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APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.

AAOI Net selling
CIK 0001158114 #894 in the set updated 17 Sep 2026
Bought (120 mo)
$4.62M
out of their own pocket, the only kind of buying there is
Sold (120 mo)
$154.14M
$22.87M on a plan · $2.67M straight out of an exercise
Sold at will
$128.60M
150 of 197 sales
Net
−$149.52M
−$123.98M against sales at will

By person

14 insiders · 265 transactions
267×

Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin holds 267 times base salary in stock. $221.58M of shares against $828.66K in salary for 2025.

Salary from the company's own proxy. The shares are what Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin last reported holding, valued at $105.33, the price Common Stock, $.001 par value was last bought or sold at on the open market here, on 10 Sep 2026.

Insider
Role
Bought
Sold
Net
Holding
Worth
Change
Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)
*** See Remarks
$30.78M (25)
−$30.78M
249,276
$26.26M
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
*** See Remarks
$27.59M (23)
−$27.59M
377,498
$39.76M
+754.5%
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
President and CEO
$1.90M (15)
$22.19M (15)
−$20.29M
2,103,649
$221.58M
Murry Stefan J.
Chief Financial Officer
$20.18M (57)
−$20.18M
367,168
$38.67M
Kuo David C
*** See Remarks
$15.77M (39)
−$15.77M
145,814
$15.36M
DeLaney Cynthia
Director
$12.76M (2)
−$12.76M
60,813
$6.41M
Loboa Elizabeth G
Director
$10.82M (4)
−$10.82M
20,523
$2.16M
Yeh William H
Director
$854.09K (7)
$6.11M (7)
−$5.25M
239,985
$25.28M
+102.0%
Chen Min-Chu (Mike)
Director
$171.83K (1)
$3.51M (5)
−$3.34M
182,219
$19.19M
+343.6%
BLACK RICHARD B
Director
$2.07M (15)
−$2.07M
371,370
$39.12M
+45.1%
Lin Che-Wei
Director
$696.75K (3)
$2.35M (5)
−$1.65M
254,672
$26.82M
+204.2%
MOORE ALAN D
Director
$999.05K (1)
+$999.05K
261,519
$27.55M
+17.5%
Ignatiev Alex
Director
52,549
$5.53M
+129.3%
Flanagan Robert James
Director
1,166
$122.81K

No percentages here. These insiders hold more than one class of share between them, and the share count on file covers one of them rather than all. Dividing the two would compare different things.

Insider
Date
Role
Action
Shares
Price
Amount
Yeh William H
14 Aug 2025
Director
Buy
4,000
$21.40
$85.60K
Lin Che-Wei
14 Aug 2025
Director
Buy
4,609
$21.64
$99.74K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
14 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy
920
$21.60
$19.87K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
14 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy
1,405
$21.26
$29.87K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
14 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy indirect
5,750
$21.62
$124.32K
Chen Min-Chu (Mike)
13 Aug 2025
Director
Buy indirect
7,500
$22.91
$171.83K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
13 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy indirect
3,250
$22.65
$73.61K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
13 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy
8,850
$22.53
$199.39K
Yeh William H
13 Aug 2025
Director
Buy
4,000
$23.15
$92.60K
Yeh William H
13 Aug 2025
Director
Buy
10,000
$22.75
$227.50K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
12 Aug 2025
President and CEO
Buy indirect
6,500
$23.14
$150.41K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
13 May 2025
President and CEO
Buy
11,000
$18.20
$200.15K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
13 May 2025
President and CEO
Buy
10,200
$18.24
$186.07K
Yeh William H
14 May 2024
Director
Buy
9,800
$10.54
$103.29K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
18 Mar 2024
President and CEO
Buy
11,780
$12.66
$149.17K
Lin Che-Wei
18 Mar 2024
Director
Buy
31,370
$12.70
$398.28K
Yeh William H
18 Mar 2024
Director
Buy
8,000
$12.75
$102.00K
Yeh William H
27 Feb 2024
Director
Buy
10,000
$15.29
$152.90K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
14 Sep 2023
President and CEO
Buy
15,000
$9.79
$146.90K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
6 Sep 2023
President and CEO
Buy
5,964
$12.44
$74.17K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
18 Aug 2023
President and CEO
Buy
14,438
$12.36
$178.52K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
17 Aug 2023
President and CEO
Buy
5,562
$12.42
$69.10K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
11 Aug 2023
President and CEO
Buy
15,802
$12.60
$199.17K
Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
8 Nov 2022
President and CEO
Buy
44,443
$2.20
$97.77K
Lin Che-Wei
11 Dec 2020
Director
Buy
25,401
$7.82
$198.72K
Yeh William H
15 Jun 2020
Director
Buy
10,000
$9.02
$90.20K
MOORE ALAN D
13 Nov 2017
Director
Buy
22,400
$44.60
$999.05K
Showing 250 of 265 transactions. The figures above use every one of them.

What was left out

Form 4 filings counted 644
Amendments (4/A) skipped 6
Filings about a different issuer 0
Unreadable filings 0
Joint filings 0
Sales on a Rule 10b5-1 plan 36
Sales straight out of an exercise 11
Sales at will 150
Transactions with no price 0
Shares from compensation/vesting 13,296,223
Sales filed before the plan box existed 94
History held since 14 Sep 2016