Company: AAOI
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 424B5
Source: 0001104659-25-053547
Chunk: 7

Company: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 424B5
Chunk 7
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. We manufacture the majority of the laser chips and optical components that are used in our products. The lasers we manufacture are tested extensively to enable reliable operation over time and our devices are often highly tolerant of changes in temperature and humidity, making them well-suited to the CATV, FTTH and 5G telecom markets where networking equipment is often installed outdoors. All of our laser chips are manufactured in our facility in Sugar Land, Texas. We believe that our domestic production capacity for these devices gives us a competitive advantage over many of our competitors, as we believe that many of our customers prefer to source key components from suppliers who have domestic manufacturing capacity.

#### Corporate Information
We were incorporated in the State of Texas in 1997. In March 2013, we converted from a Texas corporation into a Delaware corporation. Prime World International Holdings, Ltd. (“Prime World”) is our wholly-owned subsidiary incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on January 13, 2006. Prime World is the parent company of Global Technology, Inc. (“Global”). Global was established in June 2002 in the People’s Republic of China and was acquired by Prime World on March 30, 2006. Prime World also operates a division in Taiwan, which is qualified to do business in Taiwan and primarily manufactures transceivers and performs research and development activities.

Our principal executive offices are located at 13139 Jess Pirtle Blvd., Sugar Land, TX 77478, and our telephone number is (281) 295-1800. Our website address is www.ao-inc.com. The information on our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus supplement and does not constitute a part of this prospectus supplement.

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### THE OFFERING

#### Common stock offered by us
Shares of our common stock having an aggregate offering price of up to $100,000,000.

#### Common stock outstanding before this offering
56,139,128 shares (1)

#### Manner of offering
“At-the-market” offering that may be made from time to time through our sales agents, Raymond James and Needham. See “Plan of Distribution” on page S-11 of this prospectus supplement.

#### Use of proceeds
We currently intend to use the net proceeds from this offering, if any, for general corporate purposes, which may include among other things, debt repayment, working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions. See “Use of Proceeds” on page S-9