Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-06-12
Form Type: 8-K
Source: 0001683168-25-004444
Chunk: 1

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-06-12
Form: 8-K
Item: Item 5.07
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Item 5.07      Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.  

At the Company’s Annual Meeting, holders
of an aggregate of 55,321,915 shares of the Company’s common stock at the close of business on April 17, 2025 were entitled to vote
at the meeting, of which 34,886,144 or 63.06% of the eligible shares were represented in person or by proxy. The matters voted upon
at the Annual Meeting and the final results of those votes were as follows:

Proposal No. 1: Election of three Class III
Directors.

                                         For       Withheld      Broker Non-Votes  
 ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Chih-Hsiang (Thompson) Lin      24,352,407      1,090,369             9,443,368  
  Richard B. Black                22,314,029      3,128,747             9,443,368  
  Min-Chu (Mike) Chen             23,943,098      1,499,678             9,443,368  

Proposal No. 2: To ratify the appointment of
Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025.

         For      Against      Abstain  
 ────────────────────────────────────────
  34,723,849      128,716       33,579  

Proposal No. 3: To approve on an advisory basis,
the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, or the “say-on-pay” vote.

         For      Against      Abstain      Broker Non-Votes  
 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  24,717,979      645,465       79,332             9,443,368  

Proposal No. 4: To approve the amendment of
the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, to increase the number of authorized shares of capital
stock and common stock.

         For        Against      Abstain  
 ──────────────────────────────────────────
  32,969,059      1,874,879       42,206