Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-036344
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-04-18
Form: PRE 14A
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 increase the number of authorized shares of capital stock and common stock. Please read the Proxy Statement, which presents important information about the Company and each of the items being presented 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, broker, or other nominee, please follow the instructions you receive from your bank, broker, 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 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS To Be Held On [ ], 2025 The 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (“Annual Meeting”) of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), will be held on [Day], [Date], 2025 , at [ ] a.m. Central Time, at our principal offices at 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478, for the following purposes: 1. To elect the three Class III directors named in the Proxy Statement to serve for three-year terms until the 2028 annual meeting of stockholders and hold office until their respective successors are elected and qualified, which we refer to as Proposal No. 1. 2. To ratify the appointment of Grant Thornton LLP as our independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, which we refer to as Proposal No. 2. 3. To approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers, which we refer to as Proposal No. 3 or the “say-on-pay” vote. 4. To consider and vote on the amendment of our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended (the “Certificate of Incorporation”), to clarify the voting standard that applies to certain future amendments, which we refer to as Proposal No. 4. 5. To consider and vote on the amendment of our Certificate