Short interest in Applied Optoelectronics Inc (NASDAQ:AAOI) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 13.87M to 16.30M. This put 19.88% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 12.71M shares traded per day, it would take 1.28 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.