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Applied Optoelectronics Reports First Quarter 2023 Results
SUGAR LAND, Texas, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products
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[{"type":"text","content":"SUGAR LAND, Texas, May 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAOI), a leading provider of fiber-optic access network products for the cable broadband, internet datacenter, telecom and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) markets, today announced financial results for its first quarter 2023 ended March 31, 2023. “We continued to see steady improvement in our gross margin in the first quarter,” said Dr. Thompson Lin, Applied Optoelectronics Inc. Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer. “Further, we are encouraged by the improving demand we saw for our 100G products in our datacenter business, and we generated another quarter of good CATV results. However, recently we were notified of some inventory build-up with certain CATV customers which we expect will negatively impact our Q2 revenue. With respect to the transaction that we announced in September 2022 that we have entered into an agreement with Yuhan Optoelectronic Technology for the sale of our manufacturing facilities located in the People’s Republic of China and certain assets related to our transceiver business and multi-channel optical sub-assembly products for the internet datacenter, telecom and FTTH markets, we continue to make progress in gathering the information necessary to obtain required regulatory approvals and expect that the transaction will close in 2023 or early 2024.” First Quarter 2023 Financial Summary GAAP revenue was $53.0 million, compared $52.2 million in the first quarter of 2022 and $61.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2022.GAAP gross margin was 17.4%, compared with 17.3% in the first quarter of 2022 and 10.1% in the fourth quarter of 2022. Non-GAAP gross margin was 23.2%, compared with 17.5% in the first quarter of 2022 and 21.4% in the fourth quarter of 2022.GAAP net loss was $16.3 million, or $0.56 per basic share, compared with net loss of $16.1 million, or $0.58 per basic share in the first quarter of 2022, and a net loss of $20.3 million, or $0.71 per basic share in the fourth quarter of 2022.Non-GAAP net loss was $7.1 million, or $0.25 per basic share, compared with non-GAAP net loss of $7.9 million, or $0.29 per basic share in the first quarter of 2022, and a non-GAAP net loss of $5.4 million, or $0.19 per basic share in the fourth quarter of 2022. A reconciliation between all GAAP and non-GAAP information referenc...