{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001683168-24-004054","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"AAOI","cik":"0001158114","company_name":"APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.","filed_at":"2024-06-07T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:03:17.478298+00:00","generated_at":"2026-06-01T05:29:07.982065+00:00","sec_items":["5.07"],"event_type":"other_material","sentiment":"negative","materiality_score":0.55,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.15,"confidence":"high","headline":"Applied Optoelectronics shareholders reject proposal to increase equity plan shares by 2M","bullets":["Proposal 5 (2021 Equity Incentive Plan amendment for 2M additional shares) failed with 6,739,828 for, 10,340,097 against.","Proposal 6 (CEO PSU grant approval) passed: 15,067,633 for, 1,775,241 against.","All director nominees elected: William Yeh (12,883,866 for, 4,397,128 withheld), Cynthia DeLaney (16,386,831 for, 894,163 withheld).","Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as auditor approved: 25,518,024 for, 159,790 against.","Advisory say-on-pay passed (15,242,588 for); frequency set to one year (16,870,029 votes); company will hold annual advisory votes."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-004054","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-004054.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-004054.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-24-004054.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316824004054/0001683168-24-004054-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316824004054/appliedopto_8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-06-01T05:29:07.982065+00:00"},"review":{"review_status":"machine_generated","human_reviewed":false,"corrected":false,"correction_note":null,"correction_timestamp":null,"superseded_by":null,"related_filings":[]},"source_grounded_claims":[],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}