Some thoughts on
$AAOI.
And why I never bought the stock and probably never will.
When I researched the company back in March, there’s this one thing that kept popping up in my mind.
The sense that
$AAOI happens to be at the right place at the right time, but that in itself doesn’t make them a high quality business.
I mean, demand is there. We can all see that.
But in my view,
$AAOI basically serves as a spill over for higher quality businesses like
$LITE,
$COHR &
$MRVL who can’t fulfill demand.
So why would you want to own
$AAOI if you could own
$MRVL for example?
Genuine question. If you have a view on this, let me know!
The other part is management. I won’t go into too much detail here for the sake of post length, but I’ve never seen a management team receive such bad reviews on Glassdoor:
• 1.7 of 5 stars
• 1% approve the CEO
• 7% recommend working there
Out of 124 reviews.
You can’t get any worse than that.
If you invest in
$AAOI, I’m really curious if that’s just a risk you’re willing to take or maybe didn’t know about in the first place?
Feel free to tag others who might invest in
$AAOI because I’m really curious about other people’s opinions on this.