Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AAOI)
NASDAQ
Market Cap
$331.11M
Sector
Technology
Industry
Semiconductors
Rank in Sector
36 of 509
Rank in Industry
3 of 72
Largest Insider Buys in Sector
AAOI Stock Price History Chart
AAOI Stock Performance
About Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells various fiber-optic networking products worldwide. It offers optical modules, lasers, subassemblies, transmitters and transceivers, and turn-key equipment, as well as headend, node, and distribution equipment. The company sells its products to internet data center operators, cable television and telecom equipment manufacturers, and internet service providers through its direct and indirect sales channels. Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.
Insider Activity of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. have bought $1.57M and sold $3.84M worth of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. have bought $562,278 and sold $1.95M worth of stock each year.
Highest buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months: Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) (President and CEO) — $817,024. Lin Che-Wei (director) — $398,283. Yeh William H (director) — $358,192.
The last purchase of 9,800 shares for transaction amount of $103,292 was made by Yeh William H (director) on 2024‑05‑14.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.
| 2024-05-14 | Yeh William H | director | 9,800 0.0239% | $10.54 | $103,292 | -5.73% | ||
| 2024-03-18 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 11,780 0.0299% | $12.66 | $149,169 | -13.48% | ||
| 2024-03-18 | Lin Che-Wei | director | 31,370 0.0799% | $12.70 | $398,283 | -13.48% | ||
| 2024-03-18 | Yeh William H | director | 8,000 0.0205% | $12.75 | $102,000 | -13.48% | ||
| 2024-02-27 | Yeh William H | director | 10,000 0.0257% | $15.29 | $152,900 | -23.28% | ||
| 2024-01-16 | Sale | Murry Stefan J. | Chief Financial Officer | 20,000 0.0557% | $17.08 | $341,592 | -27.51% | |
| 2023-12-15 | Sale | Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) | *** See Remarks | 20 <0.0001% | $23.71 | $474 | -35.74% | |
| 2023-12-14 | Sale | Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) | *** See Remarks | 42,779 0.1166% | $22.39 | $958,023 | -39.35% | |
| 2023-09-14 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 15,000 0.0469% | $9.79 | $146,901 | +28.28% | ||
| 2023-09-06 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 5,964 0.0185% | $12.44 | $74,165 | -0.64% | ||
| 2023-08-22 | Sale | Murry Stefan J. | Chief Financial Officer | 15,000 0.0479% | $15.88 | $238,217 | -18.99% | |
| 2023-08-21 | Sale | Yeh William H | director | 10,000 0.0338% | $15.22 | $152,200 | -18.30% | |
| 2023-08-18 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 14,438 0.0478% | $12.36 | $178,519 | -0.86% | ||
| 2023-08-17 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 5,562 0.0182% | $12.42 | $69,097 | -1.51% | ||
| 2023-08-11 | Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 15,802 0.0555% | $12.60 | $199,173 | +3.43% | ||
| 2023-08-10 | Sale | Chang Hung-Lun (Fred) | *** See Remarks | 13,637 0.0456% | $14.08 | $192,050 | -11.36% | |
| 2023-08-10 | Sale | Kuo David C | *** See Remarks | 10,000 0.0326% | $13.73 | $137,305 | -11.36% | |
| 2023-08-09 | Sale | Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) | *** See Remarks | 45,000 0.1519% | $12.10 | $544,311 | +5.39% | |
| 2023-08-08 | Sale | Murry Stefan J. | Chief Financial Officer | 60,000 0.1993% | $11.82 | $709,134 | +5.00% | |
| 2023-08-08 | Sale | Chang Hung-Lun (Fred) | *** See Remarks | 32,346 0.1097% | $12.07 | $390,261 | +5.00% |
Insider Historical Profitability
59.95%
| Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) | President and CEO | 1218160 3.5245% | $8.51 | 7 | 18 | +24.65% |
| Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) | *** See Remarks | 251331 0.7072% | $8.51 | 0 | 14 | |
| Chang Hung-Lun (Fred) | *** See Remarks | 221854 0.6243% | $8.51 | 0 | 21 | |
| Murry Stefan J. | Chief Financial Officer | 200488 0.5642% | $8.51 | 0 | 34 | |
| Yeh William H | director | 217055 0.5326% | $8.51 | 5 | 4 | +68.22% |
| Kuo David C | *** See Remarks | 127878 0.3598% | $8.51 | 0 | 29 | |
| Lin Che-Wei | director | 220133 0.2582% | $8.51 | 2 | 5 | +1.03% |
| MOORE ALAN D | director | 246178 0.6927% | $8.51 | 2 | 0 | +59.65% |
| BLACK RICHARD B | director | 34478 0.097% | $8.51 | 0 | 10 | |
| Chen Min-Chu (Mike) | director | 15000 0.0422% | $8.51 | 3 | 2 | +86.05% |
| Anselm Klaus Alexander | VP Semiconductor Products | 9723 0.0274% | $8.51 | 0 | 1 | |
