{"schema_version":"secwatch.filing_event.v1","accession":"0001683168-25-004444","form_type":"8-K","ticker":"AAOI","cik":"0001158114","company_name":"APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.","filed_at":"2025-06-12T23:59:59+00:00","discovered_at":"2026-05-14T18:02:47.659416+00:00","generated_at":"2026-05-19T10:17:53.060929+00:00","sec_items":["5.03","5.07","9.01"],"event_type":"other","sentiment":"neutral","materiality_score":0.5,"calibrated_materiality_score":0.5,"confidence":"high","headline":"AAOI stockholders approve increase in authorized common shares from 80M to 120M","bullets":["Authorized common shares increased from 80M to 120M; total authorized capital stock from 85M to 125M.","Share increase amendment passed with 32,969,059 for, 1,874,879 against, 42,206 abstain.","Three Class III directors elected: Chih-Hsiang Lin, Richard Black, Min-Chu Chen (all with >22M votes).","Ratification of Grant Thornton LLP as auditor for FY2025 approved (34.7M for, 128k against).","Advisory say-on-pay proposal approved (24.7M for, 645k against)."],"urls":{"canonical":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-004444","json":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-004444.json","markdown":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-004444.md","text":"https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-004444.txt","edgar_index":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004444/0001683168-25-004444-index.htm","edgar_primary_document":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004444/aaoi_8k.htm"},"model":{"generated_by":"deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2","generated_at":"2026-05-19T10:17:53.060929+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":[{"claim_id":"0f3d972b851f4559683a75048e38bee9f702bd84","claim":"APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.: Approved amendment to Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to increase authorized shares of common stock from 80,000,000 to 120,000,000 and total authorized capital stock from 85,000,000 to 125,000,000 (effective 2025-06-12).","evidence_excerpt":"Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (the “Company”) held an Annual Meeting of Stockholders on June 12, 2025 (the “Annual Meeting”). At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders approved an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Incorporation”) to increase the number of authorized shares of the Company’s common stock, $0.001 par value per share, from 80,000,000 to 120,000,000, and the total number of authorized shares of the Company’s capital stock of all classes from 85,000,000 to 125,000,000 (the “Share Increase Amendment”). The Share Increase Amendment was effected pursuant to a Certificate of Amendment of the Certificate of Incorporation (the “Certificate of Amendment”) filed with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on June 12, 2025, which became effective upon filing.","evidence_source":"SEC 8-K Item 5.03/5.05/5.06","evidence_url":"https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004444/0001683168-25-004444-index.htm","confidence":0.9,"family_label":"Governance Changes","details":[{"label":"Change","value":"charter amendment"},{"label":"Effective","value":"2025-06-12"}],"fact_type":"governance_change"}],"license":"Source filings: public domain (SEC EDGAR). Summaries (headline + bullets): CC-BY-4.0; attribute https://secwatch.observer"}