Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) Q3 2022 Results Conference Call November 3, 2022 4:30 PM ET

Company Participants

Lindsay Savarese - Investor Relations

Thompson Lin - Founder, Chairman and CEO

Stefan Murry - Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer

Conference Call Participants

Ethan Widell - B. Riley

Operator

Good afternoon. I will be your conference operator. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Applied Optoelectronics Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise. After the speakers remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session [Operator Instructions].

I will now turn the call over to Lindsay Savarese, Investor Relations for AOI. Ms. Savarese, you may begin.

Lindsay Savarese

Thank you. I'm Lindsay Savarese, Investor Relations for Applied Optoelectronics, and I'm pleased to welcome you to AOI's third quarter 2022 financial results conference call. After the market closed today, AOI issued a press release announcing its third quarter 2022 financial results and provided its outlook for the fourth quarter of 2022. The release is also available on the company's Web site at ao-inc.com. This call is being recorded and webcast live. A link to the recording can be found on the Investor Relations section of the AOI Web site and will be archived for one year. Joining us on today's call is Dr. Thompson Lin, AOI's Founder, Chairman and CEO; and Dr. Stefan Murry, AOI's Chief Financial Officer and Chief Strategy Officer. Thompson will give an overview of AOI's Q3 results, and Stefan will provide financial details and the outlook for the fourth quarter of 2022. A question-and-answer session will follow our prepared remarks.

Before we begin, I would like to remind you to review AOI's Safe Harbor statements. On today's call, management will make forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions and current expectations, which could

cause the company's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements of the company or its industries, to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. In some cases you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as believes, forecasts, anticipates, estimates, intend, predict, expects, plan, may, should, could, would, will, potential or things, or by the negative of those trends or other similar expressions that convey uncertainty of future events or outcomes. The company updates these forward-looking statements on it's current expectations, assumptions, estimate and projections. While the company believes these expectations, assumptions, estimates and projections are reasonable, such forward looking statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties. Many of which are beyond the company's control, including important factors, such as risks related to the company's ability to complete the transaction described on this call on the proposed terms and schedule or at all; the risk that certain closing conditions may not be timely satisfied or waived; the failure or delay to receive the required regulatory or other government approvals relating to the transaction; and the occurrence of any event change or other circumstance that could give rise to the termination of the transaction.