Kuo David C 4

What Happened David C. Kuo, Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI), surrendered a total of 4,312 shares to the company on Jan 22, 2026 to satisfy tax-withholding obligations tied to vested restricted stock units (RSUs). The shares were surrendered at $38.38 per share in four separate withholdings: 1,172 shares ($44,981), 2,054 shares ($78,833), 519 shares ($19,919), and 567 shares ($21,761), totaling approximately $165,494.

Key Details

• Transaction date: 2026-01-22; Filing date: 2026-01-26 (filed within the typical 2-business-day window).
• Price per share: $38.38; Total shares surrendered: 4,312; Aggregate value: ~$165,494.
• Footnotes indicate these were tax-withholding surrenders tied to RSU grants on 6/27/2022 (F1), 6/26/2023 (F2), 4/29/2024 (F3) and 4/11/2025 (F4).
• Transaction code F = tax withholding (shares surrendered to issuer). This was not an open-market sale.
• Shares owned after the transaction: not disclosed in the provided filing.

Context These transactions represent routine tax-withholding by the company when RSUs vest (a form of cashless/settlement withholding), not discretionary market sales that might signal a change in insider sentiment. For retail investors, tax-withholding surrenders are common and generally not viewed as either a bullish or bearish trading signal on their own.