PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy(ETF) (PBW)

WiseWallstWhiz (< 20) Submitted: 12/20/06 5:21 PM : Start Price: $17.50 PBW Score: -14.19

Clearly the people who have looked at PBW have not gone deep into its indexed holdings.

This socially responsible exchange-traded fund mimics the movements of the WilderHill Clean Energy Index, which tracks businesses using technologies that promot...

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TMFBreakerDave (98.66) Submitted: 6/12/06 4:56 AM : Start Price: $19.23 PBW Score: -6.61

I like this ETF as a pure play on the growth of alternative energy over the next decade. It's kind of a "buy-and-forget" investment. It won't perform as spectacularly as the actual winners in this field... but then again, buying PBW keeps you from ha...

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RandomGuy123 (81.98) Submitted: 4/06/07 4:53 AM : Start Price: $19.48 PBW Score: 5.18

Alternative energy is certainly not for the faint of heart. It is an industry comprised mainly of small, speculative start up companies with big plans, and many will probably fall by the wayside. However, to ignore the industry as a whole, and PBW ...

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Tainerman (39.36) Submitted: 2/13/08 2:33 PM : Start Price: $22.44 PBW Score: -12.42

Simple macroeconomics. The big wind is a blowing toward alternative energy. Overvalued or not, in 5+ years, this will seem cheap. There is huge money to be made, long term, on alternative energy.

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TMFEldrehad (99.97) Submitted: 9/26/06 5:47 PM : Start Price: $16.40 PBW Score: -14.54

My third trip to the well here... another CAPS gift that I expect will keep on giving.

The long version can be found in my reply to TMFBreakerDave's pitch on this ticker, but the short version is that I believe that the valuations of alternative ene...

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Fyat61 (< 20) Submitted: 7/27/07 6:38 PM : Start Price: $21.21 PBW Score: -1.60

Clean energy. Think buzz, and then think practical applications. Demand for energy is just going to increase while pressure on traditional sources increases and availability dwindles. Clean energy as a response to the increasingly obvious threat o...

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aordinaryguy (63.86) Submitted: 10/10/06 7:09 PM : Start Price: $17.36 PBW Score: 7.94

An alternative energy pick, because i believe we have to get away from our oil dependence and I'm not smart enough to know which one will come out the winner. So I went with a ETF and tried cover them all, we'll see.

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SensibleGirl (75.73) Submitted: 9/26/06 6:07 PM : Start Price: $16.56 PBW Score: 13.79

I have not yet purchased this stock, but I am looking at it seriously. Here's the deal, per Google:
Summary
PowerShares WilderHill Clean Energy Portfolio is based on the WilderHill Clean Energy Clean Energy Index. The Index is comprised of compani...

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jmweese (< 20) Submitted: 4/30/07 6:57 PM : Start Price: $19.42 PBW Score: -7.69

I believe PBW makes a great green energy play over the long term. Right now it will remain volatile tracking rather closely to gains/losses in oil prices and good/bad press concerning global warming and other environmental issues. However, as more co...

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NetscribeETF (97.85) Submitted: 3/29/07 9:25 AM : Start Price: $19.08 PBW Score: 5.83

The issues global warming and climatic changes of such prime importance that Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore the politician turned preeminent environmentalist issued a dire warning to Congress on what he called a “planetary emergency” caused by gl...

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