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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	$14.80 -3.6%	$23.61	$6.70 ▼ $44.50	$741.73M	2.36	2.96 million shs	1.49 million shs
AMZN Amazon.com	$190.79 +0.3%	$216.15	$151.61 ▼ $242.52	$2.02T	1.19	39.87 million shs	24.35 million shs
META Meta Platforms	$578.66 +0.4%	$654.50	$414.50 ▼ $740.91	$1.47T	1.23	14.24 million shs	8.52 million shs
MSFT Microsoft	$378.32 +0.8%	$404.45	$367.24 ▼ $468.35	$2.81T	0.92	20.54 million shs	10.75 million shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	-6.29%	-31.10%	-29.78%	-58.36%	+10.75%
AMZN Amazon.com	-1.28%	-6.40%	-10.39%	-13.28%	+5.48%
META Meta Platforms	-0.07%	-6.97%	-13.74%	-1.56%	+18.70%
MSFT Microsoft	-0.90%	-4.50%	-5.47%	-10.94%	-10.77%

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Compare MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	2.531 of 5 stars	3.3	2.0	0.0	0.0	3.1	2.5	0.6
AMZN Amazon.com	4.9259 of 5 stars	4.5	3.0	1.7	3.0	3.3	3.3	1.9
META Meta Platforms	4.0267 of 5 stars	3.4	3.0	1.7	0.0	2.9	3.3	1.9
MSFT Microsoft	4.9379 of 5 stars	4.5	4.0	3.3	2.9	2.8	1.7	1.9

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	2.60	Moderate Buy	$25.80	74.32% Upside
AMZN Amazon.com	2.98	Moderate Buy	$260.53	36.56% Upside
META Meta Platforms	2.86	Moderate Buy	$718.55	24.18% Upside
MSFT Microsoft	2.90	Moderate Buy	$508.86	34.51% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest AAOI, AMZN, META, and MSFT Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
4/1/2025	AMZN Amazon.com	Westpark Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Buy	$280.00
4/1/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Westpark Capital Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Hold
3/31/2025	AMZN Amazon.com	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$275.00 ➝ $250.00
3/31/2025	META Meta Platforms	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$810.00 ➝ $725.00
3/31/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Jefferies Financial Group Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$550.00 ➝ $500.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Tigress Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Boost Price Target	Buy ➝ Buy	$550.00 ➝ $595.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Wedbush Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Outperform	$550.00 ➝ $550.00
3/20/2025	MSFT Microsoft	Scotiabank Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Initiated Coverage	Sector Outperform	$470.00
3/18/2025	META Meta Platforms	KeyCorp Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight ➝ Overweight	$750.00 ➝ $710.00
3/14/2025	AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	Rosenblatt Securities Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Buy ➝ Buy	$36.00 ➝ $36.00
3/13/2025	MSFT Microsoft	DA Davidson Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Neutral ➝ Buy	$425.00 ➝ $450.00

(Data available from 4/1/2022 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	$249.37M	2.96	N/A	N/A	$6.05 per share	2.45
AMZN Amazon.com	$637.96B	3.17	$9.31 per share	20.49	$26.98 per share	7.07
META Meta Platforms	$164.50B	8.91	$25.59 per share	22.61	$72.08 per share	8.03
MSFT Microsoft	$261.80B	10.74	$13.51 per share	28.01	$40.72 per share	9.29

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	-$56.05M	-$4.28	N/A	23.87	N/A	-38.61%	-22.36%	-12.08%	5/8/2025 (Estimated)
AMZN Amazon.com	$59.25B	$5.53	34.55	25.64	1.50	9.29%	24.25%	10.55%	4/29/2025 (Estimated)
META Meta Platforms	$62.36B	$23.92	24.24	19.15	1.42	37.91%	38.17%	25.31%	4/23/2025 (Estimated)
MSFT Microsoft	$88.14B	$12.42	30.48	25.74	2.21	35.43%	33.36%	18.07%	4/24/2025 (Estimated)

Latest AAOI, AMZN, META, and MSFT Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
4/29/2025	N/A	AMZN Amazon.com	$1.38	N/A	N/A	N/A	$154.96 billion	N/A
4/24/2025	N/A	MSFT Microsoft	$3.20	N/A	N/A	N/A	$68.54 billion	N/A
4/23/2025	N/A	META Meta Platforms	$5.33	N/A	N/A	N/A	$41.45 billion	N/A
2/26/2025	Q4 2024	AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	-$0.02	-$0.09	-$0.07	-$2.60	$99.92 million	$100.27 million
2/6/2025	Q4 2024	AMZN Amazon.com	$1.52	$1.86	+$0.34	$1.86	$187.25 billion	N/A
1/29/2025	Q4 2024	META Meta Platforms	$6.75	$8.02	+$1.27	$8.02	$46.96 billion	N/A
1/29/2025	Q2 2025	MSFT Microsoft	$3.15	$3.23	+$0.08	$3.23	$68.86 billion	N/A

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
AMZN Amazon.com	$0.20	0.10%	N/A	3.62%	N/A
META Meta Platforms	$2.10	0.36%	N/A	8.78%	N/A
MSFT Microsoft	$3.32	0.88%	+10.22%	26.73%	23 Years

