they see the next pockets of opportunity, and how they’re navigating this “new normal” of markets that rise quickly and fall just as fast. 

Until next week, 

Thomas Yeung, CFA 

Market Analyst, InvestorPlace

Thomas Yeung is a market analyst and portfolio manager of the Omnia Portfolio, the highest-tier subscription at InvestorPlace. He is the former editor of Tom Yeung’s Profit & Protection, a free e-letter about investing to profit in good times and protecting gains during the bad.

Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. decreased its stake in shares of Unum Group (NYSE: UNM) by 7.5% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund owned 139,175 shares of the financial services provider's stock after selling 11,316 shares during the period. Mirae

Unum Group is rated Hold with a $52/share price target due to limited upside at current valuation. UNM's 9-10x P/E and 2.38% yield offer little premium over risk-free rates, requiring substantial growth or premiumization to justify higher multiples. Persistent LTC block risks, high disability claim incidence, and diversification into lower-margin lines constrain valuation expansion.

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Unum (UNM) came out with quarterly earnings of $2.14 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.07 per share. This compares to earnings of $2.04 per share a year ago.

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unum Group has appointed Steve Jones as president of Colonial Life, effective June 8. In this role, Jones will lead Colonial Life's business performance and long-term strategy and report to Rick McKenney, president and chief executive officer at Unum Group. As part of a planned transition, Jones will succeed Tim Arnold, who will retire in July after a 41-year career with Unum Group, including the last 11 years as president of Colonial Life. “Colonial Life is.

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Despite a whiplash-inducing correction following the start of the Iran war, the S&P 500 is now up around 10% year-to-date (YTD). But the rally has been narrow, and the market has become sharply divided between stocks with AI connections and those without, which puts the insurance sector in perilous territory.

PLANO, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (“Cinemark”) (NYSE: CNK), one of the largest and most influential theatrical exhibition companies in the world, today announced that it will report its first quarter 2026 operating results and associated executive commentary pre-market and host a webcast to discuss the results on: Friday, May 1, 2026 8:30 a.m. Eastern Time Interested parties can listen to the call via live webcast. Please access 5-10 minutes before the call: https://event.c.

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Cinemark Holdings (CNK) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.06 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.05. This compares to a loss of $0.32 per share a year ago.

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Cinemark (CNK) could produce exceptional returns because of its solid growth attributes.

Cinemark remains a buy as Q1 2026 results validate the earnings recovery thesis, with strong revenue and EBITDA growth. CNK leverages premium formats, alternative content, and Movie Club to drive higher per-customer spend and repeat visits, reducing reliance on Hollywood film supply. US attendance and spend per patron improved significantly, while international attendance lagged, but pricing and concessions offset declines.