| DUNN JAMES L JR | Chief Financial Officer | 0 0% | $8.51 | 0 | 2 | |
| Li Chung-Yao (Ford) | 0 0% | $8.51 | 0 | 1 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
Top Shareholders
Top Buyers
Top Sellers
New Shareholders
Sold-Out Shareholders
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | $47.37M | 8.78 | 3.42M | +23.54% | +$9.02M | 0.47 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $27.09M | 5.02 | 1.95M | +29.25% | +$6.13M | <0.01 | |
| Alyeska Investment Group L P | $20.33M | 3.77 | 1.47M | +458.75% | +$16.69M | 0.13 | |
| Hood River Capital Management LLC | $19.95M | 3.7 | 1.44M | +6.53% | +$1.22M | 0.45 | |
| Portolan Capital Management | $19.89M | 3.69 | 1.43M | -6.77% | -$1.44M | 1.53 | |
| Point72 Asset Management | $19.5M | 3.62 | 1.41M | +354.87% | +$15.21M | 0.04 | |
| Whale Rock Capital Management LLC | $18.49M | 3.43 | 1.33M | +30.04% | +$4.27M | 0.28 | |
| ROYCE & ASSOCIATES INC | $15.9M | 2.95 | 1.15M | +14.13% | +$1.97M | 0.14 | |
| Ameriprise Financial | $13.86M | 2.57 | 1M | +121.06% | +$7.59M | <0.01 | |
| BlackRock | $11.78M | 2.19 | 850,004 | +16.74% | +$1.69M | <0.0001 | |
| Oberweis Asset Management Inc | $11.78M | 2.18 | 849,615 | -4.74% | -$586,278.01 | 0.85 | |
| Cloudalpha Capital Management Limited Hong Kong | $11.52M | 2.14 | 831,200 | +30.45% | +$2.69M | 1.56 | |
| Assenagon Asset Management S.A. | $8.76M | 1.62 | 631,799 | +875.86% | +$7.86M | 0.02 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $8.21M | 1.52 | 592,442 | +361.44% | +$6.43M | <0.01 | |
| Emerald Advisers, Inc. | $7.32M | 1.36 | 528,309 | New | +$7.32M | 0.3 | |
| American Century Investments | $6.95M | 1.29 | 501,467 | +46.06% | +$2.19M | <0.01 | |
| Kennedy Capital Management Inc | $6.42M | 1.19 | 463,213 | +88.61% | +$3.02M | 0.14 | |
| Centerbook Partners Lp | $5.87M | 1.09 | 423,571 | +254.12% | +$4.21M | 0.41 | |
| Laurion Capital Management LP | $5.73M | 1.06 | 413,611 | 0% | +$0 | 0.16 | |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | $5.71M | 1.06 | 411,669 | +19.88% | +$946,305.47 | 0.01 | |
| Jane Street Capital | $5.62M | 1.04 | 405,801 | -56.43% | -$7.28M | 0.01 | |
| EMERALD MUTUAL FUND ADVISERS TRUST | $5.53M | 1.03 | 399,117 | New | +$5.53M | 0.29 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $5.39M | 1 | 388,487 | +2.45% | +$128,832.46 | <0.0001 | |
| Millennium Management LLC | $5.21M | 0.97 | 375,799 | -40.66% | -$3.57M | <0.01 | |
| Susquehanna International Group | $5.01M | 0.93 | 361,594 | -28.98% | -$2.05M | 0.01 | |
| Marshall Wace | $4.97M | 0.92 | 358,527 | New | +$4.97M | 0.01 | |
| State Street | $4.75M | 0.88 | 342,995 | +44.48% | +$1.46M | <0.0001 | |
| Citigroup | $4.39M | 0.81 | 316,847 | -0.86% | -$38,087.29 | <0.01 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $3.76M | 0.7 | 271,037 | -68.26% | -$8.08M | <0.01 | |
| Schonfeld Group | $3.59M | 0.67 | 259,209 | New | +$3.59M | 0.03 | |
| Acuitas Investments, LLC | $3.32M | 0.62 | 239,336 | +53.64% | +$1.16M | 1.74 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $2.99M | 0.55 | 215,408 | -70.64% | -$7.18M | <0.0001 | |
| Voloridge Investment Management, LLC | $2.76M | 0.51 | 199,087 | -18.82% | -$639,722.20 | 0.01 | |
| Hussman Strategic Advisors Inc | $2.62M | 0.49 | 189,000 | New | +$2.62M | 0.61 | |
| Squarepoint Ops LLC | $2.57M | 0.48 | 185,434 | +58% | +$943,491.69 | 0.01 | |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | $1.95M | 0.36 | 140,688 | New | +$1.95M | 0.12 | |
| Hrt Financial Llc | $1.83M | 0.34 | 131,863 | New | +$1.83M | 0.01 | |
| Independent Advisor Alliance | $1.77M | 0.33 | 127,515 | New | +$1.77M | 0.06 | |
| G2 Investment Partners | $1.75M | 0.32 | 126,000 | New | +$1.75M | 0.47 | |
| Point72 Asia Singapore Pte Ltd | $1.55M | 0.29 | 111,505 | New | +$1.55M | 0.15 | |
| Deutsche Bank | $1.47M | 0.27 | 105,788 | 0% | +$0 | <0.01 | |
| Northern Trust | $1.44M | 0.27 | 103,901 | +13.96% | +$176,410.10 | <0.0001 | |
| GAMCO Investors | $1.35M | 0.25 | 97,400 | -14.49% | -$228,690.00 | 0.01 | |
| Gsa Capital Partners Llp | $1.22M | 0.23 | 87,844 | +34.62% | +$313,249.12 | 0.1 | |
| Group One Trading | $1.15M | 0.21 | 82,810 | +16.31% | +$160,956.24 | 0.03 | |
| Allianz Asset Management Gmbh | $1.14M | 0.21 | 82,600 | New | +$1.14M | <0.01 | |
| Man Group Plc | $1.14M | 0.21 | 81,944 | +115.86% | +$609,604.47 | <0.01 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $1.13M | 0.21 | 81,821 | -79.94% | -$4.52M | <0.01 | |
| Swiss National Bank | $1.12M | 0.21 | 81,000 | New | +$1.12M | <0.01 | |
| Hidden Lake Asset Management Lp | $1.01M | 0.19 | 72,897 | +308.87% | +$763,242.16 | 0.95 |