FourThought Financial Partners LLC Buys New Position in Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. $AAOI

FourThought Financial Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor bought 10,539 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock, valued at approximately $367,000.

Several other hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in AAOI. Allworth Financial LP raised its holdings in Applied Optoelectronics by 1,923.7% in the 4th quarter. Allworth Financial LP now owns 769 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $27,000 after acquiring an additional 731 shares in the last quarter. Comerica Bank acquired a new position in Applied Optoelectronics in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Kohmann Bosshard Financial Services LLC acquired a new position in Applied Optoelectronics in the 4th quarter valued at approximately $55,000. SBI Securities Co. Ltd. raised its holdings in Applied Optoelectronics by 190.6% in the 4th quarter. SBI Securities Co. Ltd. now owns 1,927 shares of the semiconductor company’s stock valued at $67,000 after acquiring an additional 1,264 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Headlands Technologies LLC acquired a new position in Applied Optoelectronics in the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $57,000. Institutional investors own 61.70% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have commented on AAOI shares. Wall Street Zen cut Applied Optoelectronics from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. Raymond James Financial reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a $160.00 price target on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Friday, May 8th. B. Riley Financial raised 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. Needham & Company LLC increased their target price on Applied Optoelectronics from $43.00 to $80.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 27th. Finally, Northland Securities reissued a “market perform” rating and issued a $55.00 target price on shares of Applied Optoelectronics in a report on Friday, February 27th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Buy rating, three have given a Hold rating and one has given a Sell rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, Applied Optoelectronics presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and a consensus price target of $79.80.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other news, Director Elizabeth G. Loboa sold 102,347 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, March 3rd. The stock was sold at an average price of $95.76, for a total value of $9,800,748.72. Following the transaction, the director directly owned 20,523 shares in the company, valued at $1,965,282.48. This trade represents a 83.30% decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at this link. Also, CEO Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin sold 58,000 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Tuesday, May 19th. The stock was 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 in the company, valued at $390,821,369.18. This represents a 2.51% decrease in their ownership of the stock. Additional details regarding this sale are available in the official SEC disclosure. The sale was made to cover tax withholding obligations related to the vesting of equity awards. Insiders sold 459,324 shares of company stock worth $59,068,951 over the last three months. Insiders own 3.80% of the company’s stock.

Applied Optoelectronics Trading Up 2.6%

AAOI stock opened at $181.49 on Friday. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $138.74 and a 200 day moving average price of $75.74. Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $15.06 and a fifty-two week high of $233.67. The stock has a market capitalization of $14.56 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -274.98 and a beta of 3.76. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.18, a current ratio of 3.83 and a quick ratio of 3.03.

Applied Optoelectronics (NASDAQ:AAOI) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The semiconductor company reported ($0.07) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of ($0.05) by ($0.02). The firm had revenue of $151.14 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $156.98 million. Applied Optoelectronics had a negative net margin of 8.55% and a negative return on equity of 4.64%. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 51.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted ($0.02) earnings per share. Applied Optoelectronics has set its Q2 2026 guidance at -0.030-0.030 EPS. Analysts expect that Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. will post 0.66 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.