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AAOI APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS INC

2026Q2 · CUSIP 03823U102 · Optical · Sector: Semiconductors

Piling in

Net holder growth ranks near the top of the market

Funds that own it
472
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+99
Last quarter 373 → now 472
How unusual is that
Top 5%
Stronger buying than 98% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

472 funds held AAOI at the end of 2026Q2, up 99 from the quarter before. That is stronger buying than 98.1% of US stocks — among the most piled-into names this quarter. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $596M(YoY +61.9%), return on equity is -3.4%. AAOI has had 14 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +116.5% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Semiconductors sector, tagged Optical.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2013Q4: holders=45 2014Q1: holders=78 2014Q2: holders=88 2014Q3: holders=84 2014Q4: holders=70 2015Q1: holders=74 2015Q2: holders=78 2015Q3: holders=86 2015Q4: holders=80 2016Q1: holders=92 2016Q2: holders=82 2016Q3: holders=93 2016Q4: holders=109 2017Q1: holders=143 2017Q2: holders=208 2017Q3: holders=202 2017Q4: holders=172 2018Q1: holders=160 2018Q2: holders=165 2018Q3: holders=156 2018Q4: holders=138 2019Q1: holders=135 2019Q2: holders=125 2019Q3: holders=113 2019Q4: holders=119 2020Q1: holders=104 2020Q2: holders=110 2020Q3: holders=107 2020Q4: holders=105 2021Q1: holders=110 2021Q2: holders=107 2021Q3: holders=101 2021Q4: holders=86 2022Q1: holders=69 2022Q2: holders=63 2022Q3: holders=62 2022Q4: holders=61 2023Q1: holders=52 2023Q2: holders=55 2023Q3: holders=77 2023Q4: holders=103 2024Q1: holders=119 2024Q2: holders=134 2024Q3: holders=140 2024Q4: holders=155 2025Q1: holders=147 2025Q2: holders=146 2025Q3: holders=180 2025Q4: holders=219 2026Q1: holders=373 2026Q2: holders=472 -154 -77 +0 +77 +154 40268496 13Q415Q216Q418Q219Q421Q222Q424Q225Q426Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 14 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2026Q2 Top 5%
2026Q1 Top 1% in the market
2025Q4 Top 20% +251.8%
2025Q3 Top 10% +117.2% +664.0%
2024Q2 Top 20% +240.0% +230.1%
2024Q1 Top 20% -26.7% +128.6%
2023Q3 Top 10% +54.6% -3.4%
2017Q2 Top 1% in the market -33.3% -51.4%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
197
Change in large funds
+52
Total value they hold
$7.3B
Funds buying for the first time
172
Funds that sold out entirely
73
Price change that quarter
-40.3%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
29
Funds holding calls (bullish)
31

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
EPS (TTM)
$-0.77
EPS YoY
Revenue (TTM)
$0.6B
Revenue YoY
+61.9%
Net margin
-9.6%
ROE
-3.4%
Debt ratio
27.5%
FCF (TTM)
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2021-09-30: EPS -0.58 2021-12-31: EPS -0.53 2022-03-31: EPS -0.58 2022-06-30: EPS -0.52 2022-09-30: EPS -0.56 2022-12-31: EPS -0.72 2023-03-31: EPS -0.56 2023-06-30: EPS -0.57 2023-09-30: EPS -0.27 2023-12-31: EPS -0.35 2024-03-31: EPS -0.60 2024-06-30: EPS -0.66 2024-09-30: EPS -0.42 2024-12-31: EPS -2.82 2025-03-31: EPS -0.18 2025-06-30: EPS -0.16 2025-09-30: EPS -0.28 2025-12-31: EPS -0.02 2026-03-31: EPS -0.19 2026-06-30: EPS -0.28 0M 96M 192M $M -3.10 -1.55 0.00 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

Quarterly free cash flow
-144M-61M21M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $-144M (2026-03-31)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-30 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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