Is it safe?
Can AAOI take a bad year?
Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. holds $441M more cash than debt, and is burning $220M a quarter, about 0.6 years of cover.
$441M
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 15.43
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Cash runway
- 0.6 years
Cash runway · burning $220M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $59M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $500M
- Net cash
- $441M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$32M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$67M
- Debt / equity
- 0.04×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 141%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −98%
- Below its 52-week high
- −49%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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