Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001437749-25-025450
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Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-08-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 2
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 on any other existing trading market for the Company’s common stock, to or through a market maker or as otherwise agreed by the Company and the Sales Agents. In the placement notice, the Company would designate the maximum number of Shares to be sold through the Sales Agents, the time period during which sales were requested to be made, the minimum price for the Shares to be sold, and any limitation on the number of Shares that could be sold in any one day. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Agreement, the Sales Agents would use their commercially reasonable efforts to sell Shares on the Company’s behalf up to the designated amount specified in the placement notice. 

The Agreement provided that each of the Sales Agents would be entitled to compensation of up to 2% of the gross sales price of the Shares sold through such Sales Agent from time to time. The Company also agreed to reimburse the Sales Agents for certain specified expenses in connection with the registration of Shares under state blue sky laws and any filing with, and clearance of the offering by, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc., not to exceed $10,000 in the aggregate, and any associated application fees incurred. The Company agreed to indemnify the Sales Agents against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act, or to contribute to payments that the Sales Agents could be required to make because of any of those liabilities.

On June 18, 2025, the Company completed the Second ATM Offering and sold approximately 5.7 million shares at a weighted average price of $17.46 per share, providing proceeds of approximately $98 million, net of expenses and underwriting discounts and commissions.

The details of the shares of common stock sold through the First ATM Offering and Second ATM Offering as of the end of June 30, 2025 are as follows (in thousands, except shares and weighted average per share price):

      Distribution Agent 
      
      Month 
      
      Number of Shares Sold 

      Weighted Average Per Share Price 

      Gross Proceeds 

      Compensation to Distribution Agent 

      Net Proceeds 

      Raymond James & Associates, Inc. 
      
      March 2025 

     3,535,650

     $
     20.71

     $
     73,219

     $
     1,464

     $
     71,755

      Raymond James & Associates, Inc. 
      
      April 2025 

     2,110,057

     12.69

     26,781