Latest AAOI, AMZN, META, and MSFT Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
3/11/2025	MSFT Microsoft	quarterly	$0.83	0.87%	5/15/2025	5/15/2025	6/12/2025
2/13/2025	META Meta Platforms	quarterly	$0.5250	0.29%	3/14/2025	3/14/2025	3/26/2025

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	0.36	1.61	1.06
AMZN Amazon.com	0.18	1.06	0.87
META Meta Platforms	0.16	2.98	2.98
MSFT Microsoft	0.13	1.35	1.34

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	61.72%
AMZN Amazon.com	72.20%
META Meta Platforms	79.91%
MSFT Microsoft	71.13%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	4.96%
AMZN Amazon.com	10.80%
META Meta Platforms	13.71%
MSFT Microsoft	0.03%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
AAOI Applied Optoelectronics	2,210	49.85 million	44.34 million	Optionable
AMZN Amazon.com	1,541,000	10.60 billion	9.45 billion	Optionable
META Meta Platforms	74,067	2.53 billion	2.19 billion	Optionable
MSFT Microsoft	228,000	7.43 billion	7.43 billion	Optionable

AAOI, AMZN, META, and MSFT Headlines

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AAOI, AMZN, META, and MSFT Company Descriptions

Applied Optoelectronics NASDAQ:AAOI

$14.80 -0.55 (-3.58%)

As of 02:25 PM Eastern

Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells fiber-optic networking products in the United States, Taiwan, and China. It offers optical modules, optical filters, lasers, laser components, subassemblies, transmitters and transceivers, turn-key equipment, headend, node, distribution equipment, and amplifiers. The company sells its products to internet data center operators, cable television, telecom equipment manufacturers, fiber-to-the-home, and internet service providers through its direct and indirect sales channels. Applied Optoelectronics, Inc. was incorporated in 1997 and is headquartered in Sugar Land, Texas.

Amazon.com NASDAQ:AMZN

$190.78 +0.53 (+0.28%)

As of 02:25 PM Eastern

Amazon.com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally. The company operates through three segments: North America, International, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). It also manufactures and sells electronic devices, including Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TVs, Echo, Ring, Blink, and eero; and develops and produces media content. In addition, the company offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products in its stores; and programs that allow authors, independent publishers, musicians, filmmakers, Twitch streamers, skill and app developers, and others to publish and sell content. Further, it provides compute, storage, database, analytics, machine learning, and other services, as well as advertising services through programs, such as sponsored ads, display, and video advertising. Additionally, the company offers Amazon Prime, a membership program. The company's products offered through its stores include merchandise and content purchased for resale and products offered by third-party sellers. It serves consumers, sellers, developers, enterprises, content creators, advertisers, and employees. Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.

Meta Platforms NASDAQ:META

$578.66 +2.30 (+0.40%)

As of 02:25 PM Eastern

Meta Platforms, Inc. engages in the development of products that enable people to connect and share with friends and family through mobile devices, personal computers, virtual reality headsets, and wearables worldwide. It operates in two segments, Family of Apps and Reality Labs. The Family of Apps segment offers Facebook, which enables people to share, discuss, discover, and connect with interests; Instagram, a community for sharing photos, videos, and private messages, as well as feed, stories, reels, video, live, and shops; Messenger, a messaging application for people to connect with friends, family, communities, and businesses across platforms and devices through text, audio, and video calls; and WhatsApp, a messaging application that is used by people and businesses to communicate and transact privately. The Reality Labs segment provides augmented and virtual reality related products comprising consumer hardware, software, and content that help people feel connected, anytime, and anywhere. The company was formerly known as Facebook, Inc. and changed its name to Meta Platforms, Inc. in October 2021. The company was incorporated in 2004 and is headquartered in Menlo Park, California

Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT

$378.32 +2.93 (+0.78%)

As of 02:25 PM Eastern

Microsoft Corporation develops and supports software, services, devices and solutions worldwide. The Productivity and Business Processes segment offers office, exchange, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, office 365 Security and Compliance, Microsoft viva, and Microsoft 365 copilot; and office consumer services, such as Microsoft 365 consumer subscriptions, Office licensed on-premises, and other office services. This segment also provides LinkedIn; and dynamics business solutions, including Dynamics 365, a set of intelligent, cloud-based applications across ERP, CRM, power apps, and power automate; and on-premises ERP and CRM applications. The Intelligent Cloud segment offers server products and cloud services, such as azure and other cloud services; SQL and windows server, visual studio, system center, and related client access licenses, as well as nuance and GitHub; and enterprise services including enterprise support services, industry solutions, and nuance professional services. The More Personal Computing segment offers Windows, including windows OEM licensing and other non-volume licensing of the Windows operating system; Windows commercial comprising volume licensing of the Windows operating system, windows cloud services, and other Windows commercial offerings; patent licensing; and windows Internet of Things; and devices, such as surface, HoloLens, and PC accessories. Additionally, this segment provides gaming, which includes Xbox hardware and content, and first- and third-party content; Xbox game pass and other subscriptions, cloud gaming, advertising, third-party disc royalties, and other cloud services; and search and news advertising, which includes Bing, Microsoft News and Edge, and third-party affiliates. The company sells its products through OEMs, distributors, and resellers; and directly through digital marketplaces, online, and retail stores. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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