Insider Selling: Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) Insider Sells $154,225.70 in Stock

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) insider Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh sold 1,285 shares of Applied Optoelectronics stock in a transaction on Tuesday, July 21st. The shares were sold at an average price of $120.02, for a total value of $154,225.70. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider owned 392,922 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $47,158,498.44. The trade was a 0.33% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is accessible through the SEC website. The transaction was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan.

Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh also recently made the following trade(s):

• On Thursday, June 18th, Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh sold 6,000 shares of Applied Optoelectronics stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $171.89, for a total value of $1,031,340.00.
• On Friday, June 12th, Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh sold 28,826 shares of Applied Optoelectronics stock. The stock was sold at an average price of $166.53, for a total value of $4,800,393.78.
• On Thursday, June 4th, Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh sold 10,000 shares of Applied Optoelectronics stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $205.07, for a total value of $2,050,700.00.
• On Tuesday, May 19th, Shu-Hua (Joshua) Yeh sold 39,154 shares of Applied Optoelectronics stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.26, for a total value of $6,783,822.04.

Applied Optoelectronics Price Performance

NASDAQ AAOI traded down $10.35 on Tuesday, hitting $87.47. 6,857,635 shares of the company were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 10,378,528. Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. has a 1-year low of $18.50 and a 1-year high of $233.67. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $148.97 and a two-hundred day moving average of $114.06. The company has a current ratio of 3.83, a quick ratio of 3.03 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. The company has a market cap of $7.02 billion, a P/E ratio of -132.00 and a beta of 3.69.

Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.07) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.05) by ($0.02). Applied Optoelectronics had a negative net margin of 8.55% and a negative return on equity of 4.64%. The company had revenue of $151.14 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $156.98 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted ($0.02) EPS. The company’s revenue was up 51.3% compared to the same quarter last year. Applied Optoelectronics has set its Q2 2026 guidance at -0.030-0.030 EPS. On average, equities analysts predict that Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. will post 0.6 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Trading of Applied Optoelectronics

A number of institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. Tema ETFs LLC acquired a new position in Applied Optoelectronics during the second quarter valued at approximately $62,000. Handelsbanken Fonder AB acquired a new stake in Applied Optoelectronics in the second quarter worth $7,719,000. Fulcrum Equity Management acquired a new stake in Applied Optoelectronics in the second quarter worth $623,000. UNICOM Systems Inc. boosted its position in shares of Applied Optoelectronics by 122.3% during the second quarter. UNICOM Systems Inc. now owns 152,483 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $22,592,000 after purchasing an additional 83,892 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. boosted its position in shares of Applied Optoelectronics by 48.0% during the second quarter. Assenagon Asset Management S.A. now owns 72,164 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $10,692,000 after purchasing an additional 23,402 shares in the last quarter. 61.70% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently commented on AAOI shares. Wall Street Zen cut Applied Optoelectronics from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research note on Monday, April 13th. Needham & Company LLC decreased their price target on Applied Optoelectronics from $260.00 to $220.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, July 22nd. Rosenblatt Securities reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $220.00 price objective on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a research report on Monday, June 22nd. Weiss Ratings reissued a “sell (d-)” rating on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Tuesday, July 7th. Finally, Raymond James Financial restated an “outperform” rating on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a research report on Wednesday, June 10th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, two have issued a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Applied Optoelectronics currently has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $141.80.

Applied Optoelectronics Company Profile

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc develops and manufactures high-speed fiber-optic networking products designed to support the growing bandwidth demands of data centers, telecommunications carriers and internet content providers. The company’s core offerings include pluggable optical transceiver modules, transponders and optical components that enable data transmission at rates ranging from 1G to 400G. These products are used to facilitate long-haul, metro and intra-data center connectivity, addressing the need for scalable, low-latency and energy-efficient solutions in modern network infrastructures.

The company’s product portfolio spans small-form factor pluggable modules such as SFP+, QSFP+ and QSFP28 units, as well as more advanced form factors like CFP2 and OSFP for ultra-high-speed applications.