IFP Advisors Inc Acquires Shares of 4,885 Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. $AAOI

IFP Advisors Inc acquired a new stake in Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund acquired 4,885 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $170,000.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Cinctive Capital Management LP acquired a new stake in shares of Applied Optoelectronics during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $800,000. Diker Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Applied Optoelectronics during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $519,000. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Applied Optoelectronics by 13.6% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 4,624,570 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock worth $119,915,000 after buying an additional 551,910 shares during the last quarter. AI Squared Management Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Applied Optoelectronics during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $5,043,000. Finally, Trilogy Capital Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Applied Optoelectronics during the 4th quarter worth approximately $235,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 61.70% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of brokerages have recently issued reports on AAOI. Northland Securities restated a “market perform” rating and set a $55.00 price target on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Friday, February 27th. Rosenblatt Securities restated a “buy” rating and set a $50.00 price target on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Thursday, February 19th. Wall Street Zen downgraded shares of Applied Optoelectronics from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. B. Riley Financial upgraded shares of Applied Optoelectronics from a “sell” rating to a “neutral” rating and set a $54.00 price target for the company in a report on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Raymond James Financial restated an “outperform” rating and set a $160.00 price target on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Friday, May 8th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have assigned a Hold rating and one has issued a Sell rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Hold” and a consensus target price of $79.80.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Applied Optoelectronics news, CEO Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin sold 58,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, May 19th. The shares were sold at an average price of $173.26, for a total value of $10,049,080.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer owned 2,255,693 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $390,821,369.18. This trade represents a 2.51% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Also, insider Hung-Lun (Fred) Chang sold 36,400 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Monday, March 16th. The shares were sold at an average price of $100.25, for a total transaction of $3,649,100.00. Following the completion of the transaction, the insider directly owned 233,618 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $23,420,204.50. This represents a 13.48% decrease in their position. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. Insiders have sold a total of 515,899 shares of company stock worth $69,774,638 over the last three months. 3.80% of the stock is owned by insiders.

Applied Optoelectronics Stock Performance

Shares of AAOI stock opened at $158.41 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 3.03, a current ratio of 3.83 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18. Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. has a 52 week low of $15.06 and a 52 week high of $233.67. The stock has a market capitalization of $12.71 billion, a PE ratio of -240.02 and a beta of 3.76. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $146.55 and a two-hundred day moving average of $80.74.

Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May 7th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.07) EPS 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 business had revenue of $151.14 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $156.98 million. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned ($0.02) EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 51.3% on a year-over-year basis. Applied Optoelectronics has set its Q2 2026 guidance at -0.030-0.030 EPS. On average, research analysts predict that Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. will post 0.6 EPS for the current fiscal year.

About Applied Optoelectronics

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.