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Applied Opt (AAOI) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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The desk on AAOI

What this diary said about Applied Opt, what it holds and what would change its view — in its own words, dated. Investment diary, not advice.

What we said

Our record on AAOI

Every scored call, pick and trade this diary has made on Applied Opt, with the outcome where it is known.

Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for AAOI, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Versus its index Rubin Build-Out 100 — the name, its sleeve and the index over day, week and month

Versus its index

The name against its Closelooknet index and its own sleeve — equal-weight, nightly closes.

Rubin Build-Out 100 · as of 2026-10-02

DayWeekMonth3 months
AAOI+7.7%+14.0%+12.1%−6.3%
High-Speed Interconnects+4.1%+8.5%+19.6%—
Rubin Build-Out 100+2.8%+5.9%+14.6%—

Against the index: 8.1 pts ahead on the week, 2.5 pts behind on the month; against its High-Speed Interconnects sleeve 7.5 pts behind on the month.

Returns from the index workers’ nightly closes; equal-weight sleeves. A relative reading from the research diary, not advice.

Mentioned on Closelooknet 9 pieces · newest: Morning 10, “Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000” (2026-09-09)

Mentioned on Closelooknet

Where AAOI appears in the diary — 9 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

  • Optical Interconnects — The Toll Nobody KeepsReport · 13 Aug 2026The floors on the tape (12 Aug closes): LITE 932.47, 14% off high · COHR 355.64, 19% off · MRVL 217.08, 34% off · AAOI 138.08, 41% off · FN 571.88, 24% off, prints Monday · AVGO $2.0T market cap…

Dailies

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 57/100 · S&P 500 fund at 60, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-10-02
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.3% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-10-02
  • Sector × region Technology in US: +1.8% week · +9.0% month · +9.0% quarter · +45.4% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLK.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-10-04
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.59 · down 0.12 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-10-02
How it trades on rate days beta 0.02 to TLT · on the worst bond days it fell more than the market

How it trades on rate days

How AAOI has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.02 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Applied Opt moved 0.02% on average · correlation 0.00 · higher than 10% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 1.60 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −3.45% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.03% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Optical components and lasers · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Optical components and lasers

Curated competitor set — who the market prices this name against, not just who shares its sector.

Compared against AAOI on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Applied Opt

AAOI in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Applied Opt designs and manufactures fibre-optic networking hardware, including optical modules, filters, lasers, transceivers and related transmission equipment. It sells these to internet data-centre operators, cable-television networks, telecom equipment makers and internet service providers. The company is based in Sugar Land, Texas.
Where it sits in the stack
In our index, the Rubin Build-Out 100, Applied Opt sits in Layer 5, Connectivity & Materials, within the High-Speed Interconnects sleeve — the optical hardware that links separate GPUs into a working cluster. It is a supplier to the data-centre and networking customers that build out that fabric, so its business tracks demand for cluster-to-cluster bandwidth rather than the chips themselves.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet's peer group prices it against other optical-components and laser makers — Coherent, Lumentum, Fabrinet and Ciena — reflecting shared exposure to transceiver and laser demand rather than sector overlap alone.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Applied Opt holds a seat in the Rubin Build-Out 100 and carries a Closelooknet score, with momentum the strongest module and quality the weakest. The diary has returned to it in reports on optical interconnects and in Midday editions during sharp single-session moves.
What the diary watches
Whether momentum strength persists as the print record shows more misses than beats on revenue, and whether the quality module improves alongside any recovery from its recent lows.

Applied Opt (AAOI) trades on US exchanges, classified under Technology, and sits in Layer 5 of the build-out stack. Constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100.

The Closelooknet company score reads 34/100 composite (momentum 38, quality 11, valuation 22) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: AAOI news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Dividends and capital return no distribution in twelve months

Dividends and capital return

What AAOI pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Distributions No cash distribution recorded in the price series over the last three years
  • Share count +44.9% in FY2025 12 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-10-03

Quick answers

What is Applied Opt (AAOI)?

