---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001683168-25-005710"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "AAOI"
cik: "0001158114"
company_name: "APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC."
filed_at: "2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T18:54:55.938418+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Applied Optoelectronics enters $35M revolving credit facility with BOK Financial

## Summary
- $35M revolving line of credit, with accordion feature to increase up to $75M.
- Three-year term; borrowings secured by substantially all assets excluding foreign subsidiaries.
- Interest rate: Term SOFR + 0.10% + Applicable Margin, with 3.50% for SOFR loans.
- Proceeds to be used for general working capital and business operations.
- Maintains financial covenants and customary events of default.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001683168-25-005710
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: AAOI
- cik: 0001158114
- company_name: APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825005710/0001683168-25-005710-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825005710/aaoi_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-005710
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-005710.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001683168-25-005710.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  APPLIED OPTOELECTRONICS, INC. incurred revolving credit of $35 million with BOKF, NA dba BOK Financial at Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) plus 0.10% and the Applicable Margi maturing three-year.
  - Instrument: revolving credit
  - Principal: $35 million
  - Counterparty: BOKF, NA dba BOK Financial
  - Rate: Term Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) plus 0.10% and the Applicable Margi
  - Maturity: three-year
  - Event: incurrence
  source text: On July 31, 2025, Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Loan and Security Agreement (the “Credit Facility”) with BOKF, NA dba BOK Financial, as agent for secured parties. The Credit Facility provides the Company with a three-year, $35 million revolving line of credit.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1158114/000168316825005710/0001683168-25-005710-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.