Don't Buy Arista Networks Before Checking Its Fundamentals!

By Kim Brooks • Friday, November 10 12:03 • Permanent Link

Arista Networks marked a -2.4% change today, compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $206.6? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Arista Networks, Inc. develops, markets, and sells cloud networking solutions in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.
Arista Networks belongs to the Technology sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.16 and an average price to book (P/B) of 6.23
The company's P/B ratio is 9.88
Arista Networks has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 34.4 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $6.01 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 30.4, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $6.8
ANET has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 3.02, which shows the company is overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
Over the last four years, Arista Networks has averaged free cash flows of $747.35 Million, which on average grew 11.9%
ANET's gross profit margins have averaged 60.3 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 3.5 % and a coefficient of variability of 24.1 %.
Arista Networks has moved 61.0% over the last year compared to 11.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 50.0%
ANET has an average analyst rating of buy and is 3.01% away from its mean target price of $200.56 per share

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