Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-022149
Chunk: 107

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 107
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 of the Company or a Related Company, will not be considered a Termination of Service. “ Transfer ” means, as the context may require, (a) any sale, assignment, pledge (as collateral for a loan or as security for the performance of an obligation or for any other purpose), hypothecation, mortgage, encumbrance or other disposition, whether by contract, gift, will, intestate succession, operation of law or otherwise, of all or any part of an Award or shares issued thereunder, as applicable, (b) any transaction designed to give the stockholder essentially the same economic benefit as any of the foregoing, and (c) any verb equivalent of the foregoing. “ Vesting Commencement Date ” means the Grant Date or such other date selected by the Administrator as the date from which an Award begins to vest. A-20

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APPENDIX B NON-GAAP FINANCIAL MEASURES — NON-GAAP EBITDA As discussed in this Proxy Statement, in 2024 we established annual cash incentive plan targets for achieving certain operational milestones, one of which was a specified target of non-GAAP EBITDA. Non-GAAP EBITDA is calculated as our GAAP operating income (loss) as defined under generally accepted account principles, excluding amortization of intangible assets, share-based compensation expense, non-recurring expenses (income), unrealized foreign exchange gain (loss), non-recurring tax expenses (benefits), expenses associated with discontinued products, non-cash expenses associated with discontinued products, depreciation expense, and interest income (expense), which are all required under GAAP. AOI management uses these non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate the business and establish its operational goals, review its operations on a period-to-period basis, for compensation evaluations, to measure performance, and for budgeting and resource allocation. AOI management believes it is useful for the Company and investors to review, as applicable, both GAAP information and non-GAAP financial measures to help assess the performance of AOI’s continuing business and to evaluate AOI’s future prospects. These non-GAAP measures, when reviewed together with the GAAP financial information, provide additional transparency and information for comparison and analysis of operating performance and trends. These non-GAAP measures exclude certain items to facilitate management’s review of the comparability of our core operating results on a period-to-period basis. Because the Company’s non-GAAP financial measures are not calculated in accordance with GAAP, they