Applied Optoelectronics Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?

Recent Insider Transactions

BST:A59 Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
Date	Value	Name	Entity	Shares	Max Price
03 Dec 24	Sell€409,827	William Yeh	Individual	10,000	€40.98
02 Dec 24	Sell€386,800	Elizabeth Loboa	Individual	9,790	€39.51
29 Nov 24	Sell€371,158	Min-Chu Chen	Individual	9,790	€37.91
26 Nov 24	Sell€289,775	Richard Black	Individual	8,162	€35.50
21 Nov 24	Sell€470,088	Elizabeth Loboa	Individual	13,494	€34.84
20 Nov 24	Sell€150,053	Stefan Murry	Individual	5,000	€30.01
20 Nov 24	Sell€586,607	Hung-Lun Chang	Individual	20,323	€28.86
14 May 24	Buy€95,483	William Yeh	Individual	9,800	€9.74
18 Mar 24	Buy€366,341	Che-Wei Lin	Individual	31,370	€11.68
18 Mar 24	Buy€137,206	Chih-Hsiang Lin	Individual	11,780	€11.65
18 Mar 24	Buy€93,820	William Yeh	Individual	8,000	€11.73
27 Feb 24	Buy€140,897	William Yeh	Individual	10,000	€14.09

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: A59 insiders have only sold shares in the past 3 months.

Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of A59?
Owner Type	Number of Shares	Ownership Percentage
Individual Insiders	2,247,823	4.99%
General Public	12,421,663	27.6%
Institutions	30,408,717	67.5%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have been diluted in the past year, with total shares outstanding growing by 25.2%.

Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 54.55% of the company

Ownership	Name	Shares	Current Value	Change %	Portfolio %
6.74%	BlackRock, Inc.	3,037,392	€93.7m	0.82%	no data
4.85%	The Vanguard Group, Inc.	2,187,824	€67.5m	1.52%	no data
3.54%	Royce & Associates, LP	1,596,545	€49.2m	47.7%	0.44%
3.38%	Driehaus Capital Management LLC	1,522,048	€46.9m	80.8%	0.31%
2.95%	Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.	1,329,093	€41.0m	0%	0.18%
2.78%	Shellback Capital, LP	1,254,438	€38.7m	20.7%	2.94%
2.5%	Whale Rock Capital Management LLC	1,128,238	€34.8m	0%	0.42%
2.29%	Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC	1,032,276	€31.8m	-52.1%	0.01%
2.08%	Emerald Advisers, LLC	936,612	€28.9m	2.72%	0.64%
2.07%	Chih-Hsiang Lin	932,102	€28.8m	4.16%	no data
2.02%	Geode Capital Management, LLC	909,559	€28.1m	7.09%	no data
1.97%	State Street Global Advisors, Inc.	887,259	€27.4m	27.7%	no data
1.92%	Oberweis Asset Management, Inc.	865,915	€26.7m	0%	1.07%
1.88%	Yong Rong (HK) Asset Management Limited	846,000	€26.1m	0%	6.03%
1.66%	Alyeska Investment Group, L.P.	750,000	€23.1m	-35.4%	0.12%
1.56%	Intrinsic Edge Capital Management LLC	705,431	€21.8m	0%	2.57%
1.46%	Portolan Capital Management, LLC	658,592	€20.3m	-21.7%	1.43%
1.42%	Centerbook Partners LP	642,216	€19.8m	-9.11%	1.24%
1.35%	Millennium Management LLC	608,151	€18.8m	0%	0.02%
1.2%	Invesco Capital Management LLC	539,076	€16.6m	2,710%	0.01%
1.18%	Two Sigma Investments, LP	532,606	€16.4m	77%	0.04%
1.13%	Dimensional Fund Advisors LP	507,632	€15.7m	-17.7%	no data
1%	JAT Capital Management LP	452,155	€13.9m	0%	1.92%
0.81%	Capital Fund Management S.A.	365,683	€11.3m	-13.2%	0.13%
0.81%	Acuitas Investments, LLC	364,290	€11.2m	9.98%	3.54%

Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/01/12 13:38
End of Day Share Price	2024/12/27 00:00
Earnings	2024/09/30
Annual Earnings	2023/12/31

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Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

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Analyst Sources

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. is covered by 13 analysts. 4 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
null null	Argus Research Company
Ku Kang	B. Riley Securities, Inc.
Richard Shannon	Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC