Short interest in Applied Optoelectronics Inc (NASDAQ:AAOI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 9.27M to 9.56M. This put 20.14% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Applied Optoelectronics gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Applied Optoelectronics's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 4.64M shares traded per day, it would take 2.06 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.