Applied Opt trades as AAOI on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Technology in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-10-03.

Is AAOI in a Closelooknet index?

Yes — Applied Opt is a constituent of Rubin Build-Out 100, as of 2026-10-03.

What is Applied Opt's Closelooknet composite score?

34 out of 100, with momentum 38, quality 11 and valuation 22 sub-scores, as of 2026-10-03. Scores are Closelooknet's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

What is Applied Opt's earnings print record?

Across the 10 prints Closelooknet covers, Applied Opt beat EPS estimates 5 times and revenue estimates 3 times; the three-day reactions split 6 up, 1 flat and 3 down (moves beyond ±3%), as of the 2026-08-05 card. The full print-record card carries the per-print history.

Where does AAOI trade against its moving averages?

Up 8.1% at the close: one of the day's strongest moves. As of 2026-10-01 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How is AAOI doing against its Closelooknet index?

Over the past month Applied Opt is +12.1% against +14.6% for the Rubin Build-Out 100 — 2.5 points behind its index, as of 2026-10-02. Its High-Speed Interconnects sleeve is +19.6% over the same month. The “Versus its index” table on this page carries the day, the week and the month for the name, its sleeve and the index.

How does Applied Opt compare with its peers?

Against its peer group (Optical components and lasers), Applied Opt (AAOI) sits 54.1% below its 52-week high, 3.4% below its 50-day average; Coherent Inc (COHR) is 27.5% below, Lumentum Holdings Inc (LITE) is 3.7% below, Fabrinet (FN) is 39.7% below. Put any of them next to AAOI in the chart grid (2×1 or 2×2) and the page lays the companies side by side: performance, trend, valuation, margins and our money-flow reading.

How does Applied Opt trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Applied Opt had a beta of 0.02 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 10% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −3.45% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelooknet written about Applied Opt?

Applied Opt appears in 9 Closelooknet pieces, most recently Morning 10: Oil knocks on $100 and Wall Street sells everything but the AI pipe: Intel +9%, Lumentum +11%, Dow −1.2% — Seoul buys the dip and the Kospi is back above 7,000 (2026-09-09); Midday 10: Semis break the 505 line at midday while bitcoin presses 80,000 (2026-08-24); Midday 10: The macro week breaks at the last print — retail and Michigan miss, bonds slip the floor, and Lumentum runs from the middle (2026-08-14). What Closelooknet said most recently: AAOI drops 12.45 percent to 109.28 by midday, the sharpest single-name decline on today's tape. (Midday 10, 2026-08-24). The "Mentioned on Closelooknet" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does Applied Opt do?

Applied Opt designs and manufactures fibre-optic networking hardware, including optical modules, filters, lasers, transceivers and related transmission equipment. It sells these to internet data-centre operators, cable-television networks, telecom equipment makers and internet service providers. The company is based in Sugar Land, Texas. Closelooknet's peer group prices it against other optical-components and laser makers — Coherent, Lumentum, Fabrinet and Ciena — reflecting shared exposure to transceiver and laser demand rather than sector overlap alone.

Where does Applied Opt sit in the AI build-out?

In our index, the Rubin Build-Out 100, Applied Opt sits in Layer 5, Connectivity & Materials, within the High-Speed Interconnects sleeve — the optical hardware that links separate GPUs into a working cluster. It is a supplier to the data-centre and networking customers that build out that fabric, so its business tracks demand for cluster-to-cluster bandwidth rather than the chips themselves. Applied Opt holds a seat in the Rubin Build-Out 100 and carries a Closelooknet score, with momentum the strongest module and quality the weakest. The diary has returned to it in reports on optical interconnects and in Midday editions during sharp single-session moves.

Does Applied Opt pay a dividend?

No cash distribution shows in Applied Opt’s price series over the last three years. The share count rose 44.9% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for AAOI, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

same Closelooknet index seat first, then Communication Equipment. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.