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.

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Insider signal Subdued Selling ran below AAOI's own trailing one-year pace, with 27% 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
3 transactions
Purchases
$0
0 shares
Sales
$4.9M
42,172 shares
Net activity
-$4.9M
purchases less sales

How much of that selling was preplanned? 27% planned / 73% discretionary

10b5-1 plan sales $1.3M 2 transactions · 10,000 shares
Discretionary sales $3.5M 1 transaction · 32,172 shares

Largest single sale: $3.5M.

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

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.