We're taking a closer look at Arista Networks today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved -5.7% compared to -2.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:
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Arista Networks, Inc. engages in the development, marketing, and sale of data-driven, client to cloud networking solutions for data center, campus, and routing environments in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific.
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Arista Networks has moved 78.1% over the last year compared to 18.3% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 59.8%
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ANET has an average analyst rating of buy and is -11.16% away from its mean target price of $359.45 per share
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Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $7.7
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Arista Networks has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 41.5 while the S&P 500 average is 28.21
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $9.34 and its forward P/E ratio is 34.2
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ANET has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 2.12, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 11.9 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.71
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Arista Networks is part of the Telecommunications sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 20.19 and an average P/B of 2.29
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Arista Networks has on average reported free cash flows of $924.2 Million over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 22.9%
