Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. is a vertically integrated provider of fiber-optic networking products. Co. designs and manufactures a range of optical communications products at varying levels of integration, from components, subassemblies, and modules to complete turn-key equipment. Co. also designs, manufactures, and integrates its own analog and digital lasers using the proprietary Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE), and Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) fabrication process. Co. has manufacturing facilities in Taipei, Taiwan and Ningbo, China. We show 50 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our AAOI shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute AAOI market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing AAOI market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing AAOI's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of AAOI versus a peer is one thing; comparing
AAOI market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like AAOI can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching AAOI by allowing them to research the AAOI market cap history. |
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