“Applied Optoelectronics is getting hit from two directions at once: a damaging SemiAnalysis report AND Shanghai-based market makers pulling bids, a combination that puts sustained downward pressure on the stock well beyond a normal earnings-miss recovery.”
“many of the market makers in optical stocks are based in Shanghai, China. That should help explain why $AAOI sold off so brutally. It wasn't just the SemiAnalysis report.”
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