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 April 17, 2025, AAOI stock price climbed to $10.66 with 1,906,057 million shares trading.

AAOI has a beta of 3.20, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. AAOI has a correlation of 0.24 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AAOI has a market cap of $535.66 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

Last quarter Applied Optoelectronics reported $100 million in Revenue and -$.02 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $291,000 and met earnings estimates .

In the last 3 years, AAOI traded as high as $44.50 and as low as $1.48.

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

AAOI has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -11.1% while the SPY ETF gained +6.0%. AAOI has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -65.5% and -33.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned -10.7% and -6.8%, respectively.

AAOI support price is $9.41 and resistance is $11.45 (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.