Growth Metrics

Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) has disclosed Operating Margin for 13 consecutive years, with 8.57% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Operating Margin fell 211.0% to 8.57% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 11.98%, a 1645.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 11.98%, up 1645.0% from a year prior.
  • Operating Margin was 8.57% for Q4 2025 at Applied Optoelectronics, up from 15.33% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 58.38% in Q4 2021 to a low of 60.65% in Q2 2024.
  • A 5-year average of 16.69% and a median of 24.24% in 2022 define the central range for Operating Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for Operating Margin: crashed -5084bps in 2023, then surged 4513bps in 2025.
  • Applied Optoelectronics' Operating Margin stood at 58.38% in 2021, then decreased by -26bps to 43.34% in 2022, then plummeted by -117bps to 7.5% in 2023, then increased by 14bps to 6.45% in 2024, then plummeted by -33bps to 8.57% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for AAOI's Operating Margin are 8.57% (Q4 2025), 15.33% (Q3 2025), and 15.52% (Q2 2025).