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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.

Individual transactions

36
Insider
Date
Role
Action
Shares
Price
Amount
Murry Stefan J.
10 Sep 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$105.33
$421.32K
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
18 Aug 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
6,000
$147.73
$886.38K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Aug 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$144.79
$579.16K
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
4 Aug 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
4,715
$126.50
$596.45K
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
21 Jul 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
1,285
$120.02
$154.23K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Jul 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$122.09
$488.36K
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
18 Jun 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
6,000
$171.89
$1.03M
Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)
17 Jun 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
40,329
$170.60
$6.88M
Murry Stefan J.
10 Jun 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$171.45
$685.80K
Murry Stefan J.
11 May 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$159.53
$638.10K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Apr 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$136.50
$546.01K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Mar 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$112.76
$451.04K
Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)
9 Mar 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
50,000
$97.10
$4.85M
Murry Stefan J.
20 Feb 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
5,980
$50.15
$299.92K
Kuo David C
11 Feb 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
17,467
$50.17
$876.25K
Murry Stefan J.
11 Feb 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
11,693
$50.25
$587.62K
Kuo David C
10 Feb 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
2,533
$50.00
$126.65K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Feb 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,327
$50.00
$116.35K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Feb 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$48.68
$194.72K
Kuo David C
28 Jan 2026
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
12,000
$45.06
$540.66K
Murry Stefan J.
15 Jan 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
66
$35.01
$2.31K
Murry Stefan J.
13 Jan 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
934
$35.00
$32.69K
Murry Stefan J.
12 Jan 2026
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
3,000
$33.75
$101.24K
Kuo David C
23 Dec 2025
*** See Remarks
Sold on a plan
12,500
$40.15
$501.88K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Dec 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
1,000
$35.00
$35.00K
Murry Stefan J.
10 Dec 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
3,000
$30.40
$91.21K
Murry Stefan J.
16 Jul 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
3,000
$27.46
$82.38K
Murry Stefan J.
16 Jun 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,000
$16.05
$32.09K
Murry Stefan J.
16 May 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,000
$19.35
$38.70K
Murry Stefan J.
16 Apr 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,000
$10.95
$21.91K
Murry Stefan J.
17 Mar 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,000
$23.06
$46.12K
Murry Stefan J.
18 Feb 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
3,000
$26.34
$79.02K
Murry Stefan J.
21 Jan 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
2,298
$35.17
$80.81K
Murry Stefan J.
16 Jan 2025
Chief Financial Officer
Sold on a plan
4,000
$31.72
$126.90K
BLACK RICHARD B
15 Jan 2025
Director
Sold on a plan indirect
10,000
$29.00
$289.95K
BLACK RICHARD B
16 Dec 2024
Director
Sold on a plan indirect
10,000
$35.27
$352.67K
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