Richard B. Black - Jan 15, 2025 Form 4 Insider Report for APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. (AAOI)

Role: Director
Signature: /s/ David C. Kuo, attorney in fact for Richard B. Black
Stock symbol: AAOI
Transactions as of: Jan 15, 2025
Transactions value $: -$289,951
Form type: 4
Date filed: 1/17/2025, 04:01 PM
Previous filing: Dec 18, 2024
SEC: View on sec.gov

Transactions Table

Type	Sym	Class	Transaction	Value $	Shares	Change %	* Price $	Shares After	Date	Ownership	Footnotes
transaction	AAOI	Common Stock, $.001 par value	Sale	-$290K	-10K	-5.96%	$29.00	158K	Jan 15, 2025	By Trust	F1

* An asterisk sign (*) next to the price indicates that the price is likely invalid.

Buy Plan / Sale Plan: These are also open market purchases/sales of shares, but in this case the transaction is part of a trading plan. Rule 10b5-1 allows insiders to setup a trading plan to buy/sell stocks over a certain period of time. Since the purchases/sales are predetermined, this protects the insiders from violating insider trading law.

Transaction was made pursuant to a contract, instruction or written plan for the purchase or sale of equity securities of the issuer that is intended to satisfy the affirmative defense conditions of Rule 10b5-1(c).

Explanation of Responses:

Id	Content
F1	The shares were sold by The Richard B. Black Revocable Trust U/A Dtd. Aug 31, 1998; Richard B. Black TTEE, to which the reporting person contributed 35,745 shares of common stock on April 26, 2019, in a transaction that resulted in a change in form of beneficial ownership from direct to indirect. These sales were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on August 13, 2024. The shares were sold in multiple transactions at actual sale prices ranging from $28.6 to $29.37 per share. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price for the transactions. The reporting person undertakes to provide upon request by SEC staff, the issuer, or a securityholder of the issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold during each transaction. The shares were held by the reporting person in a revocable living trust of which the reporting person is the trustee and beneficial owner.

Content

The shares were sold by The Richard B. Black Revocable Trust U/A Dtd. Aug 31, 1998; Richard B. Black TTEE, to which the reporting person contributed 35,745 shares of common stock on April 26, 2019, in a transaction that resulted in a change in form of beneficial ownership from direct to indirect. These sales were effected pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan adopted by the reporting person on August 13, 2024. The shares were sold in multiple transactions at actual sale prices ranging from $28.6 to $29.37 per share. The price reported reflects the weighted average sale price for the transactions. The reporting person undertakes to provide upon request by SEC staff, the issuer, or a securityholder of the issuer, full information regarding the number of shares sold during each transaction. The shares were held by the reporting person in a revocable living trust of which the reporting person is the trustee and beneficial owner.