---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-004603"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAOI"
cik: "0001158114"
company_name: "APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T02:30:32.861271+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Optoelectronics subsidiary enters RMB 96.8M credit facility, repays existing loans

## Summary
- Global Technology entered 12-month RMB 96.8M credit facility with China Construction Bank on June 12, 2025.
- Borrowings used to repay RMB 96.8M working capital loans and RMB 22.7M acceptance bills under Shanghai Pudong Development Bank line.
- Interest rate set at bank's 12-month prime loan rate (currently 3%) minus 0.05%, effective ~2.95%.
- Credit facility is unsecured, matures June 16, 2026; monthly interest payments, principal at maturity.
- Old SPD credit line (up to RMB 170M) terminated upon repayment; no penalties incurred.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-004603
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAOI
- cik: 0001158114
- company_name: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-06-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004603/0001683168-25-004603-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004603/aaoi_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. incurred credit facility of 96,800,000 RMB with China Construction Bank at the Bank’s published twelve (12) month prime loan rate, minus 0.05% maturing June 16, 2026.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Principal: 96,800,000 RMB
  - Counterparty: China Construction Bank
  - Rate: the Bank’s published twelve (12) month prime loan rate, minus 0.05%
  - Maturity: June 16, 2026
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On June 12, 2025, Global Technology, Inc. (“Global Technology”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. entered into a one-year credit facility totaling 96,800,000 RMB (the “Credit Facility”), with China Construction Bank, in Ningbo City, China ( the “CCB Bank”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825004603/0001683168-25-004603-index.htm

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