5 Stocks Surviving Market Slaughter

In this article, we deep dive into the 5 top-performing stocks on Wednesday. For a deeper discussion and an extended list, please see 10 Stocks Surviving Market Slaughter.

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5. Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI)

Applied Optoelectronics jumped by 7.52 percent on Wednesday to finish at $175.13 apiece, as investors resumed buying positions in its stock amid strong investor optimism, fueled by the continued expansion of the artificial intelligence sector.

Investor optimism can be partly attributed to reports that AI giant OpenAI is looking to ink a lease deal with Fermi Inc., suggesting continued expansion in the broader sector.

The positive news spilled over to suppliers tied to data center development, including Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI), on expectations that they will leverage AI expansion initiatives.

In other news, the optics industry received an optimistic rating from Nvidia Corp. CEO Jensen Huang.

At the ongoing Computex conference in Taiwan, Huang validated the importance of the optics industry in the future of artificial intelligence, saying that the right strategy “is to scale up with copper as long as you can. After that, you scale up further with optics.”

“You scale out with optics, and you scale across with optics. So you use optics wherever you must, you use copper wherever you can,” he noted.

Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (NASDAQ:AAOI) rallied alongside its counterparts, namely Marvell Technology, Credo Technology Group, Coherent Corp., and Lumentum Holdings, among others.

Further boosting sentiment was Rosenblatt’s highly optimistic outlook for the sector, saying that it expects key players to expand production capacities by approximately 12x through 2030 to support the growing demands from AI.