Applied Optoelectronics Inc (NASDAQ:AAOI) currently has a daily average trading volume of 4.53M but it saw 3621949 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 948.14M USD, the company’s current market price of $17.07 came falling about -9.97 while comparing to the previous closing price of $18.96. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $44.50 and as low as $6.70.
The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the B. Riley Securities which upgraded the stock as “Neutral” in its note to investors issued on March 07, 2025, recommending a price target of $13 for it. B. Riley Securities downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Sell” from “Neutral” on December 10, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $14-$14. Raymond James also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $17.
Over the week, AAOI’s stock price is moving -10.68% down while it is 55.89% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -53.69% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 45.59%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in June, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of -0.08 while estimate for next year EPS is 0.04. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $120.33M as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $480.13M and seeing the company making $809.02M in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $104.96M for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Applied Optoelectronics Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 53.21M with 4.78% of that held by the insiders while 57.94% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at -38.08% and return on equity (ROE) at -68.45%. It has a 11.89 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 2.68. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.94 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 3.07. Its return on asset (ROA) is -34.70% on average.
