AAOI Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Applied Optoelectronics | NASDAQ:AAOI)

Applied Optoelectronics Inc is a provider of fiber-optic networking products, for four networking end-markets; internet data center, CATV, telecom, and FTTH. The Company designs and manufactures a wide range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies, and modules to complete turn-key equipment. Through direct sales personnel, and manufacturing teams in the United States, China, and Taiwan, the company coordinates with customers to determine product design, qualifications, and performance. The Company has manufacturing and research and development facilities located in the U.S., Taiwan, and China.

Applied Optoelectronics trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol AAOI.

As of January 8, 2026, AAOI stock price declined to $33.01 with 8,422,321 million shares trading.

AAOI has a beta of 3.68, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. AAOI has a correlation of 0.31 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AAOI has a market cap of $2.25 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Applied Optoelectronics reported $119 million in Revenue and -$.09 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-1 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.02.

In the last 3 years, AAOI traded as high as $44.50 and as low as $1.60.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AAOI belongs to (by Net Assets): IWM, VTI, VGT, VXF, IWO.

AAOI has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +0.1% while the SPY ETF gained +18.4%. However, in the short term, AAOI had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +5.3% vs +3.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, AAOI shares have been beat by the market, returning -19.5% compared to an SPY return of -0.1%.

AAOI support price is $34.53 and resistance is $41.58 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AAOI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.