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Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. stock: filings, catalysts and timeline

AAOI · Semiconductors · Nasdaq · As of 5 Nov 2026

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44AIR SCORE
  • FundamentalsWhat is this?Watch

    How the business is doing on its own reported US-GAAP numbers — growth, margins, cash generation, balance-sheet strength, capital efficiency and dilution — compared with sector peers.

    Source: SEC XBRL financial statements.

  • ValueWhat is this?Watch

    How the shares are priced against sector peers, against the company's own recent history, and against a simple cash-flow estimate, using the filing numbers and the current price. AIR shows this as a band, never as a target price.

    Source: SEC XBRL financial statements and end-of-day prices.

  • News flowWhat is this?Balanced

    What the company has documented recently: material 8-K events (contracts, deals, results, leadership changes) and FDA approvals, weighted by recency and type. A language model's reading of each 8-K helps classify whether it is positive or negative. Filings, not press or social media.

    Source: SEC EDGAR 8-K filings and FDA approvals.

  • MomentumWhat is this?Watch

    The longer-term market read: the trend in end-of-day prices, strength against the market and the sector, and trading volume over roughly the past three to twelve months. It is shown, never used to rank the Shortlist.

    Source: End-of-day prices.

  • SafetyWhat is this?Balanced

    The risk side: leverage, liquidity, cash runway, dilution, revenue and margin swings, company size and pre-commercial status, negative 8-K events (including legal and regulatory ones), and share-price drawdown and volatility. Higher means fewer of those risk markers.

    Source: SEC XBRL financial statements, SEC EDGAR 8-K filings and end-of-day prices.

How AIR scores →

Discovery Gap: High (43/100) · Gap confidence 54/100

High43
DISCOVERY GAP

Filings show more traction than the tape reflects.

Low is the most common level — the cut-offs are fixed, and levels can shift as scores refresh.

What is this?

How far documented progress (News flow) runs ahead of market attention. Attention is measured from institutional holdings reported to the SEC, trading volume, price behaviour and how richly the shares are valued — not from social media or analyst ratings.

Source: SEC EDGAR filings (8-K and 13F), FDA approvals and end-of-day prices.

How levels work. The levels use fixed cut-offs, but market attention is ranked against the other ~1,800 companies AIR covers that day (valuation against the same sector). Documented progress counts filings from the past 18 months, newer ones weighing more; attention uses the latest quarter of institutional holdings, the last three to six months of trading, and six to twelve months of price behaviour. Many companies show a Low Gap or none at all — a gap needs filings that read more positively than neutral. A level can change from one day to the next as scores refresh and the other companies move.

  • Gap confidenceWhat is this?Moderate 54/100How fully AIR could measure this Gap.

    How fully AIR could measure both sides of the Discovery Gap: the documented progress (News flow) and market attention (Recognition). It takes the weaker of the two, and reads zero when either side has no measurement. It describes the data, not the company.

  • Evidence strengthWhat is this?Strong 78/100Support behind the full AIR read, not only the Gap.

    How much data stands behind the whole AIR read — all five perspectives, not just the Discovery Gap. Each perspective reports how complete its inputs are, and these are combined in the same proportions as the AIR Score; a perspective AIR could not score adds nothing, so missing data lowers this figure. It describes the data, not the company.

This month at a glance

AIR Score™ change: 0AIR Score™ held steady this month.
Window31 Oct 2026 → 5 Nov 2026
Value+2Lifted the score this month.
Momentum-1Weighed on the score this month.
Safety-1Weighed on the score this month.

Evidence timeline

  1. Expected
  2. Fri 6 Nov · expected 10-Q

    Last year filed 6 Nov 2025.

  3. Fri 26 Feb · expected 10-K

    Last year filed 26 Feb 2026.

  4. Filed
  5. Wed 4 Nov · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 1.02, 2.03 — Material agreement

    Gap Very high · 58 → High · 43

    The gap narrowed as the filings read less positively.

    The price trend weakened.

  6. Tue 15 Sep · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

    Applied Optoelectronics' subsidiary Global Technology leased a 38,312 sq meter manufacturing facility in Ningbo, China for 10 years at RMB 6.9M annual rent, with 3% increases every three years and tenant protections including right of first refusal.

  7. Thu 10 Sep · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

    AAOI exercised a purchase option to acquire a 153,928 sq ft facility in Houston for $26.78M cash on September 4, 2026. Property will be used for office, warehouse, light manufacturing and assembly purposes.

  8. Tue 1 Sep · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  9. Mon 24 Aug · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 5.02 — Material agreement

  10. Fri 21 Aug · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

  11. Thu 6 Aug · 8-K

    8-K · Item 2.02 — Results of operations

  12. Thu 6 Aug · 10-Q

    Quarterly report (10-Q), period ending 3 Aug 2026

  13. Wed 1 Jul · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  14. Tue 16 Jun · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  15. Fri 5 Jun · 8-K

    8-K · Item 5.02 — Director or officer change

  16. Thu 14 May · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

  17. Wed 13 May · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  18. Fri 8 May · 8-K

    8-K · Item 4.01 — Auditor change

  19. Thu 7 May · 10-Q

    Quarterly report (10-Q), period ending 5 May 2026

  20. Thu 7 May · 8-K

    8-K · Item 2.02 — Results of operations

  21. Mon 13 Apr · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  22. Thu 12 Mar · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

  23. Thu 5 Mar · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  24. Fri 27 Feb · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  25. Thu 26 Feb · 8-K

    8-K · Item 2.02 — Results of operations

  26. Thu 26 Feb · 10-K

    Annual report (10-K), FY2026

  27. Thu 26 Feb · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

  28. Thu 19 Feb · 8-K

    8-K · Item 5.02 — Director or officer change

  29. Fri 13 Feb · 8-K

    8-K filed 2026-02-13

  30. Wed 3 Dec · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  31. Fri 7 Nov · 8-K

    8-K · Item 1.01 — Material agreement

  32. Thu 6 Nov · 8-K

    8-K · Item 2.02 — Results of operations

  33. Thu 6 Nov · 10-Q

    Quarterly report (10-Q), period ending 3 Nov 2025

  34. Mon 3 Nov · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

  35. Wed 24 Sep · 8-K

    8-K · Items 1.01, 2.03 — Material agreement

Solid dots: a filing AIR classified as material. Grey: routine. Hollow: expected, from last year's dates — not a forecast.

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What would change our view

A weaker balance sheet in the next filing cycle, a material regulatory setback, or attention arriving — which closes the gap by design would move the score, and the page would show which one did.

Research, not tips. No buy/sell recommendations, no price forecasts. Every score is derived from public filings and market data — figures round to whole numbers and refresh each trading day.