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SEC FORM 419m ago
HOUSE PTR19m ago
SEC 13F19m ago
ROBINHOOD CHAIN18m ago
SEC FORM 4/Tax withholdingVerified data

Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) reported AAOI

Director, President and CEO · APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. · Common Stock, $.001 par value

Side
F
Value
$1.40M
Shares
9,331
Price
$150.57
Executed
Apr 22, 2026
Disclosed
Apr 24, 2026
Disclosure timeline2 days from execution to publication · legal deadline 2 business days
Apr 22 executedApr 24, 2026 disclosed

AAOI · daily

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Insider Score

Experimental signal
18/ 100 · ROUTINE
Methodology →
  • Transaction type0 / 20

    Tax withholding — administrative, little informational value

  • Relative size+10 / 25

$1.4M reported value · 0.6% of prior position

  • Filing timing0 / 15

    Disclosed 2 business days after execution (deadline: 2)

  • Historical behavior+8 / 15

    First recorded trade by this actor in this security

  • Frequency & clustering0 / 15

    No clustered activity in the dataset

  • Market events0 / 10

    No material company filing within 60 days after the trade

    • The Insider Score measures how far a disclosure deviates from normal filing patterns. A high score is a prompt for research, not evidence of illegal insider trading.

    Other disclosed activity · AAOI

    ScoreActorSecuritySideValueExecutedDisclosedLagSourceEvidence
    8
    MJ
    Murry Stefan J.Chief Financial Officer
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$58K
    746 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    KC
    Kuo David C*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$44K
    567 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    KC
    Kuo David C*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$40K
    519 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    MJ
    Murry Stefan J.Chief Financial Officer
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$65K
    846 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    CF
    Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$227K
    2,940 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    CF
    Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$52K
    677 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    11
    MJ
    Murry Stefan J.Chief Financial Officer
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$253K
    3,267 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    MJ
    Murry Stefan J.Chief Financial Officer
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$84K
    1,086 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    CF
    Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$66K
    850 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    YJ
    Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$31K
    406 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    12
    LT
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)Director, President and CEO
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$167K
    2,165 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    12
    LT
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)Director, President and CEO
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$208K
    2,691 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    12
    LT
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)Director, President and CEO
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$192K
    2,486 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    15
    LT
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)Director, President and CEO
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$721K
    9,331 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    YJ
    Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$25K
    323 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    YJ
    Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$22K
    287 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    YJ
    Yeh Shu-Hua (Joshua)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$93K
    1,202 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    CF
    Chang Hung-Lun (Fred)*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$52K
    674 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    5
    KC
    Kuo David C*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$35K
    447 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    8
    KC
    Kuo David C*** See Remarks
    AAOIAPPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Tax withholding
    		F$159K
    2,053 sh
    		Oct 22, 2026Oct 26, 2026
    traded Oct 22, 2026
    		+4dSEC FORM 4

    Evidence

    Evidence

    Verified data

    Read directly from the primary public document; every field below is as reported by the filer.

    Source

    Document
    SEC Form 4
    Publisher
    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)
    Document ID
    0001683168-26-003187
    Machine-readable
    Structured copy

    Timestamps

    Event (reported)
    Apr 22, 2026
    Published
    Apr 24, 2026
    Ingested by INSIDER
    Nov 5, 04:02 UTC
    Last re-read
    Nov 5, 04:02 UTC

    Extracted facts

    Filer
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)
    Role
    Director, President and CEO
    Transaction
    Tax withholdingAs filed: “F”
    Asset
    APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
    Ticker
    AAOI
    Shares
    9,331
    Price per share
    $150.57
    Value
    $1,404,969
    Execution date (reported)
    Apr 22, 2026
    Owned after transaction
    1.70M shares
    Days from execution to publication
    2

    Calculation

    Value = shares × reported price per share

    • Shares: 9,331
    • Price: $150.57

    = $1,404,969

    What this establishes

    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) filed this Form 4 reporting a tax withholding of AAOI on Apr 22, 2026. It became public on Apr 24, 2026. The filing establishes the reported transaction and the filer's stated role. It does not establish why the trade was made or what the filer knew.

    Extraction

    Method
    Form 4 XML
    Confidence
    1.00
    Director, President and CEO
    Lin Chih-Hsiang (Thompson)cik:0001587420
    Issuer
    APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.cik:0001158114

    Revision history · 0

    No field has changed since this record was first ingested.

    Company events

    No records

    No material filings recorded for this issuer.