AAOI Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.

NASDAQ
$105.36

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (AAOI) Insider Activity

What the officers, directors and large holders did with their own shares. Only open-market purchases and sales count toward the totals — grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are compensation mechanics, not decisions, and they're listed separately below.

Insider signal Subdued Selling ran below AAOI's own trailing one-year pace, with 76% of sale value under a prearranged plan.
Cluster activity 0 buyers in the last 30 days 0 buyers in the last 90 days 3 sellers in the last 90 days
Insiders buying
0
0 transactions
Insiders selling
3
9 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$14.6M
102,501 shares
Net activity
-$14.6M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 76% planned / 24% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $11.0M 8 transactions · 70,329 shares
Discretionary sales $3.5M 1 transaction · 32,172 shares

Largest single sale: $6.9M.

Where they traded

Buy Sell Dot area is proportional to transaction value.

No open-market insider purchase on record.

Recent open-market activity

Date Insider Role Action Shares Price Value Held after
Murry Stefan J. Chief Financial Officer Sell 10b5-1 4,000 $105.33 $421.3K 367,168 −1.1% of holding
Chang Hung-Lun (Fred) *** See Remarks Sell 32,172 $110.21 $3.5M 249,276 −11.4% of holding
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) *** See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 6,000 $147.73 $886.4K 377,498 −1.6% of holding
Murry Stefan J. Chief Financial Officer Sell 10b5-1 4,000 $144.79 $579.2K 371,168 −1.1% of holding
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) *** See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 4,715 $126.50 $596.4K 383,498 −1.2% of holding
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) *** See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 1,285 $120.02 $154.2K 392,922 −0.3% of holding
Murry Stefan J. Chief Financial Officer Sell 10b5-1 4,000 $122.09 $488.4K 380,576 −1% of holding
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) *** See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 6,000 $171.89 $1.0M 394,207 −1.5% of holding
Chang Hung-Lun (Fred) *** See Remarks Sell 10b5-1 40,329 $170.60 $6.9M 286,124 −12.4% of holding

Form 4s are due within two business days of a transaction, so this is close to real time — unlike the quarterly 13F data on the Institutional tab. A single large sale often reflects a prearranged 10b5-1 plan rather than a fresh view, so read a pattern of sales rather than any one of them.