Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-022149
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
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 for stockholder vote. Whether or not you intend to be present in person at the meeting, your vote is very important. Please submit your proxy or vote promptly by telephone or internet or by marking, signing and returning your proxy card (if you have received one), so that your shares will be represented at the meeting. If you attend the meeting, you will have the right to revoke the proxy and vote your shares in person. If you hold your shares through an account with a bank, brokerage firm or other nominee, please follow the instructions you receive from your bank, brokerage firm or other nominee to vote your shares. We hope that you will be able to attend the meeting in person. We look forward to seeing you there. Sincerely yours, Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer TABLE OF CONTENTS NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS To Be Held On April 10, 2025 A special meeting of stockholders (including any adjournments or postponements thereof, the “Special Meeting”) of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2025 , at 9:30 a.m. Central Time, at our principal offices at 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478, for the following purposes: 1. To approve an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated 2021 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Amended and Restated 2021 Plan”) to increase the number of shares of common stock reserved for issuance under the plan by 2,000,000 shares and to increase certain annual limits on the value of awards that may be granted under the plan, which we refer to as Proposal No. 1; and 2. To approve the adjournment of the Special Meeting if there are insufficient votes at the Special Meeting to approve Proposal No. 1, which we refer to as Proposal No. 2. Our Board of Directors recommends a vote FOR Proposals No. 1 and 2. Stockholders of record at the close of business on March 5, 2025 are entitled to notice of, and to vote at, the Special Meeting and any adjournment or postponement thereof. For ten days prior to the Special Meeting, a complete list of stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting will be available for examination by any stockholder, for any purpose relating to the meeting