AAOI Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own AAOI shares is 194, representing 69.65% of the company's common stock.

CITIGROUP INC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in AAOI by -0.86% restricting it's holding to 316.85 thousand shares of worth nearly $4.39M. MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC also lessened -40.66% of the AAOI shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 375.8 thousand shares of worth $5.21M. JANE STREET GROUP, LLC also shunned AAOI shares holding by -56.43% last quarter which brought its holding to 405.8 thousand shares worth $5.62M.

As per its latest 13F filing, STATE STREET CORP increased its stake in AAOI by 44.48% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 343 thousand shares having worth more than $4.75M. MARSHALL WACE, LLP also added 100% more shares of AAOI to its portfolio, raising its holding to 358.53 thousand shares of worth $4.97M. GEODE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC also increased its AAOI shares holding by 2.45% which brought its holding to 388.49 thousand shares worth $5.39M.

The insider with the most stakes in AAOI is Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) , President and CEO at the company. Additionally, AAOI stock is highly held by *** See Remarks Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua) and director MOORE ALAN D among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 4.77% percent of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.'s stock. Within the last six months, there have been 18 transaction(s) in which AAOI insiders have sold stock, totaling 161.05K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include MURRY STEFAN J., BLACK RICHARD B, and YEH WILLIAM H.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 2.74M Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. shares are held by insiders, which represents about 4.77% of AAOI stock.

AAOI President and CEO, Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. AAOI shares owned by Lin total nearly 1.22 million.

CITIGROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in AAOI which holds 316.85 thousand shares worth $4.39M or 0.87% of the total AAOI shares outstanding followed by STATE STREET CORP with ownership of 343 thousand shares representing 0.94% of the AAOI ownership. MARSHALL WACE, LLP is the third largest stakeholder with 358.53 thousand shares or 0.98% of the ownership worth more than $4.97M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the AAOI is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of AAOI shares short is 8.46M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 49.39M shares of AAOI are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, AAOI has 42.71M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for AAOI is 2.97.