Short interest in Applied Optoelectronics Inc (NASDAQ:AAOI) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 10.92M to 10.81M. This put 25.05% 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 2.36M shares traded per day, it would take 4.58 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.