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Q: Hello Team 5i & Everyone,

May I have your updated assessment of AAOI please? (Applied Optoelectronics)

It looks like it's been doing well the last 11 months alongside COHR and LITE then it doubled more dramatically in a month on its last earnings. Is this justified in their fundamentals, or is it possibly driven by profits searching for the next opportunity to make quick money?

(It also looks like AAOI's earnings haven't been as consistently good as LITE and COHR over the last while.)

Thank you,

Sandra

Read Answer Asked by Sandra on March 25, 2026
Q: NYSE Coherent Corp. (COHR)

How many other competitors are doing the same thing as COHR?

Do they have a moat.

Thank you.
Read Answer Asked by Ross on May 05, 2025
Q: Understanding the US isn't your focus, do you have any insight into this stock? They appear to be a going concern with a short term issue that the shorts ganged up on looking for a quick buck. I bought some at about 50 dollars and am tempted to buy more knowing that next earnings may still show some effects, BUT that 2017 numbers will still be handily better than 2016, and 2018 looks good. Thoughts?
Read Answer Asked by Rick on January 11, 2018
Q: I have been following AAOI through a rather wild journey in past couple of months from the 60s to the 90s, then a plunge back to the 60s and, very recently, from 58 last Friday to 66 (~14% inc) on Monday and to 70 (another 6%) to-day, both days on very large volumes. I have looked for explanatory information both on the co. website and the RBC-DI site to no avail. Another startling feature of AAOI is that the shorts are 57% of the float and have been so for the past couple of months.
My questions are: what are the rules surrounding the obligations of a co. to make a statement on such dramatic moves? and do you have any information?

Thanks as always, Bob.
Read Answer Asked by Lynn on September 20, 2017
Q: Looking for growth, I seem to have overdone it in the tech sector which is now near 30% of my portfolio. I assume you will tell me to rebalance, the question is how best to go about it to maintain a growth portfolio while reducing duplicates stocks. My tech names are as follow: itc-t 1%, aaoi-q 2%,amat-q 3%,nvda 1%,shop-t 1%,bkd-x 1%, syz-x 1%,kxs 3%,sq-n 1%,goog-q 3%, fb-q 3%,momo-q 3%,cohr-q 2%,cgnx-q 1%,pho-t 1%,pur-t 2%. Grateful for your suggestions.
Please deduct the number of crédits you deem appropriate.
Jacques
Read Answer Asked by Jacques on August 08, 2017
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